A friend gave me some of this stuff for a birthday gag a year ago... for beards... I tried it for fun and found it pretty much washed out within a couple of washes. I figured I had a choice... a brown beard that smelled like pussy, half the time, or a grey one that didn't... :-(They changed the formula in the grecian formula I think 2-4 years ago. The old worked better but it had this smell to it....