Hello and welcome to The Daily Shelf. Imagine your favorite product vanishing overnight. That’s exactly what happened when Crabtree & Evelyn’s lavender aftershave disappeared. As Wirecutter editor Alexander Aciman put it, “I mainly try to find it so as not to lose the scent and preserve some kind of access to it.” We’ve all felt that pang of loss. One fan compared her love for a rose-water hair treatment to a “heroin addiction,” while others stash cases of Tab cola in their basements like preservationists hunting extinct species.

I myself have scoured department store racks for discontinued underwear, and even once wrote a love letter to lip balm makers—ending up with the lab’s last dregs scraped into a jar. When companies pull beloved items, it can feel like a personal betrayal, what beauty boards call your “holy grail” product being “abandoned.” Yet maybe we can learn to let go. Stockpiling works for some, but for the rest of us, the hunt can be part of the fun—and eventually, we move on to our next discovery. Thanks for listening.
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