ETHOS Grooming Essentials A New Line

....Not thinking I'd be a good tester, but I can be a good user.  So, while I might be violating some rule about no SOTDs in this thread, I figured at least one "collaboration" shave deserved being posted, so here goes:

It’s fine to post in the thread and you must be one of the first to get their order. Great photo!

Thank you!

My shipping speed is legendary Frank Dragonsbeard

Getting ready for tonight’s shave

Getting ready for tonight’s shave

how's the scent?

Getting ready for tonight’s shave

how's the scent?

IKR? everyone keeps posting their picture that they got it and no one's telling us anything about how the scent is !!!!!!

Your take on scent?  As good as AdP??

Lesser....Not thinking I'd be a good tester, but I can be a good user.  So, while I might be violating some rule about no SOTDs in this thread, I figured at least one "collaboration" shave deserved being posted, so here goes:

cool looking photo.  how do you like the scent?

I like the scent no end.  It's soft and clean:  to me, at least, I find it somewhat lemon forward. The bergamot and other herbs are behind the lemon on top.  Harder for me to compare to AdP Colonia, of which I've only smelled the EDP.  But, as best I can recall, I found the AdP to be more "perfume-like," almost cloyingly so.  Didn't like it; certainly didn't buy it.  I also think that I recall there might be more of a spiciness in the AdP that I don't find in Frank's splash - perhaps more lavender?  In any event, Frank's splash is certainly lighter, and it's cleaner, slightly powdery (I think that's the right word), with a touch of the herbs and slight woodiness behind the citrus.  It's a really easy scent for me, although perhaps more a summer scent than winter one, although I'll use it from now on.  As a scent, qua scent, I'm not sure that I like it as quite as much as, say, Arlington -- which, of course, is a classic -- but, then, as good as the DR Harris soap is (and as I keep otherwise posting, it's pretty darned good), it's not quite as good as Ethos. The two - the Ethos and DRH - are, to me, very close smelling in scent; but I think there is more of the "fern" in DRH and more lemon with the Ethos.  Of course, the Ethos soap with the splash has a wonderful post-shave feel that just lasts. My face still feels moisturized and great hours later.  One edit:  I should make it plainer -- to me, this is a keeper.  It's a winner.  I'm about to BST a bunch of soaps; this one is not going in that pile!

....Not thinking I'd be a good tester, but I can be a good user.  So, while I might be violating some rule about no SOTDs in this thread, I figured at least one "collaboration" shave deserved being posted, so here goes:

It’s fine to post in the thread and you must be one of the first to get their order. Great photo!

Thank you!

My shipping speed is legendary Frank Dragonsbeard

It’s fine to post in the thread and you must be one of the first to get their order. Great photo!

Thank you!

My shipping speed is legendary Frank Dragonsbeard

Yes, I got it from The Handle Bar, and, yes, Gareth somehow got it to me across the country in two days via USPS Priority.  Impressed.

Your take on scent?  As good as AdP??

Lesser....Not thinking I'd be a good tester, but I can be a good user.  So, while I might be violating some rule about no SOTDs in this thread, I figured at least one "collaboration" shave deserved being posted, so here goes:

cool looking photo.  how do you like the scent?

I like the scent no end.  It's soft and clean:  to me, at least, I find it somewhat lemon forward. The bergamot and other herbs are behind the lemon on top.  Harder for me to compare to AdP Colonia, of which I've only smelled the EDP.  But, as best I can recall, I found the AdP to be more "perfume-like," almost cloyingly so.  Didn't like it; certainly didn't buy it.  I also think that I recall there might be more of a spiciness in the AdP that I don't find in Frank's splash - perhaps more lavender?  In any event, Frank's splash is certainly lighter, and it's cleaner, slightly powdery (I think that's the right word), with a touch of the herbs and slight woodiness behind the citrus.  It's a really easy scent for me, although perhaps more a summer scent than winter one, although I'll use it from now on.  As a scent, qua scent, I'm not sure that I like it as quite as much as, say, Arlington -- which, of course, is a classic -- but, then, as good as the DR Harris soap is (and as I keep otherwise posting, it's pretty darned good), it's not quite as good as Ethos. The two - the Ethos and DRH - are, to me, very close smelling in scent; but I think there is more of the "fern" in DRH and more lemon with the Ethos.  Of course, the Ethos soap with the splash has a wonderful post-shave feel that just lasts. My face still feels moisturized and great hours later.  One edit:  I should make it plainer -- to me, this is a keeper.  It's a winner.  I'm about to BST a bunch of soaps; this one is not in pile!

thanks for sharing your thoughts!

Very fast shipping from California (Handlebar)
It is lemon colonia scent. All citrus elements smell very naturally.

No one picking up the Neroli? That and the Bergamot are what hit me first then the Sicilian Lemon. Of course I’ve been smelling it for weeks lol