(This post was last modified: 07-05-2022, 04:49 PM by DanLaw.)
Melange Agrumes: imagine being served a huge helping of the freshest grapefruit slices ever encountered at a spa restaurant
Lavender: you are a racer in the Tour de France on a flat intermediate stage between the Alps and Pyrenees. It is hour 3 of a 6 hour day in the saddle, brutally hot and the peloton truculent for a win to satisfy sponsors having no chance in the mountains nor TTs. Your nasal passages are fully open and desperately sucking in air. All around you are lavender fields, the scent overwhelming and intoxicating.
Fresco: you are a bartender prepping prior to open. Your last task is to reduce a bucket of fresh whole limes to slices for quick production of drinks during happy hour. You have been cutting limes for 30 minutes and the juices are running freely on the bar
Mandarino Fumo: you finally made it to Cuba and first stop is at Cohiba to witness cigars being rolled by hand. You inhale deeply.
Vetivert: you visit a sod farm in Canada to see how it functions, workers are busy all around you rolling the cut grass mats. The owner's wife appears with a tray of iced water with lemon and limes in it
Colonia: you are at a 1960's Hollywood party. All the legends are in attendance. There is a consistent neroli smell as the biggest names pass you in luxuriant splendour. They smell every bit as classically glamourous as they look.
Dragonsbeard: you are transported into a fantasy novel from another time and another world. The surroundings resemble South Asia but even more overworldly exotic, then there is the smell in the air, a smell of magic and eternity. Oud but not of this world
Sandalwood: you wake up in the 1960s as a hippy. The period is square in the Indian revival, Ravi Shankar is playing on the turntable and the scent of genuine sandalwood is everywhere. Why not, sandalwood is plentiful and inexpensive
Greenfresh: you are with a large party at a genuine Thai restaurant, say a real deal one like the world famous NanThai in Atlanta owned by Nan Niyomkuli. Your party is seated as Nan and her beautiful daughter Dede come out to greet you carrying trays of Thai salad appetizers to get you started. Your senses are overwhelmed by their beauty and grace and the strong scent of cucumbers, lemon grass and ginger
Tibu Subani has hardly any scent
Tonka, never smelt
Any others you want perspective on?
Bottom line not a loser in the bunch although not a fan of Peppermint nor Mandarino Fumo but that just personal preference
As all will attest, the bases are all fantastic whether original, hard or new soft - really more a matter whether preferring lathering off the puck or scooping to bowl lather. Skin benefits and post shave are best in industry. Creme is also best creme used to date but do prefer the soaps
