What soap/cream did you use today?

Crabtree & Evelyn Sienna shaving soap (vintage) 

I Meisner Tremonia Himalayan Heights is supposed to be cedar and Himalayan salt.  Well to my nose, Himalayan salt, although an awesome pink, has very little smell in my limited experience.  Cedar?  Hey, I know and love cedar but cedar is not the main note I get.  I get something decidedly floral.  It is nice and light and wonderful with the more heavy cedar in the back seat.  The floral note reminds me of a backpacking trip though Yellowstone’s backcountry.  The SW corner of the park is called the Cascade Corner and I really like it.  The second day of a trip I hike out of the Firehole basin and cross the Great Divide three times to get into the Fall River basin and the head of the Bechler River.  One day, under a heavy load, I stopped between the second and third divide crossing and rested beneath an ancient Subalpine Fir.  The view was stupendous.  I could see clear down into the Park and everything was fresh and verdant.  As I looked an amazing floral smell came to my nose.  It was the best smelling flower I have ever smelled and that includes lilac!  I hunted and looked and could see no blossom that would emit such a nasal elixir.  I finally found the source in a small evergreen shrub with a 3 mm lavender blossom.  Once I found it I could see them everywhere!  In fact I had been sitting in a bush of it. I know a lot about wildflower but this one was new to me.  I later learned it was Mountain Heath and can say it is my favorite floral scent.  Problem is I have never gotten to smell it again although I have been there several times since.  I suppose the bloom is very short lived and I was lucky to be there exactly right.  The floral in Himalayan Heights is not the scent of Mountain Heath but it evokes that sort of feeling for me.  High up in clean air.  Great shave.

Slåtterøy v. (Fitjar Islands) northern bay rum

Like Meißner Tremonia, Fitjar Islands have designed their cakes of soap so they don't touch the sides of the jar they come in. The puck slants inward from its base like a volcano with its top trimmed off. What's the point? Maybe a truncated cone dries more evenly after you've lather it. Maybe that shape is easier to unmold. Maybe it just looks cool. Whatever the reason, the soap is quick to lather in spite of its odd shape, and though much of the cake is exposed to the air, it still keeps its sweet scent. Fitjar Islands bill this fragrance as a Nordic bay rum. I don't get any bay or any rum, but what's here (coriander, citrus, rosemary) smells wonderful. By far my favorite scent from this soap maker.


    

Chiseled Face / Summer Storm

8/19/1942

Oh boy!  This the season.  Love this scent.

I'm enjoying this new soapmakers first soap, Dragonsbeard. There are new soaps coming out soon & I will be adding those to my den, without getting samples first. Dragonsbeard is absolutely a top tier soap, so I'll buy his new offerings based on the performance of his current soap. His soap company is Ethos, for those of you wondering.

Wholly Kaw Merchant of Tobacco

Smells of chocolate - not much tobacco, but great suds

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Homelikeshaving light shave soap