What soap/cream did you use today?

A&E - Barbiere Sofisticato

Desert Vetiver v. (Saponificio Varesino) flowers, sagebrush, juniper

Take a look at the notes listed above. Don't see any vetiver, do you? It's here in this soap, but it's playing third string at best. This fragrance is really all about artemisia (wormwood/sagebrush) and flowers. But they're not on an equal footing. To start off the puck smells sweet, like roses and melon, but make a lather and what wells up is a big acrid puff of western sagebrush. Desert Vetiver is the smell of the alkaline desert of the Great Basin and the Colorado plateau. It smells like driving the backroads across Nevada on wet summer's evening with all the windows down, while the fragrance of sagebrush, juniper, pine, wild rose, and greasewood fill the cab. You may pick up some lavender, too, but what's missing is the deep, earthy tang of down and dirty vetiver. A bit of a disappointment there. Nevertheless, if you can make peace with some dry and distant vetiver, you may find this is a fantastic fragrance, and the soap base (beta 4.3) is splendid.
   

SAD fully engaged. You cost me Bouki.

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Never experienced summer rain in NV nor anywhere in desert SouthWest

Dan-it is a wonderful olfactory experience

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That container Is the new home of MdC Vetyver soap.  As a devout vetiver fan this one hits it on the money.  It’s not a “perfume counter” vetiver although I like those too but to me this aroma must might be the smell of a vetiver oil distillery.  Root, dirt, smoke, and that MdC rubber background that seems to actually enhance this one.  This is not the scent you want if you like your vetiver in a suit and tie.  

Niiiiice. Description very accurate. Thought my sniffer was off-but you and Bouki have confirmed the tar, burnt rubber note I was trying to deny

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Halsin 1-12

Dear lord i love this scent. It is affordable and still smells the same. Performance not so good now, but it is so cheap one can bathe in it - and I do. A galbanum-green bomb. Reminds me of a few memories from several high end gentlemen establishments in Dallas that a young man will never be able to purge from the memory banks. The 80's weren't that bad?

Soap smelled great - performance sucked.

HALSTON 1-12 - live long and prosper



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MdC Fougere

Laureato v. (Abbate y la Mantia) lemon, bay leaf, saffron

Smells like a walk through the lemon groves of Sorrento. Hoosiershave's slow-as-she-goes method works just as well with a vegan soap. Full, creamy lather today, and a marvelous shave. 

ischiapp: potresti spiegare l'immagine sull'etichetta?

   

Desert Vetiver v. (Saponificio Varesino) flowers, sagebrush, juniper

Take a look at the notes listed above. Don't see any vetiver, do you? It's here in this soap, but it's playing third string at best. This fragrance is really all about artemisia (wormwood/sagebrush) and flowers. But they're not on an equal footing. To start off the puck smells sweet, like roses and melon, but make a lather and what wells up is a big acrid puff of western sagebrush. Desert Vetiver is the smell of the alkaline desert of the Great Basin and the Colorado plateau. It smells like driving the backroads across Nevada on wet summer's evening with all the windows down, while the fragrance of sagebrush, juniper, pine, wild rose, and greasewood fill the cab. You may pick up some lavender, too, but what's missing is the deep, earthy tang of down and dirty vetiver. A bit of a disappointment there. Nevertheless, if you can make peace with some dry and distant vetiver, you may find this is a fantastic fragrance, and the soap base (beta 4.3) is splendid.
   

That’s what I’ve been looking for!  Sagebrush.

+1

good lather has no suds

Giving a new GD Mallard prototype a go later today.

Ischiapp: can you explain the image in the label?

It's about the laurel wreath.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_wreath

The person is Napoleone Bonaparte.
Here pictured in 1811 as Emperor, on a porcelain exposed in Museo delle Porcellane of Florence.