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Arancio Amaro v. (Tcheon Fung Sing) Red Hots

Arancio Amaro is Italian for “bitter orange.” When I ordered this soap, I thought I would be getting the sweet, sour smell of bigarade (bitter orange blossom) that forms the brilliant top note of many colognes. But clearly something’s been lost in translation. This soap smells nothing like bitter orange, neither the flower nor the fruit. It’s just a puff of generic floral bits mixed in with four quarts of fiery cinnamon. It’s fierce like the little Red Hot candies that turn your tongue crimson and make you gasp if you get too many at once. See the orange-red color of the label? That was the color of my face for forty-five minutes. I’m not even that sensitive to spicy aromas, but this stuff is so packed with Cinnamyl, it set me alight like a roman candle. When Tcheon Fung Sing puts Intenso and Forte (intense & strong) on the label, believe them. So Arancio Amaro is headed for the bin after only one use. A pity, since it made one of the glossiest lathers I’ve ever concocted. In fact, the shave was excellent, but the cinnamon burn was just too bitter to bear a second time.

   

Excellent post, and I agree 100% with your assessment of this one.

Out of curiosity, I counted my opened soaps/creams today (not including duplicates) and we have 142. This is a sickness.

So if I shave every day in a rotation... I will use everything twice and some of them 3 times, per year.

And if we say there are on average 60 shaves per item (which is low-balling it, I have a lot of hard soaps).... That's over 23 years of daily shaves.

That's a lot of soap, Nero! 

From time to time my soap spreadsheet reminds me of a lesson my uncle taught me years ago when we first started riding snow machines in the Wyoming mountains. He said, "On one of these things you can ride farther in thirty minutes than you can walk in a day." I wish soap vendors carried a similar warning on their web sites: "You can buy more shaving soap in an afternoon than you can use in a lifetime."

I've got about 90 soaps on my shelf. Not counting the weight of the containers, that amounts to about 8.7 kilos of soap. Lately I've been using about 1.8 grams of soap per shave. At that rate, I should be well supplied through the end of 2033.

Ok.... When I said it's a sickness...... and, I just wrote that one day ago...... not only did I buy more soaps today......... I bought backups.

Black Bay

Arancio Amaro v. (Tcheon Fung Sing) Red Hots

Arancio Amaro is Italian for “bitter orange.” When I ordered this soap, I thought I would be getting the sweet, sour smell of bigarade (bitter orange blossom) that forms the brilliant top note of many colognes. But clearly something’s been lost in translation. This soap smells nothing like bitter orange, neither the flower nor the fruit. It’s just a puff of generic floral bits mixed in with four quarts of fiery cinnamon. It’s fierce like the little Red Hot candies that turn your tongue crimson and make you gasp if you get too many at once. See the orange-red color of the label? That was the color of my face for forty-five minutes. I’m not even that sensitive to spicy aromas, but this stuff is so packed with Cinnamyl, it set me alight like a roman candle. When Tcheon Fung Sing puts Intenso and Forte (intense & strong) on the label, believe them. So Arancio Amaro is headed for the bin after only one use. A pity, since it made one of the glossiest lathers I’ve ever concocted. In fact, the shave was excellent, but the cinnamon burn was just too bitter to bear a second time.

   

Excellent post, and I agree 100% with your assessment of this one.

You could donate it to the Financial Straits PIF so those in need have access....

Pre-shave:- ETHOS First Lather Unscented
Soap: ETHOS Melange d'Agrumes
Razor: H&S P076 Copper DC
Brush: Declaractiob Grooming Washington Blood of Kings B3
PostShave: ETHOS Remede Sensative Skin
AfterShave: ETHOS Skin Food Unscented

Chiseled Face / Ghost Town Barber

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Reef Point Espresso

I don't use Tabac very often but when I do, I always wonder why, great shave today