What soap/cream did you use today?

First shave with Terror
Nice, just wish there was more frankincense scent, it's just overrun by the peppermint.
Cold indeed.
Great finish.

Nero - give us some insight on Mr Figaro. I have not seen that AFS b4!? Thx in advance

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This is the "Ambra" colored one.
(There is a blue one, can't recall what that's named but I didn't care for that one. "BluIce" maybe, something like that.)

Menthol.

Powder barbershop. Smells like you just got done with a haircut and shave at Barber Joe's.

Big (400ml) and affordable

Excellent performance.
Evidence - I don't think I've killed any bottle of any aftershave, but this is down to a CM or two, and it's my largest one.

Thx-got it

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Not the best performing but DEFINITELY the best campfire scent I've smelled 

I agree 100%.  However, I received this and Citrus Basil free a few years ago from West Coast.  I purchased from them once and it was the last.

Bought one and gifted to a friend that REALLY wanted the campfire and hunted another for myself that took a long time but a friend gifted it to me Todd Take Care Man

Hemingway Accoutrements shaving cream

I am going to make a statement here and I will probably have several people saying this guy is weird.  I own 117 soaps and creams.  But, to begin with I quit smoking twice in my life.  It has probably been 16 years since the last time I gave up cigarettes. After about 6 months to 1 year you begin to retain you sense of smell and taste.  Believe me, when you smoke smell and taste are inhibited.  

I cook, I am not a chief, a trained cook or cook professionally.  However, I have been cooking for several decades and I am damm good.  Smell and taste are absolutely important to me.  I can smell and taste fine wines, bourbons, coffee beans that I grind myself, etc.   And whatever I cook I can always decide what herbs or spices it needs.

But, I open a tub of shaving soap or cream and the majority of the time it smells close to what it is advertised as.  However, when I make a lather (I face lather)  very few of these products continue TO ME to smell like they did when I opened the tub.  Very few do.  That does not bother me; I am more concerned with performance.

And here is where I am going to get blasted.  I have two D.R. Harris soaps.  Arlington and Windsor.  I have read the write up of Windsor repeatedly and I can not smell anything.  This is why perfume and colognes can not be patient or receive copywriter  Only the bottle or vessel and the name can.  Because everyone does not have the same sense of smell or taste.

STIRLING / Island Man

This one here has had me chasing it for about two summers.  I can get the soap, but not the balm or splash, I can get the balm or splash, but not the soap! 

Think Citrus, Floral, Spicy Ginger and a splash of Rum, VERY fragrant with Jasmine, Hibiscus, Musk, Ginger, think bold and masculine NOT sweet floral. You’re not a Pirate with this one....

U just cost me 15 bux Rob

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Very straightforward crisp, clean, uncomplicated.  It’s NOT salty aquatic! Even did a quick spray of the splash on my way to work this morning as I can’t get enough of the aroma! 

** (I now spray my splash out of small atomizers to reduce wasting 33% running down my hands)

⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣Dragonsbeard V2

ExtraProtein: Today's background looks like William Butler Yeats. I guess he was an island man, too.

Bouki, you and Rob are going to force the old guy here to learn a Lil bit each day. Got my online dictionary and encyclopedia with me each day for  my soap & cream read/post!

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NEVER too old to do ANYTHING! I even grew a moustache for “Movember” roflmao!  

 “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity” .......Yeats

I open a tub of shaving soap or cream and the majority of the time it smells close to what it is advertised as. However, when I make a lather, very few of these products continue TO ME to smell like they did when I opened the tub. Very few do. That does not bother me; I am more concerned with performance.

And here is where I am going to get blasted.  I have two D.R. Harris soaps.  Arlington and Windsor.  I have read the write up of Windsor repeatedly and I can not smell anything. This is why perfume and colognes can not be patient or receive copywriter. Only the bottle or vessel and the name can. Because everyone does not have the same sense of smell or taste.

Tidepool, you're spot on! When you make a lather, the scent changes. Adding the water and air fiddles with the fragrance. Humid environments are much better for conveying scent molecules. So, when we lather up our soap with a wet brush, we're releasing lots of smells that up until then have been sort clinging to the surface of the puck. For the most part, I think the scent improves. The notes seem to be more in harmony when they're presented in the lather. When they're still in the tub, everything smells a little off. 

I think we're all born with the same olfactory apparatus. We all start out with pretty much the same sniffer and receptors and brains. But a lifetime of use can wear out some of the parts. Our olfactory receptor neurons become less responsive or sometimes stop working altogether. Other times they give our brains the wrong information: we take a sniff of a lemon and our brains tell us we're smelling wet cement. These false readings may be due to illness, or age, or environment, or they may be down to our own wacky wiring. Most of us cannot smell at least one scent. This is called anosmia. Even great perfumers are anosmic to one or two notes. When you write that you cannot smell Windsor, it may be due to your being anosmic to some key element of the fragrance.

And there's this to consider, too: our sense of smell is tightly bound up with our emotions and memories. One part of our brain (the hypocampus and amygdala) processes not only what we smell, but also what we feel and what we remember. Smells become very closely linked to our personal emotions and memories. Since none of us has the same memories and none has felt exactly the same feelings, it's reasonable to assume that none of us interprets what we smell in the same way. In other words, we each inhale the same scent molecules, and our receptors pass that information in the same way to our brains. But our brains make their own unique sense of each scent based on what we've experienced in our own personal past. So, I agree, our brains don't interpret smells with the same set of equivalences. A fragrance molecule that may remind you of a day sailing on the bay, may remind me of an old shoe.

Thanks for bringing this up. I'd love to read what everyone else thinks.

Eufros Mediterraneo