What soap/cream did you use today?

Razorock lime soap

Fine Accoutrements / Platinum

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Soap Commander Honor

Crabtree & Evelyn Sweet Almond Oil shaving cream (vintage)

Razo Rock Santa Maria del Fiore Firenze

SMN cream fragrance family - very nice smelling soap.
Slickness is fair - post is fair - scent is grand

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Perhaps it’s the farm kid in me that grew up In the dirt but I just don’t get the “clay” smell in old AOS sandalwood soaps as offputting.  To me it’s an important note in the soap and frankly I enjoy it.  I know for certain I enjoy the lather I get from this Valobra masterpiece of tallow.  Yep, I have the current iteration and yes it is very nice.  I enjoy the kicked up anise note and boy howdy anise is an easy one to get too much of.  I could use either one always but the vintage for me is just better.  Unless I live to 132 years old I’m covered though.  (Repurposed tin).

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.

Can’t smell Windsor....that sucks.  Awesome scent.  A can you smell Arlington?