(05-24-2021, 05:43 PM)TommyCarioca Wrote:TommyCarioca. This is a very bright fougère. Somehow Will pours a little liquid sunshine into the mix. It's not really a citrusy brightness, although I do pick up some bergamot. It's more an aldehydic bright. That's to say, it seems like an aromachemical, but in a good way. I'm not sure how to put this, but to me it feels like something you'd meet in a 1960s drugstore or barbershop. It's not very complex, and it could use some more moss and tonka, but for a shaving soap, it's very nice. The lavender in it smells a lot like the Barrister's Reserve Lavender. Among my soaps, its closest relative is probably Le Père Lucien's Cologne-Fougère. If I didn't have so many others soaps peeping at me like little chicks, I could happily get lost in this soap for weeks at a time.(05-24-2021, 03:11 AM)Bouki Wrote: Barrister’s Reserve Fern t. (Barrister & Mann) bright fougèreBouki-meister: what our where does this fit in the green family tree? Do you have a good analogy? Thx in advance
Toothpaste comes in many flavors, but for a clean feeling mouth, give me mint every time. Shaving works the same way. My soap stash harbors representatives of over twenty fragrance families from roses to rum to flowers and weeds. They’re all a delight to use, and I really enjoy the variety. But when I want a clean shave, I reach for a fougère. Even after trying hundreds of soaps, to me a fougère is what classic double-edged shaving should smell like.
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1963 Gillette Flare Tip Super Speed ・ Astra SP ・ Phoenix Shaving Peregrino ・ Nobile 1942, Fougère Nobile ・ YTD: 280g
Somebody help me out here. What does this soap smell like to you?