What soap/cream did you use today?

Barrister & Mann - Le Grand Chypre (Excelsior)

How is this base Nero? Better?

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Hey Tommy, I know it's hard to keep track but Omnibus is the newest base... Excelsior is one of the recent bases.
No issues with Excelsior, but interested in the new base of course!

Thx. Nero.
Dang it I plan to be on the bus for Omnibus.
That was bad

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On a DG kick of late and this morning it was After the Rain which I blind bought and was frankly disappointed.  DG states this is their take of a forest after a rain and brother, I can tell you he hasn’t spent enough time in forests nor rain because the scent doesn’t match the title.  I was expecting it to be a wet forest and have notes of moldering leaves or wet bark or the scent of dust turned to mud.  Perhaps some petrichor which I actually associate with pre-storm/early storm events.  I’d have taken that bright scent of newly washed air, or mossy smell of river rocks.  But that is not what this soap smells like.  disappointment kicked in and the soap sat unused.  The other day I cracked the top off and smelled a most wonderful scent.  Wow!  That’s good.  Then read the label and here it was, a revelation that the scent is only disappointing if I allowed my brain to go to “wet forest”.  I’m not disappointed anymore but I just won’t believe the moniker as I use the soap.  In fact I’ll call it Ms Phoebe’s Garden and enjoy the heck out of it.  Phoebe was a widow who’s farm was next to ours.  When her husband passed, we rented her place and along with that came a responsibility to help her occasionally with yard work.  I suppose that’s where my love of lavender started because she always planted lavender.  She had also planted a copse of pine to the west to break the wind and although she seldom had me work I them, the scent of pine was always present.  She watered her garden out of an irrigation ditch that ran along the north end of her place and on the bank she had mint she would pluck and put into lemonade she would proffer me.  This soap reminds me of Phoebe Thomason, my Sunday School teacher, my neighbor, and my friend.  This lady never missed my birthday.  She introduced me to good books.  She wrote notes of encouragement through my young life.  She showed me more than potatoes, wheat, corn, and alfalfa and from such I have a love of shrubs, flowers, and trees.  I also learned how to swing a sythe.  What a grand old lady she was.  

Remembrance of youth spent on a working ranch in NorthEast. Once loved pine trees everywhere encountered throughout North America and rest of world...until moving to the South; now truly detest them. Southern pines are a nuisance

Dan. You would detest texas. We think mesquite are trees!

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AOS Rose
Whooweee. Thx to Nero for getting me hooked on this stuff.
True ROSE scent with great residual thickness! The cream is now harder than most of the soaps I own, but it performs.


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Martin De Candre Agrumes Soap (sample size)

The barber was in this morning. Quartet.

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Thanks to Pasteur's 15% off sale last weekend, I am trying Lakewood for the 1st time.  I would put the lather in the mid-tier range.  At one point, I checked the tub to make sure there was tallow because the lather had a very "non-tallow"-like feel and appearance.  The scent, however, was absolutely fantastic!  I would have liked more smoke but the scent of blackberries really dominates this one.  If you have tried Shannon's Indigo Oud, this one is similar.  it's not the same as the Smokeberry has a little sweetness than Indigo Oud

I suppose I ought to run through the whole of my DG line-up so today is a soap I’ve had for a while but have not yet used.  88 Chestnut Street is a nod to Farina eau de Cologne of which I have no experience.  How it compares nor how it varies I have no idea.  What I do know though is I highly doubt Chatillon would not put a masterful twist on things and most likely come up with something I like better.  This one opens with citrus but as can be expected it’s not a shallow citrus but has a roundness filling it out that is most wonderful.  Then the wood comes into play and between the fruity top and the woody bottom are florals.  What florals I have exactly zero idea.  I’d guess maybe Violets?  Anyway it smells great and shaves great and I followed it up with Sir Henrys Island Estate aftershave.  Not because they match but because I wanted to.  I never noticed how much I like the patina on the Karve until the brass Blackbird showed up.  Pretty cool I think.

Speick

Ethos Lime