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On the home place growing up we had fruit trees that lined our very huge garden.  Let’s put it this way, we worked the garden with the same implements we farmed with and we canned a lot of what came from the garden to feed our family of 11.  Along the south end of the garden was a row of apples.  There were three varieties; one soft apple we used for apple sauce and apple butter, one tart apple we used for baking and cooking, and one sweet crisp apple that we would put in bushel baskets in the cellar for eating fresh and we pressed a bunch for cider.  I don’t know the varieties because I was a kid who only knew which one I liked to eat and the eating apples were so super juicy and sweet when the first frosts came.  Walk out to get the mail?  Pick an apple.  Changing water?  Pick an apple.  Working the fields south of the house? Pick a few apples and put em in a pocket.  They were so good and I really missed them as I moved away.  The honey crisp apple is like those of my youth.  Come fall, there was a lot of clean up to do in the vicinity of the fruit trees.  The garden was all but done.  There were slash piles of pruning and from the shade trees in the yard to pile and burn.  I recall recognizing what a great cleaner fire was.  It would take weedy, grassy ditch banks to a clean new slate and it would reduce those big piles of fruitwood to ash in the garden.  We had a BBQ pit in the yard and as I piled the wood to burn I’d keep and cut the bigger stuff to stack and burn in the pit.  As I’d do that I found it nice to build a little fire on the pit hearth and stab an apple on a willow stick to roast over the pit chimney.  My oh my!  Apple pie without the crust.  This soap reminds me of those baked apples with the scent notes of wood smoke and apples.  

This an absolutely wonderful Fall scented soap featuring apple cider notes with a hint of smoke. It tugs at those memories from childhood. I don't reach for it nearly often enough, likely due to the lesser properties of the Glissant Base which has been superseded several times over in the B&M world. Not bad but not great. If this comes out in the new Omnibus base...

On the home place growing up we had fruit trees that lined our very huge garden.  Let’s put it this way, we worked the garden with the same implements we farmed with and we canned a lot of what came from the garden to feed our family of 11.  Along the south end of the garden was a row of apples.  There were three varieties; one soft apple we used for apple sauce and apple butter, one tart apple we used for baking and cooking, and one sweet crisp apple that we would put in bushel baskets in the cellar for eating fresh and we pressed a bunch for cider.  I don’t know the varieties because I was a kid who only knew which one I liked to eat and the eating apples were so super juicy and sweet when the first frosts came.  Walk out to get the mail?  Pick an apple.  Changing water?  Pick an apple.  Working the fields south of the house? Pick a few apples and put em in a pocket.  They were so good and I really missed them as I moved away.  The honey crisp apple is like those of my youth.  Come fall, there was a lot of clean up to do in the vicinity of the fruit trees.  The garden was all but done.  There were slash piles of pruning and from the shade trees in the yard to pile and burn.  I recall recognizing what a great cleaner fire was.  It would take weedy, grassy ditch banks to a clean new slate and it would reduce those big piles of fruitwood to ash in the garden.  We had a BBQ pit in the yard and as I piled the wood to burn I’d keep and cut the bigger stuff to stack and burn in the pit.  As I’d do that I found it nice to build a little fire on the pit hearth and stab an apple on a willow stick to roast over the pit chimney.  My oh my!  Apple pie without the crust.  This soap reminds me of those baked apples with the scent notes of wood smoke and apples.  

This an absolutely wonderful Fall scented soap featuring apple cider notes with a hint of smoke.  It tugs at those memories from childhood.  I don't reach for it nearly often enough, likely due to the lesser properties of the Glissant Base which has been superseded several times over in the B&M world.  Not bad but not great.  If this comes out in the new Omnibus base...

I love the Glissant base!  For me it’s better than excelsior or soft heart.  Never tried omnibus but frankly if he’d stayed with Glissant I would be happy.  Works great for me.

On the home place growing up we had fruit trees that lined our very huge garden.  Let’s put it this way, we worked the garden with the same implements we farmed with and we canned a lot of what came from the garden to feed our family of 11.  Along the south end of the garden was a row of apples.  There were three varieties; one soft apple we used for apple sauce and apple butter, one tart apple we used for baking and cooking, and one sweet crisp apple that we would put in bushel baskets in the cellar for eating fresh and we pressed a bunch for cider.  I don’t know the varieties because I was a kid who only knew which one I liked to eat and the eating apples were so super juicy and sweet when the first frosts came.  Walk out to get the mail?  Pick an apple.  Changing water?  Pick an apple.  Working the fields south of the house? Pick a few apples and put em in a pocket.  They were so good and I really missed them as I moved away.  The honey crisp apple is like those of my youth.  Come fall, there was a lot of clean up to do in the vicinity of the fruit trees.  The garden was all but done.  There were slash piles of pruning and from the shade trees in the yard to pile and burn.  I recall recognizing what a great cleaner fire was.  It would take weedy, grassy ditch banks to a clean new slate and it would reduce those big piles of fruitwood to ash in the garden.  We had a BBQ pit in the yard and as I piled the wood to burn I’d keep and cut the bigger stuff to stack and burn in the pit.  As I’d do that I found it nice to build a little fire on the pit hearth and stab an apple on a willow stick to roast over the pit chimney.  My oh my!  Apple pie without the crust.  This soap reminds me of those baked apples with the scent notes of wood smoke and apples.  

Your posts often bring back remembrance of youth. Really need relocate, nature beckons

I’ll do you a solid and make sure to share tales of frost bitten cheeks when it’s 25 below zero, the wind is blowing 30mph, water is frozen, vehicles won’t start, and the cows are wet.  Some mornings are so gloriously miserable it’s hard to make ones lips move to speak.  Can’t wait!

On the home place growing up we had fruit trees that lined our very huge garden.  Let’s put it this way, we worked the garden with the same implements we farmed with and we canned a lot of what came from the garden to feed our family of 11.  Along the south end of the garden was a row of apples.  There were three varieties; one soft apple we used for apple sauce and apple butter, one tart apple we used for baking and cooking, and one sweet crisp apple that we would put in bushel baskets in the cellar for eating fresh and we pressed a bunch for cider.  I don’t know the varieties because I was a kid who only knew which one I liked to eat and the eating apples were so super juicy and sweet when the first frosts came.  Walk out to get the mail?  Pick an apple.  Changing water?  Pick an apple.  Working the fields south of the house? Pick a few apples and put em in a pocket.  They were so good and I really missed them as I moved away.  The honey crisp apple is like those of my youth.  Come fall, there was a lot of clean up to do in the vicinity of the fruit trees.  The garden was all but done.  There were slash piles of pruning and from the shade trees in the yard to pile and burn.  I recall recognizing what a great cleaner fire was.  It would take weedy, grassy ditch banks to a clean new slate and it would reduce those big piles of fruitwood to ash in the garden.  We had a BBQ pit in the yard and as I piled the wood to burn I’d keep and cut the bigger stuff to stack and burn in the pit.  As I’d do that I found it nice to build a little fire on the pit hearth and stab an apple on a willow stick to roast over the pit chimney.  My oh my!  Apple pie without the crust.  This soap reminds me of those baked apples with the scent notes of wood smoke and apples.  

This an absolutely wonderful Fall scented soap featuring apple cider notes with a hint of smoke.  It tugs at those memories from childhood.  I don't reach for it nearly often enough, likely due to the lesser properties of the Glissant Base which has been superseded several times over in the B&M world.  Not bad but not great.  If this comes out in the new Omnibus base...

I love the Glissant base!  For me it’s better than excelsior or soft heart.  Never tried omnibus but frankly if he’d stayed with Glissant I would be happy.  Works great for me.

Maggard currently has the Zingari Man/B&M collab on Nocturne on clearance.  I assume it's the Zingari base with the B&M Nocturne scent.

Beaudelaire (Barrister & Mann) licorice fougère
Glissant・ Shave 13 ・ 73% left

This soap goes back a few years, but time has not dimmed the scent. Beaudelaire is a gorgeous fougère with a heavy note of anise and gobs of Will’s lovely Mousse de Saxe accord. Along with the lavender, oak moss, and coumarin, you get spice, leather, iodine, and vanilla. Makes me all wobbly in my knees every time I smell it. Mousse de Saxe was originally made by the fragrance firm of De Laire over a century ago. Barrister & Mann resurrected it and made it the cornerstone of this soap’s fragrance. As a side note, one way of translating the French name ‘Beaudelaire’ would be ‘De Laire’s charmer’. Spot on. The stuff is lovely.
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