What soap/cream did you use today?

Noble Otter - Barrbarr

                                                                       

Just love the scent. Hope B&M revives this beautiful soap (I think it's a seasonal release so it should be recurring on a yearly basis).

Palmolive. A classic. Smells nice and clean. Great performer also.

Barrister & Mann Seville

GD Encens Agrumes

Mood Indigo by House of Mammoth. Love the scent of this one.

Barrister & Mann Leviathan
Omnibus Base

So now I find myself in the middle of the Leviathan Wars.  Reviews, mostly glowing, are piling up.  The first scent out in Will Carius' tour de force Omnibus base is the legendary Leviathan.  I placed an order in the initial release though my usage has been somewhat delayed.  

The Omnibus base really is extraordinary.  It takes a great deal of water and keeps delivering slick and thick lather.

The scent of this soap is growing on me.  Of course, the name conjures up images of Moby Dick, a book I read some years ago.  For me, however, my reference point is not literary.  The scent with its notes of leather and coffee brings me back to the smell of dusty books that I had to access while doing research in grad school.  Back in the day, we used real books.  Our research was fueled by coffee and driven by the fear of not making the cut.  So the scent memory is vivid for me.

The best Barrister & Mann scents for me are Le Grande Chypre and Beaudelaire. As to whether Leviathan rises to that level, time will tell. In any case, the Omnibus base is cause for celebration and makes using Leviathan a pleasure, in and of itself.

Remember well when the average grade in undergrad and post grad University, by design, was a C, not A-; when schools didn't hesitate to winnow chaff from wheat. Amazing how everything, including standardized tests, have been dumbed down to artificially infer advancement. Have you worked with recent grads? Factually, even those from elite schools definitely not of the standard of a few decades past. Great post and yes, get that also from Leviathan - be it Moby Dick or Hobbesian.

Stirling Gentleman