What soap/cream did you use today?

Ah, one of the Stirling Sheep flock.  How is the scent, especially vs. Glastonbury (if you have that one)?

Ah, one of the Stirling Sheep flock.  How is the scent, especially vs. Glastonbury (if you have that one)?

Can state flatly, in AS the scent is fabulous if seeking a dirty vetyver

Ah, one of the Stirling Sheep flock.  How is the scent, especially vs. Glastonbury (if you have that one)?

I'm going to need some time with P-A-P as my initial impression with the scent didn't meet my expectations.  Vetiver and lemongrass, that seemed right up my alley.  The lemongrass must be hiding behind some stuff back in the alley because I didn't pick up any. The vetiver scent isn't what I was expecting either.  I was hoping this scent would be somewhere close to Mike's Vetiver or EUFROS Vetiver De Haití based on the description as these two are similar to each other, but different.  This was just my first outing so I hope I'll come around to liking it more. 

When I first got Glastonbury and Varen they both repulsed me.  So I just left them in a drawer for quite some time, like a year or more.  Now even though I rarely use them I think the scents are really good and unique.  There's something in P-A-P that reminds me of both.  I though it might be the sheep base so I sniffed my SHEEP tub and that's not it. 

I'll say this.  For straight up vetiver Mike's or EUFROS is my benchmark.  P-A-P will always be a runner-up even if I come around to liking it rather than being indifferent to the scent.  I'm just glad I only bought a sample of P-A-P.

Stirling Sandalwood

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. . . [Port-au-Prince] scent is fabulous if seeking a dirty vetyver.  — DanLaw 

Dirtiest soap I own is O'vert by E&S Rasage, one AlphaFrank75 also has.  It smells like soil to me, and I assumed that is vetiver . . . a note the maker does not list.

If you've smelled Glastonbury, DanLaw,  how do you characterize its scent?

Based on my experience using the Glastonbury splash (most often as cologne), I was about to order a set—aftershave, EDT, and soap—but, as with Varen, my notion of pan-seasonality for these scents does not not align with Stirling's seasonal-marketing notions.  (If I had to choose a season for Glastonbury, Autumn—the earthiness of brown leaves—comes to mind . . . although brown leaves can come early in the heat and drought of Texas.)

Coincidentally, I used a Eufros soap for this shave.


Boreal (lavender, soap) – Eufros

Excellent base, I think, but based on the scent misnomers (imo), Boreal and Tobacco, this isn't a house I'd be inclined to turn to for fragrance.  Boreal has become kind of a dumb-reach soap for me since, 1) it works, and 2) the scent is generic-soap and moderate enough to present an open book to whatever fragrances I might want to follow with . . . although I seem to very often go green following this soap . . . not that I need much excuse to go green.

You know, @Barrister_N_Mann revels in creating polarizing scents; Stirling usually seems more about being the Taylor Swift of shaving, so I feel like AlphaFrank75 finding a couple of entries to be from the House of Revulsion to be sort of artisanal high praise.

. . . [Port-au-Prince] scent is fabulous if seeking a dirty vetyver.  — DanLaw 

Dirtiest soap I own is O'vert by E&S Rasage, one AlphaFrank75 also has.  It smells like soil to me, and I assumed that is vetiver . . . a note the maker does not list.

If you've smelled Glastonbury, DanLaw,  how do you characterize its scent?

Based on my experience using the Glastonbury splash (most often as cologne), I was about to order a set—aftershave, EDT, and soap—but, as with Varen, my notion of pan-seasonality for these scents does not not align with Stirling's seasonal-marketing notions.  (If I had to choose a season for Glastonbury, Autumn—the earthiness of brown leaves—comes to mind . . . although brown leaves can come early in the heat and drought of Texas.)

Coincidentally, I used a Eufros soap for this shave.


Boreal (lavender, soap) – Eufros

Excellent base, I think, but based on the scent misnomers (imo), Boreal and Tobacco, this isn't a house I'd be inclined to turn to for fragrance.  Boreal has become kind of a dumb-reach soap for me since, 1) it works, and 2) the scent is generic-soap and moderate enough to present an open book to whatever fragrances I might want to follow with . . . although I seem to very often go green following this soap . . . not that I need much excuse to go green.

You know, @Barrister_N_Mann revels in creating polarizing scents; Stirling usually seems more about being the Taylor Swift of shaving, so I feel like AlphaFrank75 finding a couple of entries to be from the House of Revulsion to be sort of artisanal high praise.

If in States, can get you a sample Sterling PdP AS - PM me address

Have not tried Glasotnbury. Pretty much adore anything Eufros or LJDJ. B&M is quite nice and reasonably adventurous in scents; love their Fougere Imperial - dirtiest fougere ever encountered.

Phoenix Shaving - Sci-Fi Lime (CK-6)