What soap/cream did you use today?

Citrus as a holiday scent?  As little as Dickins from B&M means to me, Nordost is exactly opposite and scratches every Christmas itch.  Back in the day we kids ALWAYS got an orange in the toe of our stockings. The rest of the stocking was filled with salted in the shell peanuts, ribbon candy that as you sucked it melted open air bubbles that would cut your tongue to ribbons if you weren’t careful, and a chocolate covered treat shaped like a gumdrop but each had a different flavored sugar candy center.  They weren’t good chocolates but after riding around in the stocking getting a salty dusting from the peanuts, they were a pretty good sweet/salty experience.  There was usually a “Lifesaver Book” in there and I looked forward to the butter rum and wintergreen flavored rolls. Nobody even knows what those were anymore.  But the orange! And knowing that Santa always left the rest of the 50lbs box, was a treat.  

Adore NordOst year round. Best Orange soap I have encountered and the A/S is superb

A good one?

It is. It’s one of my favourite MacDuff’s scents. I think Sean should do an EDP of this one.

Description please (per your nose)

I’m notoriously bad at describing scents. It’s pleasant. Here’s what Pasteur says about it and I agree it smells like this and really nice. No single note dominates but rather blends , well, nicely. I don’t get any cinnamon. 

Notes: Cedar, Cardamom, Cashmere, Evergreen, Oud, Spice, Cocoa Butter, Patchouli, Santal, Musk

Christmas Cabin includes some of the expected notes you'd expect to see in a Christmas scent, but like the other Cabin scents, the goal is not a literal Christmas scent and instead goes for vibe. It's warm, buttery and inviting thanks to cashmere and cocoa butter; slightly spicy under the union of cardamom, allspice, nutmeg and cinnamon; all wrapped together under a complex base of cedarwood, patchouli, musk, santal and a hint of oud.

Please note that the cinnamon content is low, well within IFRA and skin safety guidelines and is used to bring some sharpness to the top notes without becoming a "cinnamon scent".

Citrus as a holiday scent?  As little as Dickins from B&M means to me, Nordost is exactly opposite and scratches every Christmas itch.  Back in the day we kids ALWAYS got an orange in the toe of our stockings. The rest of the stocking was filled with salted in the shell peanuts, ribbon candy that as you sucked it melted open air bubbles that would cut your tongue to ribbons if you weren’t careful, and a chocolate covered treat shaped like a gumdrop but each had a different flavored sugar candy center.  They weren’t good chocolates but after riding around in the stocking getting a salty dusting from the peanuts, they were a pretty good sweet/salty experience.  There was usually a “Lifesaver Book” in there and I looked forward to the butter rum and wintergreen flavored rolls. Nobody even knows what those were anymore.  But the orange! And knowing that Santa always left the rest of the 50lbs box, was a treat.  

Great recollection of our youth Lip....  My xmas morning treat memory was my grandmother's divinity with Texas pecans places in the center of the chunks. She was an Okie, lived in a
sod house early in her marriage. Thanks for that flashback Lip. Going to have to dig out an orange puck this season.

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Haven’t thought of,divinity for a decade!  Thanks right back

Sunday December 15, 2024
Razor: Treet 1912
Blade: Gem SS
Brush: Semogue 1305/Boar
Soap: Arko Stick
AS : Witch Hazel + Clubman Citrus Musk
Fragrance:
Consecutive Daily Shaves - # 2,230

Shaving Soap: Saponificio Varesino Manna di Sicilia