Agree 100%. Performance is great, smell is awful. As others have said, the smell dissipates if left out in the open. I left mine on the ledge in the shower for a few months, and now it has almost no smell.
I love it, and use it alot. Leave it in the open air and the scent will disappear. BTW, you can leave your puke open in a mug. The gnats and other bugs won't touch or get near Arko.I recently added Arko shave soap to one of my maggards purchases to try it out for the first time. I have dozens of artisanal soaps and some of the classic mass production soaps, but I usually stick to artisanal. I needed to add a few bucks to get free shipping and I’ve wanted to try Arko so I added it. The scent is disgusting to my nose. Off the puck and lathered there is a strong industrial cleaner scent reminiscent of a urinal cake. Scent aside the performance for me is absolutely awesome. I love the protection slickness and most of all the post shave feel. I have only used it 3 times now but every time is fantastic. The scent keeps me from using it. Any others out there feel the same way?
I do not shave with soaps unless they smell like $475 French niche perfumes and include platypus fat harnessed in March, 2016 vintage exclusively. Sub $25 soaps burn my ivory face!
and if you were take that same puck and put it in a cool container with a hip and trendy name your artisan soap guys would be paying $20.00 for it.
Some of the artisan soap snobs are like micro brew guys.
Let's be honest, Arko probably will lather with ANY liquid found on ANY planet.Arko lathers effortlessly in literally any water on earth