Is this another stinky Arko thread?
Most Pungent, interesting or otherwise foul smelling soaps
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I don’t use scented soaps for the most part but I do love their unscented Incorporeal.
Edit: I just had my wife read your post. She loved it.
B and M diamond is one of the weirdest scents I have experienced.
I have a couple of southern witchcrafts soaps which I also didn't really like.
I have a couple of southern witchcrafts soaps which I also didn't really like.
I think Southern Witchcraft's Valley of Ashes is super interesting. It's a dirty profile that smells clean. It's like an elegant garage smell. Like what I imagine it smells like when Alfred is tinkering with the batmobile in the bat cave.
Nocturne (Zingari Mann/B&M). The label indicates "apple, leaves, woodsmoke." Off the puck I get a heavy dose of yeast, musty cheese, and woodsmoke. Lathering it up releases a very faint apple smell.
In fairness, the more I worked down the puck, the more the apple scent emerged and blended better with the yeasty cheese. Maybe Will forgot to stir my batch?
In fairness, the more I worked down the puck, the more the apple scent emerged and blended better with the yeasty cheese. Maybe Will forgot to stir my batch?
Stirling's Texas on Fire is very love it or hate it. I personally love it, the wife not so much.
Owen Bawn
Garden party cupcake scented
Who makes a good mackerel scented soap? There aren't enough fish scented soaps.
PAA Terra Preta...smells like dirt.
Me too. If I use it the day we have a backyard fire pit, she doesn't notice.
All are fantastic! Thank you for helping me decide what software to shave with today. I’ll go with Autumn Ash. It has a delicious maple and campfire scent.
I used Autumn Ash as well this morning, cheers @awk_m4!
Southern Witchcrafts soaps are wonderful. They are complex and interesting and also quite slick. I don't smell mildew, dirt, or anything bad. On the other hand Chiseled Face Sherlock smelled very dirty and I wondered why someone would want to smell like that when they were clean.
Southern Witchcrafts soaps are wonderful. They are complex and interesting and also quite slick. I don't smell mildew, dirt, or anything bad. On the other hand Chiseled Face Sherlock smelled very dirty and I wondered why someone would want to smell like that when they were clean.
Razorock Saturnia - this is supposed to smell like being at a Roman thermal spring somewhere near Mount Vesuvius. I think it's the sulfur note that puts people off. I actually like this soap, but only occasionally for a relaxing night shave. It's definitely unusual.
Cyril R Salter French Vetiver - this is strongly scented with, as they say, a "dirty vetiver". Very, very dirty. And strong. And persistent. I generally like vetiver scents, but this one's pretty intense.
Cyril R Salter French Vetiver - this is strongly scented with, as they say, a "dirty vetiver". Very, very dirty. And strong. And persistent. I generally like vetiver scents, but this one's pretty intense.
@spacemonkey42 totally agree! Like my favorite Scotch and bourbons, their are varying degrees of complexity that takes practice to notice some of the more subtle scents. Btw I've yet to meet a Bourbon that I don't like.
Even though I really love Southern Witchrafts, I do read the scent profiles to the wife to get a laugh out of her. Then I got some tubs and samplers and we had a sniff-off. She really liked most of them, but didn't like the smoky ones. Valley of Ashes is pretty pungent, but far smoother than you would imagine. I am unlikely to buy a tub, but want to also smell it lathered. Labrynth is also interesting, I mostly get the smell of wet stone, it is exactly what you think it would be. Not one I will buy, but glad I got to smell it. Both of us like the other scents a lot.
I adore Chiseled Face Sherlock. I think it smells like a library.
On the subject of "dirt" and "mildew" scents... a lot of pure florals (like, the actual flowers) have some very earthy undertones. Petunias, for example. And violets have that dirty, almost gasoline note. Roses, depending on the variety are earthy too. I don't know about mildew, though.
As far as fungus, if you have a paper bag full of fresh picked mushrooms, it's a pretty delightful smell in my opinion.
Whether these are things you want in a soap is another matter entirely.
Stirling's Port-au-Prince smells like a pile of wet yard mulch to me. Although not necessarily in a bad way.
As far as fungus, if you have a paper bag full of fresh picked mushrooms, it's a pretty delightful smell in my opinion.
Whether these are things you want in a soap is another matter entirely.
Stirling's Port-au-Prince smells like a pile of wet yard mulch to me. Although not necessarily in a bad way.
Razor Master Toivo from Finland is a very pugent pine tar scent - certainly the strongest soap scent I have experienced.
Not unpleasant, though, and very skin-friendly.
Not unpleasant, though, and very skin-friendly.
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