I find that this soap, while having a very pleasant scent and easy-to-create, rich lather doesn't perform as well as its "countryman" which is the De Vergulde Hand. This soap seems to be more drying and it doesn't have very good blade glide, at least not to me. I like the "old-school" scent a lot and it whips up to a rich, very stable lather very fast but I found that after shaving and rinsing my face, I needed to use more moisturizer.