I just received a couple tins of Asylum shaving soap today, I had ordered two tins of Neroli & Black Pepper, since I've been on a quest for a great Neroli soap and decided to check out the Old Virginia (somewhat non-PC name aside) as well.
I have yet to shave with either, but test lathers seem to indicate that the soap will at least be slick! The scents are awesome as well, though the neroli & black pepper should have been called black pepper & neroli The black pepper literally smells like fresh ground pepper, but without the sneezing risk (so actually a bit more like the earthier and less biting Long Pepper) and the neroli component is exactly the scent I was looking for, just much too far down in the mix to satisfy my neroli jones.
Old Virginia on the other hand is the most amazing pipe tobacco scent I've ever smelled aside from opening a bag of fresh leaf! I'm far enough out from having smoked that I can't place the particular variety anymore (Cavendish maybe?), but it's convincing and doesn't require me to get anywhere near a pipe As a bonus, the scent seems to linger, I'm still getting a respectable waft of it off my hand from the test lather two hours ago.
It looks like this one is discontinued, so I ordered a couple more right away.
I have yet to shave with either, but test lathers seem to indicate that the soap will at least be slick! The scents are awesome as well, though the neroli & black pepper should have been called black pepper & neroli The black pepper literally smells like fresh ground pepper, but without the sneezing risk (so actually a bit more like the earthier and less biting Long Pepper) and the neroli component is exactly the scent I was looking for, just much too far down in the mix to satisfy my neroli jones.
Old Virginia on the other hand is the most amazing pipe tobacco scent I've ever smelled aside from opening a bag of fresh leaf! I'm far enough out from having smoked that I can't place the particular variety anymore (Cavendish maybe?), but it's convincing and doesn't require me to get anywhere near a pipe As a bonus, the scent seems to linger, I'm still getting a respectable waft of it off my hand from the test lather two hours ago.
It looks like this one is discontinued, so I ordered a couple more right away.