Not true!
It was at one time available as a shaving cream, in a tube. In fact, the line used to be much more expansive, including bath soap, shampoo, hair tonic, gift sets, a sensitive line...
Here's a brief history of Irisch Moos:
It was originally created as just one of several scents under the house brand SIR International, a subsidiary men's line of the 4711 brand, headquartered in Köln, West Germany, one of the oldest cologne brands in the world, and where the English term "cologne" comes from. Cologne is the English translation for the German city of Köln.
"SIR" was 4711's original scent specifically for men. This was expanded into a "line" designated SIR International, with scents such as Canada Cedar, Champaca, Irisch Moos, Ice (and later Ice Blue), as well as the original SIR scent. There was even an electric pre-shave called SIR Elect.
4711 and SIR International, were owned by Ferd. Mühlens company of Köln, which created an elaborate Coat of Arms logotype to distinguish the expanded "SIR" line. Eventually, the word "International" was dropped but "SIR" continued to be featured prominently on the product, with the individual scents being printed on a small band at the bottom of the label. During this era, the name of the manufacturing subsidiary changed to "SIR Cosmetics."
The Irisch Moos scent's enormous popularity led to the maufacturer changing the label, reducing the SIR designation and crest, and emblazoning the name "Irisch Moos" in large type on the bottle, thus making it, in a sense, a brand of its own.
The brand passed into the hands of the current owners, Mäuer & Wirtz, who changed the packaging yet again, minimizing the SIR logo on the box, and eliminating it altogether from the bottle. I believe the other scents in the line were long gone by this time.
As the brand lost relevance and market-share in Germany, it has been reduced, to the few products we see to-day.
Irisch Moos was never anything more than a common drug-store brand in Germany, no offence intended. In fact, the name irisch moos ("Irish Moss" in English), was a generic term, immune from copyright protection on its own. There was, at one time, a competitor brand of Irisch Moos, originally as a sub-scent of the Robroy fragrence and later a scent in its own right, by manufacturer Eichen & Co., also of Köln, Germany.
