How do you describe the scent of Trumpers Rose shaving soap? How does it compare scentwise to ToOBS rose cream?
Trumper's Rose soap scent?
- Thread starter Curious Shaver
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I find it quite a bit drier and "dustier" than either TOBS or Trumper rose creams. Personally, I find it the most classic rose scent of any rose-scented shaving agent (soap or cream) I have tried. It's also a terrific soap, functionally speaking, proving a soap need not have a tallow base to be great.
I preface that I prefer shaving creams over soaps, so I use shaving soaps only occasionally.
As about your request Trumpers Rose was my very first shaving soap.
I purchased it directly at Trumpers store in London two years ago.
The main reason for this choice was the amazing fragrance of this product:
just a few sniffs make you fall in a rose garden...
In my opinion Trumpers Rose soap is the best Rose scented soap in the world.
It is not too strong, nor too weak.
Just right.
Hard to say for me how the scent compares with TOBS Rose cream.
But both are superb.
As about your request Trumpers Rose was my very first shaving soap.
I purchased it directly at Trumpers store in London two years ago.
The main reason for this choice was the amazing fragrance of this product:
just a few sniffs make you fall in a rose garden...
In my opinion Trumpers Rose soap is the best Rose scented soap in the world.
It is not too strong, nor too weak.
Just right.
Hard to say for me how the scent compares with TOBS Rose cream.
But both are superb.
If the GFT soap smells like my favourite rose double delight I must have it. Does it?
The Trumper Rose scent is awesome! Nevertheless, I am sad because I can't get it to lather properly. 
In my experience, TOBS Rose Cream and GFT Rose Soap are pretty much equal, perhaps with slight variations, but right up at the top, just a slight notch above T&H Rose Cream, but all three are world class.
It took me a couple of weeks to unlock the key of lathering the GFT soap, it has an excellent lather. The key is to spend about a half a minute lathering the wet brush on the puck, working it vigorously until you can see the sudsy stuff start turning into the thick stuff, then you take it to your face, adding water bit by bit, and also going back to the soap if necessary, and just remembering to stay on the soap longer than you normally would. It took me a few tries to catch on, and after that I got an amazing rich and thick lather.
Antique Hoosier
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Walk to your nearest rose garden (or Florist)... place nose directly above the opening bud of a fresh rose...you have now experienced the scent of Geo. F. Trumper Rose shaving soap. (YMMV)
Though curiously, the rose scent used in shaving soaps and creams (and scented bath soaps) is generally not from actual roses (too expensive) but from an essential oil extracted from a variety of geranium called Pelargonium graveolens which has a similar scent profile.
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CHEATERS! SWINDLERS! If I'm paying for rose, it BETTER be rose.
interesting..a bit like chocos instead of apple in McDonalds apple pies...
Whether they use rose or some other concoction, Trumpers has hit the nail on the head with the rose scent. There is an old woman in my neighborhood with a marvelous rose garden, every time I walk past it I think of Trumpers Rose.
The thing is, you're not paying for rose. If you were, you'd be paying a lot more for your rose-scented products than you're being asked to right now. Rose essential oil is very expensive.
I seem to recall that steam-distilled rose (otto) oil is somewhere around US $50 per 0.125 ounces. That's about 3544 milligrams for fifty bucks, which works out to be roughly 700 drops.
Now, I don't know what the potency is, but I'm certain that we'd need more than 3 drops to fragrance a single batchof shave soap... And that's not counting the other components.
I'm perfectly alright paying for "rose scent" rather than "rose oil". Otherwise, it would be both prohibitively and obscenely expensive to own.
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I seem to recall that steam-distilled rose (otto) oil is somewhere around US $50 per 0.125 ounces. That's about 3544 milligrams for fifty bucks, which works out to be roughly 700 drops.
Now, I don't know what the potency is, but I'm certain that we'd need more than 3 drops to fragrance a single batchof shave soap... And that's not counting the other components.
I'm perfectly alright paying for "rose scent" rather than "rose oil". Otherwise, it would be both prohibitively and obscenely expensive to own.
+1. SRD Bulgarian Rose is $50 because it uses EO (we are talking about 5oz of melt-and-pour soap).
what the heck is a "choco"?
A synthetic apple?
$50 for a 5oz. melt-and-pour...holy crap. Is the scent worth it? What's SRD, btw?
Isn't it Straight Razor Designs?
Although when I googled it, I also got Scottish Rite Dormitory.
Although when I googled it, I also got Scottish Rite Dormitory.
Correct, SRD is Straight Razor Designs. Here a link to the soap.
Is the scent worth it? Perhaps - I have never smelled. There have been a number of discussion here about this soap (go figure) and it seems that this is indeed the current be-all and end-all of rose scented soap.
