Only been into wet shaving maybe 3 yrs. Before that was into fragrances for a couple yrs. Saying that to say, the scent part of shaving soaps and aftershaves are still fairly high on my priority list, moreso than most other factors like slickness, post-shave feel, etc. Which brings me to my dilemma: It seems like on certain scents I either don't smell much or nothing at all. I've narrowed it down to fresh & aquatic scents being the most common, but there's a handful of other soaps and A/S as well, where I'm just not picking up much scent even though other people seemed to be wowed by them.
WSP Barbershop was the first soap I discovered this about; People wowed it, but when I got my tub and used it, couldn't smell a dern thing. So for a few yrs I stayed away from most barbershop scents. Then I got into Stirling quite a bit. They have some really great scented soaps and A/S I love such as MITA, Haverford, Piacenza, Iced Pineapple and EMP. But there were a few (thank God I only got samples of) that other people wowed, but I could hardly smell: Stirling Gentleman, Stirling Noir, Stirling Blu, Ramblin' Man, Mountain Man, which my nose could hardly pick up at all. Mountain Man being the exception, that though still subtle, my nose finally started to pick up and I now appreciate. I thought maybe they had some bad batches. But I've since sampled other brands who also have their share of lightly scented soaps (so it's definitely not just Stirling). And I found aquatic & fresh scents are the biggest culprits, at least for me. Knowing that, I stay away from that group and/or don't blind buy.
Any of you experience this? Or have a good explanation why this happens?
WSP Barbershop was the first soap I discovered this about; People wowed it, but when I got my tub and used it, couldn't smell a dern thing. So for a few yrs I stayed away from most barbershop scents. Then I got into Stirling quite a bit. They have some really great scented soaps and A/S I love such as MITA, Haverford, Piacenza, Iced Pineapple and EMP. But there were a few (thank God I only got samples of) that other people wowed, but I could hardly smell: Stirling Gentleman, Stirling Noir, Stirling Blu, Ramblin' Man, Mountain Man, which my nose could hardly pick up at all. Mountain Man being the exception, that though still subtle, my nose finally started to pick up and I now appreciate. I thought maybe they had some bad batches. But I've since sampled other brands who also have their share of lightly scented soaps (so it's definitely not just Stirling). And I found aquatic & fresh scents are the biggest culprits, at least for me. Knowing that, I stay away from that group and/or don't blind buy.
Any of you experience this? Or have a good explanation why this happens?