what shave soap were you most surprised at how good the scent was ?
wowed by the scent
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Pretty much every new release from Mo(Aion, formerly Grooming Dept). He spends a lot time aging his fragrances before incorporating them into his latest soap base. More recently, I am really impressed with my latest purchase from Declaration Grooming, one of his own scent formulations.
EclipseRedRing
I smell like a Christmas pudding
For me it is the humble Palmolive shave stick. I had read that it has a mild soapy scent or almost no scent at all, but I get a strong smell of eucalyptus or spearmint. It reminds me of gum or sweets I enjoyed as a child and I find that really uplifting. Using this soap can actually elevate my mood, and it also leaves my skin feeling wonderful. One of the best soaps I have ever used.
Stirling Varen
Declaration Grooming Dirtyver
Declaration Grooming Dirtyver
Speick stick: could sniff it all day.
Eufros Vetiver de Haití: dark and smoky, took me a while to get into it but it is now a favourite.
MdC Fougère: beautifully realized fougère; in a class of its own.
Fine Italian Citrus: I'm a sucker for AdP Colonia, and this is a pretty good dupe.
Stirling Varen: like being dragged through bracken backwards. Intoxicating, but full on!
Eufros Vetiver de Haití: dark and smoky, took me a while to get into it but it is now a favourite.
MdC Fougère: beautifully realized fougère; in a class of its own.
Fine Italian Citrus: I'm a sucker for AdP Colonia, and this is a pretty good dupe.
Stirling Varen: like being dragged through bracken backwards. Intoxicating, but full on!
Trigodon Wild Seas
Citrus notes, feels fresh and I can see why it's named wild seas! It is a medium-strong smelling soap which I like. I don't like very mild smelling soaps or aftershaves.
Barrister and Mann Petrichor. I'm not from the Northeast so I can't comment on the smell of soil there after rainfall in the late spring and summer but I've lived nearly everywhere else in the US and it is vaguely familiar. I can't describe it but it's so good and nothing is quite like it.
Southern Witchcrafts Samhain - complex and so interesting, I don't think I'll ever tire of it.
Cella has a scent that makes me want to eat it.
Pre de Provence No. 63, Highland Springs Soap Company's Havanna Vieja, Eleven's Lime and Basil
You're costing me money.
Chiseled Face Cedar and Spice
Shannon's Indigo Oud
Stirling Barbershop
Not my very top tier for bases, but scents that were love at first sniff.
Shannon's Indigo Oud
Stirling Barbershop
Not my very top tier for bases, but scents that were love at first sniff.
Love his bases. I hope I'll find one of his scents I like as much one day. I have Tobacco Oud and L'Avventure, and I find their fragrances to be a step above tolerable. If their bases weren't so good, though, they'd gather dust.
It's a one person business- Mo does it all. I love the vast majority of his scents if not all. He had some crowd pleasers in the last drop- it sounds like you should have jumped on.
Stirling Oro Valley, Stirling Haverford, A&E St. Barts, Razorock The Dead Sea, Tabac Tallow, red Cella.
"Their" refers to "Tobacco Oud" and "L'Avventure". Sorry I missed the last drop.
Noble Otter The Noir et Vanille
Ethos Dragonsbeard
Wholly Kaw King of Oud
B&M Eigengrau
Are a few that I wasn’t expecting to love, or maybe didn’t necessarily love at first but end up being ones that I want to keep sniffing and getting whiffs of during the day.
Ethos Dragonsbeard
Wholly Kaw King of Oud
B&M Eigengrau
Are a few that I wasn’t expecting to love, or maybe didn’t necessarily love at first but end up being ones that I want to keep sniffing and getting whiffs of during the day.
I also love B&M Eigengrau(on excelsior base had an ethereal out of this world scent,which unfortunately tweaked on omnibus) and Petrichor (memories of rain on wet earth straight from your childhood).
The last months i am hooked by Gentleman's Nod Calabria,it's the Mediterranean summer in a tub.
The last months i am hooked by Gentleman's Nod Calabria,it's the Mediterranean summer in a tub.
