Thread: What would you recommend as a first soap or first cream?

The real Shave Co. cream is also top notch. However, I hesitated recommending it to a beginner because to me the scent was pretty powerfully overpowering. It smells to me like an old, mossy tree stump. I love this, since it brings back memories of many days spent in the woods. But it was so pungent it almost made my eyes water.
But it is a wonderful cream in every regard.

Originally Posted by SRNewb

It smells to me like an old, mossy tree stump. I love this, since it brings back memories of many days spent in the woods.

That's the great intangible of all these wonderful scents, isn't it. I know exactly you mean. Institut Karite Paris reminds me vividly of a scent my mother used to bathe us with as wee ones.

That's also one of the BEST things. All of the different scents, different consistencies, and all the other differing characteristics. And not just soaps and creams, but the razors, the brushes, heck, even the bowls. That's not even getting into the pre or post shave routines. Wonderful, and never a dull moment.