Thread: Another MdC Perspective

Price: Ouch!

Presentation: Nice! Purchased from MdC direct. Arrived with a personalized note and a Fougere soap bar sample.

The jar is heavy thick glass and beautiful. The stickers are well placed/centered. Inside the jar they put protective styrofoam, which is good when shipped long distances. Lifting it off you see the large circumference of the cream and it looks glorious.

Latherability: Less than 4 swirls with my badger and it exploded with lather, so I stopped. It was enough to last me three passes. I found the soap to be neither thirsty or too soft. Just right.

Performance: Brilliant. Magical. All the stuff you guys said before. Easily protected my skin from the blade and had plenty of slip. Didn't dry quick. My face is very soft and supple after, I would say it's not necessarily moisturizers, but felt healthy.

Overall: Definitely a great soap. No doubt about it. The price would make me buy it once, and since it lasts for a while I would enjoy it. But doubt would buy it a second time. There are so many soaps out there to be faithfully married to this one IMO.

Scent: Notice I left this until after, because it's quite subjective really. When I opened the jar first thing I thought of was: ice cream! The smell of ice cream when still in the fridge. Later I got herbal notes of Lavender and greens. I prefer clean, non-herbal scents so I would imagine this would be a nice change once in a while but not a favorite.

I love my MdC unscented, and typically like very mild scents (my all time favorite shave soap scent: Proraso White).

But your description of the scent of the Original has me thinking that the half kilo or so of unscented I have laying around may require reinforcement with some Original scent...

Originally Posted by entropy1049

I love my MdC unscented, and typically like very mild scents (my all time favorite shave soap scent: Proraso White).

But your description of the scent of the Original has me thinking that the half kilo or so of unscented I have laying around may require reinforcement with some Original scent...

Does the unscented in reality have a nice/clean faint scent? Like the Proraso white? Because that is my all time favorite also! Oh seems like I messed up

I've recieved mine a couple of weeks ago. Scent original, lavender and smell the "Provence" (South of France).

Really fresh, and smooth.

Yesterday was my second shave with this soap. First was with Simpson Colonel lathered in scuttle, just magic. For the second try, face lathering with my Chubby 2 super badger :
Five rounds in the pot, and I had enough lather to shave three persons ^^

A really good product, may I say the best ? Certainly in my top four

Originally Posted by ffarouki

Does the unscented in reality have a nice/clean faint scent? Like the Proraso white? Because that is my all time favorite also! Oh seems like I messed up

It is not odorless, but it is unscented. I guess I would describe it as very natural smelling, clean, very mild, very subtly medicinal. The scent dissipates quickly. By all means pick up a wee jar. I think you'll decide it's a winner.

BTW- You Sir, have excellent taste in shave soap scent! I absolutely LOVE Proraso White!