Thread: QED Group buy Soap Poll

I vote Jasmine.

C'mon gentlemen,
Sandalwood/Vetiver!!
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Sandalwood/Vetiver!!
well,I guess you know what my vote was for.
Bob

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Hmmm...... Jasmine is pulling away

Originally Posted by IsaacRN

Hmmm...... Jasmine is pulling away

Something tells me if we can get Charles to do a Jasmine soap, we won't be disappointed.

I dont think so either. The question would be...buy one or two of them

Voted for Jasmine.

Originally Posted by JBHoren

Jasmine EO... and it's gotta be pungent -- no namby-pamby Aubery Beardsley-ish scent. I've got half-a-tub of The Real Stuff that Charles once made for an equally perverse B&B member, and he (Charles) knows how to do The Right Thing. Don't settle for "almost" -- this tune might not come around again on the jukebox... ya know what I mean?

I was just reading some of the material from Chandler Burr's latest book, The Perfect Scent (the book is about to be published, but I was able to get my hands on an "advance readers' copy"; in a word, buy-it) -- this material is stuff which didn't make it into the book, and is available in excerpts on Basenotes.

OK, enough foreplay. This is what Chandler Burr writes about Jasmine:

Jasmine. Le Labo [a raw-materials-for-perfume store in NYC] has one jasmine that is lighter, less animalic than
most I've ever smelled, hardly any indoles, but that's unusual, and not representative. Jasmine is a sado-masochistic,
slothful, dirty little flower. You can (and everyone does) dress it up and make it presentable before sending it out in
public, but basically the stuff in its natural state is an unwashed beast wearing dirty underwear and stinking from its
armpits. Jasmine is a flower that has an asshole, and you can smell it. It's the indoles.

That's the kind of Jasmine EO shaving soap which Charles made, once upon a time, and the one I'm hoping SRP members will want and that Charles will, once again, make.

THat doesnt sound very appealing at all :P

Originally Posted by IsaacRN

THat doesnt sound very appealing at all :P

It's the difference between pungent (an acceptable, but kinda "neutered" word) and animalic (Charles took offense when I used the word as part of a lengthy and very positive description of his Jasmine EO shaving soap).

Believe me, it's appealing at a visceral, direct-circuit-from-nose-to-brain level. I used the QED Jasmine shaving soap today, and afterward bemoaned the fact that I don't have an EDT/EDP that matches/complements the Jasmine scent. In the end I "settled" for Yatagan, by Caron, but...

Jasmine that is "dressed-up and made presentable" is like watching a movie on TV that has been "edited for content, time, and to fit your TV set".

Here is the link to Chandler Burr on Raw Materials. I encourage people to read it -- it's a Good Thing for us to develop an appreciation-for and an understanding-of the language with which industry professionals describe and discuss scents. YMMV.