Come on Now, Who On Earth Likes These Scents?

i bought a pack of soaps..
1 erasmic shaving stick<GONE> ... smells like borax laundry detergent
1 (virgilio valobra) crema da sapone... <GONE>- smells like detergent + rancid vanilla
1 QED Bay Rum <GONE>.... really unique, smells like a polish kielbasa/cigar/incense/cologne stand, if there was such a thing.

i get why the person who sold them to me didnt want them, they stink. flat out. stink.
and its not just me, ive shown them to everyone i know and most of them literally laughed at how bad they smell.
and its not like i indicated that they stink, i just said "hey, check out this new soap i got. "
thanks for helpin me get rid of these things

i cant believe someone out there is actually packaging this crap and selling it, its amazing!
:(
http://healthyinnovations.files.word...8/01/odors.jpg

Melt them all together and see what you come up with, heh.

http://jpj.net/%7Echester/catholic/MushroomCloud.jpg
i think ill pass;)

First of all, priceless. Best laugh of the day. (Laundry detergent + rancid vanilla)

All I can say, is that scent is very subjective. Sandalwood, patchouli and bay rum are 3 VERY popular scents, but to me, sandalwood and patchouli smell like pot smoking hippies (no offense to pot smoking hippies, just not my thing) and bay rum smells like a nursing home. (again, no offense to octogenarions, but a 28 year old shouldn't smell like one)

:roflmao
Finally somebody who understands the pain a manufacturer has to go through.
Trust me, I have about 80 scents in my line and not all of them are my favorites.

Particularly one always makes me wonder.
It smells like the pad cart closet of the old gym in my home town.
Its very popular though.:roflmao

the cella is nice when it's lathered. you may have a stale batch - no preservatives in it so it can go bad if not protected.

Are you kidding me? I don't know about the QED, but Erasmic and Cella both have lovely scents. I think you might have gotten a bad batch. Or your nose is broken.

well atleast you admit it olivia, most of these scents' websites make them out to be hand mixed by the lord himself.
if only there was a way for me to electronicly send scents...

3 letters sum it up for me in soap scents: TGQ. They smell wonderful!! :y

LOL yes I do!
It is a matter of taste.

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Originally Posted by dward

3 letters sum it up for me in soap scents: TGQ. They smell wonderful!! :y

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A Big +1 :D

QED Bay Rum is seriously the best of the best in my opinion. Burn Baby Burn! :mace:

that is seriously hilarious to me, i cant IMAGINE anyone wanting to smell like that.
to each his own i guess.
im sure theres a guy who thinks this girl is pretty too.
http://markgorman.files.wordpress.co...oman-12424.jpg

I hope not

ok i just ordered the most referenced Shaving cream on these forums, some cavendish from TGQ, also a tgq lime margarita soap bar.
i also ordered some verbena from Olivia

if none of these smell good than im just using nivea. i could have bought a lifetimes supply for what ive spent on shaving soaps

my scent breakdown so far
mamabear sleighride, good.
mamabear ginger lime, not so good, not offensive
mamabear citrus burst, not so good, not offensive.
QED bay rum, Disgusting
Creme de sapone, disgusting
erasmic shave stick, chemical smell.
i think originall i thought the mamabears were disgusting, but after smelling these .....

Octopus wait did you get your order in yet, you really need to try the Bay/Sweet orange soap. The Lime Margerata is a good one, I just ordered Autum Spice, the leather one and hmmm..... I cant remember the other
The Cavendish is a good one and the Sandlewood is great too, I also have the Verbena

that bay rum has scared me away from this supposed " bay " scent, whatever that is. :)

ok I never knew what Bay rum was untill I got to this forum. My first experience was with Pinaud Bay Rum and I hated it. I finally decided to give another Bay Rum a try and now I love all Bay Rum. I would not steer you wrong on this. TGQ Bay/Sweet orange is now my fav, has a bay smell and like a tangerine smell in one. If you hate it I will buy it from you because I love it. Or buy a sample.

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Originally Posted by The0ctopus

that is seriously hilarious to me, i cant IMAGINE anyone wanting to smell like that.
to each his own i guess.
im sure theres a guy who thinks this girl is pretty too.
http://markgorman.files.wordpress.co...oman-12424.jpg

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Shave her with some of that Kielbasa scented soap, and the Austrian in me won't hardly be able to resist. :eek:

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Originally Posted by JimR

Are you kidding me? I don't know about the QED, but Erasmic and Cella both have lovely scents. I think you might have gotten a bad batch. Or your nose is broken.

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He didn't mention Cella. in his first post he said: crema da sapone... <GONE>(virgilio valobra)- smells like detergent + rancid vanilla

where the "(virgilio valobra)" is the name of the brand. I have no idea why he put in "crema da sapone" in the start where he put the other brand names. Seeing as crema da sapone just means something like "Creamy soap" or "Cream soap".

Cella is another brand alltogether afaik.

pics to illustrate:

First up is Valobora:http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/g...yzaza/valo.jpg


Second pic is the Cella:http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/g...zaza/cella.jpg


I don't know if they smell the same. But it certainly seems that it is two different brands. The fact that they both call it crema da sapone surely does not make them the same though. That would be the same as saying that Olivias is the same as TGQs which would also be the same as Mamma Bears ect.

It seems he just worded his post badly

They seem to be pretty similar.
The Cella doesn't please my nose either.
That smell is very traditional laundry soap like.
Yet that soap is pretty popular for its abilities and most of the customers have nothing to say against the scent.

Have Cella myself. Don't mind it at all. But its been awhile since I've used it as the creams have pushed their way into my life after I bought a scuttle - for some reason I can't use soap with the scuttle, so to validate my purchase I had to use creams :D.

Anyhoo I'm 28 and of the stuff that I've tried I don't like Arko, Palmolive or anything with orange in it. Soaps seem for the most part to fade fast enough so that I only really experience them while shaving, so I can pick something that doesn't quite fit the target audience of women I go for. At lectures I have only gotten comments on EDTs those auditoriums can be rather cramped at times.

I think I know what octopus means.. alot of these scents are an acquired smell. I remember when I first started buying shaving supplies, I couldn't stand most of the scents the vendors offered. I was so accustomed to axe and the like. But now I really like just about everything, even the ones I originally found to be nasty, girly, or "old-mannish." I'm still careful about my aftershaves so as not to offend those around me, but for shaving soaps, they don't last long, so I use whatever I like. Bay rum is one of the last ones that grew on me and it wasn't until I smelled the ogallala bay rums. Nice and spicy!

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Originally Posted by JimR

Are you kidding me? I don't know about the QED, but Erasmic and Cella both have lovely scents. I think you might have gotten a bad batch. Or your nose is broken.

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I agree! :D

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Originally Posted by JimR

Are you kidding me? I don't know about the QED, but Erasmic and Cella both have lovely scents. I think you might have gotten a bad batch. Or your nose is broken.

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I think the whole point, as with my personal opinion of patchouli, is that a scent can be "lovely" to one person, yet so awful to another that they can hardly imagine how anybody could stand it.

The only soap or cream I've actually liked the smell of is T&H 1805. The rest have just been exercises in toleration... but then again, I've prolly only smelled 10-20 of them, I never really got the whole soap/cream acquisition disorder thing. I guess Dragon Tears stands out as the one I found that was completely intolerable.

ok i got my soaps in from TGQ and they are great! i got the cavendish cream, the limemargarita soap, and a small unnamed puck, they all smell great, cant wait to see how they lather.
thanks for the recomendations guys

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Originally Posted by dward

3 letters sum it up for me in soap scents: TGQ. They smell wonderful!! :y

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Very correct sir.

That is the reason there are so many scents

WE ALL DON"T LIKE THE SAME THING.... lol

haha That's pretty funny. I thought the dog ate your soap post was pretty good too but this one is pretty funny. I'd like to smell that kielbasa/cigar stand soap... can't be good at all... I just ordered a few samples from TGQ as well I can't wait to get them in! I've heard noting but good stuff about TGQ soaps.

Anyhow enjoy!

- Tam -

Hummm Kielbasa/ Cigar stand soap sounds good... But then I am Polish.:rock:

I'm 20 and have Taylor of old bond street's lavender soap. I also have st. James shaving cream in a jar and they smells great. They don't have a grandpa smell to them like some other soaps/creams do. I give them 10 out of 10, I love them so much that i got the lavender splash and the st. James a/s and cologne. I'm having great luck with ToOBS products

Octopus, I totally agree with you when it comes it Bay Rum, I've smelled a few and they all smell insidious to me, just down right evil. My wife says it smells like old Christmas decorations mixed with mothballs left for a year, I have to agree with her on that one. I've never tried Erasmic, people seem to rave about it, sounds awful from what you've described. Valobra to me seemed way to gross and slipshod in the packaging to even give it try, comes in a bar shap wraped in paper yet it's creamy=gross to me, like an old cheese/mayonaise sandwhich. I have QED's Fresh Lime, and its great smelling, sadly the lather sucks. I cant get it to ever lather more then a liquidy lather, so what I do now is I add hot water to it, let it soaked for a few then pour the extract into my Cryil Salter's Essential Lime or TOB's Lemon/Lime shave creams to give it a boost, otherwise it's useless on its own.

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i think originall i thought the mamabears were disgusting, but after smelling these

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I have to totally disagree with this one. I love, no wait I absolutely positively love Mama Bear's Clear skies ( Rosemary, Lavander, and Mint) shave soap. I have 2 wooden bowls of it. I use it often, I even bought the aftershave (custom scent) Her Lime Ice aftershave with pepermint n menthol is nuts, best cooling scent ever. Be careful though your eyes will tear its that minty. I also like and have her Dulbin Tweed, and I'm not a guy who goes for cologne scents, but this is a classic.


Octopus, I have a few reccominedations of creams and soaps you might like.

1. Geo Trumper's Coconut ( very subtle scent, not over powering) The lather is nuts.

2. Crab Tree and Evelyn's West Indian Sandalwood....blows any other sandalwood scent away by miles n miles.

3. Speick. Lovely clean fresh/woodsy scent. Not comparable to anything, but amazingly clean smelling.

4. Classic Shaving's Violet soap. very nice floral scent ( if you like florals) if not it's understandable, not for everyone.

5. Cryil Salter's Essential Lime. very light lime scent, almost likelime sherbet.

6. LAST and DEFINITELY NOT LEAST... CLEAR SKIES...MAMA BEAR....
Amazing scent, clean, fresh, with a hint of relaxing rosemary mixed in. I couldn't reccmoned a soap more, and for 8 bucks, you can't beat it.The lather is out of this world.

ok enough from me
Cheers
D:gl:

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Originally Posted by BKratchmer

Shave her with some of that Kielbasa scented soap, and the Austrian in me won't hardly be able to resist. :eek:

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Now that's funny!!!:rock:

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Originally Posted by 0livia

The Cella doesn't please my nose either.
That smell is very traditional laundry soap like.

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Really? I have exactly that association when I open up my Arko tub. :) The Cella smells more like a sweeter almond thing to me. I did have to get used to the scent though, but it's OK for me now.

Avast Chaddy! Glad ta see another shaver with a pirate flare. I get mine from some real life revolutionary relatives. They started as privateers but...you know how things go. :) Arrg

Anyway, I am either easy to please, have found what I like, or just haven't tried that many. In my bowl is one of Burts Bees glycerine shave soaps and in my travel gear is Col Conk's bay rum (very light). I really like a neutral or light fragrance in my soap as I prefer to vary my cologne use and don't not want a conflict.

thanks sirshavesalot. i have over a dozen brands now but none of the ones you recomended!

So in the vein of funny smells. Here is a link for you.

Anyone want to smell like Playdoh, Dirt, or Cannabis Flower?

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Originally Posted by The0ctopus

that is seriously hilarious to me, i cant IMAGINE anyone wanting to smell like that.
to each his own i guess.
im sure theres a guy who thinks this girl is pretty too.
http://markgorman.files.wordpress.co...oman-12424.jpg

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WERD DYA GIT MA SISSTRS PITCHA MAN:rock: