Thread: Whats you favorite sandlewood soap? and why?

I've tried a few Sandalwood soaps and the best so far for me is Muhle. Great lather on its own and an AWESOME Uberlather in conjunction with CF Sandalwood cream. Nice scent too.

Crabtree sandalwood scent is intoxicating. My next soap is likely to be srd sandalwood so I'm glad to hear that you liked it

Michael

I had the good fortune to mix someone's vintage Caswell Massey sandalwood essential oil with some of my generic witchhazel. It's straight up sandalwood. The SRD sandalwood I've got smells very much the same. I think SRD's is a strong, pure rendition of sandalwood.

George F. Trumper (shaving soap, haven't tried the cream) for me. I haven't tried any other sandalwood scented soaps, but I have tried various A/Ss, skin foods, and they are all too floral for me (even GFT's sandalwood skin food). For me, the GFT shaving soap is just about perfect--the scent could last longer on the skin, but the fragrance is perfect.

Hiya,

Sandalwood is a tricky scent and it seems lots of companies have their own take on what that's supposed to smell like. Some products are a sandalwood blend, and others are a single note version. Some use sandalwood EO and others use a FO instead. It also depends on where the EO comes from, since different parts of the world produce different sandalwood frags. Mysore is supposed to be the benchmark, but I can't say that's the case for everyone.

Best sandalwood soap as far as the scent goes would be the stuff that Charles sells at QED. To me, it's got a little bit of cedar going on, which I like a good bit. Very intense soap, as you would expect from a QED product. Yeah, you get a healthy blast of sandalwood all right, and it sticks around a while after the shave.

Extremely easy to lather, with some of the better performance of the various small vendors offerings. It's not always in stock, but certainly worth looking at.

Martin



Oh yeah......a word of advice for people thinking of the CF cedar/sandalwood cream: Do NOT buy this blind if you can avoid it. Try for a sample first, since this isn't a normal kinda sandalwood fregrance. Read some of the reviews on this product.

Taylor of Old Bond Street is a good performer (as is any English milled soap), though it does smell a bit like cinnamon to me. I still have some TGQ Sandalwood, and while I find the scent heavenly the performance is a bit lacking. T&H is a good bet too.

The AOS sandalwood is fantastic in both the soap and the cream.

I have the truefitt and hill sandalwood cream. Strong scent, but nice none the less.

Originally Posted by TwistedOak

I like the TOBS sandalwood scent. But as mentioned before, it is a cream and I'm not sure if you're set on soaps.

I have been using creams (palmolive and T&H rose) also Proraso (hard cream, soft soap). I wanted to get a hard soap this time. Though I do love the creams.

Originally Posted by mjsorkin

Crabtree sandalwood scent is intoxicating. My next soap is likely to be srd sandalwood so I'm glad to hear that you liked it

Michael

I got the SRD sampler and loved the performance of the soap overall. A few of the scents arent for me. Their Bay Rum and the West indies lime are fantastic too.