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Haha , thanks I hope some find them helpful.

Over the past few days, I've been on the road quite a bit, primarily in rural areas and small towns. Thankfully, it has been good weather...50's to 60's with sunshine. This is my favorite weather and I love driving around with my windows down. The best part for me are the "scents" of fall with one of my all-time favorites being burning leaves. Burning leaves is not allowed in most of the metro area so I only get to experience it when I'm on the road.

Reading through this thread yesterday piqued my curiosity and I had to check out L&L soaps. The description for Darkfall caught me by surprise...noting the Birch Tar provides a smokiness reminiscent of burning leaves. Needless to say, my two month recovery period from SAD ended yesterday

That's going to be a good one I'm sure, I ordered mine last night with the matching splash.

The Oud in it reminds me of the new Nuavia scent.

Over the past few days, I've been on the road quite a bit, primarily in rural areas and small towns.  Thankfully, it has been good weather...50's to 60's with sunshine.  This is my favorite weather and I love driving around with my windows down.  The best part for me are the "scents" of fall with one of my all-time favorites being burning leaves.  Burning leaves is not allowed in most of the metro area so I only get to experience it when I'm on the road.

Reading through this thread yesterday piqued my curiosity and I had to check out L&L soaps.  The description for Darkfall caught me by surprise...noting the Birch Tar provides a smokiness reminiscent of burning leaves.  Needless to say, my two month recovery period from SAD ended yesterday

You're a lucky man in that you still get the smell of burning leaves. When I was growing up the fall was a wonderful time full of smells of leaves, crab apples and so forth. We would rake up huge piles of leaves into leaf forts and then pick rotten crab apples off the ground and we'd have crab apple wars. This would go on for a week or two and then all of the leaves were raked into the curb side of the street and they'd be burned - under adult supervision of course. It was a magical time for me. Then the fascists came along and said that some people found it hard to breathe that one day a year and they banned the burning of leaves in our municipality. I miss those days and those smells. Maybe I need me some of this Dark Fall.

Over the past few days, I've been on the road quite a bit, primarily in rural areas and small towns.  Thankfully, it has been good weather...50's to 60's with sunshine.  This is my favorite weather and I love driving around with my windows down.  The best part for me are the "scents" of fall with one of my all-time favorites being burning leaves.  Burning leaves is not allowed in most of the metro area so I only get to experience it when I'm on the road.

Reading through this thread yesterday piqued my curiosity and I had to check out L&L soaps.  The description for Darkfall caught me by surprise...noting the Birch Tar provides a smokiness reminiscent of burning leaves.  Needless to say, my two month recovery period from SAD ended yesterday

You're a lucky man in that you still get the smell of burning leaves.  When I was growing up the fall was a wonderful time full of smells of leaves, crab apples and so forth.  We would rake up huge piles of leaves into leaf forts and then pick rotten crab apples off the ground and we'd have crab apple wars.  This would go on for a week or two and then all of the leaves were raked into the curb side of the street and they'd be burned - under adult supervision of course.  It was a magical time for me.  Then the fascists came along and said that some people found it hard to breathe that one day a year and they banned the burning of leaves in our municipality.  I miss those days and those smells.  Maybe I need me some of this Dark Fall.

Marko, you may call them fascists but as an asthmatic I call them life savers. Yes, I remember the wonderful scent of burning leaves but given the option, I'll take the ban.

Over the past few days, I've been on the road quite a bit, primarily in rural areas and small towns.  Thankfully, it has been good weather...50's to 60's with sunshine.  This is my favorite weather and I love driving around with my windows down.  The best part for me are the "scents" of fall with one of my all-time favorites being burning leaves.  Burning leaves is not allowed in most of the metro area so I only get to experience it when I'm on the road.

Reading through this thread yesterday piqued my curiosity and I had to check out L&L soaps.  The description for Darkfall caught me by surprise...noting the Birch Tar provides a smokiness reminiscent of burning leaves.  Needless to say, my two month recovery period from SAD ended yesterday

You're a lucky man in that you still get the smell of burning leaves.  When I was growing up the fall was a wonderful time full of smells of leaves, crab apples and so forth.  We would rake up huge piles of leaves into leaf forts and then pick rotten crab apples off the ground and we'd have crab apple wars.  This would go on for a week or two and then all of the leaves were raked into the curb side of the street and they'd be burned - under adult supervision of course.  It was a magical time for me.  Then the fascists came along and said that some people found it hard to breathe that one day a year and they banned the burning of leaves in our municipality.  I miss those days and those smells.  Maybe I need me some of this Dark Fall.

Marko, you may call them fascists but as an asthmatic I call them life savers.  Yes, I remember the wonderful scent of burning leaves but given the option, I'll take the ban.

I know, but I'd pay your bus fair up to the mountains for that 1 day The problem wasn't really the leaves, everybody had burning barrels back then too and people were free to burn their trash 24/7 which I will grant you was a nuisance so they just banned all burning of trash or leaves. Funny though, you're allowed to have campfires in your yard though, doesn't really make sense.

I could not live without camp fires , I have had a fire pit everywhere I have ever lived with the largest being about a 10 ft diameter , fun gatherings among that circle.

I received my tub of Darkfall this past weekend and didn't get the "burning leaves" smell when I opened it. But I knew scents have a tendency to change the more times you smell it. So I didn't want to post anything until I had a chance to lather it up a few times. Today was the fourth time I lathered the soap and there have been numerous times of opening the tub just to get a smell.

So...as far as performance is concerned, this is some great soap. The slickness is one of the best I've gotten out of soap. But I did purchase Darkfall due to it's scent description.

My initial thoughts and subsequent "passing by whiffs" of the soap, the burnt leaves scent just wasn't there. Until this morning...and that's when it hit me. For myself, and seems like Marko as well, I had envisioned the smell of burning leaves when you're a block or two away from the fire. That scent that just wafts through the neighborhood and is a unique scent that I cherish from days gone by. But that's not what I get from Darkfall. The smell I'm getting is reminiscent of burning leaves but it's more like you are the one burning the pile of leaves. And I'm sure most anyone who has spent time burning a pile leaves vs smelling a burning pile from afar will recognize that difference.

And please don't take this to mean I don't enjoy the scent, I absolutely love it! It's a great scent that will be in my rotation for the next month or so, it just wasn't quite what I was expecting.

I am looking to pick up another L&L soap,interested in Marshlands.Can anyone with Marshlands that has experience with Fines Fresh Vetiver give me an idea if this soap is close in scent to the Fine FV splash?