MacDuff's Soap Company

Interesting development regarding BOTC and Trail Tobacco. When will that hybrid be released?

As for bay rum and seasonality, if you were being nitpicky, you might say that in the warmer months you could use a bay rum with some lime in it and in the cooler months you’d go with bay rum a bit heavier on the warming spices.  You want to be mindful of Sterling Archer’s assertion that he uses bay rum.  With lime.  Only.  Ever.  That might be okay for fictional secret agents but I wouldn’t look at it as a hard and fast rule    

Bay inspired scents would certainly give you a lot more flexibility and creative latitude as well as reducing the risk of offending the bay rum true believers.  Yes, that would include me, although I’m generally hard to offend and my response would be limited to a traverse and denial.  I’m probably most annoyed by the lazy soap makers who just take a generic bay rum blend off some generic supplier’s catalogue, combine it with some pirate themed labeling and call it bay rum, arrr. I will always respect an artisan’s actual creative efforts whether the end product appeals to me or not.  Honestly, there is a fairly broad latitude in what constitutes a true bay rum and it’s even broader when you get into bay inspired scents.  I’m looking forward to trying the results 

I promise you no pirates (as fun as a pirate scottie would be) and it'll be loosely drawing inspiration from mountain lakes. I don't want to say too much, mostly because I haven't finalized the scent! And generic artisan's aside I know there are those out there that truly love and understand the scent and I know I wouldn't be able to do better than that, so that route doesn't interest me. Instead I'll try and put my own twist on it so at the very least it'll be unique to Macduff's, which is always my goal.

Polite Canadian pirates that disavow guns but love to fist fight and plunder on frozen lakes using skates?

Ah yes but both Sean and I live in Alberta which has been called the Texas of Canada, we don’t necessarily conform to the commonly held stereotypes of Canadians!

Interesting development regarding BOTC and Trail Tobacco. When will that hybrid be released?

As for bay rum and seasonality, if you were being nitpicky, you might say that in the warmer months you could use a bay rum with some lime in it and in the cooler months you’d go with bay rum a bit heavier on the warming spices.  You want to be mindful of Sterling Archer’s assertion that he uses bay rum.  With lime.  Only.  Ever.  That might be okay for fictional secret agents but I wouldn’t look at it as a hard and fast rule    

Bay inspired scents would certainly give you a lot more flexibility and creative latitude as well as reducing the risk of offending the bay rum true believers.  Yes, that would include me, although I’m generally hard to offend and my response would be limited to a traverse and denial.  I’m probably most annoyed by the lazy soap makers who just take a generic bay rum blend off some generic supplier’s catalogue, combine it with some pirate themed labeling and call it bay rum, arrr. I will always respect an artisan’s actual creative efforts whether the end product appeals to me or not.  Honestly, there is a fairly broad latitude in what constitutes a true bay rum and it’s even broader when you get into bay inspired scents.  I’m looking forward to trying the results 

I promise you no pirates (as fun as a pirate scottie would be) and it'll be loosely drawing inspiration from mountain lakes. I don't want to say too much, mostly because I haven't finalized the scent! And generic artisan's aside I know there are those out there that truly love and understand the scent and I know I wouldn't be able to do better than that, so that route doesn't interest me. Instead I'll try and put my own twist on it so at the very least it'll be unique to Macduff's, which is always my goal.

I’m still holding out hope that you will eventually make a killer bay rum. I would definitely make an exception for a Scottie pirate too!  just as long as there’s no skulls!!