(09-10-2017, 07:06 PM)wyze0ne Wrote: It is kind of disturbing to me. I just don't get why this appeals to people in the realm of shaving products. The extreme branding of soaps and aftershaves (whether dark and satanic or not) is silly. Whatever they need to do to sell their stuff I guess. It doesn't appeal to me though. All I'm concerned with is scent and performance. A nicely designed label is cool, but it has nothing to do with what's inside the package and all this new stuff is just over the top, IMO. Here's another one: https://www.drjonshandcraftedsoapco.com/...-pre-order
This comment features the fact that you focus on the performance and scent of soap. However, you expand at length how you are also put off by the branding of the soap, and highlight that prominently in the reply, perhaps even more so than the thing that you identify as your true value. Someone in the position, that you state to be a core value of yours, though, is more likely to say: "I don't agree with the messaging of this soap, but I will wait to try it myself before passing judgement", or "...ditto (disagree w/ messaging), but I will wait for a consensus from my community before deciding to pass judgement". I bring this up not to be confrontational, but to bring to light our inner thoughts on soaps, scents, performance and marketing. From what I said above, the opinion I get from your comment is that you do not feel as though "evil" allusions should be made with regards to any product marketing, including smoky or darker scents. The original post was generated to get a census of the community's thoughts of this soap (Whitechapel in this case) and all of the following comments have elaborated on the individual commenters' distaste for the marketing. That is valid, fine, marketing does play into whether or not you will buy a soap. However the straw-man for this argument is that all of our soap makers should call their soaps either 'Dark' to not be offending those who might disagree with one spectrum, and 'light' to not disagree with those that disagree with the opposite side.
Personally, I think Halloween is fun. I like dark smoky scents. I understand that purchasing a dark smoky scent with a fun and correlational name will not damage my faith. In fact, I think that purchasing a soap from a maker who stands by something that they strongly believe in - while making good products along the way - strengthens my own faith. I feel bolstered by finding dedicated and talented craftsmen, and supporting them when I am interested in the scent profile (insert any peculiarity of any product) that I might enjoy, regardless of any small qualms I may have with their marketing.
