Smell the Roses?

I think it stems from flowers might be a little on the feminine side.... now I love the way roses smell and lavender and lilac but I don't want anybody else smelling it on me.... and I think there lies the rub.

As primotenore has already noted Mike from Mike's Natural Soaps is working on a Bulgarian Rose that I'm really looking forward to trying. Mike's Rose & Cedarwood is also a really nice rose soap.

I have quite a few of the rose scented soaps and creams already mentioned. Keep the suggestions coming!

I enjoy them and my wife always says, "Mmmm, you smell good!" when I use them so it's win/win for me!

WyzeOne, Hobbyist,
If you scroll up to the top of the page and click on the blue banner bar announcing the pure20 DFW soap, lavender is identified as one of the top 3 notes. In fact both of you have posted on that thread. The scent description is in Andrew's first post. That's where I got my info on it.


Unless it's buried under a bunch of other scents to help with the floral notes.

WyzeOne, Hobbyist,
If you scroll up to the top of the page and click on the blue banner bar announcing the pure20 DFW soap, lavender is identified as one of the top 3 notes. In fact both of you have posted on that thread. The scent description is in Andrew's first post. That's where I got my info on it.


Unless it's buried under a bunch of other scents to help with the floral notes.

Yeah, I know. I'm just telling you that I didn't smell any lavender in the soap when I used it.

I think it stems from flowers might be a little on the feminine side.... now I love the way roses smell and lavender and lilac but I don't want anybody else smelling it on me.... and I think there lies the rub.

There are some soaps that smell distinctly feminine to me. Some of the TTFFC soaps, to me, did not match their descriptions and smelled like women's perfume.

However, the roses, violets, lilacs, and lily of the valley scent disappear. Wash your face and their is no more scent. Add AS or Cologne and its whatever scent you used, not the scent of the Rose.

I generally like crisper scents however do enjoy certain floral scents.

Hercules is indeed a wonderful scent. The finest floral scent for me personally is Rosa de Bourbon. What I like most about it is that it actually smells like flowers, not perfume.

Typically my aversion to certain floral scents is when the gravitate more to the perfume side of the spectrum. I recently used something similar and although I found it pleasant was wanting for more of a grounded scent rather than a powdery, floral base missing any foundational notes.

Ok I see what you are saying now. Totally understand.

I think it stems from flowers might be a little on the feminine side.... now I love the way roses smell and lavender and lilac but I don't want anybody else smelling it on me.... and I think there lies the rub.

Yes, thats probably why you find rose more in the soap than the aftershave. A woman at the post office commented favourably on my scent last week when I was wearing Chatillon Lux Yuzu Rose Patchouli. It was nice.

I generally like crisper scents however do enjoy certain floral scents.

Hercules is indeed a wonderful scent. The finest floral scent for me personally is Rosa de Bourbon. What I like most about it is that it actually smells like flowers, not perfume.

Typically my aversion to certain floral scents is when the gravitate more to the perfume side of the spectrum. I recently used something similar and although I found it pleasant was wanting for more of a grounded scent rather than a powdery, floral base missing any foundational notes.

As you said in a post a while back, you don't want a product that smells like old lady chain smokers or cologne for a corpse!!

Thanks olschoolsteel for all the great information - that thread on DFS you refer to was just a few weeks ago....and I posted on it.....several times. The memory isn't what it used to be. Maybe that was what got my gray cells thinking about roses?