Tallow + Steel

scent profile looks pretty good, I might have to pick some up!

and my wife's Dad's family is from Sicily so....

Cool Andrew! And thank you for maintaining such an awesome forum. For me, being able to have this thread is really a great way to interact with the community.

Cheers

scent profile looks pretty good, I might have to pick some up!

and my wife's Dad's family is from Sicily so....

Cool Andrew! And thank you for maintaining such an awesome forum. For me, being able to have this thread is really a great way to interact with the community.

Cheers

+1.

I actually sold my Kyoto set. Why? I gave it a few tries. But, to my nose, the soap and especially the AS were very seaweed or vegetal forward with yuzu in the back seat. I know smell is totally subjective. But....given the percentages of ingredients...I really expected the yuzo to be front and center supported by the vegetal notes. For me...it was the total inverse. I realize soap makers make choices....their choice of relative intensity and balance didn’t work for me but it seems to work for others so YMMV....

I actually sold my Kyoto set. Why? I gave it a few tries. But, to my nose, the soap and especially the AS were very seaweed or vegetal forward with yuzu in the back seat. I know smell is totally subjective. But....given the percentages of ingredients...I really expected the yuzo to be front and center supported by the vegetal notes. For me...it was the total inverse. I realize soap makers make choices....their choice of relative intensity and balance didn’t work for me but it seems to work for others so YMMV....

Yeah I’ve read that some people felt yuzu took a backseat to the marine notes. All products were made from the same large batch of blended fragrance, so there are no variables there. It’s just an example of how people’s olifactory senses differ.

For me, I get the vegetal/marine notes first, and then the Yuzu really comes through and I get mostly Yuzu for quite a while. Fresh and bright. Then drying down eventually to woods/marine.

Sorry you didn’t care for it

I actually sold my Kyoto set. Why? I gave it a few tries. But, to my nose, the soap and especially the AS were very seaweed or vegetal forward with yuzu in the back seat. I know smell is totally subjective. But....given the percentages of ingredients...I really expected the yuzo to be front and center supported by the vegetal notes. For me...it was the total inverse. I realize soap makers make choices....their choice of relative intensity and balance didn’t work for me but it seems to work for others so YMMV....

Yeah I’ve read that some people felt yuzu took a backseat to the marine notes. All products were made from the same large batch of blended fragrance, so there are no variables there. It’s just an example of how people’s olifactory senses differ.

For me, I get the vegetal/marine notes first, and then the Yuzu really comes through and I get mostly Yuzu for quite a while. Fresh and bright. Then drying down eventually to woods/marine.

Sorry you didn’t care for it

No need to apologize. I can only imagine how challenging it must be to optimize a scent bearing in mind that some proportion of people might not perceive the scent as intended. For my olifactory equipment...the Yuzo was very much in the distant background...before...during and after the shave...

I actually sold my Kyoto set. Why? I gave it a few tries. But, to my nose, the soap and especially the AS were very seaweed or vegetal forward with yuzu in the back seat. I know smell is totally subjective. But....given the percentages of ingredients...I really expected the yuzo to be front and center supported by the vegetal notes. For me...it was the total inverse. I realize soap makers make choices....their choice of relative intensity and balance didn’t work for me but it seems to work for others so YMMV....

Yeah I’ve read that some people felt yuzu took a backseat to the marine notes. All products were made from the same large batch of blended fragrance, so there are no variables there. It’s just an example of how people’s olifactory senses differ.

For me, I get the vegetal/marine notes first, and then the Yuzu really comes through and I get mostly Yuzu for quite a while. Fresh and bright. Then drying down eventually to woods/marine.

Sorry you didn’t care for it

See, and to me, this makes me think I might like it more. Lots of Yuzu heavy soaps out there, but not many that sound like this. Hoping to snag a set on the 21st...

scent profile looks pretty good, I might have to pick some up!

and my wife's Dad's family is from Sicily so....

Cool Andrew!  And thank you for maintaining such an awesome forum. For me, being able to have this thread is really a great way to interact with the community.

Cheers

scent profile looks pretty good, I might have to pick some up!

and my wife's Dad's family is from Sicily so....

Cool Andrew!  And thank you for maintaining such an awesome forum. For me, being able to have this thread is really a great way to interact with the community.

Cheers

+1.

no problem, glad you guys are enjoying it and thanks for interacting with the community!

I used Sicily this morning. I really enjoyed it.

I used Sicily this morning. I really enjoyed it.

Nice! Are you guys having as nice of a summer in Calgary as we are here?

scent profile looks pretty good, I might have to pick some up!

and my wife's Dad's family is from Sicily so....

Andrew, the other weekend, I had a chance to get a sense of the scent of Sicily, just from the jar (no shave). The scent is beautiful! I don’t think you can go wrong with this one. Especially knowing what kind of performance goes with the pleasing scent.