Tatara Honour Soap Passaround - Words Matter

I regret the delay, but the Tatara Honour soap is on its way to the next participant (life can throw some sick sliders and dirty curve balls).

To reiterate, the Tatara Honour soap is superb. The scent and performance puts me in mind of Ethos Greenfresh, but not as bright and lively. Honour's scent is sublime and sophisticated; "green and clean" with a whiff of Japanese mochi candy

Honour lathered easily and took a good amount of water. Despite the hydration, the lather was not runny at all, holding its structure in the bowl through face and head shave. Lather provided good protection and very nice glide/slickness. This soap is priced perfectly for its scent and performance.

Ok, I received this little gem of a soap last week and have since used it twice. Upon opening the package, my first thought was, “Huh - seems small”. At 3.4oz, it is a bit smaller than your average 5oz tub of soap. However, as I quickly discovered, this isn’t your average soap. 

First, it smells GREAT. Tatara did an excellent job here. It’s a light, clean scent that, to my nose, reminds me a bit of jasmine tea, but has a definite vetiver component. Often times these types of scents disappear quickly, but I found that Honour hangs around for a while, but is the opposite of overpowering. Really a nice smell. If they made an aftershave splash, or even an EDT, I would probably buy it. 

Second, I found performance to be top-tier. As a daily, almost exclusive straight razor user, I actively seek out high-performance soaps with as much cushion and slickness as I can find. Tatara’s Honour excels here too. Fortunately (thinking back to the smallish size), it doesn’t take much of a scoop to whip up an excellent lather. The soap itself is rather soft, and seems to be made for scooping. I used less than the typical almond-sized dollop and produced more than enough lather for three passes. 

The post-shave feel is really nice. I followed up with some Thayers, vitamin C serum, and some Zingari Man unscented post-shave balm. The end result was fantastic. BBS, and that wonderful scent hung around for 3 or 4 hours. Top-tier performance from my perspective. 

In short - Tatara Honour lives up to the hype and I plan to purchase my own. Many thanks to DanLaw for the passaround. On to the next person!

I received the Tatara Honour soap last week, and have used it a few times since. I think I'm the odd man out, as I don't really care for the scent. I will say that I'm fairly picky when it comes to scents, and don't care for a lot of the ones that are quite popular. My first thought is that there's something familiar with this scent, but there is a floral note (which I can't quite place) that was at first almost cloying for my senses. When lathered, it changes slightly... I'm coming around a some, but in the end, I don't think it's for me. 

Performance is definitely top notch, as good or better than any vegan base that I've tried, as well as some of the tallow bases. It can take a lot of water, and is pretty thirsty to get to where I like it. I found that you can use various levels of hydration, and still get a lather that works well. Slickness and cushion are great, and post shave is good. 

I wouldn't buy this for myself, although if they had some other scents, I would be tempted to try them out. I do tend to try and keep the number of soaps that I have on hand to somewhat of a minimum. 

Thanks to DanLaw for organizing the pass around, and thanks to tatararazors for providing the soaps. All in all, a great entry into the soap market.