Razor: Muhle Rocca R96
Blade: Ladas SS
Brush: Oumo 26mm Hook fan badger
Soap: Grooming Department - Cedarwood
Post: Nivea Sensitive
So, I was curious about this considering the number of essential oils that was used to create the scent accord. I frequently wear leather shoes and own a fair share of cedar shoe trees, so I'm no stranger to Cedarwood. However, this is less Cedar 'wood' and more a resinous cedar medicine cabinet. Not sure how much of the scent comes from the Nai base with its 1 million ingredients. The sheer number of essential oils is crazy:
Orange EO, Grapefruit EO, Ginger Lily EO, Ginger EO, Pink Pepper EO, Geranium Absolute, Rose Absolute, Howood EO, Siam Wood EO, Benzoin Resin, Carrot Seed EO,
Alaska Cedarwood EO,
Hiba (Japanese Cedarwood) EO,
Port Orford Cedarwood EO, Styrax, Muhuhu EO,
Himalayan Cedarwood EO,
Virginia Cedarwood EO.
Texas Hill Country Cedarwood EO,
Atlas Cedarwood Absolute. Vetiver Absolute, Patchouli EO, Vanilla Co2 extract, Tonka Bean Absolute.
Like 7 different cedar wood essential oils. Wtf. Of course I was curious about what it was going to smell like. It's sort of woody with resin and spice, sort of like a cigar box that's also used to keep household medicines in it. But it's hard to smell individual scents, everything kind of piles on together and comes off muddy. The amount of oil has affected the Nai base as well. It's much much softer than Otium, almost a cream than a croap. I had to bowl lather for the first time in a long time because there's no way I could load this soap properly on my brush. First swirl, I scraped off a ton of soap off the top of the puck, had to scrape some off the brush and finish the lather in the bowl instead. Good latherability, but sensitive to water. Good slickness and good cushion. However, it fails a little in the post shave (the part that it was supposed to excel in). I think the post shave is not as good as Otium, certainly worse than Mammoth Soaps Tusk (my top post shave performer atm). Only buy if you're
really into cedarwood.
