Well I just had a shave with the stuff. Hitherto any comments about ARKO from me were purely pot stirring. It was quite a nose opener to try it.
Firstly - thanks to Pjotr for sending me a sample (actually a good few cm in a nice stick holder to boot) I really like the community here sending things around and being generous. I haven't even checked into YKW since Phil told me about this place, just haven't had a reason to go there again.
As soon as the packet was opened a sniff was needed to see what the fuss was about. I really wanted to like the smell. I always back an underdog. I thought - right, so it might not be great but that's ok. Until I smelt it. It's a really bad smell. If urinal cakey is what they were after they nailed it. Ok not to worry, let's shave!
Started rubbing the dry stick on dry skin but it wasn't really working so dipped it in hot water and got a bit on my face, then worked up a great lather. It was a pretty light foamy lather, not sure if that's the norm. Shave went ok, lather was pretty decent and did it's job. But That smell...it isn't so much the old urinal cake, but more the newer urinal plastic pads. They are much better, they last a lot longer.
The question in my mind was "why did they choose this scent??" Why? There must be hundreds of scents they could choose, why this one? Which employee said "Bu koku kullanacağız" (Turkish for 'we'll use this scent' (to save Stills looking up on google)) that employee needs to be fired. And quickly. If they had the same product in say, a mild sandalwood it would be a ripper.
Well I'll have use it a few more times to get a better feel for it. But I don't think I'll become the fifth exclamation mark, or be evangelising at all.
I do tip my hat to regular arko users though, putting that stick near your nose takes a lot of courage.
