Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - November 05, 2023
gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social 10 months agoPeach & Cognac is a rare A&E scent that doesn’t burn my face
I’m a big fan of Peach & Cognac. Great scent. Both The Undersea and SoCal Hipster give me a mild feeling of burn. For me, it’s not bad and doesn’t persist. No issues with Kaizen or St. Barts (both of which absconded after my wife used them). What do you think causes the burning?
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 10 months ago
Unsafe levels of fragrance oils would be my bet, since that’s the only thing that changes between the different scents.
L’Orange Verte and this are great: Not a tingle. St. Barts burns me, but not others. Turkish Coffee was like a that scene in Fight Club with the chemical burn, so I passed it around (with fair warning and informed consent of the victims) to u/Semaj3000 and u/Scorpio93x and it burned them too.
I don’t buy A&E anymore since then. I don’t want to support this business practice
gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social 10 months ago
I thought, maybe, it was a particular fragrance note. Shawn Maher has managed to get high scent strength in the Seaforth! series. Higher than most of the A&E soaps I have. But I’ve never seen a complaint about Seaforth!. I guess there’s an art to knowing what scent notes can and can’t be pushed.