Just opened a new pack of shield and it’s hasn’t got any scent at all. Either a crappy batch from the factory or this timeline has taken another dark turn for the worse.

So I’m in the market for a nice, fresh smelling soap. Suggestions?

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    Imperial Leather so I can smell like my grandpa. He’s dead, of course, but I don’t think it was the soap.

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    Dr Bronner’s Pure-Castile soap. Perfect all-in-one soap (hair and body…. Teeth too if you’re not particular about the taste of soap). Nice peppermint scent is available.

    I’ve been using this soap for over 3 decades now.

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          Don’t lose hope - my sense of smell has only just come back, two years after catching it.

          I realised it when the farms near us began muck spreading a few weeks ago. Since then, I’ve started being able to smell food cooking, blocked drains, everything.

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      Friend of mine got covid and it just sent her sense of smell completely out of whack. Nothing smelled like it did before. A curry smelled like wet trees, she said. My leathery / amber perfume smelled like talcum powder to her. It was so weird!

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    I typically use Faith in Nature shower gels and get refills. I’ll often go for aloe vera or teatree or similar, neither of which have much of a smell at all, but they do a blue cedar, I think it is, and a lavender and geranium which are both pleasant and rather more noticeable. The l&g is a bit too floral for my preference though.

    To be honest, I will often just go with whatever the refill shop I am passing next happens to have to hand these days, which is quite often not Faith in Nature at all.

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      I do use shower gels but I default to a bar of soap for old school scrubbing. I’ll look for those faith in nature gels though.

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    Honestly, I’d plumb the depths of nostalgia with these, find some of the stuff you used to use as a kid. Imperial leather, Badedas, whatever it is. It’s a cheap and fun way to really evoke some memories, smell is so powerful.

    I grew up in Italy so it’s Borotalco for me.

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    Faith in Nature soap bars, usually. Currently a coconut-flavoured one, although I’m not really fussed about the scent of something that is only briefly going to be in contact with me and then be washed down the plughole.

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    I’m a degenerate crafter and will try my hand at pretty much anything. After a brief obsession with soapmaking a couple of years back, we now have shoeboxes full of the stuff that will probably last us a lifetime.

    So, that.