Southern Witchcrafts Necromantic Vegan Shave Soap, 4oz

If you’re sad you missed out on B&M’s Fougere Gothique - or you love Fougere Gothique, you’ll love this. If you like “after the rain” scents you’ll love this, if you like Fine’s Fresh Vetiver you‘’ll probably like this. This scent is stellar. The dark floral wine notes buried in petrichor evoked for me the sense of a freshly dug grave after a rainy day and cut roses when the pedals just barely start to darken and wilt. I’m sure the name’s romance added to my imagery but it is like finding an outdoor entrance to catacombs in the woods. But yes, don’t let the gothic tones fools you, to me it’s just a gorgeously dark rose and wet dirt scent in the best way possible. And by dark i don’t mean as in a more leathery rose vs. a “fruitier” (brighter?) rose you’d find in TOBS for instance or GeoFT. OH, and yes yes, performance - awesome, up there with some of the other fantastic artisans on this site.

Great scent. Very slick and smooth. Second soap from this Company. Both proved to be excellent.

As a woman, it is sometimes hard to find a shave soap scent that isn't overtly masculine. Mind you, I like those too (I was never much into super "feminine" scents), but this is such a perfect summer shave soap scent! It smells like flowers and water. Or a garden after a rain. It is clean, with a touch of floral, and ozone-ish or watery-ish. Chris said it better (review above), but this is really lovely soap. I use the aftershave too so that the scent lingers longer. Soap works into a lather well, and you can take multiple passes and it stays slick. Good stuff, highly recommended!

I don't usually go for floral scented soaps. Not because I don't love flowers, but because so many so-called florals end up smelling more like the urinal cakes in bus station toilets. Necromantic, on the other hand, is pure genius. Ignore the emo connotations of the scent notes. This is the smell of the flowers your mother picked and put on the table in the middle of summer when you were a kid, in all its 3-d glory. Those dirt and ozone notes just serve to round out and focus the wisteria center. Scent-wise, Necromantic is a genuine work of art. Performance is easily the equal of the best tallow soaps on the market, putting paid to this silly belief that somehow animal fat is integral to a great shave.

This is a great soap! If you're looking for something a bit different, you owe it to yourself to give it a shot. I get an earthy red-wine scent from this soap, and it's very unique in a good way. Plus, the performance of this soap is terrific. It's super slick, and I get a great shave with it every time. If you're wanting to break away from using boring soaps, give this one a shot!