Stirling soaps are solid performers, providing slickness and easy lathering to a degree that belies their very reasonable prices -- especially for the amount of product you get. I've have several other Stirling scents that I love for their depth and originality. Varen is just the opposite -- a scent that is conventional down to its core. It's a clean, fresh, going to the office scent. It smells the way the tailor at a men's suit store smells. It says, "I made an effort with my grooming." Know how every Coldplay song sounds kind of like some other song -- you just can't quite remember which one? That's Varen, the minivan of Stirling scents.