Taylor of Old Bond Street Sandalwood Shave Cream, 150g

This is one of the TOBS shaving creams that seems to have high reviews. Granted, the jar of shaving cream that I used seemed to have the original soap formulation which produced a fantastic lather but I found the scent, while rather pleasant is very strong and overpowering and not unlike washing machine powder for clothes, not like sandlewood in my opinion. It's not for me.

This is one of the TOBS shaving creams that seems to have high reviews. Granted, the jar of shaving cream that I used seemed to have the original soap formulation which produced a fantastic lather but I found the scent, while rather pleasant is very strong and overpowering and not unlike washing machine powder for clothes, not like sandlewood in my opinion. It's not for me.

This is one of the TOBS shaving creams that seems to have high reviews. Granted, the jar of shaving cream that I used seemed to have the original soap formulation which produced a fantastic lather but I found the scent, while rather pleasant is very strong and overpowering and not unlike washing machine powder for clothes, not like sandlewood in my opinion. It's not for me.

Again like many reviews... HOW do people like the scent of this stuff? It smells nothing like any of the sandalwoods i'm used to. I was expecting something along the lines of proraso, or the art of shaving sandalwood... NOPE. Super spicy, powdery musty awful is what I get. It smells a lot like powdered deodorant. Baby diapers. Cheap musk. Otherwise, the price, the tub, the speed of lather and actually performance is phenomenal... just pick a different scent!

I use Proraso Sandalwood soap and always wanted to try TOBS sandalwood based on reviews. It lathers descent, but I would not say it has anything over Proraso in that department. As far as scent it reminds me of some kind of shampoo or something, not bad just not my thing. If you want a good sandalwood, I would recommend Proraso.