Thanks-this helps me with some ideas for warmer weather(when all my current soaps&aftershaves must wait for next fall and the long winter ahead).
I do like lemongrass-bought a few liquid hand soaps in that fragrance. That was before Block Soap surfaced.
Thank you for explaining it better than I could. I am horrible at describing scents. All I can say is that it is a definite favorite. It only took one splash of a sample, and I went upstairs and ordered a tub.
Piacenza reminds me a lot of Pinaud Citrus Musk, so your description is a good one! It's like the Citrus Musk but better; much more depth.
That's the way I felt with Sandpiper....one SNIFF(even before the first splash)of that sampler, and I said-"This is IT!!". By IT, I meant, the top choice of my 4 samples. But Piacenza does sound like a nice springtime one.
no, but I'm slowly learning to appreciate lavender as a manly scent....my second Block Soap is their lavender.
Not on steroids in that the scent is magnified or stronger. Piacenza is the royal scent and Citrus Musk is the commoner scent.
I have only used the bar soap and really liked it, as did my wife. Last year I bought my son a bunch of AS samples for him to try, and his girlfriend hands down picked it out, so I got him a full bottle. Again, I am horrible at scents, but it seems well balanced, with the citrus being more forward than the lavender. My wife has a tub of the body butter and really likes it, so it seems that it is a scent for everybody, both male and female, spanning a couple of generations.
And based on all the Pinaud scents I have tried, I assume the Citrus Musk has a powdery dry down? Piacenza must not, or my wife would have already put it out in the garage.
Actually, I just sniffed my wife's tub of the body butter, and I get the lavender as more out front than I remember. It is nice.
No, I don't recall a powder dry down on the Citrus Musk. Could be wrong though. I'm even worse at describing scents as you claim to be! My wife says I see colors in the 8-crayon box and she sees through the 64-box. Not sure the metaphor for scents, but it's the same. I'm quite limited!!
Good to know. I'll try a sample one day. I need want to order aftershaves in Dunshire, Sandpiper, and Mountain Man. But I need to let some time pass. Too many other purchases.
For Piacenza, to me, I do not really smell a floral note if there is any. It is listed but I think it is underneath. I smell citrus up front with the rosemary secondary. I think the amber and musk is mixed throughout the duration to warm it up.
