Moon Soaps | Old School
Ever-Ready 100T | Elite Razor Manchurian
The New Improved Schick Injector Razor | Personna 74
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In light of my recent positive experience with Moon Soaps' Amaretto shaving cream, I decided to give their flagship a go. "Old School" is marketed as having a "huge amount of tallow, like soap used to be." Perhaps there's a modicum of hyperbole in that statement, but I can neither affirm or disprove this has any more tallow than your average artisan tallow shaving soap. Old School's consistency is on the firmer end of the croap spectrum and it loads very easily with a well saturated---but not dripping---knot. Compared to the Amaretto cream, this is the better performer. A dense, slick lather is quickly and intuitively forthcoming yielding an oil-rich iridescent sheen. First-pass slickness is approaching high-end status, while residual slickness is competitive with the upper echelon. I was able to effortlessly employ long sweeping passes on my dome that I usually reserve for my top 5 or 6. Post-shave is easily in the crowded top ten, but it can't quite push anyone out of top 3. It's very close, however.
The scent off the tub is light and somewhat singular in nature with a faintly sweetened leather. However, once lathered, the scent strength is boosted to a 3 out of 5, and opens with a new leather and cured tobacco duet that's later accompanied and expanded by warm woody notes and gentle spicy vanilla. This well-blended fragrance remains clean throughout, and the sweetness is offered up naturally by way of the vanilla and tobacco. I found Old School to remind me of several non-descript "masculine" fragrances without approximating any of them. There's nothing audacious with respect to the array of notes in Old School, but the fragrance, while safe and even formulaic is quite pleasant and a good choice for a flagship offering.
Once again, the label art exhibits keen knowledge of graphic design and the execution is flawless. If I have anything negative to say about Old School's packaging it would be the glaring absence of a side label. I'm not certain if this is intentional or an oversight as Amaretto did have side labeling which rounds out the packaging nicely.
Old School cements my confidence in Moon Soaps as an artisan in this crowded market. They back up their attractive packaging with a very respectable product that steps out of work horse territory and into the luxury realm.
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