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Bartoszek wrote:

canon docre wrote:My dog's got no nose...

how does he smell ?

he doesnt. his senses of vision and hearing have developed to compensate

ahh, the old ones are the best ones

_emma_ wrote:What I do not know is the smell of Pear's soap in hot water, and of Wright's Coal Tar soap in hot water. And I think I ought to know.

Pears is really nice but the bar doesn't last long. It's translucent (can't remember what colour) and has a distinctive oval shape with an indent in the middle (apparently to accommodate the remains of the older bars thereby minimising waste). Wright's Coal Tar has an overpowering medicated smell which proved to be a bit too much for my small windowless bathroom.

Ozpat wrote:

What's next?

.....a new album?

now THATS ridiculous!

Andrew S wrote:Wright's Coal Tar has an overpowering medicated smell

I can't wait to get to know it!
I will be back to this thread as soon as I come up with an opinion.

_emma_ wrote:I hope some good sould will send me a PM with an offer of trade.

what about soap weeding?

ormfdmrush wrote:

_emma_ wrote:I hope some good sould will send me a PM with an offer of trade.

what about soap weeding?

Ooooooo, there's an idea! Mmmm...I luuuuuurve lovely smelly stuff!


Oh, and the smell of this:



would probably bring me to tears now, because that's what my English gramps always used.

SINsister wrote: Oh, and the smell of this:

Better still is the limited edition citrus version they brought out a few years ago. I discovered an unused bar I'd stashed away recently and now my bathroom smells of oranges

Andrew S wrote:

SINsister wrote: Oh, and the smell of this:

Better still is the limited edition citrus version they brought out a few years ago. I discovered an unused bar I'd stashed away recently and now my bathroom smells of oranges

MMMMMMMM!

Andrew S wrote:I discovered an unused bar I'd stashed away...

am I the only one that finds that unsettling?

James Blast wrote:

Andrew S wrote:I discovered an unused bar I'd stashed away...

am I the only one that finds that unsettling?

Does it serve Duvel?

IZ.

I-yi-yi...

James Blast wrote:

Andrew S wrote:I discovered an unused bar I'd stashed away...

am I the only one that finds that unsettling?

Probably By "stashed away" I meant forgotten about rather than hoarded.

Phew!

he always smells like a smoke machine whenever i see* him.

*actual sighting never guaranteed, 'natch.

apologies, i'll get back to lurking now, heh

Has anyone seen Von in a public location?

I always have this image of his trundling round Tesco with a trolley full of microwave meals

robertzombie wrote:Has anyone seen Von in a public location?

I always have this image of his trundling round Tesco with a trolley full of microwave meals

we do have a Gallery a la' Vision On, look for Near Meth/Celebrity Plane Crash

Thanks to Christian for encouraging my question, and thanks to the person who sent me the soaps (and whose identity I won't reveal for fear some of you would comment about how silly they think it is to do such a thing ) I can now state my opinion. At first I thought I'd better keep it as PM, but then I thought - what the hell, one never knows how many sensitive souls out there might read it and understand it, apart from those who'll read it and shake their heads with contempt/pity/whatever that's good for concealing the lack of this kind of sensitivity.
Pears' smell is lovely. Scent of an angel. Delicate but rare and distinctive. It's close to the smell of the oak wood of my great-grandmother's wardrobe (the clothes and the parfume are long gone, but the wardrobe still holds the smell). It would suit a bathroom in a theatre, with a vase full of peacock feathers in the corner. It's beautiful, but not as good as the algae series by Oriflame, or Priscilla Presley's "Moments", or black Adidas for men, or the smell of sprouting nettles on a hot, dry, sunny day. Still, it'll have a place amongst my top 10.
Wright's, on the other hand, has to be in the top 5. It's one poetry of a smell! Devil's parfume, more devilish than the heaviest opiums and musks and air after thunder. It brings back the days when the grey-clad men smeared the roof with tar (the summer when I was 6 and I thought I had been born to become a princess). It also smells like railway tracks, and so it brings back the various train stations with all the luggage that's connected with them. I recall the air surrounding the local steelworks had a similar smell too, before they put the environment-friendly filters on the chimneys. And metal tools that had contact with aqua regia, and the dust that swirled in the lab. I dare say, it doesn't even need hot water to unravel it all. I changed my mind about Kenzo's parfume - it would suit , but not as good as this "innocent" soap. Unless the combination of the two would surpass everything. That is all, thank you.