🔍 Sherlock Handmade Shaving Chiseled Groomatorium: Superior Grooming Tools for the Modern Gentleman Review

Imagine: rain beating on the window panes in the background, in the foreground your personal library full of old books and a briar pipe filled with smoldering Burley tobacco (or, if you prefer, an expensive cigar) at your elbow ). ). If you could condense that image into a fragrance, you would have Sherlock by Chiseled Face. It's nothing fruity, floral, or sweet (Sherlock Holmes would probably have avoided those things anyway), but a decidedly masculine scent that helps make shaving a pleasure…

As a writer for the Sherlock Holmes blog (I hear from Sherlock) I was curious about this fragrance inspired by the great detective. Although many three star or less reviews say the scent is off-putting, I will give an honest review. For me, the scent was like leather with a slight tobacco undertone; does not smell like "mud" or "wet grass". When you open the jar and smell it, it can be a bit overwhelming, but it's just too beautiful. I prefer more earthy scents in my shaving soap so this was…

After reading the reviews I bought this soap. They made me think I was shaving with a smoldering calabash pipe with the smell of Sherlock's leather-bound library. What I got was a peppered leather glove that slapped my face. What a big surprise and what an awakening morning shave! It's not for the faint of heart. The soap forms well, like all Chiseled Face soaps. It's not an everyday car for me, but I like to keep it for those cold mornings we have from time to time.

Smells like a mixture of steam and antiperspirant. Like some kind of cream for a skin condition or something medicinal. I smell leather, but I can't smell any tobacco, and I can only smell a little of that 'wet earth' that people talk about. I could have ordered a different flavor because the foam is very good; thick, rich and creamy. But reviews of other fragrances also spoke of the same medicinal smell that I described. I ordered "Gaelic Tweed" from Formula T (WSP) and I hope I like the…