You sly duck! Brilliant PIF. I'm not in, cause I've tried, and love, all the PIFd products -- but well curated!
Arko is my favorite limonene/linalool slick, hyper cost-effective (cheap and high performing) shave stick soap with a fragrance that reminds me most of childhood ivory soap (a fragrance also used for urinal pucks)! Bowl lathering it at first (I grated some off with a microplane -- I was very into bowl lathering and hadn't yet learned the joys of face lathering), I didn't like the aroma, and didn't get the love. This soap works best as intended: face lathered. Feather blades help define the fine line between close and too close. Well used, wow, what a close shave you can get. Be careful, or you will julienne and burn yourself. One or two shaves per blade, at most three. Lilac Vegetal: The **** IS the point! Once the pissy highnote evaporates in the first few minutes, you're left with powdery lilac and a slight sweat/urea-ish lownote. It's a civilized floral with animal undertones. It was created almost two centuries ago for the Austro-Hungarian Empire Cavalry, and I can see why: they already smelled of man and horse sweat, and this Lilac Vegetal runs with that manimal aroma and civilizes it for polite company -- yet the animal remains. I thought it might seem a little old-ladyish at first, but when I experimented with wearing it I asked people what they thought, and the response was, surprisingly, 100% positive, especially from women.