This is the hard puck, not the cream. I got this soap and shaved with it and had an incredible shave. looks like this soap was reformulated. It now has sodium laurate/potassium laurate in it. all the other ingredients are about the same as the last formulation. This soap smells nothing like sandalwood to me. but it has a very nice cologney type scent to me. The lather this soap produced was incredible. I gotta tell ya, I am impressed with the triple milled hard shave pucks that come out of england. I also bought a dr harris lavender which is also an incredible soap. To my shock, it seems like I have been getting better and more enjoyable shaves with the triple milled hard shave pucks from england versus all of the artisan soaps I have which is surprising to me. I tried the tobs sandalwood cream before and didn't care for it although it is very popular among wet shavers. Give the tobs sandalwood triple milled hard puck a try. it's an awesome and underrated shave soap.