Barrister's Reserve® Spice Shaving Soap

In my opinion, the best soap base available. Scent lasts a long time and has a great slickness

As with all their wonderful products, the fragrance and shave quality is top notch.  It’s scent is like old spice used to be, not the stuff you get in the drug store now.

So the scent is amazing. It brings me back to my grandfather shaving in his bathroom. My wife was like ooh I like this The lather was amazing and the cushion was fantastic. Too bad I am just trimming my beard lines. I would have loved to spoil my entire face. With that said it was a great shave

Reserve Spice is my fourth Barrister and Mann soap, but I'm taking the time to write this review because it's my first soap from the Reserve line. Please do not misunderstand what I'm saying; the Excelsior base is superb. It's wonderful. I own Lavanille, Cheshire, and LGC and will buy each again when I run out in about 57 years. But this Reserve base is on another level. I was initially shocked because of how quickly it lathered. With the water we have I usually have to work a bit on my Excelsior soaps to get a suitable lather, but this sucker puffed up like an inflatable castle at a cool kid's fifth birthday party. The skin protection was exceptional—I know because my neck typically responds to shaving like a duck responds to birdshot. The Excelsior base makes it look like the neck duck merely suffered a flesh wound (this is a compliment—I promise), but the Reserve base makes it look like the hunter missed the neck duck entirely. Somewhere the dog from Nintendo's DUCK HUNT is laughing at my razor. I dunno...maybe the irritation relief was the matching aftershave. Heck, buy that stuff too. It smells like a million bucks. I don't know if this stuff smells like Shulton. I don't know who Shulton is or why people want to smell like him. Supposedly he made something a long time ago that used to be in glass but now it's in plastic and people are angry and blah blah blah. Just rise above it and buy the good stuff, which is this. I'm sure Shulton would say this smells just like him.

I have tried a lot of different shave soaps, but this might be my favorite of all. Not only does the soap have an amazing scent, but the face feel is spectacular post shave. My only complaint is the matching aftershave doesn't ever seem to be in stock, and would love to see Barrister and Mann expanding their inventory and also doing more of their versions on retro classics. Top notch products nonetheless! Seems it is becoming harder and harder to find quality traditional grooming products, and hope Barrister and Mann can continue filling that void and expanding as they do make outstanding products.