Gentlemen:
I was lucky enough to be PIF'd a sample of the Biotique Bio Palmyra cream, so I have decided to post a review here, to provide information/my point of view to anyone who might be considering purchasing this cream.
Appearance: This is a pearlescent golden-brown shaving cream.
Scent: I know that people's olfactory senses differ quite a bit, and people's tastes in scent differ a bunch. The best I can do is tell you what it smells like to ME. At first sniff, I get mostly a freshly cut grass vibe, not unlike TOBS Avocado shaving cream (although I don't have any Avocado on hand to do a side-by-side). Another wet-shaver posted that it smelled like green apples; if I put that image in my mind and smell it, it does kind of resemble that, as well. But my original thought was grass. However, there is a darker undertone to it, as well, that I never detected in TOBS Avocado. (Please bear in mind that "darker" scents stand out to me more than to other people. For example, I had to trade away a puck of Barrister and Mann Vetiver, Heather, and Clary Sage because to me it smelled like a campfire, but both my wife and my son described the scent as "floral." I guess what I'm saying is that this second undertone that I'm about to describe might not be noticed by anybody but me.)
Anyway, the undertone kind of smells like this: you know when you go to your workplace break room, and somebody forgot to turn off the plate under an essentially empty pot of coffee? So that whatever liquid that remained in there has evaporated out and there is now just a dark brown sticky mess in the bottom of the pot? It smells kind of like that. Like burned coffee grounds. But it's faint and way underneath the cut grass scent. And it's not completely burnt coffee, so it retains some of the pleasantness of the scent of coffee.
Oh, and I should mention that overall the scent strength is weak to moderate, at best. This is not at all a strongly scented cream. By the time I was starting a second pass the scent almost completely disappears.
Lather: I am a soap guy. I haven't used a cream in probably about two years. Creams that I have used and enjoyed in the past include a Trumper's sampler, a T&H sampler, a tube of T&H West Indian Limes, and a full tub of Trumper's lime. I also went through a tube of C.O. Bigelow at along time ago.
Anyway, a little almond-sized dollop of this cream with not too much water lathered up very quickly and easily into a fluffy lather. On the face it tended to dissipate a little faster than I expected, so for the next shave I used more product and the stability was fine. The third shave also provided a stable, good-looking lather. When applying the lather with the brush, the brush tended to hog the lather more than it does my soap lathers. The lather was more voluminous, but not quite as slick or as protective as my usual soap lathers (this may be a feature of most creams, and is probably the reason I switched away from creams in the first place).
The lather tended to stay full and voluminous (rather than dense and yogurt-y) regardless of the ratio of product to water.
Shave: This lather proved to be capable. It was slick enough and protective enough. Definitely a hundred times better than Barbasol. But not quite up to the standard that I have established with RazoRock, Mystic Water, and Stirling shave soaps. Again, whether this is a function of this cream specifically or all creams in general I do not know. Comparing it to lathers/shaves I got with Trumper's lime a few years ago I would say that it was in the same ballpark. (I preferred the scent of the Trumpers, but perhaps the lathers were pretty similar.)
Post-shave Face Feel: Very good, but not outstanding. My skin was left feeling smooth and not dry at all. I am comparing it with Mystic Water post-shave feel, so I realize it's not even fair. There was nothing lacking about the post-shave face feel.
Value: I believe that this cream is very competitively priced, so I would say it is an excellent value. If I were a cream guy, I would buy this cream if it came in a different scent. Mind you, I don't think the scent is unpleasant in any way, and I doubt it would be judged unpleasant by anybody. For one thing, it's not strong enough to be offensive, and for the other, it's most the scent of cut grass or green apples, which are pleasant enough.
I would like to thank Bushhippi for the generous PIF and for the opportunity of trying this fine quality cream.
I was lucky enough to be PIF'd a sample of the Biotique Bio Palmyra cream, so I have decided to post a review here, to provide information/my point of view to anyone who might be considering purchasing this cream.
Appearance: This is a pearlescent golden-brown shaving cream.
Scent: I know that people's olfactory senses differ quite a bit, and people's tastes in scent differ a bunch. The best I can do is tell you what it smells like to ME. At first sniff, I get mostly a freshly cut grass vibe, not unlike TOBS Avocado shaving cream (although I don't have any Avocado on hand to do a side-by-side). Another wet-shaver posted that it smelled like green apples; if I put that image in my mind and smell it, it does kind of resemble that, as well. But my original thought was grass. However, there is a darker undertone to it, as well, that I never detected in TOBS Avocado. (Please bear in mind that "darker" scents stand out to me more than to other people. For example, I had to trade away a puck of Barrister and Mann Vetiver, Heather, and Clary Sage because to me it smelled like a campfire, but both my wife and my son described the scent as "floral." I guess what I'm saying is that this second undertone that I'm about to describe might not be noticed by anybody but me.)
Anyway, the undertone kind of smells like this: you know when you go to your workplace break room, and somebody forgot to turn off the plate under an essentially empty pot of coffee? So that whatever liquid that remained in there has evaporated out and there is now just a dark brown sticky mess in the bottom of the pot? It smells kind of like that. Like burned coffee grounds. But it's faint and way underneath the cut grass scent. And it's not completely burnt coffee, so it retains some of the pleasantness of the scent of coffee.
Oh, and I should mention that overall the scent strength is weak to moderate, at best. This is not at all a strongly scented cream. By the time I was starting a second pass the scent almost completely disappears.
Lather: I am a soap guy. I haven't used a cream in probably about two years. Creams that I have used and enjoyed in the past include a Trumper's sampler, a T&H sampler, a tube of T&H West Indian Limes, and a full tub of Trumper's lime. I also went through a tube of C.O. Bigelow at along time ago.
Anyway, a little almond-sized dollop of this cream with not too much water lathered up very quickly and easily into a fluffy lather. On the face it tended to dissipate a little faster than I expected, so for the next shave I used more product and the stability was fine. The third shave also provided a stable, good-looking lather. When applying the lather with the brush, the brush tended to hog the lather more than it does my soap lathers. The lather was more voluminous, but not quite as slick or as protective as my usual soap lathers (this may be a feature of most creams, and is probably the reason I switched away from creams in the first place).
The lather tended to stay full and voluminous (rather than dense and yogurt-y) regardless of the ratio of product to water.
Shave: This lather proved to be capable. It was slick enough and protective enough. Definitely a hundred times better than Barbasol. But not quite up to the standard that I have established with RazoRock, Mystic Water, and Stirling shave soaps. Again, whether this is a function of this cream specifically or all creams in general I do not know. Comparing it to lathers/shaves I got with Trumper's lime a few years ago I would say that it was in the same ballpark. (I preferred the scent of the Trumpers, but perhaps the lathers were pretty similar.)
Post-shave Face Feel: Very good, but not outstanding. My skin was left feeling smooth and not dry at all. I am comparing it with Mystic Water post-shave feel, so I realize it's not even fair. There was nothing lacking about the post-shave face feel.
Value: I believe that this cream is very competitively priced, so I would say it is an excellent value. If I were a cream guy, I would buy this cream if it came in a different scent. Mind you, I don't think the scent is unpleasant in any way, and I doubt it would be judged unpleasant by anybody. For one thing, it's not strong enough to be offensive, and for the other, it's most the scent of cut grass or green apples, which are pleasant enough.
I would like to thank Bushhippi for the generous PIF and for the opportunity of trying this fine quality cream.
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