Sandalwood Rose

I have a friend who makes exclusively vegan soap, scented with essential oils only, colored with only herbs/clays/botanicals. She’s a bit of a soap-snob, but it’s ok, I love her anyway.

She participated in a swap, where she received a bar scented with Sandalwood Rose. To her utter shock and dismay, her hubby decided it was a wonderful scent and promptly claimed the bar as his own. Then the bar was gone.

Again, to her utter shock and dismay, he asked how he might procure more of the wonderful scent that lingered on his skin, and left him smelling, in his mind, “clean”.

So she asked me, her heathen (animal fats and fragrance oil) soapmaking buddy to acquire the scent and make him a batch, for which she would pay by giving me oddles and oodles of gloriously white, creamy, beef tallow…free of charge. Who could resist? I’m weak, love beef tallow for the creaminess it adds to my soap, and hey…the fragrance was easy to find.

So, this is that soap (not really…he got the whole first batch, and this is a new batch). As homage to her…or as much homage as I can pay considering our different styles…I left the soap to color itself. A wonderful mauvey tan that fits the scent well.

Herein lies my problem: I love the scent, and will probably carry it regularly, but I don’t really think the name “fits”. Rose implies feminine and floral…which this soap is not. It makes a wonderful unisex scent, but I don’t want male customers to be turned off by the thought of slathering themselves in rose petals either.

So…we’ll consider THIS my very first blog contest. Offer up a name for this soap and if we choose yours, you’ll win a bar for your very own (probably some samples, too). Decision will be posted Jan 17 at 10:00 a.m.

In the mean time, if you just can’t wait, or don’t think you can come up with a winning suggestion, you can purchase a bar on Etsy or Artfire.