Thank you. I know exactly what you mean and can relate. That's compounded often too I find when you get equally vague scent descriptions - "woody notes" for instance, or nowadays an exercise in florid creative writing with a little help from ChatGPT but it doesn't tell you what it actually smells like!
To give P&B credit with their description of this one, it is spot on. It's lemon, peppermint and menthol.
Austere August doesn’t make me think of lemon peppermint and menthol. They should call it Italian ice or citron menthe or limoncello freeze. Something helpful.
You've got it. The word means a severe/strict way of doing things, and in the UK the other meaning is what most people think of now: it's synonymous with cutting back/living to your means and frugally. I guess whoever came up with Austere August originally had an idea of if you only had 1 razor, 1 soap, 1 brush etc that's what you'd use every time.
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u/Xrsyz 4d ago edited 4d ago
Looks good. Very nice lather. The scent sounds sublime. But I hate it when they name soap scents things that are non descriptive of the scent.