Looking for a bar soap I used to buy (bar OF soap, not soap for washing a bar)

In My Humble Opinion
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About 35-40 years ago, I used to buy a bar soap at a local natural foods grocery store called Sun Harvest. This type of store was a new-ish thing in South Texas back then–we were years away from having a Whole Foods Market.

It was a European soap (maybe from Germany, Austria, or Switzerland), and it came in a box of one that had writing on it and pictures of flowers. The soap was dark, grape-y, purplish-blue, and the scent was a luscious, deep, fruity blackberry or possibly black currant. The scent stayed with you all day. It was wonderful.

The soap was rectangular with rounded corners and curved through the middle, similar to this:

It had a translucent glycerine quality like this, but it was dark bluish-purple, not orange:

More like this:

It looks like it ought to be this one, but the shape and color are wrong, and Crabtree & Evelyn products weren’t sold at this local natural foods store. The box is very similar to what I remember.

I’ve been looking for years. Tried Vermont Country Store, Smallflower, Whole Foods, amazon, local foreign grocery stores. Just hoping this will sound familiar to someone. If it is still around, it might not be sold in a box any more. The most memorable thing is the deep, fruity scent, which lingered. It’s a long shot, but Dopers get around, so who knows?

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Palmolive Black Orchid?

Though, btw, IME if you really want “natural”, non-irritating soap, it is better to avoid anything with more than 2 or 3 ingredients. Example of a good bar of soap: coconut oil, palm oil, flowers. (and/or olive oil. Or glycerin, if you are into that)

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Stenders Cosmetics has a black currant glycerin soap. They are based in Latvia.
https://www.stenders-cosmetics.com/blackcurrant-sorbet-soap

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That one looks interesting… I’m most interested in the scent. I’ll look for it.

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That one looks interesting, too. Thanks.

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Did you see this in the comments?

The scent of the soap is absolutely delightful. The color of it is charming. I would prefer if it foamed a little better, but that is just my preference.

Does the bold part sound familiar? Somehow the word “sorbet” makes it sound even more delightful.

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I did see that, and as far as I remember, this soap foamed as much as any other soap.

It does sound like a very nice soap.