# What's your favorite soap scent?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-soap-scent/393729>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 26, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-soap-scent/393729 "2007-02-26T15:49:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-soap-scent/393729/41 "2007-03-02T19:33:57Z")

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Sandalwood or cedar. I like rose and a few other florals, and some of the lighter citruses, but I’m pretty allergic to a lot of artificial scents so it has to be from a botanical source (even then, something like lavender, which I really like, will make me sneeze and have itchy eyes).

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**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-soap-scent/393729/42 "2007-03-02T19:37:24Z")

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Dr. B’s Peppermint soap. Or Grandpa’s Pine Tar.

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**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-soap-scent/393729/43 "2007-03-02T19:43:53Z")

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Zumbar’s [sandalwood-citrus](http://www.indigowild.com/shopping/productdetail.cfm?ID=496&catPg=%2Fshopping%2Fzum%5Fbar%5Fgoats%5Fmilk%5Fsoap%2Ecfm) is hands down my favorite. It’s too darn expensive for daily use, though. ☹

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**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-soap-scent/393729/44 "2007-03-02T19:50:21Z")

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[QUOTE=gigi]  
Ivory is the only bar soap I would use. I love the clean smell.

For shower gels, usually cool cucumbery smells.  
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I like Ivory, it reminds me of my childhood. In summer, my Mom would make a picnic supper and Dad would take us to “the old swimming hole” where they went when they were kids. Mom would always bring a bar of Ivory (it floats) so we could bathe in the river. Probably be hard to do these days, w/ all the pollution.

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**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-soap-scent/393729/45 "2007-03-03T06:16:27Z")

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[QUOTE=Hugh Jass]  
Dr. B’s Peppermint soap. Or Grandpa’s Pine Tar.  
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This are my two personal favorites.

Although I have been partial to Grandpas Pine Tar lately.

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