TL;DR - smells like those little round rose soaps in my grandma's bathroom in the 80's AND I have very sensitive skin and the formula agrees with me!
I have watched the Royalty Soaps YouTube channel for years and years, and just made my first purchase. Finally pulled the trigger because my 3 year old son has recently really gotten into watching with me. He requests Royalty Soaps to fall asleep to at bedtime. I thought it would be super cool to get some for us to share for our birthdays (we are 8 days apart).
I have to admit that, at first, I was so disappointed by the smell. I was expecting strong fruit and sugar. I was expecting plums and candy. Instead, straight from the package, I got this curious, very light scent that at first just smelled like soap to me. I thought, well, okay, we'll wash our hands with this one first since it doesn't smell like anything just to see how the formula treats our very sensitive skin. Lots of scented soaps make us breakout, and I figured this would be a good test. So I washed my hands with it. Then again. Then again. Then I started to smell something that hit me waaaaayyyy back in my memory. Like a very subtle little hint that I had smelled this a loooong time ago. At first I thought maybe it was Johnson & Johnson Baby Shampoo. Then I thought maybe it was Kiss My Face Olive Oil soap but it kept bothering me, like neither of those was quite right. Also, had this feeling similar to when a word is on the tip of your tongue. So I kept washing my hands with it and smelling my skin, and every time I kept feeling like a memory was trying to surface.
Right about 8pm it finally came to me. I remembered being about 3 or 4 years old and walking down my grandmother's hallway to the first-floor powder room. I remembered everything about it, even the dim lighting of the hallway and the plaid wallpaper. I remembered going into the bathroom, and since I was alone, I grabbed one of the beautiful, pale-yellow, little, round, rose soaps nestled in their basket on the back of the toilet. The "guest soap" that my little 3 year old self wasn't allowed to use. I remember smelling it, and it was EXACTLY the same fragrance as this soap!!!! It is a soft, subtle, very light scent but I would buy enough of this to last the rest f my life just to have that fleeting, but intensely strong connection to my childhood. It feels like being in Yai Yai's house again, and it gives me a gateway to all the other happy, carefree memories there, and sometimes I would give almost anything to have another moment of that.
Thank you, Katie, for bringing this smell to us all, and for creating a soap formula that is sensitive skin friendly. I'm truly grateful to you for this gift of memory and a chance to relive happy times and dearly missed loved ones.
