. The QED Rose soap has easily taken the #1 most irritating soap spot away from the Classic Shaving Almond. When the lather was applied I felt an immediate tingling/burning sensation, which only became more uncomfortable. I have very sensitive skin when it comes to soaps 
. I can't even use Trumper's Coconut. Full review follows.PACKAGING:
My initial impressions were that the packaging looked very professional. The plastic screw on container the soap comes in would be excellent for travel.
I however do not like bowls at a all (unless they are very deep). They always get messy, and if I use a brush dipped in very hot water they have a nasty tendency to drip or splatter scalding water everywhere. I much prefer a mug, because it keeps the excess lather and hot water under control -- all of my soaps are in mugs. Having the soap melted in a shallow bowl was a big negative for me. The soap looked like it could be melted out of the container and poured into a mug, so this might not really be an issue.
SCENT:
I didn't find the scent to be as strong or as people had described on my first whiff. After I whipped up some lather and applied it I though I have to confess that it is every-bit as strong as advertised. The bathroom still had a noticeable aroma of Rose 3 hours later when I came back from dinner. I tried working the QED Rose soap up on my skin for about 2 minutes at most, and I could smell the rose on my skin for hours afterwards, even though I had rinsed it all of and shaved with a different soap.
I did not find the QED Rose scent itself as appealing as the scent of my other rose scented toiletries (Coral Skin Food, a rose hydrosol, and some Lebanese rosewater). Everybody has different tastes of course, so your milage may vary, several people on this forum obviously like the rose scent immensely.
LATHER:
I can't really comment on the lather much because I wasn't used to using the shallow bowl the soap came in, and I stopped using the soap before I really got a lather I was happy with due to the much discomfort from working up the lather on my face.
As I have said before, I much prefer a mugs or bowl with steeper a rim, so I didn't do as good a job working up the lather as I could. I carefully poured some hot water onto the soap, then drained it away. Next I tried loading the brush up on the soap and lathering on my face. The soap started sudzing very quickly, but the bubbles were very large. I think that if I stuck with it longer and got the right water/soap mixture that the lather would become thicker.
When I got back from dinner I looked at some lather leftover on the bowl that had partially dried. It looked different from any dried lather I have ever seen. It was like slick toothpaste, instead of dried lather.
SHAVE:
There was too much irritation, so I switched to the ClassicShaving Hypoalergenic soap. I had a great shave with it.
--Vincent
I then do a second pass against the grain. 
. No complaints as to the efficacy of the soap. But it still tingles about the same as day 2. Tingling migrated back from cheeks to lips and chin and this was all before the steel even got near my face. Neither more nor less after N-S, NW-SE, NE-SW, and S-N. (Take that for directions Lewis and Clarke! 
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