So, that's the first shave done. It's actually pretty darn good this.
Sorry for a lack of photos, a friend has borrowed my card reader.
It's not the same as T+H's other creams, hard to explain but it's a slightly different consistency. Packaging is different, it comes in a garish neon green box which contains the tub itself. The tub is brown plastic with T+H's name across the lid. It lacks the ridged lid of T+H's other creams and it's a slightly different shape and a softer plastic which tell me it could well be packaged somewhere different to the other tubs.
Performance wise, it's actually pretty much a match. Very easy to use, it provides a nice, glossy thick lather with loads of glide, in fact it'll suffice to say that it performs exactly the same as T+H's main range. During the shave, If I had a peg on my nose, I'd have said it was the same cream.
Scent is the only thing I'm not so keen on just yet. I find T+H's creams are fairly subtle (almond being an exception) but this has a stronger scent. I'm not good at picking out individual notes but it reminds me very much of Moulton Brown handwash, so it's sort of warm and woody with some orange. I'm generally none too keen on woody scents so others might like this more.
I'm still foxed as to why they'd do this... I mean why produce a cream that's as good as your main range, and then sell it at half the price of the others in High Street stores? At a whole £7 less than a normal bowl of T+H, and for a cream that performs just as well, I'd say that any keen shaver should probably pick some up.
