Good basic shaving soap, lightly scented.
I've only tried a few different shaving soaps in my time wet shaving. TOBS (Taylor of Old Bond Street) Sandalwood has been my go-to for a few years now.  My only nitpick is the fragrance...which is an oddly clean and powdery sandalwood that projects across my entire bathroom.  The fragrance also has some decent longevity, and I can still pick up notes of it while I'm getting dressed and putting on cologne, which it sometimes clashes with.  I guess my takeaway is that I needed a change from that scent.  Mitchell's Wool Fat soap seemed like a good alternative, and from what I could tell from skimming forums and reviews, it doesn't smell nearly as strongly as TOBS.<br /><br />I'm pleasantly surprised so far.  It lathered in my hard water relatively well.  Just bloomed it in hot water for a minute beforehand and went to work on it with a medium body boarhair brush.  The soap had a slicker feel than I'm used to and the lather had slightly less structural integrity than TOBS but my shave didn't seem to suffer for it.  Like I usually do, I used the remaining lather I'd made to wash the rest of my face, which worked like a charm.  The post shave was just okay.  I honestly felt like I'd done a worse job on my neck than I actually had.  Might have been the switch to a tallow soap, might have been the lanolin but my neck skin felt a little roughed up and gummed up, even after my post-shave alum block and witch hazel.  As my skin dried and everything calmed down, I could finally tell that I'd actually gotten an extremely close shave and had miraculously avoided any damage in the usual spots around my adams apple.  Good stuff.<br /><br />The fragrance is also a nice surprise. The Kent company, which markets and sells a repackaged version of this same soap in India claimed it had elements of Pine, Patchouli, Lavender, Musk, Cloves, Nutmeg, Cedar, Sandalwood.  I now see what the folks on the forums meant when they called that BS.<br />It does have a clean lavender note up front, a bit of soft powdery musk in the middle and a nebulous slightly woodsy note hanging out somewhere in the background.  All the other notes they claimed are MIA though. This is a very subdued version of a classic old-school barbershop scent.  No long distance projection, no longevity past the end of the shave.<br /><br />Actually, now that I smell my hands hours later, I can actually detect a bit of that musky woodsy accord hanging around. After it managed to trigger a sense memory of helping my aunt shear sheep as a kid, I now realize that I'm actually smelling raw lanolin.  So I guess with that in mind, I'd have to reframe this soap as mostly smelling like lavender and lanolin.<br /><br />Which I could definitely get used to.
Rating: 5 stars