Good try!
This is NOT awful, like the first lot (with new maker) which I bought a few years ago and threw away.  This edition has a pleasant fragrance which is only slightly medicinal.  I'll keep and use it, but will be forever nostalgic for the original Pears scent and color. Why can't it be made in the original formula? Did the new manufacturer somehow not get the specifications?  Or does the new manufacturer not want to spend enough money to make it right? This sadly diminished product is usable, but certainly not like the original.  I'd pay a lot for that but won't buy this again.  Not will I give bars of it as gifts.
Rating: 4 stars