I got this beautiful soap through BR quite a while ago - it's been sitting by bed smelling smelling heavenly ever since!
It is kind of odd looking - a lovely pink with translucent green and pink threaded through it. Soap noodles according to the blurb. Anyway its odd and cool looking.
The smell is divine. It's like candy floss with a hint of peppermint.
It lathers nicely with a sponge or exfoliating gloves and is ideal for my weekend soak - so relaxing, and the peppermint scent makes me feel like it's relaxing my muscles. The scent lasts for a wee while on my skin.
It lasts ok and didn't turn to mush the first time it hit the water. I've put the remaining piece back beside my bed so I can enjoy the scent for a while longer!
I note the other two lovely ladies have found it drying. I haven't found that. I found it a little oily on my skin, water rolls off it actually, and my skin feels very soft afterwards. I haven't noticed that oiliness with a Lush product before, but if it was a mistake it is a good mistake.
I love it and would certainly use it again.
When I first smelled the Lush Maypole Soap I was in-store and I hated it! It smelled WAY too strongly and not very nice. However, for whatever reason I decided to give it a proper try and order it from the last Beauty Vault. And I was SO glad that I did! I think in the store the scent of Maypole had just been confused with the millions of other scents wafting around and I hadn't been able to properly discern it. On its own — wow. This is a LOVELY soap with the nicest fragrance.
I expected it to be super minty, as per the description, but it was also sweet, almost like ice cream? The mint wasn't too overpowering, and the scent overall was just creamy and girly and perfect. I love how this soap looks, too — the colours are so pretty and the detail Lush goes to with the soap noodles is so cool. It lathers well, lasts well. The only possible critique I might have is that it seems slightly more drying than other Lush soaps like Sultana of Soaps. But nothing major. A!