A while back /u/j-mt was nice enough to send me a small jar of his new shave soap from Wax Pass Lather Co. The scent is "Lower Broadway," which he describes as "sandalwood, oakmoss, and patchouli made fresh with top notes of grapefruit on a bergamont back end." I've used it half a dozen times over the last couple of weeks; here's my take...

Ease of loading - 2 / 5. This stuff isn't as hard as triple-milled soap, but you should pretend it is. The first time I used it, I assumed it would be a typical artisan soft soap, loaded accordingly, and was sorely disappointed. The lather was thin, the slickness was lacking, and it just didn't perform very well. This soap will work for you, but only if you make it. Load hard, load long, and load like you mean it. When you do...

Ease of lathering - 4.5 / 5. Once you have enough soap on your brush, it's easy to make a rich, slick lather. The soap has a decent (but not huge) sweet spot, and it isn't ridiculously thirsty. Combined with the challenge in loading enough product, this is a prime candidate for making some practice and/or palm lathers. But once you figure it out, it's pretty easy to duplicate your results.

Cushion - 4 / 5. Again, once you figure out how to make the soap work for you it delivers solid results. By the time it got slick enough for my taste it had lost a bit of cushion, but it was still much better than the mass-market stuff out there.

Slickness - 4.5 / 5. There are slicker soaps out there, but not a lot of them. Once I figured out that I needed enough product on the brush, the slickness was excellent.

Scent - 5/5. This is where this soap hits it out of the park. This guy has a nose. There's nothing adventurous or risky about this scent, but the balance is perfect. With soaps you really don't get the top note / mid note / base note drydown effect, but everything hits at the same time and it's very well structured.

TL;DR: This soap finishes near the top tier. I've got to give the performance edge to B&M, LASSCo., Dapper Dragon, and the like. But the scent is outstanding, and once you learn how to make it work for you it will do a great job.