Phoenix Shaving Doppelganger Black Label: shave soap & aftershave

Scent Description

Like many of its scents, PAA takes a popular fragrance and amps up its key notes making it bigger and louder. The same is true for Doppleganger Black Label, based on the iconic and wildly successful Christian Dior Sauvage. The key notes are Pink Pepper and Cedar, and they're so strong that it creates the impression of pencil shavings. An intensely dry scent, which is given depth with ambroxan, patchouli, lavendar and geranium, Dopppelganger Black Label is masculine and strong, but also intensely woody, which as it dries down becomes only more woody. If woods are your thing, look no further.

Scent Notes

Top Notes: Bergamot, Pepper
Heart Notes: Lavender, Pink Pepper, Geranium, Vetiver, Patchouli
Base Notes: Ambroxan, Cedar, Labdanum

About Phoenix Shaving

Founded in 2012 by Douglas Smythe and his partner Frances Towle, Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements has become one of the wet-shaving community’s most recognizable names. The company blends innovative soap and fragrance formulas with playful, science-fiction-inspired themes, pairing eye-catching artwork with engaging back-stories for each release. Beyond soaps and scents, PAA is renowned for its accessories—razors, brushes, scuttles, alum blocks, balms, blades, and even apparel—many of which are prized for both performance and collectability.

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Phoenix Shaving Doppelganger Black Label soap

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Scent Strength: 8/10
Longevity: 7/10
Scent Family: Fresh
Subtype: Aromatic, Fougere
Suitability: Evening, Home, Daytime
Inspiration: Christian Dior Sauvage
Country of Origin: USA
Menthol: Non-menthol
Companion Products: EDP, Bar Soap, Balm, Splash, Deodorant
Type: Croap

Base Description

Phoenix Artisan Accoutrements’ flagship CK-6 soap base is a vegan formula that founder Douglas Smythe calls the “Mystical Trifecta of Slick.” It blends three Amazonian butters—bacuri, cupuaçu, and murumuru—with shea butter, cocoa butter, jojoba oil, and glycerin to create a textured lather reminiscent of dense cottage cheese. The result is a voluminous, high-density lather with exceptional moisturiztaion properities that offers excellent cushion, above-average slickness, and rock-solid stability.

Lather Properties

Cushion: 9/10
Density: 9/10
Slickness: 7/10
Stability: 8/10
Lather Type: Textured
Base Type: Vegan
Base Name: CK-6
Skin Food: Glycerin, Kokum Butter, Shea Butter, Cupuacu Butter, Jojoba Oil, Bacuri Butter, Murumuru Butter

Notes

Top Notes: Bergamot, Pepper
Heart Notes: Lavender, Pink Pepper, Geranium, Vetiver, Patchouli
Base Notes: Ambroxan, Cedar, Labdanum

Ingredients

Potassium Stearate, Glycerin, Potassium Cocoate, Aqua, Potassium Kokumate, Sodium Lactate, Potassium Shea Butterate, Potassium Castorate, Sodium Stearate, Potassium Cocoa Butterate, Potassium Avocadoate, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Theobroma Grandiflorum (Capuacu) Butter, Astrocaryum (Murumuru) Seed Butter, Platonia Insignis (Bacuri) Seed Butter, Parfum [Fragrance]

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Phoenix Shaving Doppelganger Black Label aftershave

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Type: Splash
Scent Strength: 9/10
Longevity: 8/10
Inspiration: Christian Dior Sauvage
Suitability: Date Night, Work, Home, Evening, Daytime
Scent Family: Fresh
Subtype: Aromatic, Fougere
Mentholation: Non-Menthol
Country: USA
Price: $$$
Companion Products: EDP, Deoderant, Shave Soap, Shampoo, Bar Soap, Balm, Beard Oil, Solid Cologne
Skin Food: Glycerin, Rose Water, Liquid Silk, Aloe