Several years ago, I owned part of a small rustic furniture manufacturing company. We built a lot of pine and aspen log beds, as well as night stands and dressers with big, glued up slabs of pine for the tops. We went through a lot of wood.
I enjoy working with pine and love how it smells when you cut into it. The only real problem with pine is that it has a lot of sap. That sap gums up your tools and sometimes gets on your hands. Once in a while, you run into a open pocket in the board that holds as much as drop or two or more of the sticky, viscous liquid or gum. If it gets on your hands, it collects all the dirt and sawdust you touch after that and turns black. This is super hard to clean off and is avoided at all costs.
For Christmas last year, we scented a couple batches of soap with a fragrance that immediately brought to mind images of a snowy wood and a fresh cut sapling, tied to a toboggan being pulled home. The fresh smell of the needles and dripping sap combining into a sensory ecstasy. (Sorry, I warned you that I love the smell of cut pine.)
The first time I showered with this new, green-tinted, pine-scented soap, still not quite awake, I instantly panicked at the thought that I had just rubbed pine gum all over my arm. It smells that good.
During the holidays, all you lumberjacks can purchase this soap under the label, 'Oh, Christmas Tree.' For the rest of the year, we like to call it, 'Fresh Cut Pine.'
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