LUSH Quinquereme of Ninevah soap Review

Last year I won two big boxes of stuff from LUSH that contained a bunch of their Retro products.  Retro products are things that LUSH made in the past but discontinued for whatever reason.  They've brought back some of these discontinued items in a collection they call Retro and can only be bought on their website.

One of the products in that box is called Quinquereme of Nineveh soap. I have no idea how to pronounce that but I absolutely love it!  I'm almost and will be really bummed when it's all gone.

QofN soap is described on LUSH.com as: creamy coconut, vanilla and orange soap fit for a queen. Feel the sun beating down on ancient Nineveh, see the haze rise from the Tigris river, and watch the sweat pouring from the oarsmen on the quinquereme carrying its cargo of exotic fruits and spices to the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Bathe in cool waters and wash with a soap made from the finest of those fruits and spices. With fresh coconut milk, sweet vanilla absolute from the seedpods of a rare orchid, refreshing orange oil and calming benzoin, Quinquereme of Nineveh is that soap.

Now I don't know if it's fit for a queen but it makes me feel pretty special when I'm using it.  The soap is pure white in color and has tiny bits of ground coconut in it which allows it to exfoliate really nicely.  A few other LUSH soaps have bits of lemon peel and coconut in them that are really nice when the soap is good and fresh but they tend to dehydrate a little if the soap sits out and then they get too scratchy.  QofN soap's coconut is more finely milled and does not tend to dry out like the others.

The scent of this soap is also very nice. It smells like creamy vanilla and slightly of fruit.  It lathers really nicely too. I love to wash with this soap, especially before shaving as it exfoliates my legs really well.

The only complaint I have is that it tend to melt a little faster than other soaps so I keep it up on a high shelf in my shower and away from water. I try to wash really quickly so that I can get more uses out of it but sometimes I just scrub myself with it for a long time. It feels so good!