Making Leatherwood Cold Process Soap (Dealing with an accelerating fragrance)

Leather soap has always sold well for me, but I challenged myself yet again to deal with the fact that it is the most accelerating fragrance I've ever used. I've tried ordering from different suppliers too with the same results. Happily, I've always managed to get a decent loaf of soap poured despite the acceleration. However, I've always missed having a batter liquid enough to do some swirls.
Over the last few years, I've also been developing a new, palm free recipe and I'm very happy with it. It produces a hard, luxurious bar that allows me to have a fluid batter to work with and swirl to my heart's content. So, I thought I would see how this recipe, soaping at a lower temperature, not over-blending, adding the fragrance at the last moment and combining the leather fragrance with sandalwood fragrance would work. The result was a batter that moved so slowly, that I ended up with a fairly watery batter.
When I used to see leather soap at a local music festival, it was the guys predominantly who were attracted to this soap. Thusly, I've designed this soap with the guys in mind. Selecting cool colors and black or other neutrals, including browns is a safe bet in designing masculine soaps, but also cutting down on contrasting colors is usually a sure bet too. I call it, cutting down on the fancifulness of the design.
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