2023-07-10 Meedley meedley meedley waaaAAH
- Brush: Summer Break Soaps - Custom
- Razor: Gilette Milord (1947-1950) #REGUS
- Lather: Wholly Kaw - Rebelle
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Oud Sigma
- Fragrance: Colornoise - Rock N Roll
- Blade: - Personna Super (5)
Challenge Accepted:
Alright, draw a soap label...
Draw a soap label?
Draw [on] a soap label!
*sigh* Draw a soap label.
I really do better with geometric/minimal;
shapes are easy. Forms are not. Faces? Fuhgedaboudit.
Relevant Post-shave and Fragrance: Music and oud tie these together.
The relevance of the "Rock N Roll" fragrance is obvious (I hope), but it also
shares the oud note of the lather and post-shave. Oud Sigma is even relevant
to the music theme, as well. If you're not familiar with the Ood from
Doctor Who, they're a telepathically-linked species that was enslaved;
after being freed they were free to sing.
I think it's also worth mentioning that there is a musical intrument,
the oud, named for and made of the wood,
making the unifying scent note all the more appropriate.
Razor: I'm not a fan of this razor, but
it doesn't have a date code and I only
just got why the hashtag is "regus".
Brush: This
beautiful brush is the creation of
u/rocketk455, who bestowed it upon me after a month of scentless shaves last
August. This would be my daily brush, because I love it, but it's not, because
I don't want to wear it out. I'm also telling myself because the "rock" in
u/rocketk455 is a tenuous link to music.
#FOF
Lather:
Off the puck, sandalwood hits my nose prominently, and nothing else.
Maybe oud comes through more than I think but gets mixed in with the sandalwood,
but what I think oud is has only been informed by a couple of other scents.
During the shave, a dry, smoky scent reminiscent of Chiseled Face's Sherlock
starts to come through. It is not a leafy tobacco, but a smoky, maybe even ashy
one.
Post Shave:
Oud takes ove with Oud Sigma, a product that I got very excited about when
announced by Stirling, my being a fan of (much of) Doctor Who. It was a bit ofh
a risk for me to jump on it so readily, especially considering that I'm not a
fan of the only other oud scent I know: Razorock Tuscan Oud (boo Razorock).
Oud Sigma is much softer, I feel, perhaps lightened by the pink pepper.
Fragrance:
This brand, Colornoise, has a general
synesthesia theme, and this
fragrance boasts notes of smoldering incense, spicy oud, white woods,
guitar riffs, and heart-thumping bass. Now, I don't know what anything after
"oud" means, but I get ~~mostly~~ only incense out of this.
Scent-wise, it's frankly more appropriate for hippy dippy,
but it would have been ridiculous to not use it today. I think I also
sprayed way too much of it on myself. I'm nose-blind to it now, but hopefully
it's not overbearing.
#photocontest
Photo: Music
Okay, again, super surprising for today, I know. Now, I feel like Bowie alone
would fit the theme, but just in case I also included my old iPod, a
5th-generation that I think I bought in 2006. It's a relic of a different time,
isn't it?