July 11, 2023
- Brush: Razorock Beehive Synthetic 28mm
- Razor: New England Straight Razor 6/8
- Lather: Barrister and Mann – Oceana
- Post Shave: Kiehl’s – Post Shave Repair Gel
I have no idea what it is about the scent of Oceana, but it manages to perfectly capture summer for me. I grew up in a thoroughly landlocked area, so going to the beach isn't really something I associate with the summer. However, to my nose Oceana doesn't smell like a beach, but the neighborhood municipal pool. Taking a whiff off of the tub calls to mind me and my best friend riding our bikes to the pool and getting ice cream in the last days of August, just before school starts for the year, a perfect encapsulation of summer.
Escape (The Wetshaving Song) to the tune of Escape (The Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes
Lyrics:
I was tired of my lather
We'd been together too long
Like a worn out recording
Of a favorite song
So while it lay there soapin'
I browsed the shave ‘zaar in bed
And in the for sale tags
There was this post I read
If you’re into wetshaving
And After the Rain
If you're not into PAA
If you have half a brain
If you like latherin’ at midnight
In the dunes on the cape
Then I'm the soap that you've looked for
Write to me and escape
I didn't think about my lather
I know that sounds kinda mean
But me and my old lather
Had fallen into the same dull shave routine
So I wrote to the shave ‘zaar
Took out a personal ad
And though I'm nobody's poet
I thought it wasn't half bad
Yes, I like r/wetshaving
And gettin' shaved in the rain
I'm not much into beard hair
Or scents that’re plain
I've got to lather you by tomorrow
And cut through all this red tape
At a sub called wetshaving
Where we'll plan our escape
So I waited with high hopes
And it walked in the sub
I knew its scent in an instant
I knew the art on its tub
It was my own lovely lather
And I said, "Oh, it's you"
Then we laughed for a moment
And I said, "I never knew"
"That you’re into wetshaving
And gettin' shaved in the rain
And the feel of the lather
And the scent of champagne
If you like latherin’ at midnight
In the dunes on the cape
You're the lather I've looked for
Come with me and escape"