July 13th 2023 - Lather Games Day 13
- Brush: Zenith B28
- Razor: GEM Featherweight
- Blade: GEM PTFE (7)
- Lather: Declaration Grooming - Yuzu Rose Patchouli
- Post Shave: Spearhead - Black Watch
- Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Embrace
Truthfully I don’t get much patchouli from YRP until it’s lathered and on my face, then it starts to poke through the rose and citrus. I chose Black Watch as the post shave since it does have incense in the scent notes, just to complete the hippy dippy duo. And Embrace goes nicely with Black Watch, both are dark and vaguely mysterious with a fruity note bringing some approachability. The connecting thread being that all three of these scents have a subtle fruity note, and are all brilliant.
For the song, it doesn’t get much more hippy dippy baloney than beat poetry, so here is Allen Ginsberg’s musical version of William Blake’s The Divine Image. I heard this on the radio today (Princeton University’s college station in case you’re wondering why the fuck this was on the radio) and I was like, damn, I wish I had some mushrooms to go with this. And that’s some hippy thinking right there.