2023-07-15 C'est un chypre
- Brush: Yaqi - Metal Timberwolf
- Razor: Gillette Old Type 1919 #BRASSING
- Lather: Wet Shaving Products - Olympus
- Post Shave: Fine Accoutrements - Platinum
- Fragrance: Stirling Soap Co. - Executive Man
- Blade: Feather (4)
Natural brassing wear on the razor's handle.
I don't want anyone to think I'd deliberately scrape the cap for this,
because I know it looks like that.
Relevant Post-shave and Fragrance:
The only thing more confusing than figuring out whether a soap/scent
is a chypre is figuring out why somebody decided to name a family of scents
after cheese.
Or is it named after the goats themselves?
Either way, both are stinky and smell nothing like these Aventus dupes in
today's lineup.
Aventus is apparently a "fruity chypre," a description that I guess makes sense
if we're talking about cheese, but not so much if we're talking about
goats, so I guess it's the former.
Challenge Accepted:
What have you djudges gotten yourselves into? You know you're not going to want
to watch a bunch of boring shave videos, I am nothing if not ~~pandering~~
~~acquiescent~~ accomodating, so I condensed my shave video with the magic
of time lapse. Come to think of it, I think
I did pick up a whiff of cheese during the shave...
But also, I'm still going to make mention of Challenge^bis, i.e. "WetTubing,"
which frankly sounds like something you'd encounter at a water park. I'm
only inferring it's related to YouTube. In that case, no YouTube shaver can ever
hope to come close to u/Cadinsor. I don't understand why this thread isn't full
of people praising u/Cadinsor. You all need to look up
Michael Freedberg immediately.
#FOF
All of these products, being different (maybe? unless they're all pre-blends?)
reproductions of the same scent, are similar enough that my nose
can't discern them in any meaningful way. Altogether,
it is a fresh scent, that is for sure. It is also undeniably fruity, but I
don't care for that at all. I mean, it's fine, but it's not my cup of tea
(unless it provides relief from a super-stanky
civet).
Now, it's relevant to mention that, as I was figuring out my Games calendar a
few weeks ago, my lying-around sample of Executive Man fell onto my concrete
floor, seemingly destroying my only goat-cheese fragrance for today.
However, there was plenty left in the little
tube. Nonetheless, I later
got a sample vial of the veritable Creed Aventus. While I haven't used it, there
does seem to be something remarkable different about it, better, less
in-your-face pineapple.
#photocontest
Photo: History (No, I'm not talking about the goofy Greek diorama,
though I am quite proud of that)
I am, however, talking about the literal piece of history in the photo: the
104-year-old razor. I mean, the threshold is 20 years. There's plenty of
junk that we all have lying around older than that, but at some point—maybe the
centennial mark?—a thing ceases to be old junk and becomes a piece of history
(purely coincidental tie-in).
Edit: I've been informed that it's Chypre, after the island of Cyprus, and not
chèvre, like goats and goat cheese. They're, like, almost the same word, guys.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯