July 20, 2023
- Brush: Grizzly Bay Prince with 26mm V9 Fanchurian
- Razor: Razorock Game Changer .84
- Blade: Gillette Nacet (13)
- Lather: Declaration Grooming – Massacre of the Innocents
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. – Arkadia
- Fragrance: Stirling Soap Co. – Sharp Dressed Man
Massacre of the Innocents is a dupe of Parfums de Marly's Herod. MotI is a warm, spicy, creamy, and woody fragrance and an easy crowd pleaser. Arkadia is a dupe of Hermes' Terre d'Hermes. Arkadia is woody, spicy, and just a bit citrusy, a very good pairing for MotI. Sharp Dressed Man is a dupe of Creed's Green Irish Tweed. SDM is woody, floral, and green, and doesn't really paire well with the other two scents, but they are all dupes.
I'm not entirely sure why someone decided that today's challenge should basically be "make worse lather", but I did use a nice, pasty lather today. So pasty that I didn't even add soap, just loaded and shaved. And you know what? It honestly wasn't bad. I've certainly had better lathers and shaves, but this soap performed really well with next to no water at all.
Two Scents of a Kind to the tune of Two of a Kind by Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer.
Lyrics:
Two of a kind
One scent formulation
Two scents of a kind
Two of a kind
An olfactory relation
Two scents of a kind
Like peas in a pod
And birds of a feather
Alone or together you'll find
That we are two shaves of a kind
What's so wrong thinkin' life is a shave and reachin' for a razor
And who's to say if we'll shave the whole face - at least we got this far
Sharin' our den, our soaps and our splashes, we two’re a duet
Say, what if we've got rare Bufflehead soaps or Conk and Gillette
Makin' it smooth
Shavin' it fully
We're simila-la-larly inclined
Because we're two shaves of a kind