July 21, 2023 – How do you even Pronounce Fourgere?
- Brush: Maggard Synthetic
- Razor: Gillette Tech
- Blade: Parker (5)
- Lather: Catie’s Bubbles – Blugère
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. – Varen
- Fragrance: Maher Olfactive – Orris Forest
The shave was ok. My smush (~~I think from u/j33pguy13? Looks like hand writing.~~ Edited: it was u/putneycj. ) was stuck to the wax paper from disuse and traveling no doubt. The database says this is a cream, it was not by the time I opened it.
I managed to get the smush into a bowl, and kinda ad hoc GUTL may way to a good lather. I tried to save what was left, but will see how it travels home. This has been a rough travel week shave wise. Got a massive cut on the mole on my cheek which opened up again while we were walking. Glad to be heading home, even if vacation was fun.
Today is another of those classic wetshaving fragrance category days.
I’ll be honest, a lot of these categories just confuse me. I can grok “Gourmand” as it just smells like food. And “barbershop” is more an synthetic category (or meta category.) So it’s also something I can manage.
Chypre? Still no effing clue. Amber? That’s a color right? Green? Also a color.
Fourgere is somewhat in the middle. I understand it’s supposed to smell like ferns. My mind processes that as “outdoors in the woods.” Which works, because my experience is the woods of the Ozarks which are loaded with ferns. So I can sorta handle the idea.
Which transitions to #fof, not sure I could identity blugrere as a fourgere just based on sent notes, but it’s marketed as one. Varen is a bit easier as it smells as expected l.
What tells me I’m getting better is that when I went through my discovery sets I saw Orris forest, looked at the notes and said “that matches great!”
I then read the description where Shawn calls it “a nouveau fougère of sorts.”
I’m getting better at this.
My #photocontest entry is sports. The vacation is over and it ended with a cards cubs game at historic Wrigley Field. My wife and kids first time there and my first in over 2 decades. It was an experience. And we won, which is surprising this season. And my entry into #ROTY remains unscathed. I honestly figured I’d forget at least one post this week.
So I’ll close with the challenge:
Four vacation shaves
All on theme for the lather games
Time to head back home