July 21, 2023 - Enchanting Aroma
- Brush: Shave Forge 28mm Boar
- Razor: Blackland Razors Era
- Blade: Gillette Platinum (2)
- Lather: Spearhead Shaving - Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime - Soap
- Post Shave: Spearhead Shaving - Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime - Toner
- Fragrance: Spearhead Shaving - Seaforth! Sea Spice Lime - EdT
- Music: Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee
Daily Write-Up:
Lather Audit Pic
I very infrequently get comments about my wet shaving scents. In fact, I can think of 5 places I've gotten feedback:
- My mother-in-law hates anything scented. She particularly scrunches up her nose at SSL. I'm at her house today, and she's annoying me. So, happy I had the trickhole today.
- Mrs. Miasma has very strong opinions. Generally, and in scents specifically. Montrose Beach, Alive, SSL, Watchman++. Cerberus, Autumn Ash, War --. Stag or Peach Chypre, GTFO.
- Random 60-year-old woman with a nicotine-stained snaggletooth who works at a local plumbing store had really strong opinions when I wore Cheshire one day. In fact, "You smell real nice. Can I come around the corner and smell you closer?". No… no you can't, just sell me a shower valve, please.
- My brother's wife. The last time we saw her was during AA, "you smell amazing, you should share that with your brother."
- Bees.
Yep, that last one isn't a typo. Bees love (or hate, not sure) SSL. Prior to last August, I had been stung by a bee thrice in my life. That number is much higher now.
Some background- I won a full set of SSL from my 2022 LG performance. It arrived shortly before August, and I decided to rock the trickhole for the month. Very quickly I noticed weird behaviors on my patio. A carpenter bee had made a nest in our gazebo; but that's typically fine, as they aren't usually aggressive towards humans. But every time we'd go outside, this bee would not leave me alone. All throughout dinner, he'd be dive bombing me.
Later that month, I went to Atlanta for a work event where we spent several days on a lake. On one individual day, I recorded 13 bee stings. 13 - they just would not leave me alone, and were super aggressive. Everyone else hardly noticed them.
Then, towards the end of the month, I was loading up SmallestMiasma in the car for daycare, and out of nowhere a bumblebee started swarming us and being really angry. I ran SmallestMiasma to the car, which she thought was HILARIOUS, and had Mrs. Miasma buckle her in while I cowered in the driver's seat
After August I grew a bit tired of the scent, and parked it for a while. But today, I seriously considered going to a family member's farm where they keep bees, to prove that SSL really does attract them, but was stopped from that by two reasons:
- The admonition from the judges from doing anything patently unsafe in the name of the LGs.
- The fact that while I was loading up my car to go home a bee flew in my shirt and stung me in the small of my back. A little insect-given tramp stamp to take back with me.
Soap Theme Justification
* Bees
Post-Shave and Fragrance Relevance Notes
* SSL Trickhole