July 30, 2023 – World Traveler – Bon Voyage

• Brush: Simpson Badger Wee Scot #WEDONTNEEDNOSTINKINGBADGERS #SMOLL #RUNT
• Razor: Merkur 34C
• Blade: Feather (DE)
• Lather: Abbate y La Mantia – Crumiro

A world traveler I am not. I’ve been out of the US a few times – Mexico a couple times, Bolivia once, and the Bahamas on a cruise. So – not really well traveled. Today’s shave, though, is world traveled.

Crumiro hails from Italy. The Merkur 34c hails from Germany. The Feather is from Japan. The Wee Scot is from England (The Isle of Man)

Didn’t use a post-shave today because I don’t have anything that’s not from a US artisan. Not the greatest feeling to not use some sort of post shave, but, points are points and you gotta do what you gotta do at this point. The cool thing about the Wee Scot is that you can sample tub load and it’s really not bad. Then just paint that on over and over with some water until you have a usable lather. I wouldn’t use this brush every day, but, maybe on my world travels (see what I did there) I would take this along instead of a bigger brush. The Merkur is such an easy shave – really hard to mess it up, even with an ultra sharp brand new feather. Overall a very good shave.

Crumiro is such a good scent. Delicious warm vanilla spicy cookies. I think I said at last years games I would add this one to my list – it is true to the description and smells like fresh baked Italian cookies. I can’t vouch for the Italian portion, but, it nails the fresh cookie scent. The pricing on it, though, keeps me away. Someday maybe I’ll own a set, but, it’s not inexpensive by any means and while this would be a really great late fall and all winter scent it probably just isn’t in the cards.

These games have been fun, thank you judge(s) for all your hard work and for all you fine folks who were competing. Well done and I look forward to seeing you in AA and beyond!

FOF Haiku of the Day

Italian Cookies
Fresh, Warm, Vanilla and Spice
I’d eat a whole box

Bonus Haiku
The games are now done
Simple, complex, hijinks, bland
Fun was had by all