July 1, 2023 - LG Day 1: Bonjour, Lather Games!
- Brush: Maggard Timberwolf Synthetic 24mm
- Razor: Maggard Razors Shavette, Black Plastic Handle
- Blade: Ted Pella Single Edge Injector (1)
- Lather: Pasteur – Gotham The Five Points
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. – Deton-8
- Fragrance: Maher Olfactive – Treachery
A joyous first day of the Lather Games, year of our Djundjillord two thousand twenty-three, to you all!
Today was my first time using a shavette for a full shave. I bought this on Black Friday last year and have used it to clean up the lines at the top of my beard before, but I’ve been afraid to use it for anything else. Today, I went for the full head shave. This was pretty darn scary, but it went…not terribly? A few nicks, and not a particularly clean shave, but I didn’t go out a la Sweeney Todd. Similarly, this is my first time using Pasteur’s house brand soap (and my first time ordering from them at all, actually). It’s a very strong/fragrant BR540 dupe, which isn’t unpleasant but it’s not my favorite designer frag by any means. The soap lathered and shaved just fine – nothing spectacular, nothing shameful. I’m certainly not opposed to trying another one of their soaps, if they were to come up with an original fragrance rather than a pre-blend/dupe.
Given that Baccarat Rouge 540 isn’t what I wanted to smell all day, I decided to use the saffron note as the thread (pun intended) holding together my scents today. Deton-8, a dupe of a different designer frag, uses saffron as a middle note (rather than a top note like Gotham), but goes for a dramatically different scent profile than the lather I used today. Leaning into the warm spicy accords of Deton-8, I reached for u/hawns Treachery, which also has a saffron note. Shawn describes Treachery as “wholly indulgent”, which I couldn’t agree with more. It’s one of my absolute favorite frags (one day I’ll splurge on a full bottle), and although I wouldn’t normally wear it on an 80-degree day, it just felt right with these other scents. Treachery also has the added bonus of giving me the feelings of comfort and familiarity to balance out all the new things that the theme and challenge today called for.
#FOF