- Brush: Frank Shaving FR 0929 Pure Badger Shaving Brush 20 mm × 47 mm #Runt #WeDontNeedNoStinkingBadgers #Smoll
- Razor: Karve Christopher Bradley aluminium, E plate #CNC #Rainbow
- Blade: Big Ben Super Stainless (3)
- Lather: House of Mammoth – Almond Leather
- Post Shave: Declaration Grooming – Fake Yellow Light
- Fragrance: Chatillon Lux – Gratiot League Square
Theme: Almond Leather (frequently auto corrected to Salmon Letters) is one of my favourite Mammoth scents. The combination of almond and leather absolutely shouldn't work. It should smell sickly sweet and desgoostang, but instead the two notes really build on each other. I'm honouring our champion u/RedMosquitoMM, who famously has the nose of a bloodhound and comes up with fantastic scent combinations and even better descriptions of them, by using the best three part scent progression that I have ever discovered. Almond Leather -> Fake Yellow Light -> Gratiot League square is so much more that the sum of its parts, and they play so well together that I rarely use them separately anymore. Mosquito, it was a pure pleasure following along your tour de force last year, once again, 👏👏👏
#photocontest: So. Royals. One of the themes is royals. What's happening here? Do the organisers of #photocontest realise that most of us don't live in the middle ages anymore? Royals are something we've guillotined or chased away a few centuries ago and made their houses museums. Anyway, I've used some non-kosher plastic money to have the late Queen Lizy join my SOTD pic.