2024-06-02 - Where has all the rum gone?!
- Lather: Zingari Man - The Navigator
- Razor: Bambaw Sea Green #RAINBOW
- Brush: Moar Boar #SUBBRUSH #OLDWORLD
- Post Shave: Captain's Choice - Venture
- Fragrance: ALT. Fragrance - The Scent of Beach
Ahoy, Lather Games!: Nothing is more nautically-themed than Navigator.
Unifying Theme: Seafaring/Coastal
I feel like this is probably a self-evident extension of the day's theme.
The whole brand of Captain's Choice fits. The Scent of Beach,
while not strictly nautical, fits with the seafaring theme.
Consider the following from the description of The Navigator:
Sandy-footed step by sandy-footed step,
a man walks along the sun-warmed wooden planks of a dock.
I'm not going to insult you with a lengthy explanation; you get it.
#photocontest Water-faring vessels
I said I wasn't going to strive for all the photo things, but I'm also not going
to avoid them. That's a Jolly Roger on the right side of
the photo, so that could work for pirates.
Meanwhile, there's also obviously the bow and figurehead of a ship on the soap
label, not to mention the stern of the ship being eaten by Santa Claus on the
left.
So I rolled a two-sided die and I'm going with the ships for water vehicles.
Paleontology Day:
In past years, I've never known what to say for this particular challenge.
However, considering u/Priusaurus' journey last year, I knew immediately
what to do today:
I wrapped that Jolly Roger around my neck and
went to Pei Wei.
Side note: I recently discovered that shemaghs are not only excellent for
keeping the sun off your neck, but are surprisingly cooling. Which is good,
because we keep getting these "extreme heat" alerts/warnings, which are
entirely redundant. Like yeah, we know; why don't you shut the hell up, Alexa,
and let me know about the two or three days in January when there isn't an
extreme heat warning.
But I digress.
As with last year, it was opening-time on Sunday at Pei Wei,
but there was no one else there this time.
I got my food, settled down, and proceeded to shave.
Wait, today's shave was back in my own den? You're god damn right.
Shaving in public has been done. It's old hat.
Nobody wants to be the guy who shaves outside of a mom-and-pop Thai restaurant,
scaring away all of the customers just because you don't want to be outdone by
some guy who shaved in a Pei Wei while he was under the influence of drugs.
I mean, drugs that you can get at any Starbucks because that's
literally their whole business, but still!
Maybe—just maybe—I can once again serve as an inspiration for the most
dedicated players, but this time toward sanity. You don't have to do this, u/Priusaurus.
Dial it back, for your own sake. We're worried about you. Really.
Either that, or step it up. You don't just have to out-do everyone else, you
have you out-do yourself from last year, and I gotta say, you've got a long
way to go...
#FOF
Navigator purports to be a woody aquatic scent.
What really stands out to me, which I've not been able to figure out,
is that it smells like salty sea air—or enough like it that
this desert-dweller doesn't know the difference.
I smell those sandy-footed steps.
I do wish that Venture and Scent of Beach were a better pairing with
Navigator, but they both trace back to Aventus. Venture is a straight
dupe, I believe, and I dare assume the name is even a nod to Aventus.
In a way, they do work well, evoking fruit cocktails on a tropical island.
I find Venture to be too fruity, however, like my head turned into a big ol'
pineapple and I just want to cut it off.
Scent of Beach is actually a dupe of a scent called The Scent of Peace,
which itself took inspiration from Aventus.
Today, Scent of Beach picks up where Venture left off,
and somehow turns the dial up even further.
It's more well-rounded than Venture (not the highest of bars, granted),
but it is loud.
The Vice City motif suits it well. I guess that's not a huge departure from
the coastal theme, but man, I really miss the sandyfooted steps on the dock
right about now, but General Tso distracts from it all pretty well.