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- Lather: Gillette - Pure Cream
- Razor: Gillette Trac II
- Post Shave: Duke Cannon - Ice Cold Balm
So I tripled down today. At the beginning of 2022 I was stationed in Germany and had to go to a school for a little over a month in Alabama. The trip out there was challenging to say the least. It snowed pretty hard the night before and I needed to get to the base shuttle so early that the roads weren't plowed yet. My daily driver is a Ford Fiesta ST (with snow tires at that time). I'm pretty sure I plowed a little of the road myself. On the shuttle ride to Frankfurt, we lost a windshield wiper and a few of us rigged up something to get us the rest of the way there. After an uneventful flight on a 767, I landed in Charlotte, wheeled my luggage through customs, and took a puddle-hopper flight to Montgomery. While I made it to Montgomery relatively unscathed, my baggage didn't...evidently the plane was overloaded and they left some of our bags behind. This was Saturday and class was starting on Monday. All of my stuff to include uniforms and more importantly my shaving gear was in my checked baggage...which didn't arrive until late on Tuesday. So I went over to the BX (base store) and got all the shaving gear you see above.
The shave was fine. Not great, but not the worst I've had. The cream actually is really slick and smells clean, as mass market crap tends to do. The razor delivered a decent shave, while it was a bit rough. The balm is pretty menthol-heavy but did the job just fine.
Onto the daily challenge, my preferences have changed over time. When I first got started with wet shaving I was into wood scents. Then I got into smokey scents and Fougeres. At some point I bought a ton of Dr. Jon's 13 and the oud featured there became my favorite scent. If I had to pick today, I'd say a scent that featured oud coupled with a Fougere and maybe accented with lime and smoke would check all the boxes.
Have a great day folks!