June 3 Lather: Grooming Dept. - Amare
- Brush: Semogue 1305 Boar
- Razor: Henson AL13 - Medium
- Blade: Astra SP
- Lather: Grooming Dept - Amare - Soap
- Post Shave: Wholly Kaw - Amber Bomba - Splash
- Music: Disco Duck - Rick Dees
TODAY’S THEME: No beef tallow here. Only Duck. This base is quite nice. My favorite bases typically include beef tallow. But the duck is solid. Scent is also nice-a kind of tropical. This is my only Grooming Dept tub (I PIF’s away my tub of Tobacco Oud). Good soap.
TODAY’S CHALLENGE: I don’t use Osma/Alum. But I tried it. Twice. It made my face sting and go red. Which is weird, because no soap or aftershave has ever done that. Must be the salt or whatever, I don’t know. Reaction both times was enough to toss it.
SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT: I don’t have much Wholly Kaw. I have a King of Bourbon set (assumed I was getting a whiskey smell, but it is a bourbon vanilla). And an Amber Bomba set. I quite like them both, though. Especially the Amber Bomba. I nominated it for scent of the year last year, and then found out from someone else that it was actually a dupe and not an original, which bummed me out a little. But a scent is a scent. And Amber Bomba is a nice date night option. Warm, sensuous.
Quote of the Day: “If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.”
—Douglas Adams