2024-06-08 - Maple Mayhem
- Lather: Maggard Razors - Tobacco and Leather
- Post Shave: St. James of London - Tonka & Tobacco Flower
- Fragrance: Chatillon Lux - Unconditional Surrender
- Razor: Maggard Razors - MR18+V3 #ZAMAC
- Brush: Maggard Razors - Black Resin Handle Tuxedo
Unifying Theme: Samples! Also, tobacco!
Mad Braggard Day:
Credit where it's due: that is some excellent wordplay.
I don't think I've had much in the way of big, stupid Maggard orders.
I have, on the other hand, stupidly made multiple orders,
doubling/tripling/etc. shipping
while making changes to my planned calendar for previous Lather Games.
Yes, Maggard will combine them when possible,
but that assumes you don't wait until it ships before placing the next order.
I've found that that becomes less necessary when you
a) have done the Lather Games thrice before and
b) are not bothering to max out your Lather Games score anymore.
What I really don't want to know, though, is how much I've spent at Stirling.
It's been... a lot. I've been known to place orders after every marketing
email. I've gotten better, but I still make semi-regular orders because
I use their bath soap and shampoo daily.
It'll take me a really long time to get through all the bath soap that I have,
but I'll be dead before I get through the shave soap.
Without counting, Stirling easily comprises a third of my shave soap.
Uh.... I guess you're welcome, Rod.
I've found that I have a habit of—after finding a thing that I like—buying
ludicrous and unnecessary numbers of the thing.
Shemaghs like one in an earlier photo have been a recent example
(those do have a real practical purpose, though, not unlike shave stuff).
Also, stuff for pew-pew hole goes in far paper fun,
but I hesitate to go into that because worms are going to be
all over your kitchen after opening that can.
But I digress.
#FOF
Tobacco and Leather, like other soaps with the Maggard label,
is a pre-mix scent poured into Through the Fine Fire Craft soap.
That's just to say that it's Maggard only by name.
It was one of the first tobacco scents I tried, and
I wasn't particularly floored by it because it smells... sweet.
I think that the sweetness comes from the leather part of the scent.
All in all, there's an artificiality to the scent.
Tonka & Tobacco Flower is obviously meant to be floral.
I haven't smelled this before this morning, and I'm very pleasantly surprised.
I also now realize that I don't think I know what tonka smells like.
Unconditional Surrender has a more recognizable tobacco and subtle leather
intermingled with light wood for a rich, satisfying finish.
u/hawns Is this one no longer in the lineup?
#photocontest Wood
There was a strong chance that I was going to forego a theme today
(that day will definitely come), but then I realized that
leaves are essentially the tips of wood.
What I personally enjoy about this is that I could use the Wood category
as a throwaway by just setting up the photo on a wood table.
Instead, I actually made a conscious effort to
completely obscure the surface of said wood table with those wood-tips.