2024-06-09 - Bit O' Honey
- Lather: Chicago Grooming Co. - No. 11
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Deton-8
- Fragrance: Chatillon Lux - 1904
- Razor: Henson AL13 Medium #CNC
- Brush: Omega 343178 Synthetic #FAUXFUR
Unifying Theme: Numbers
Shave and a Haircut:
Ah, barbershop: The category of scents that has no defining characteristics
other than that someone decided to slap that label on it.
Surprise Quiz:
I figured it would be either an array of personal questions
(e.g. What was your first soap?)
or some version of the bot-driven quiz in the Discord.
Lo and behold the latter.
Considering that
I don't strive to have an encyclop(a)edic knowledge of scent notes (who does?),
there's a freakin' S in Limes and Bergamot,
and my cat was yelling at me the whole time only to shut up when there
were some 23 seconds on the timer, which happened to also be the very
moment I hit the 'give up' button,
5/32 doesn't seem half bad.
I've never seen that hosting page before, but it...
leaves a lot to be desired, doesn't it?
It's not uncommon for one of my browser or ad-blocker or DNS filter to break
some sites, so I thought it might have been the case here.
Nope, it was actually working as intended.
#FOF
On to the scents. This started off seeming like the most asinine combination,
thanks to the fact that each one is only related by name.
Practically, though, it worked out.
No. 11 is one of those "clean laundry" barbershop scents, providing a
backdrop for the scents to follow.
This is convenient, because Deton-8 drops a bomb of spice
(one might even say a Spicebomb) on top of it. Kaboom!
I expected a bit of a conflict between Deton-8 and the
coffee-forward 1904,
but it's a lot less jarring than mixing 1904 with the spices of General Tso.
Instead, it's a calming resolution, like settling down under the rafters of a
cozy a coffee shop while the memory of spice lingers on.
I should really start frequenting coffee shops again, especially with
going back to grad school in a couple months;
being in public provides a certain amount of pressure to be productive.
Plus, it's a challenge—to say the least—to focus when this cat just won't shut
the hell up. No, Artemis, we're not going outside. It's hot.
But I digress.
#photocontest Fil the Frame
Hot damn, that's terrible. I had nothing else for this one, though,
and it does help to highlight all those arabic numerals.