Jun. 11, 2024
Prep: Cremo - Coconut Mango Shave Cream - Preshave
Brush: Yaqi Bluish Violet Synthetic
Razor: W.C.S. Multi Titanium Collection Razor, 84M
Blade: Gillette Nacet [4]
Lather: RazoRock - For Chicago - Soap
Post Shave: RazoRock - For Chicago - Aftershave
Fragrance:* Jimmy Choo Man - Aqua
I really like using For Chicago and it fit today’s theme well. Italian Barber describes it as “masculine floral” with jasmine and gardenia. Fitting - I just yesterday bought two jasmine plants at a local nursery to plant outside with my wife (like, she and I will do it together - she isn’t buried outside my house by where I’ll plant the jasmine).
Anyway, it’s a fragrance I like a lot more than I thought I would. She bought it for me a few months ago and I e come to really love it, especially when I have to be in meetings or around people professionally and don’t want to have a strong smell about me. It smells very much like I think an old barbershop would; it reminds me of what I remember dads using when I was a kid (not in a weird way like I went around smelling my friends’ dads. Just like what I remember adult men smelling like). It’s more of a “work” smell; not so much a “date night” fragrance. And I think it’s the only mentholated aftershave I have, so that’s a nice refreshing treat when I use it.
To go for the color challenge, I matched the blue in the label with my WCS razor by attaching WCS’ huge blue 175BL handle. I like a heavy razor but this one is a little unwieldy for me. I used a blue Yaqi synthetic brush as well, and I hardly ever use that brush so this was an excuse to use it. The blue Aqua Man cologne completes the challenge for me (I know it’s called Man Aqua but I like to think it’s the cologne Aquaman would use).
I’m writing this instead of paying attention to my virtual staff meeting this morning so I’ll add the photo later. Anyway, great shave today. Very little feedback from the alum and the SOS spray will take care of any potential redness or irritation. It’s amazing stuff, dudes. (And that’s a gender-neutral use of “dudes”).
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Edit: added my photo (I hope)
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