2024-06-14 - Stack 'Em to the Heavens!
- Lather: Summer Break Soaps - Rope Swing
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Island Man (Glacial)
- Fragrance: Bath & Body Works - Mountain Frost
- Razor: Phantom Blue Slant
- Brush: Summer Break Soaps
Frigid Friday:
Rope Swing features the synthetic cooling ingredient WS-23.
Unifying Theme: Coldth.
You know, like slow + -th → sloth, warm + -th → warmth, and cold + -th → coldth
Rope Swing has WS-23, Island Man has menthol, and Mountain Frost has 'frost' right in the name!
Bonus: Everything is in the same neighborhood of blue, transitioning smoothly
from Kyle's vaguely green pen to the deep blue purple of his brush.
#photocontest Water
I think this is what was intended from the description:
[...] the Platonic solid associated with water is the icosahedron which is formed
from twenty equilateral trianges.
Stacking Day: I can write a song called "Stack 'Em to the Heavens!"
Nothing is flat.
The tiny, ancient tube of rubber cement that I found has long since dried out.
Twice times, those glass bottles fell from horrific heights
onto the hard concrete floor below.
How many people have literally destroyed stuff by attempting this?
Okay, the razor handle and soap container are mostly flat;
I can take advantage of that. Not bad.
The (fuller) bottle is heavier, though, making it
more top-heavy, but I can take it
one step further.
#FOF
Rope Swing never fails to surprise me with how nice it is.
It's grassy and woody, with whatever other elements purport to make
something aqautic, which is such a vaguely-defined mystery that I've begun
to question whether the perfumers themselves have any idea until they find
one in their cauldron. But I digress.
This glacial Island Man aftershave made my eyes burn,
which doesn't tend to happen, but not before delivering the absolute fruitiness
that is its scent. I can appreciate this a lot more than other fruity flavors,
but I just don't care for fruit. I can see it being fitting for a warm—not hot—day...
The problem is, that that only ever happens once or twice in the heart of winter,
when there are more appropriate scents.
Mountain Frost might just be my absolute favorite scent ever, but it doesn't
exist anymore and I couldn't tell you what it smells like (seems like maybe it's aquatic)
other than what it says on the ~~tin~~ bottle, i.e. mountain frost.