June 16, 2024 - Father's Day
- Brush: Vulfix Butterscotch Oumo Badger
- Razor: Gillette Black Beauty T3 #ADJUSTABLE
- Blade: Wizamet (30)
- Lather: Haslinger - Schafmilch
- Post Shave: Aqua Velva - Musk
- Fragrance: Chanel - Antaeus
Theme: all software brands used are older than me: Haslinger dates back to 1890 according to The Razor Company. Aqua Velva was trademarked in 1917. Chanel’s first fragrance, No. 5, was launched in 1921. I believe the hardware is older than me.
Challenge: Leg day! It was tough finding time to get this in, but I did it. Pre-shave left leg and right leg. Post-shave [left leg] (https://imgur.com/sYEafO6) and [right leg] (https://imgur.com/BsPHVcO). I know the photo edits look weird, but the carpet doesn't look great.
There’s not much to say about the fragrance of Haslinger Schafmilch. It’s unscented. It’s as plain as the nose on soap’s face. I can smell some of the soap ingredients. It kind of smells like milk, and… soap. Yeah. I haven’t used this much. It’s a hard soap. I scraped some soap off of the puck, smushed it into my loading bowl, and bloomed it (which I never do). I scraped way too much soap. It’s a European hard soap. I should’ve known it would fluff like a marshmallow. Anyways, I loaded my vintage Vulfix brush and began lathering on my leg. After a while, there was enough lather that I started scraping it back into the bowl, just so I could get some water into the lather on my leg. My leg was fully lathered, I had all of that in the bowl, and I only picked up like half the soap. A little goes a long way, I guess. Eventually I didn’t have time to fuss with it anymore and had to call it good enough.
The Black Beauty I used today was found in my grandfather's half-bath while cleaning out my grandmother’s house (he passed years before she did). The date code is T3 which means this was made in the 3rd quarter of 1973 (well before I was born). This was my first time shaving with it. I was going to use it last year. But, there’s no Father’s Day in July. I cleaned it up last night and soaked in Barbicide before the shave today. I set the dial to ‘4’ because that's my setting on the Slim. It shaved at least as well as the Slim. Clogging was an issue, though. [Warning, gross] This is what I pulled out of it during the shave.
I ended up putting some Aqua Velva Musk on my face so I could smell it. There’s a ton of alcohol vapor splashing this on. I was going to make a joke about not standing near an open flame, but there’s actually a warning on the label about it being flammable until dry. What to say about this fragrance? It’s a classic cheapie. The musk is readily apparent. It’s leathery. There’s a core of powder. But, it’s overpowered by the musk. I’m able to smell alcohol long enough that I get a diesel scent effect. There’s a spice of tobacco, or maybe a warm spice like clove. There’s sort of an amber-like characteristic. It’s a bit cloying, but charming in a way, too. Sometimes I’ll reach for this if I just want to have something to smell and don’t want to use one of my frags. It sticks with you for a long time. This is an old-school masculine aftershave that has staying power, literally and figuratively.
I purchased this bottle of Antaeus on the bazaar. It’s the vintage formula that contains real castoreum. Antaeus is woody and animalic. It’s a Chypre fragrance. In the opening I smell warm resinous sweet spicy notes, dry woody notes, and an animalic note. Overall, quite balsamic. Once the top notes evaporate, the balsamic notes are more or less gone. The animalic note remains. I smell oakmoss. It's a bit earthy, but there's some floral notes as well, mainly rose. I don’t know what modern bottlings are like. But, this has strong projection and good longevity. This fragrance has an air of mystery to it that I enjoy. It’s intriguing, yet understated. It’s not loud, but it does have something to say.
#photocontest - Prius. Taking pictures of strangers’ vehicles like a degen.
#FOF