LG SOTD 22Jun2024
- Brush: Yaqi Bali - 24mm silver tip synthetic
- Razor: Henson - AL13 Medium (black)
- Blade: Euromax - Platinum (2)
- Blade: Sharp - Hi Platinum (2)
- Lather: Stirling - Hot Apple Cider
- Bowl: Captain’s Choice - Copper, standard
- Post Shave: Afta by Mennen - Aftershave Lotion, Original
Happy Saturday, beautiful people. Welcome to the twenty-second shave of the 2024 Lather Games. Today's theme is Spooky Season where we shave with a lather featuring a fall, spooky, or spicy themed scent.
For today's shave, going for two out of three with Stirling's Hot Apple Cider. It is marketed as, "Apples, cinnamon, and clove make for a perfect shave as the weather turns cool and the trees turn", and it is one of their fall seasonal scents. It's nice that they give the notes description but this is spot on the smell of spiced hot apple cider; the name says it all. If you’ve been to a fall/winter school function or similar, you have undoubtedly been handed a styrofoam cup full of the stuff.
This is the remainder of a sample I purchased from Stirling during their 2022 fall release. I’m glad I held onto one of my PIF packed samples because I have zero qualifying scents in the regular den. I love fall, probably my favorite time of the year weather wise, but fragrance designers must perceive it differently because every fall scent I’ve tried was weird to gross. Held onto this because HAC’s only sin is being a spot on recreation of spiced apple cider and just wasn’t appealing as a shave scent (weird). I’ll take this over the burned leaves and composting coffee grounds that seem to form the core of Darkfall and similar fall themed scents. A common thought trying some of these fall scents is what sort of hellish post apocalyptic dystopia did they grow up in if this is what they associate with fall?
At any rate, had another great hotel shave. The scent is on the weird side for shaving but is otherwise a nice fragrance. I had the same sort of reaction with BaM’s Smoking Bishop - smelled spot on for mulled wine, which is a neat trick from a fragrance design pov, but doesn’t mean you should shave with it 😅
Unfortunately there will be no carved pumpkin (or banana) to present for the challenge. 1500 miles from home in a hotel with no access to fresh anything, I will forego these 0.2 points. Tomorrow’s challenge appears to be the same deal, shave in a kitchen might as well be shave in a thatched hut on a moon of Jupiter for me.
Enjoy your day!
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Tournament of Blades Fight 422, Round 2. Euromax - Platinum (India) vs Sharp - Hi Platinum (Bangladesh)
I didn’t find these blades as black and white as R1 but it was still a charcoal and light gray comparison. Double no fault shaves from both blades for R2 but Sharp again had the smoother feedback between the two.
Winner of Round 2 and Fight 422: Sharp - Hi Platinum