2024-06-22 - Sound and Light
- Lather: Declaration Grooming - Son et Lumière
- Post Shave: Declaration Grooming - Son et Lumière
- Fragrance: Declaration Grooming - Son et Lumière
- Razor: Wolfman Razors - Guerrilla
- Brush: Yaqi Metal Timberwolf
Spooky Season: Many autumn-themed scents don't do much for me, so I
was pleased as pepperspray when I saw the description for this scent:
[...] Son et Lumiere is a drizzly autumn walk through a (clean) city.
Unifying Theme:
Doin' the triple
Halloween:
I expect a number of carved onions today,
possibly with the Toyota emblem carved into them.
Alright, so there's this thing
I picked up at a Goodwill a couple years ago for a Games photo.
It's a pumpkin and I figure I can carve it with
this razor.
I have no idea what it's made of, but it
gave the razorsaw hell and it doesn't look like I should be breathing this stuff.
That slice
does make it—strictly speaking—successfully carved, but
I think I can do better. Before starting,
I sawed off the stem in order to better clamp it down,
revealing that the thing is hollow.
I wonder....
Hey, it broke!
What is that made of?
I don't know how to identify fiberglass,
but it doesn't seem to be outside the realm of possibility,
so I'm calling that 1 legitimately-scary carved pumpkin.
#FOF
I realize I'm out of FOF now, but I just want to say that Son et Lumière
is a contender for my top 5 favorite scents, among Abyss and Tobacconist.
It's a rain-smell that doesn't exist
(and not just because autumn doesn't exist).
Well, it's not a rain that I'm familiar with,
but that's just because I associate rain-smell with
creosote.
It's criminal that there aren't any scents that feature creosote.
But I digress.
I will add that once, when I was wearing this in the creosote-scented
rain, I had the distinct impression that I exuded the unmistakable smell of wet dog.
#photocontest
I don't think I'd ever encountered he name "Bokeh Balls" before,
but you'd be hard-pressed to convince me you didn't have this exact label in
mind when you chose to include it in the list.