2024-06-26 - Analysis Paralysis
- Lather: Southern Witchcrafts - Valley of Ashes
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Texas on Fire
- Fragrance: Imaginary Authors - A City on Fire
- Razor: Henson AL13 Medium
- Brush: Omega 343178 Synthetic
Unifying Theme: Combustion
I was going to use Slow Explosions,
which offers a little more variety in names, but my nose doesn't care for it
and City on Fire fits wildly better in terms of scent.
Information Overload:
1) Coal 2) Tar 3) Bourbon 4) Tobacco 5) Bitter Citrus 6) Smoke 7) Leather
8) Motor Oil 9) Burning Rubber 10) Diesel 11) Clove 12) Birch Tar 13) Bergamot
Leftorium Challenge:
Yup. I'm suprised at how much better I am at doing this, despite only doing it
once year. That said, I'm still pretty inept.
The Henson is pretty much my designated Leftorium razor;
I'm not sure I could cut myself with this thing if I tried!
I'm not going to try to cut myself.
I'm pretty sure I could cut myself with this thing if I tried.
#FOF
The order is backwards, which means we experience the effects of the blaze in
reverse order. Starting with the soft ashen aroma of Valley,
why do so many people say it's bad? I find it to be very nice; it's a calm, even
soft scent. Surely, there is calm after everything has been burned to ashes, no?
Texas on Fire is another that people don't seem to like. To be fair, there is a
Stag-isness to it. I liken it to the tar-rich smoldering
embers—when the flames have died down but the fire is very much alive in the
heart of the burning wood—as we slowly move backwards in time from the ash.
City on Fire is a bit more fresh,
taking us futher back to when the fire was new.
There's a clear wood (which is not a play on the listed "Clearwood" note)
intermingling with smoke, with enough lively notes in the background that it
brings to mind a small campfire in the moments just before the destruction
begins to spread...
#photocontest Fire