SOTD by u/hugbckt

u/hugbckt posted on 2024-06-30 17:00:27-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

June 30, 2024 – LG Day 30 – The End

  • Brush: Maggard Timberwolf Synthetic 24mm 🇨🇳
  • Razor: Merkur 34C 🇩🇪
  • Blade: Lord Super Stainless Chromium Coated 🇹🇷
  • Lather: Henri et Victoria – Amande 🇨🇦
  • Post Shave: RazoRock – Mudder Focker 🇮🇹
  • Fragrance: Essential Parfums – Orange X Santal 🇫🇷

I know this is out of the ordinary, but I will not be writing a lengthy treatise today. Rather, in honor of all the players who played the Games “their way” this month, particularly Cowzilla3, enndeegee, and alg82, I’ve recorded a little song (which I’m amazed Crisp_Mango didn’t parody last year). Lyrics are below, for those who need them or prefer not to listen.

All products today are from different countries, and none from United States of America (where I live). They are each denoted by their according flag emoji, but to make sure it’s clear, in order of product listed: China, Germany, Turkey, Canada, Italy, France.

Now, for my final trick, I convince the djudges and wally that my shave has a thematic thread that ties it together, beyond meeting the challenge. Amande is a take on the classic almond shaving soap a la Cella, and presents as an almond biscotti which has been soaked in American bright red maraschino cherry juice. It’s a kick in the face, and hardly mellows upon lathering. Now, what to follow this up with? Well, thinking about what Cella believes you should pair with their soap, an aromatic aftershave seemed appropriate. With clear culinary and citrus top notes, Mudder Focker blends surprisingly well with the maraschino note, before it takes over entirely. Now, what’s weird about Mudder Focker is that it’s allegedly a dupe of Panama 1924 by Boellis. If that’s the case, it seems to be a…creative take. I haven’t smelled Panama 1924 before, but the internet tells me that there’s either an almond note or a tobacco flower note, neither of which show up in this splash. The former would have likely been more welcome than the latter, in this scenario. I maintain that the folks at Cella were out of their gourds when they decided to make such different and not-very-complementary scents. Though Orange x Santal might not be what I would typically spray on after such a sweet almond soap, it’s a perfect addition to today’s splash. The sandalwood is a clear connection here, along with the herbal notes which drift around in the background, while the bitter orange is a fun, bright, complex yet simple ending to this fragrance journey. #FOF

And with that, I bid you all adieu.


And now, the end is near

And so I face the final lather

My friend, I’ll make it clear

We had our fun, with all the blather

We shaved ourselves each day

No care for formatting the right way

And more, much more than this

We did it our way

Good laughs, we’ve had a few

Like when I skipped that challenge

We did what we wanted to

And skipped the points for hardware scavenge

No plan, no charted course

Each silly step, the game that I played

And more, much more than this

We did it our way

Yes, there were times, I’m sure you knew

When we broke the rules, formatting skewed

But through it all, when there was doubt

We lathered up and shaved about

We faced it all, and stood up tall

And did it our way

We’ve loved, we’ve laughed and cried

We’ve had our fill, of memes and puns too

And now, as games subside

We find it all so damn amusing

To think we did all that

With no real goal, some others might say

We did what we felt like

We did it our way

For what is a shaver, what have they got?

If not their jokes, then they have naught

To spam the threads with shaving memes

And not just follow others’ schemes

The record shows we took some blows

And did it our way

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This SOTD is part of the challenge
  1. Lather Games 2024
  2. Feats of Fragrance 2024