*July 18, 2023 – Spooky Season
- Brush: r/wetshaving Zentih MOAR BOAR 31mm
- Razor: Blackland Blackbird Lite
- Blade: Gillette Silver Blue
- Lather: Southern Witchcrafts – Gravefruit II
- Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder
Southern Witchcraft has some of the more deeply complex scents on the market and I’ve struggled to find something of theirs I really love. Gravefruit 2 is probably my top choice, but I’m not sure I could handle the richness of the scent for a whole day. Solid shave this morning – smooth and clean. Not a ton of stubble for the daily challenge because my shave yesterday was in the afternoon and my beard still grows about as slow as possible, but, hey – it’s something.
The worst thing about a slow growing beard is that it’s fast enough for there to be annoying itchy stubble every day or two, but it’s so slow that to attempt to grow it out would result in disaster.
Anyway – paired Gravefruit (“a highly-nuanced scent profile that is perfect for crisp Autumn weather”) with Sonder in a juxtaposition of citrus scents. They’re dancing nicely together on my face. Maybe that’s my struggle with SW scents – I prefer brighter notes to the darkness that is SW. They are well executed, I like Phteven and Courtney and all their work (Dogwood++), my nose is just sus. Grapefruit and Sandalwood explicitly link these two scents and I like it!
Anyway – driving the family to Michigan today. 7+ hours with 3 kids in tow should be… an adventure?
FOF Haiku of the day
Dark meets bright this fall
Sonder and Gravefruit pair up
Grapefruit, Sandalwood