SOTD by u/ginopono

2023-07-18 Creamy Goodness

• Brush: Yaqi Metal Timberwolf
• Razor: Gillette Tech
• Lather: Taylor of Old Bond Street - Tobacco Leaf (Cream)
• Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Tobacconist
• Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Tobacconist
• Blade: Astra - Platinum (3)

Relevant Post-shave and Fragrance: Tobacco

Challenge Accepted: Well, this sounds like an awful series of thoughts led to this idea.

You may use a brush to apply the lather to your face, as long as the lather was made with a sock.

I can use a brush as long as I make the lather with a sock. Cool.
Look at that ugly-ass sock! I'm never gonna wear that. I mean, definitely not after I make my lather with it! Now how much sock do I need? Apparently, one blade can't handle very much sock. That's probably enough sock. Sock. Lather.

It did not work well. Creams are enough of a pain on their own, but add several pinches of sock? I was trying to keep sock from going into the drain the whole time, and I expect I'll be finding sock in my brush long for a long time. On the other hand, I didn't have any sock getting in the way of the razor, which I expected.

#FOF TOBS Tobacco Leaf is a vague tobacco smell. There's a lot of different tobacco smells, ranging from ashy to flowery (no one has smelled a tobacco flower) to pipey to cigary. I guess this is accurately leafy, but it's unremarkable.

When I sought out to find a tobacco scent, I sought one that recreates what it's like to walk into a humidor, its walls lined with cigars. Tobbaconist gets as close as anything, for which reason I can't seem to be able to shut up about it.

I want to preface this by saying Tobacconist is beautiful. I definitely can't stay mad at it.

With all my praise, I'm going to be critical of one teensy, minor thing. It's been recurrent over the past few weeks and perhaps my concentrated nose-efforts during that time have made me more sensitive to it: the fruit. Kill the fruit. No one even likes to eat fruit, much less smell it. When was the last time you voluntarily selected and consumed a piece of fruit, and enjoyed it? It was never, wasn't it?
I'm kidding; I know there are weirdos in this world.

#photocontest
Photo: Insects/Invertebrates
Gross.

[**2023-07-18 Creamy Goodness**](https://i.imgur.com/k4UNAsy.jpg)

* **Brush:** Yaqi Metal Timberwolf
* **Razor:** Gillette Tech
* **Lather:** Taylor of Old Bond Street - Tobacco Leaf (Cream)
* **Post Shave:** House of Mammoth - Tobacconist
* **Fragrance:** House of Mammoth - Tobacconist
* **Blade:** Astra - Platinum (3)

**Relevant Post-shave and Fragrance:** Tobacco

**Challenge Accepted:** Well, this sounds like an awful series of thoughts led
to this idea.
> You may use a brush to apply the lather to your face, as long as the lather
was made with a sock.

I can use a brush as long as I make the lather with a sock. Cool.
[Look at that ugly-ass sock!](https://i.imgur.com/bki5mor.jpg)
I'm never gonna wear that.
I mean, definitely not after I make my lather with it!
[Now how much sock do I need?](https://i.imgur.com/FGGak4O.jpg)
Apparently,
[one blade can't handle very much sock](https://i.imgur.com/sSgppg0.jpg).
[That's probably enough sock](https://i.imgur.com/cYoxSfm.jpg).
[Sock](https://i.imgur.com/XE0RWPD.jpg).
[Lather](https://i.imgur.com/D2HXA47.jpg).

It did not work well. Creams are enough of a pain on their own, but add several
pinches of sock? I was trying to keep sock from going into the drain the whole
time, and I expect I'll be finding sock in my brush long for a long time. On
the other hand, I didn't have any sock getting in the way of the razor, which
I expected.

#FOF TOBS Tobacco Leaf is a vague tobacco smell. There's a lot of different
tobacco smells, ranging from ashy to flowery (no one has smelled a tobacco
flower) to pipey to cigary. I guess this is accurately leafy, but it's
unremarkable.

When I sought out to find a tobacco scent, I sought one that recreates what
it's like to walk into a humidor, its walls lined with cigars. Tobbaconist
gets as close as anything, for which reason I can't seem to be able to shut up
about it.

I want to preface this by saying Tobacconist is beautiful. I definitely can't
stay mad at it.

With all my praise, I'm going to be critical of one teensy, minor thing. It's been
recurrent over the past few weeks and perhaps my concentrated nose-efforts
during that time have made me more sensitive to it: the fruit. Kill the fruit.
No one even likes to eat fruit, much less smell it. When was the last time you
voluntarily selected and consumed a piece of fruit, and enjoyed it? It was
never, wasn't it?
I'm kidding; I know there are weirdos in this world.

#photocontest
**Photo:** Insects/Invertebrates
Gross.