SOTD by u/RedMosquitoMM

LG23-19: CREAM

• Brush: Don’t need one my dude! I got this sock. Fancy gear is for suckers.
• Razor: Chiseled Face Titanium Legacy Razor
• Blade: Personna Lab Blue Super (52)
• Lather: Catie's Bubbles - Blugère - Luxury Cream Soap
• Post Shave: Southern Witchcrafts - Fougère Nemeta - Aftershave
• Fragrance: Motif Olfactif - Mon Oasis
• Passes: WTG, WTG Again Because Socks Should Stay on Your Feet
• Coffee: Peru, Cajamara - v: Geisha - p: Washed.
• Music: Disclosure - Alchemy
• LG Tags: #FOF

Lessons Learned From Lathering With a Sock:

1. Don’t lather with a sock. Ignore what tyrants on the internet tell you to do and let a WetTuber debase themselves for those ginormous sponsorship bucks. Something something something about jumping off a bridge. Don’t do it for the fame. Don’t do it for the glory. Don’t. Lather. With. A. Sock.
2. If you ignore the first lesson, reconsider.
3. If you ignore the second lesson, set aside lots of time for this shave. It’s going to be a while until your lather is ready.
4. Lather with a white sock. Colored fibers in your lather look gross.
5. Lather with a cotton sock, presumably. I got cute and tried an old merino wool ski sock with a hole in the toe. I think it was extra absorbent and sucked up soap and water like an open drain.
6. Squeeze the right amount of water out of your sock before you begin. I can’t tell you what the right amount is, but I can tell you to find that amount. Good luck.
7. Load heavy. Lathering with a sock uses much more soap than a brush. I scooped a big mound of soap and went back to the tub twice more; that yielded enough “lather”—and I'm putting that word in massive air quotes—for one pass and one application of runny, sudsy slop.
8. Use your hands. Use a bowl. Use an old soap tub you have laying around. Set the sock down when you start questioning how your life went wrong. Pick up the sock and keep at it. Rubbing the sock against itself didn’t do much, but rubbing the sock back and forth on my hands did, and I can’t explain this phenomenon. Friction is friction baby.
9. Squeeze the lather out of the sock, because rubbing it on your face does nothing except bury the lather in your sock.
10. Use that brush you got out to apply the lather. I forgot to use mine, but I suspect it would have given the lather structure. A boy can dream.
11. Use a gentle razor. You’re gonna need it.

Judges...please don’t make us do this again. Please. PLEASE. I know I won't be. I'll use the time I save to start recovering my dignity.

Now back to the shave.

Fougère Friday is right around the corner, but I'm using Blugère for 'dat CREAM, so I paired it with other fruity fougères in advance of a second glorious all-fougère shave later this week. One cannot have too many fougères.

I tried Blugère for the first time last year and this blueberry fougère immediately became one of my all-time favorites. Catie's Bubbles describes the blueberry note as fresh, "over a woody and green fougère construct," but that description doesn't capture it. The blueberry works because it's rich and sticky, like inky-violet compote just taken off the burner to cool. More importantly, the blueberry doesn't read like a novelty; the stout lavender, oakmoss and coumarin core is there, but an aromatic edge of basil and galbanum connects seamlessly with fruity tang. Genius.

My aftershave and fragrance are both lighter in tone (now we can say "fresh"), but like Blugère, they're defined by their unusual mashup of distinct fruit and fougère accords. Shawn’s seasonal for Southern Witchcrafts, Fougère Nemeta, is all about the strawberry. Petitgrain and cassis give the ruby-red berry a thorny zip (like fresh ripe strawberries do); galbanum, fig leaf, and vetiver make the foundation startlingly green. Shawn knows his way around a fougère.

I followed that up with one of my first bottle purchases—Motif Olfactif’s expectedly-relaxing Mon Oasis. More complex than either Blugère or Fougère Nemeta, this creamy delight is light, sweet, and yellow in tone, balancing a bright lavender, musky fruits, and pastoral aromatics. Mon Oasis revolves around the melon-like combination of yuzu and pear; barrel strength in the opening, then lush and honeyed through the rest of the progression. A bouquet of hay, tobacco, vetiver, and oakmoss defines the hazy drydown. Pear is a challenging note to work with, yet perfumer Oswald Paré uses it masterfully here and in Voile D'encens, where he combines it with potent, resinous incense. Neither sound like an easy fit, yet the musky-ripe fruit softens the fougère and sweetens the incense without becoming syrupy. He’s another perfumer to watch if this is how you like fruit in your fragrances.

[**LG23-19: CREAM**](https://i.imgur.com/tFlS8Kv.jpg)

* **Brush:** Don’t need one my dude! I got this sock. Fancy gear is for suckers.
* **Razor:** Chiseled Face Titanium Legacy Razor
* **Blade:** Personna Lab Blue Super (52)
* **Lather:** Catie's Bubbles - Blugère - Luxury Cream Soap
* **Post Shave:** Southern Witchcrafts - Fougère Nemeta - Aftershave
* **Fragrance:** Motif Olfactif - Mon Oasis
* **Passes:** WTG, WTG Again Because Socks Should Stay on Your Feet
* **Coffee:** Peru, Cajamara - v: Geisha - p: Washed.
* **Music:** Disclosure - *Alchemy*
* **LG Tags:** `#FOF`

**Lessons Learned From** [**Lathering With a Sock**](https://imgur.com/a/JoHZJf1)**:**

1. Don’t lather with a sock. Ignore what tyrants on the internet tell you to do and let a WetTuber debase themselves for those ginormous sponsorship bucks. Something something something about jumping off a bridge. Don’t do it for the fame. Don’t do it for the glory. Don’t. Lather. With. A. Sock.
2. If you ignore the first lesson, reconsider.
3. If you ignore the second lesson, set aside lots of time for this shave. It’s going to be a while until your lather is ready.
4. Lather with a white sock. Colored fibers in your lather look gross.
5. Lather with a cotton sock, presumably. I got cute and tried an old merino wool ski sock with a hole in the toe. I think it was extra absorbent and sucked up soap and water like an open drain.
6. Squeeze the right amount of water out of your sock before you begin. I can’t tell you what the right amount is, but I can tell you to find that amount. Good luck.
7. Load heavy. Lathering with a sock uses much more soap than a brush. I scooped a big mound of soap and went back to the tub twice more; that yielded enough “lather”—and I'm putting that word in massive air quotes—for one pass and one application of runny, sudsy slop.
8. Use your hands. Use a bowl. Use an old soap tub you have laying around. Set the sock down when you start questioning how your life went wrong. Pick up the sock and keep at it. Rubbing the sock against itself didn’t do much, but rubbing the sock back and forth on my hands did, and I can’t explain this phenomenon. Friction is friction baby.
9. [Squeeze the lather out of the sock](https://i.imgur.com/lcRbrrJ.jpg), because [rubbing it on your face does nothing](https://i.imgur.com/uNhJ0jC.jpg) except bury the lather in your sock.
10. Use that brush you got out to apply the lather. I forgot to use mine, but I suspect it would have given the lather structure. A boy can dream.
11. Use a gentle razor. [You’re gonna need it.](https://i.imgur.com/dqMoioC.jpg)

Judges...please don’t make us do this again. Please. PLEASE. I know I won't be. I'll use the time I save to start recovering my dignity.

Now back to the shave.

Fougère Friday is right around the corner, but I'm using Blugère for 'dat CREAM, so I paired it with other fruity fougères in advance of a second glorious all-fougère shave later this week. One cannot have too many fougères.

I tried Blugère for the first time last year and this blueberry fougère immediately became one of my all-time favorites. Catie's Bubbles describes the blueberry note as fresh, "over a woody and green fougère construct," but that description doesn't capture it. The blueberry works *because* it's rich and sticky, like inky-violet compote just taken off the burner to cool. More importantly, the blueberry doesn't read like a novelty; the stout lavender, oakmoss and coumarin core is there, but an aromatic edge of basil and galbanum connects seamlessly with fruity tang. Genius.

My aftershave and fragrance are both lighter in tone (now we can say "fresh"), but like Blugère, they're defined by their unusual mashup of distinct fruit and fougère accords. Shawn’s seasonal for Southern Witchcrafts, Fougère Nemeta, is all about the strawberry. Petitgrain and cassis give the ruby-red berry a thorny zip (like fresh ripe strawberries do); galbanum, fig leaf, and vetiver make the foundation startlingly green. Shawn knows his way around a fougère.

I followed that up with one of my first bottle purchases—Motif Olfactif’s expectedly-relaxing Mon Oasis. More complex than either Blugère or Fougère Nemeta, this creamy delight is light, sweet, and yellow in tone, balancing a bright lavender, musky fruits, and pastoral aromatics. Mon Oasis revolves around the melon-like combination of yuzu and pear; barrel strength in the opening, then lush and honeyed through the rest of the progression. A bouquet of hay, tobacco, vetiver, and oakmoss defines the hazy drydown. Pear is a challenging note to work with, yet perfumer Oswald Paré uses it masterfully here and in Voile D'encens, where he combines it with potent, resinous incense. Neither sound like an easy fit, yet the musky-ripe fruit softens the fougère and sweetens the incense without becoming syrupy. He’s another perfumer to watch if this is how you like fruit in your fragrances.