SOTD by u/Crisp_Mango

July 20, 2023

• Brush: Grizzly Bay Prince with 26mm V9 Fanchurian
• Razor: Razorock Game Changer .84
• Blade: Gillette Nacet (13)
• Lather: Declaration Grooming – Massacre of the Innocents
• Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. – Arkadia
• Fragrance: Stirling Soap Co. – Sharp Dressed Man

Massacre of the Innocents is a dupe of Parfums de Marly's Herod. MotI is a warm, spicy, creamy, and woody fragrance and an easy crowd pleaser. Arkadia is a dupe of Hermes' Terre d'Hermes. Arkadia is woody, spicy, and just a bit citrusy, a very good pairing for MotI. Sharp Dressed Man is a dupe of Creed's Green Irish Tweed. SDM is woody, floral, and green, and doesn't really paire well with the other two scents, but they are all dupes.

I'm not entirely sure why someone decided that today's challenge should basically be "make worse lather", but I did use a nice, pasty lather today. So pasty that I didn't even add soap, just loaded and shaved. And you know what? It honestly wasn't bad. I've certainly had better lathers and shaves, but this soap performed really well with next to no water at all.

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Two Scents of a Kind to the tune of Two of a Kind by Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer.

Lyrics:

Two of a kind

One scent formulation

Two scents of a kind

Two of a kind

An olfactory relation

Two scents of a kind

Like peas in a pod

And birds of a feather

Alone or together you'll find

That we are two shaves of a kind

What's so wrong thinkin' life is a shave and reachin' for a razor

And who's to say if we'll shave the whole face - at least we got this far

Sharin' our den, our soaps and our splashes, we two’re a duet

Say, what if we've got rare Bufflehead soaps or Conk and Gillette

Makin' it smooth

Shavin' it fully

We're simila-la-larly inclined

Because we're two shaves of a kind

[**July 20, 2023**](https://imgur.com/a/1NnFRrB)

* **Brush:** Grizzly Bay Prince with 26mm V9 Fanchurian
* **Razor:** Razorock Game Changer .84
* **Blade:** Gillette Nacet (13)
* **Lather:** Declaration Grooming – Massacre of the Innocents
* **Post Shave:** Stirling Soap Co. – Arkadia
* **Fragrance:** Stirling Soap Co. – Sharp Dressed Man

Massacre of the Innocents is a dupe of Parfums de Marly's Herod. MotI is a warm, spicy, creamy, and woody fragrance and an easy crowd pleaser. Arkadia is a dupe of Hermes' Terre d'Hermes. Arkadia is woody, spicy, and just a bit citrusy, a very good pairing for MotI. Sharp Dressed Man is a dupe of Creed's Green Irish Tweed. SDM is woody, floral, and green, and doesn't really paire well with the other two scents, but they are all dupes.

I'm not entirely sure *why* someone decided that today's challenge should basically be "make worse lather", but I did use a nice, [pasty lather](https://imgur.com/a/cjxeZHi) today. So pasty that I didn't even add soap, just loaded and shaved. And you know what? It honestly wasn't bad. I've certainly had better lathers and shaves, but this soap performed really well with next to no water at all.

​

[Two Scents of a Kind](https://soundcloud.com/user-590052047/two-scents-of-a-kind?si=ddf0669b030c436e977c7a68ab81a376&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing) to the tune of [Two of a Kind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDCykgo1PVQ) by Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer.

Lyrics:

Two of a kind
One scent formulation
Two scents of a kind

Two of a kind
An olfactory relation
Two scents of a kind

Like peas in a pod
And birds of a feather
Alone or together you'll find
That we are two shaves of a kind

What's so wrong thinkin' life is a shave and reachin' for a razor
And who's to say if we'll shave the whole face - at least we got this far
Sharin' our den, our soaps and our splashes, we two’re a duet
Say, what if we've got rare Bufflehead soaps or Conk and Gillette

Makin' it smooth
Shavin' it fully
We're simila-la-larly inclined
Because we're two shaves of a kind