SOTD by u/djundjila

Where's the Beef?

• Brush: Chisel and Hound - Intrepid (26 mm Zenith boar knot at 53 mm loft) #COMPOSITE #FRANKENBRUSH
• Razor: Above the Tie - Calypso R1 #CNC #RAINBOW
• Blade: Feather - new Hi-Stainless
• Lather: YRFCE - Yard Raised Fresh Chicken Eggs
• Post Shave: Barrister and Mann - Roam
• Osma: Osma - Osma
• Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Shire 2

Happy YRFCE day! Three years ago, u/pppork revived this mythical chicken tallow soap and published the best documentary in wetshaving history. Definitely worth a watch if you haven't had the pleasure!

The chicken tallow makes this perfectly on theme, and the relevant post shave and fragrance through-line here lies in three different versions of grassy scents of nature: YRFCE has notes of grass, dry hay, and vetiver. Not exactly clean, but light and subtle. Roam is the exact opposite: Wet grass, earth, smoke, dirt. This is the scent of a camp site that smelled like YRFCE three rainy days ago. When the weather turns good again and the land dries again cleaner, that's when it smells like Shire: violets and fresh air (= warm hay to my nose, but that's a side note), fresh vetiver. I like these happy roller coaster fragrance progressions that tell a #FOF story. I'm really looking forward to the Roam 2 splash, because the balm in the Covid era finger balm tub starts looking a bit sus.

Great shave with the blue AtT. It's a good razor, it's just not very exciting. As a result it doesn't tend to get a lot of use. Not sure why I find it boring, but I do.

For the #Photocontest, I first planned to do the Bird theme (obviously), but then I got in the mood of doing Fill the frame instead because I enjoy the perspective and calm a closeup gives, the details and imperfections revealed, the tricks of depth-of-field, the visceral experience of one's size, and, of course, the tiny bokeh balls.

The chicken with its piercing look is a fun subject for closeups, even getting very close. I also experimented with a shorter focal length macro lens, but it was a bit over the top.

Today's Sponsor Wholly Kaw is the maker of controversial Entropy Man, one of my all time favourite scents in ~~cough syrup~~ wetshaving, and for that alone I'll be forever a fan ♥.

#### [Where's the Beef?](https://wetshaving.social/@djundjila/112554942423336628)

* **Brush:** Chisel and Hound - Intrepid (26 mm Zenith boar knot at 53 mm loft) #COMPOSITE #FRANKENBRUSH
* **Razor:** Above the Tie - Calypso R1 #CNC #RAINBOW
* **Blade:** Feather - new Hi-Stainless
* **Lather:** YRFCE - Yard Raised Fresh Chicken Eggs
* **Post Shave:** Barrister and Mann - Roam
* **Osma:** Osma - Osma
* **Fragrance:** House of Mammoth - Shire 2

Happy YRFCE day! Three years ago, u/pppork revived this mythical chicken tallow soap and [published the best documentary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LwEoOAhTgo) in wetshaving history. Definitely worth a watch if you haven't had the pleasure!

The chicken tallow makes this perfectly on theme, and the relevant post shave and fragrance through-line here lies in three different versions of grassy scents of nature: YRFCE has notes of grass, dry hay, and vetiver. Not exactly clean, but light and subtle. Roam is the exact opposite: Wet grass, earth, smoke, ***dirt***. This is the scent of a camp site that smelled like YRFCE three rainy days ago. When the weather turns good again and the land dries again cleaner, that's when it smells like Shire: violets and fresh air (= warm hay to my nose, but that's a side note), fresh vetiver. I like these happy roller coaster fragrance progressions that tell a \#FOF story. I'm really looking forward to the Roam 2 splash, because the balm in the Covid era finger balm tub starts looking a bit sus.

Great shave with the blue AtT. It's a good razor, it's just not very exciting. As a result it doesn't tend to get a lot of use. Not sure why I find it boring, but I do.

For the \#Photocontest, I first planned to do the *Bird* theme (obviously), but then I got in the mood of doing *Fill the frame* instead [because](https://metapixl.com/i/web/post/671265932538400193) I [enjoy](https://metapixl.com/i/web/post/504323375152637323) the [perspective](https://metapixl.com/i/web/post/528858693375524378) and [calm](https://metapixl.com/i/web/post/511286041762560536) a [closeup](https://metapixl.com/i/web/post/566489587729917637) gives, the [details](https://metapixl.com/i/web/post/504426009884719710) and [imperfections](https://metapixl.com/i/web/post/703355801016935025) revealed, the [tricks](https://metapixl.com/i/web/post/703356441849135781) of [depth-of-field](https://metapixl.com/i/web/post/703356993267745488), the [visceral experience of one's size](https://metapixl.com/i/web/post/703357449224868587), and, of course, the tiny [bokeh balls](https://metapixl.com/i/web/post/703358015062131467).

The chicken with its piercing look is [a fun subject](https://s3.metapixl.com/metapixl-media/public/m/_v2/502976433977716000/530d83cd3-f15549/M0IXRDn56Iy5/VHEqKCUdLQ7EteEy82hFcOUph7DxI45yiCzyim2j.jpg) for closeups, even [getting very close](https://s3.metapixl.com/metapixl-media/public/m/_v2/502976433977716000/530d83cd3-f15549/dDtygqexLFYY/nQy2tE7Vjdg6wYcBHtJaGt56RjazQm7Hbpu924rw.jpg). I also experimented with a shorter focal length macro lens, but it was [a bit over the top](https://s3.metapixl.com/metapixl-media/public/m/_v2/502976433977716000/530d83cd3-f15549/OrRCa8V3HIvi/DUd2aJeYgQwtvRDM8qhrhjUquylJCF9KCIP8OIu1.jpg).


Today's Sponsor Wholly Kaw is the maker of controversial Entropy Man, one of my all time favourite scents in ~~cough syrup~~ *wetshaving*, and for that alone I'll be forever a fan ♥.