SOTD by u/ginopono

2024-06-13 - Ozymandias

• Lather: Phoenix and Beau - Right-handed Giant
• Post Shave: Fabergé - Brut
• Fragrance: Murphy and McNeil - Green Man
• Razor: Bambaw Sea Green
• Brush: Yaqui Metal Timberwolf

Dupelgänger: Right-handed Giant is a dupe of Brut

Unifying Theme: Fougères, if you're boring.
Otherwise, a tale of a fallen, green, brutish giant.

Draw a Soap Label:
In past years (definitely last year, at least), there's been a complaint that players have only reproduced the existing label design for their soap. The intent, reportedly, was for players to create a new design instead.

However, because the wording of the challenge is unchanged, the only reasonable conclusion is that the intent of today's challenge reflects the prevailing interpretation, i.e. to draw the soap label as it exists rather than to design something new.
You have yourselves to blame for that, djudges.

I defy that decision! I have chosen to defy the intent of this challenge, and instead put my own twist on the design of Right-Handed Giant!

I don't know who or what the giant in question is supposed to be, but my brain is insistent—perhaps wrongly—that it's based on some mythological entity. I know that Green Man is supposed to be. I've taken the apparent despair from the original label, and tried to depict what I imagine him to be. Why the despair? Why right-handed? Here, once great, our fallen hero struggles to keep from rescinding into nothingness, the desperate fist of his right hand straining with what remains of his once-brutish strength as he slips away.

But I digress.

#FOF
Brut is nothing to write home about. Right-handed Giant, on the other hand, I think is an improvement over its predecessor. It has a layer of light top-notes hovering over a smooth, somewhat muted mossiness. What came to my mind is if you took Stirling's Varen and turned down the saturation dial. I like it quite a lot.
Brut is, again, nothing exceptional, and I felt unfortunate that it followed the more-pleasing Giant.
The green of Green Man leans more toward the lighter notes than the grassy core, but only slightly. Even so, the departure makes me think that this shave progressed backwards, getting further away from the part of the fougères that I appreciate most.

#photocontest Eyes
Even the giant is kind of horrified at the others.

[**2024-06-13 - Ozymandias**](https://i.imgur.com/JKLsOXR.jpg)

* **Lather:** Phoenix and Beau - Right-handed Giant
* **Post Shave:** Fabergé - Brut
* **Fragrance:** Murphy and McNeil - Green Man
* **Razor:** Bambaw Sea Green
* **Brush:** Yaqui Metal Timberwolf

**Dupelgänger:** *Right-handed Giant* is a dupe of *Brut*

**Unifying Theme:** Fougères, if you're boring.
Otherwise, a tale of a fallen, green, brutish giant.

**Draw a Soap Label:**
In past years (definitely last year, at least), there's been a complaint that
players have only reproduced the existing label design for their soap.
The intent, reportedly, was for players to
*create a new design* instead.

However, because the wording of the challenge is unchanged,
the only reasonable conclusion is that the
intent of today's challenge reflects the prevailing interpretation,
i.e. to draw the soap label as it exists rather than to design something new.
You have yourselves to blame for that, djudges.

I defy that decision! I have chosen to defy the intent of this challenge, and
instead put my own twist on
[the design of *Right-Handed Giant!*](https://i.imgur.com/ZmL96sL.png)

I don't know who or what the giant in question is supposed to be,
but my brain is insistent—perhaps wrongly—that it's based on some mythological
entity.
I know that *Green Man* is supposed to be.
I've taken the apparent despair from the original label, and tried to depict
what I imagine him to be. Why the despair? Why right-handed?
Here, once great,
our fallen hero struggles to keep from rescinding into nothingness, the
desperate fist of his right hand straining with what remains of his once-brutish
strength as he slips away.

But I digress.

#FOF
*Brut* is nothing to write home about. *Right-handed Giant*, on the other hand,
I think is an improvement over its predecessor. It has a layer of light top-notes
hovering over a smooth, somewhat muted mossiness. What came to my mind is if you
took Stirling's *Varen* and turned down the saturation dial.
I like it quite a lot.
Brut is, again, nothing exceptional, and I felt unfortunate that it followed
the more-pleasing *Giant*.
The green of *Green Man* leans more toward the lighter notes than the grassy
core, but only slightly. Even so, the departure makes me think that this shave
progressed backwards, getting further away from the part of the fougères that
I appreciate most.

#photocontest Eyes
Even the giant is kind of horrified at the others.