LG SOTD 23Jun2024
- Brush: Yaqi Bali - 24mm silver tip synthetic
- Razor: Henson - AL13 Medium (black)
- Blade: Croma - Diamant (Germany)
- Blade: Gillette - Wilkinson Sword (India)
- Lather: Chiseled Face - Orange Creamsicle
- Bowl: Captain’s Choice - Copper, standard
- Post Shave: Afta by Mennen - Aftershave Lotion, Original
Happy Sunday, beautiful people. Welcome to the twenty-third shave of the 2024 Lather Games. Today's theme is Sweet Sunday where we shave with a lather featuring sugary sweet gourmand fragrance.
For today's shave, I almost went with what I have used previously, BaM's Dicken's revisited. Then I remembered that I was going to be traveling today. Fortunately, I recently went on a sample buying spree and have a sample from Chiseled Face of their Orange Creamsicle, another scent that originated at LA Shaving Co. It is marketed as smelling just like the real thing. Off the puck I get the sweat creamy center but not so much the orange outer layer, have to see how it smells lathered.
The daily challenge was to shave in a kitchen. A kitchen proper is out of the question, I’m in a hotel 1500 miles from home and the closest thing to a kitchen is the coffee station and mini bar of the hotel room (see SOTD pic in title). Does it count? Hope so, otherwise I’m using a hotel ice bucket as a rinse basin for no discernible reason 😅
The shave was fine, never any complaints with CF’s base but the scent… starting to suspect there is a molecule out there that perfumers use for orange and other citrus and I simply cannot smell it. Seville barely smells like it has orange in it, Pompelmo smelled like the decaying rind of grapefruit with next to zero citrus. Everett that is supposed to feature orange slices prominently has one lone orange slice across a soccer field, downwind. I love Maggard’s Limes & Bergamot because it actually smells like citrus to me. And this “orange” creamsicle never had more than a whiff of orange, it was a shave with the creamy center of a creamsicle from puck to final rinse - someone had nibbled off the sweet outer layer of orange sherbet like goo 😭
Tomorrow will be another crazy early shave as taking red eye flight so I’m glad the only extra challenge is to vote for someone 😄
Enjoy your day!
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Tournament of Blades Fight 423, Round 1: Croma - Diamant (Germany) vs Gillette - Wilkinson Sword (India)
Very similar no-fault shaves from both with average feedback. Between the two, the Croma was preferable today. A bit slicker on the glide - not much.
Winner of Round 1: Croma - Diamant (Germany)