SoS: March 28, 2016 - April 3, 2016

Excellent Old Spice vintage mug.

 

ahhh, so THAT is a shaving stick...always wondered.

 

Lilac Vegetal. An aftershave created by Napoleon for his Hungarian Cavalry. Definitely one of those you either hate or love. There is no in between. If you find you love it, you really don't decide it's wonderful....you are "chosen" by this most masculine and unique scent to wear it proudly.

 

Is it the clubman one?

 

Nope,


There is a pass around going on right now if you want to try it:
http://theshaveden.com/forums/threads/pass-around-dare-to-be-among-the-chosen.50629/

 

I find the Napolen/Hungary aspect of this interesting. Stirlingsoap has one in honor of Napoleon too..in fact it is in his name(Bonaparte).

 

Why couldn't he have created Clubman ORIGINAL for the Hungarian soldiers?

 

Many thanks Roby

 

It's official. I'm taking the day off for Thursday's shave. It is to get an extra day's growth so I can try out the WILD comb. So, the gear will get the day off as the beard gets another day to grow.

 

There is a method to your madness Jim.

 

SOTD (Hump Day)
Razor - PAL injector
Brush - Jim handle 24mm Sunrise synthetic knot
Cream - Speick

Added my shave gear to wife's dress table for the shot. Liked the rich contrast of red wood and green plate.

 

SHAVE OF THE DAY


Prep: Occams crushed lime
Razor: Gillette Tech
Blade: Schick twin DE (3rd shave)
Brush: RazoRock plissoft
Soap: Local Gent Lime Street
Post: Osage Rub/ Reef Point Admiralty Balm


2 pass shave today. Went with the Lime Street soap again, it makes a wonderful lather and has a fresh lime scent. Very good soap. Today's shave went much smoother than yesterday. Very little irritation. Finishedoff with Reef Point Admiralty, another great product. Hope everyone had a great shave!

 

I was surprised to see you also used Local Gent soap. There doesn't seem to be much info about it, but the lather is surprisingly great. How is the tobacco scent? Sounds like it would be great!

 

Beautiful pic Robby!

 

brother!

 

Great photo Rob!

 

Thank you Mike! I'm having so much fun with the injector. Tomorrow I'm gonna do the R41 to make sure I don't lose my touch and then I'm going back to the N1 again.

 

Thanks Doug! Got lucky on the bay!

 

Thursday morning features these great items!

Here they are:

Neutrogena Men Facial Wash
Razorock Plissoft 26 mm Monster
Junjie/Astra day 4
Stirling Black Ice SS
Gold Bond Moisturizer
Henri et Victoria Bergamot Vetiver AS

It's no use - there's nothing I can do, my friends. I'm hopelessly addicted to Rod's wonderful soaps and that's all there is to it. The Black Ice has a very similar scent to the Glacial Obsidian which is sweet anise. However: The Black Ice, in spite of being very, very cooling and refreshing has perhaps half the menthol content that the Glacial Obsidian has so there's no danger of tearing eyes and a runny nose. This soap also gives brilliant lather and perfect skincare just as all of the Stirling soaps do. Monsieur Claude Pilon, le grand maitre de Gatineau, Quebec has a wonderful, wonderful Bergamot Vetiver aftershave which smells beautiful and gives a frigid wallop while making the skin feel healthy and well-cared for. Bravo, mon vieux et bonne continuation!

 

We'd have to take a poll of local working girls from that age to see if maybe the Original wouldn't please them as much as the Veg. The real reason behind its creation appears to be to help the cavalrymen cover up the smell of the horses and other assorted odors so that the local girls would even get near them. After all, when it's time for R&R you don't want to waste time actually bathing and cleaning up!