SoS: October 10, 2016 - October 16, 2016

It's an excellent soap. For me it's a "relief" not be necessary to buy anything overseas.

 

The Sunday shave plan looks this way:

prep-Nivea 4 Men ENERGY bodywash( in hot shower)*
shave-Rise Super Foam regular
razor-Gillette Sensor 2 Pivot + DisposeABLE
A.S.-Wind Drift by English Leather via MEM Co.

*getting low on the Nivea, time to get to CVS or K-Mart.

 

Hope you're feeling better, Bill!

 

Glad to see you back in the saddle Bill!

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Happy birthday Jim!


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Thanks! Bill

 

Yeah, I`m in a lot better shape, got couple more days to be back 100%, thanks for your concern.

Bill

 

SOTD Head 15-10-16
Castle Forbes cream lime, Vander Hagen brush boar bristle, J. A. Henckels 5/8, Aqua velva sport...
Tururu


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SOTD: Saturday, October 15
C.O.Bigelow
Wee Scot
Fat Boy
Personna Precision (2)
Bull Dog Original ASB

 

May God bless you with the best of health, my friend!

 

Schick G Route 66
Manhandled Woods Omega 10066
Stirling Glacial Lemony Orange
Stirling Glacialized Orange Chill

I hope everyone loved their shaving time today as much as I did. I am frozen, and my eyes are still watering. Oh, I loves menthol!

Have a great and safe Sunday, everybody.


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Thanks guys. I had a great day. Just got home from eating ribs with my wife. Time to kick back and enjoy the rest of the day.

 

Glacial Lemony Orange? I never saw or even heard of that before!

 

Sunday's


Dove Men Face Wash
TABAC
Jayaruh #109 silvertip badger
Gillette NEW SC
7 am Plus Hi Platinum
CWR, Asma Alum Block
T.N. Dickinson's WH
Aqua Velva Musk

The TABAC Shaving Soap face-lathered well with my Jayaruh #109 silvertip badger brush. Two passes and touch ups with the Gillette NEW SC razor with a 7 am Plus Hi Platinum blade gave me a close, comfortable shave. After a cold water rinse and alum block, I finished off with T.N. Dickinson's WH and then Aqua Velva Musk After Shave. I am clean, smooth, and refreshed...

 

Guys, please forgive me for changing my shaving plans again!

Sunday morning:
Neutrogena Men Facial Wash
Razorock Plissoft 26mm Monster
Junjie/Astra day 7
Proraso Green S/S
Lucky Tiger A/S Cream
Proraso Green A/S Splash

I guess my Barbon cream can wait until Tuesday because I need a stronger menthol hit than I had from the Proraso White soap. That one felt nice and cool but the Green is still cooler, and the Lucky Tiger a/s cream and the Proraso Green splash are really chilly together!

 

Sunday's Planned Shower-Stephan Sunday!:

bodywash-Nivea 4 Men ENERGY
deodorant soap-Coast "Classic Scent"
shampoo-Stephan Daily Herbal
deodorant(post-shave)-Mennen Speed Stick Regular

 

You sound like a good friend Jeff, thank you for that. Regards.

Bill

 

Bill, glad to see you back. Congrats on the nice thank you gifts.

 

Van Yulay - Soap of the Gods "Black Cavendish"
BSB-Ti | HMW Extra Dense
RazoRock Black Mamba | Feather Hi-Stainless (1)


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Again, I won't bore you by restating my thoughts about Van Yulay's soaps. I have lots of experience with a variety of their soaps, and I can confidently say they all perform in line with my other favorite artisans and can stand up to any of them.

I picked up "Black Cavendish" with trepidation. I absolutely love a cherry tobacco fragrance. In fact, one of my all-time favorite scents, "Captain's Pipe" by the artisan formerly known as "Beaver WoodWright", has to be placed on the back shelf due to the nausea it evokes upon my wife. I have to reserve my use of said Captain's Pipe to hunting season during which she's gone for a few days at a time. Captain's Pipe quite accurately reproduces the aromatic tobacco, Captain Black Cherry. When I saw the scent notes for "Black Cavendish" on Van Yulay's site, I feared it would elicit the same response from my wife. Fortunately, Black Cavendish varies enough such that she's fine with it. I very much enjoy it. There's a definite cherry tobacco fragrance up front, but there's enough woodiness to alter it quite a bit, and set itself apart as a different fragrance. As the shave progresses, a slightly powdery, smoky, chocolate accord quite faintly moves in to really round out this delicious fragrance.

I used the paired alcohol-free splash, just to prolong the scent. I've said this before, but all of Van Yulay's splashes have a creamy scent initially that I assume is from the skin-care ingredients. That creaminess is pleasant, but it does fade rather quickly and allows the matching scent to come through accurately. As a nice surprise, I did notice some sweet vanilla notes in the splash that I hadn't picked up with the lather.

Black Cavendish is a very nice release from Van Yulay that certainly fits in the family of cherry tobacco fragrances, but its depth and complexity keeps it from being a blatant reproduction.

 

Remember Lemony Orange? That wonderful, citrusy, best of both lemon and orange worlds that was discontinued a while back? Well what could be better than Glacial Lemon and Orange Chill mixed together? Write to Rod and let him know how awesome a run of this would be next year!!!


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