Guy, I found the scent lovely. However I had a lot of trouble lathering it as well at the beginning and strangely enough to me it didn’t seem to be as strongly mentholated as the Spearmint or any of the other Glacials. I bought two of the Lavenders - one I used up and I gave away the other.
I agree, I found with some of the older formulas some inconsistency in batches. I only bought one of the Glacial Lavenders but two of the Glacial Spearmints and noticed a difference between the two Spearmints, one stronger than the other and both less as cold as the Lavender. Once I go throw the remaining Glacial Spearmint, I'll try the Glacial Eskimo.
The new formulations are absolutely perfect and are they ever frigid. The menthol effect is 100% equal with all of them!
Monday’s Shave Pre: Cold Water Rinse Razor: GEM HFT/G-Bar Blade: PAL Blue Carbon Steel Brush: Mozingo Brushworks Lather: Wholly Kaw Fougère Bouquet Post: Thayer’s Witch Hazel; Speick AS; Aqua Velva 5 in 1 Balm Today’s music provided by: Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble ~ Archives
Sunday 17th and Monday 18th March Hotel Liquid Soap Speick Shaving Stick Kent Infinity Synthetic Brush Gillette Guard Single Edge Raxor Homemade Witch Hazel/Lavender EO Bart's Lavender Balm Bart's Lavender AS Oil Al Rehab U2 Perfume Oil In London for the weekend seeing Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Palace Theatre so it was a cheap and cheerful shaving recipe as I am renowned for leaving 'stuff' behind in Hotels. Very effective shaves but not much for the 'feel good factor'. 3 passes gave DFS+ results
Hybrid Karve CB OC C Plate on Charcoal Goods Brass Stinger 2 / Vokshod PTFE / Grizzly Bay To The Bone / MDC Fougère Nice shave, I don't use my MDC soaps often solely due to scents, my nose enjoys other vetivers and roses in my den (I have too many roses), no rival Fougère though, great performing soap. Did a little experiment with my plates today, ran the WTG pass with the OC C plate then did half my face ATG with the OC C and then swapped in the SB D plate. Both sides were two pass BBS, both produced same result, nick-free, no burning with the alum, splash felt same both sides and post balm still felt the same. Two takeaways for me were, feel was different, the OC plates have pretty wide spacing compared to some other OC plates leaving a fair bit of lather to face the edge and while I feel the texture of the teeth, I believe the additional soap left by the gaps makes for a smoother pull. Contrast to the one step more aggressive SB plate smoother feel on the face with nominally more blade feel in the pull, it left me wondering if I want to get a OC D plate but I'm still trying the C with other blades before making that call.
Had a great shave with my new Feather club DX, one little cut below the chin :'( otherwise nearly perfect, I got feather pro blades and they are very sharp, so first time with this shavette was imo very good. I have the Kai Captain blades on order because I read they are a little better to get used to, I think after a shave or 3 the Feather pro's will be better for me. I done a two pass with the DX and touched up with my slim, hardly a hair was cut with the slim tho, for a ordainary daily shave one pass with the DX will be fine for me....but I will most likely do two coz it is soooo much fun
SOTN March 17th Stirling Mentholated Pre-Shave Soap EDRIO #37 Gillette Pre-War Tech Gillette Super Stainless "The Spoiler" JR #352(30mm, Cruiser Class) Stirling Hot Apple Cider soap Blades Grim "Smolder" AS Sent from my Galaxy using Tapatalk
Tuesday SOTD Razor: KarveD O/C Blade: Super Iridium (D2) Brush: WildWestBrushworks 24mm Cashmere Bowl: Prohibition Style Pre-Shave Scrub: MRGO Lime Pre-Shave Balm: GroomingDept Unscented Shave Soap: RazoRock XXX Original Post: Monster Block Alum Aftershave: Extro Cologne Italiana
March 19, 2019 Wolfman WR 1 OC (0.74mm) with Hempel Ti Feather Rubberset 400 #3 with WSP HMW Soapy Science Citrus Lollipop Myrsol Limon
Today's shave was with a freshly honed German made razor. Very nice 2 pass shave, that left me BBS. I used a Gillette Fatboy, the day before, and the DE shaves don't hold a candle to Straight Razor shaves. Wonderfully made Straight. Razor- F.W.Engels "Special". Brush- Omega 10098 Boar. Better every time I use it. Soap- Arko/Sandalwood scented. Aftershave- Shulton Old Spice. Mmmmm Mmmmmm Good.
Patchouli focus day 7 Patchouli Imperial Calani Dubai Merkur 34c RR Plissoft 400 Voshkod ⚀ 3 pass POST Alum Proraso red AFS PdP ASB Calani is fantastic. Big thanks Guy Gotta stock up on this brand Enjoy your shaves Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
Monday SOTN Too many razors and not enough shaves! I pulled out my Schick Type O Clone and a vintage schick twin blade. Wonderful slickness with the Palmolive and face lathering with the AP SHAVE CO Ruby Ripple brush. 3 passes with some buffing around the chin and jaw line for a wonderful close shave for the night shift tonight. Have a great Tuesday! Josh Sent from my LYA-L29 using Tapatalk