Saturday, April 26 Vintage Williams~~Wald S1~~Gillette New LC/Wizamet Iridium Super~~Louis Vuitton Pur Oud Reaching the end of this 3017. Always great lathers from the highly-mentholated tallow Williams. The Pur Oud is sublime.
A week a variety but I had to go back and use the tallow AoS soap again. What a pleasure to shave with. The steel is a George Wostenholme with some cool shoes. Duble Duck homage brush to keep with steel's traditional theme. A modern Le Labo Santal 33 stank for this spring day and to enhance the minimal sandalwood scent of the soap. For the watch afficiandos todays ticker is a H2O Green Ocean (but the dial is blue starburst), saphire bezel with a Swiss movement and mokume gane case. Honestly I do not know mokume gane is but like some modern straight razor makers the watch maker likes using fancy metals for his case. The watchmaker is German and loves lume, this is the best lume of all my watches, there is even lume on the back of the watch .
Sunday, April 27 Ariana & Evans Agarwood~~Rubberset 400/3~~Feather AS-D2/Wizamet Iridium Super~~Tom Ford Oud Wood Took a chance on this shave cream and seeing it was only $15, pulled the trigger. Almost a complete dupe of the Tom Ford. Fantastic lather and that scent...wowsers! It's a winner.
Nice to know A&E has Agarwood soap. I already have two Agar soaps(both of the Stoylin persuasion), but is a third possible? We shall see.
Monday, April 28 Macduffs Prairie Rumrunner~~Semogue 2012 SE Mistura~~Feather AS-D2~~Dominica Bay Rum Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words...
Hello everyone. I am just checking in. The first third of this year has been rough. My mom broke her ankle which has required a lot of effort on my part to get the therapy needed to transition her back to assisted living. In the end, she seems to have given up on walking with a walker in favor of using a wheelchair full-time. I am not too happy about that but in the end it her choice. On the shaving front, I am down to shaving 3 times a week at best. I am still working on the Fine Italian Citrus shave soap. I hope everyone is doing well. I will check back in as time allows.
Tuesday, April 29 Macduffs Prairie Rumrunner~~Simpson M7~~Feather AS-D2~~Clubman Special Reserve Scored a Green-Juice Special Reserve the other day. These are as rare as hen's teeth.
Round two fo the Tabula Rosa and I like the scent and performance but.... the tub got bigger but it was only about half filled. I am not sure if I go short changed or this a strange way to deal with 'shrinkfaltion.' Now I have to admit, I am very jealous of certain tenor's ability to source unobtainium vintage juice. Given shipping restrictions I did not think it was possible but finally!! Arriving from France is vintage Brut. So I bought a bottle of the modern to compare it too.... and well there is no comparision the vintage Brut is amazing well the newest version is just OK. Paired with Tabac, oh baby I am so ready to go to Piggly Wiggly but alas there are none in Korea. I will search out and find the equivalent.
Wednesday, April 30 AoS Lemon Shaving Cream~~dubl duck #2~~Gem Clog-Pruf~~Terre d'Hermès Eau Très Fraîche The Williams is history. It was a great run. Some variety for a while, starting with the classic AoS Lemon Cream. The stank du jour is an excellent flanker of the OG Terre d'Hermès. Outstanding summer scent.
Thursday, May 1 AoS Lavender Crème à Raser~~Kent BLK8~~1941 Gillette Ranger Tech~~Terre d'Hermès Eau Très Fraîche First shave of the month was a winner. Don't often reach for the Ranger Tech, but when I do, it never fails. Fresh Wizamet direct from Poland. Repeated yesterday's stank.
Friday, May 2 Valobra Fougère~~Simpson 57~~RazoRock Game Changer .84 OC/Wizamet Iridium Super~~Chanel Antaeus Felt a bit Fernish (sic), hence the Valobra and the Chanel.
I like both my Stoylin Agarwood clones. My preference is OUD SIGMA, but I rotate that with AGAR. Did I oo a typo and say Stoyin by mistake? Oops. Anyway, I'd say SIGMA OUD is AGAR on steroids. Doc Ezlovan did a nice job on both, making sure the Oud scent came out, but again I'd say his Sigma Oud is "just a little...bit better"* *My quote is taken from a section of the Herman's Hermits classic(nice to know Peter Noone is still alive and kicking).
Saturday, May 3 Extro Egyptian Oudh~~The Varlet Mega HD~~RR Game Changer~~Frederic Malle The Night Doesn't get any ooodier than this shave.
