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300ml of Tabac AFS.
It was wonderful.



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This was love at first use and never wavered. Beautiful scent and excellent shave and post... doesn't get the airtime it deserves.

One of my favorite Stirling scents.  Too bad they don't make it any longer.

One of my favorite Stirling scents.  Too bad they don't make it any longer.

I think it does get re-released seasonally. The last time I looked there were a couple soaps or splashes left on his website in the sale section, you might be able to grab something.

Thanks for the tip!  I just checked it out and saw the aftershave.  I might get it.

Calling it on this one. Really a nice soap

Barrister+Mann Seville
Loved the bergamot scent, but I think it gave me a wee bit of irritation so I'm unlikely to replace it.

One of my favorite Stirling scents.  Too bad they don't make it any longer.

This story starts many, many years ago in a town on the east coast of the US that may or may not have been filled with inedible beans.

A young(ish) man stared glumly at his razor and dourly considered the torture that was to come. The razor had a cartridge with about 15(?) blades, and each cartridge cost a car payment - so he tried to use them longer than any cartridge should be used. The canned 'shaving cream' that he used didn't seem to help make the shave more comfortable. His wife delighted in picking at the ingrown hairs that crowded his face while she dreamt of being a nurse someday (a dream that subsequently came true).

The young man decided that there had to be a better way. So he meditated long and hard and finally consulted an oracle (Google) and found that there were a small group of fanatics that extolled the virtues of ancient items called double-edge razors and shaving soaps and brushes. They claimed this could help alleviate uncomfortable shaves, solve the world's problems, and perhaps even allow faster-than-light travel.

He was a skeptic, but was also a trained scientist - so he decided to try out these archaic shaving implements and see if these weirdos were onto something.

He wasn't ready to buy stuff that someone else had used, so he went to the local marketplace (Ebay) and searched for the few vendors that could equip him with a kit to start with. After much searching (a second or so) he found a vendor who would sell him a shaving soap, a brush, and a razor for one low payment. So he bought a bay rum soap, a boar brush and a Parker TTO razor from 'Nana June'. It even came with a pack of Derby blades.

The soap was quite decent and smelled wonderful (unlike the canned goo). The razor was also fine. The blades were not as sharp as he would have liked, and the brush was rubbish. However, the shaves were all rather good.

This set him on a journey of discovery. He went back to the internet, found a place called Badger & Blade and proceeded to spend thousands of dollars in an effort to save money shaving.

Be that as it may, the soap from Nana June's store was decent enough, so he bought 2-3 more of them. By that time, he had many, many soaps and creams so it took quite a while to finish anything. However, he did finish using all but one of the original Nana June's soaps.

Fast forward to a couple of months ago: He found the last puck of that soap. It was unidentifiable as the label had faded, but it still smelled and worked well so he decided to use it up.

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Anyway, yesterday I used the last bit of the last of my pucks of Nana June's soaps. They were pretty standard melt and pour soaps, but the fragrances were nice. The performance was decent and they did not irritate me.

That really was how I started out in this hobby: Buying a soap, brush, razor and blades from an Ebay vendor. Nana June's closed down a few years ago, but I wouldn't have bought more of her stuff anyway - there are better options. I guess this marks the end of the beginning.

Barrister+Mann Seville
Loved the bergamot scent, but I think it gave me a wee bit of irritation so I'm unlikely to replace it.

My impressions of Seville have changed a good amount as my set has gotten older. Earlier on I got primarily citrus, but as of late it seems like way more of a patchouli bomb. I still like it, but it’s really been an interesting case-study in the way that the scent profile on a product and/or my olfactory sense have evolved.