What soap/cream did you use today?

Who doesn’t like a good green Chypre?  And you know what’s better than a good Chypre?  A great one!  My brother brought this soap back from West Coast Shaving and I fell in love with this scent.  So bright but so deep all at the same time.  I don’t know who made it for WCS but I imagine it was Vida at Oleo.  Is it the best base I’ve used? No, but it is certainly very very nice.  Post is very good indeed.  And that scent!  Had to follow it up with one of my favorite Chypre, Ralph Lauren Polo vintage.  Man that juice is the bomb.

Love the chypre ! And yes , RL Green is a classic! I bet you smilt goot

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I’m accusing Polovez of “collusion” with American Soap Artisans, Please start the investigations!

Igor, you have some really amazing soaps! Do you have Cherries in the Chamber by Ballenclaugh? I need this one! I missed it last year.

MdC Original

Used it all week - scent  is really growing on me. Performance for me is top notch.

C U all tomorrow

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I picked up a matching soap to that razor at work meetings last week! 

I’m accusing Polovez of “collusion” with American Soap Artisans, Please start the investigations!

Igor, you have some really amazing soaps! Do you have Cherries in the Chamber by Ballenclaugh? I need this one! I missed it last year.

Ha ha ha Rob, you know, I live in Russia. I buy all my soaps and pay for expensive shipping. In my collection there are no donated soap cans from any American manufacturer. And I will never take it, because I value the soap dispassionately. I have cherries. If you are in Russia I will give you. Send to America? I don’t know if I can do this. I never sent parcels outside of Russia

MdC Original

Used it all week - scent  is really growing on me. Performance for me is top notch.

C U all tomorrow

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What sort of wooden contraption am I looking at here?  Sure it wasn’t made for SOTD photos although it works well for that purpose.

Yeah - lip you got the contraption part right. It takes most people several tries to assemble it collapses down to a very small package. I was in Uzbekistan 13 years ago, deep in the countryside and picked this up at a mosque gift shop. It is designed to hold the Koran. I like Neros idea, but that and a couple of rugs were the only things worth purchasing while in country. I did get the worse case of food poisoning i have ever had - wanted to slit my neck. It is a good shave prop I think.

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Oops, sorry! I really did think it was a dish drying rack. No disrespect intended!

good lather has no suds

Dark Limes v. (Meißner Tremonia) earthy lime

Five twists from the menthol mill brightened things up considerably. I could happily shave with this every morning. In fact, I'll likely be seeing much more of this soap in the next few weeks, as I'm on a quest to figure out how many grams I use per shave. Meißner Tremonia makes a very dense soap, triple milled too. It doesn't take much to make mountains of rich lather. After ten shaves with Dark Limes, it looks like my average load is 1 gram. With luck I'll get between 90 and 100 shaves per jar. 

This soap was on my shelf for about two years. I just could not try it. This is a great soap for the summer. He lacks a little glide . But, after shaving - fantastic for my skin. I liked it even more than Kairos. This is just a great top level soap.

I’m accusing Polovez of “collusion” with American Soap Artisans, Please start the investigations!

Igor, you have some really amazing soaps! Do you have Cherries in the Chamber by Ballenclaugh? I need this one! I missed it last year.

Ha ha ha Rob, you know, I live in Russia. I buy all my soaps and pay for expensive shipping. In my collection there are no donated soap cans from any American manufacturer. And I will never take it, because I value the soap dispassionately. I have cherries. If you are in Russia I will give you. Send to America? I don’t know if I can do this. I never sent parcels outside of Russia

Polo, I travel to Moscow frequently on biz. Less so obviously now with covid. I hope to be there again this fall. I am glad to bring a suitcase load of supplies to you. Let me know -

Our company dwellings are near Europinski mall and the Kievskaya metro. I am guessing I will be there in October / November. This will cost you at least one shot of Ruusian Standard on the Arbot

Tomski

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Wholly Kaw Monaco Royale

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I’m accusing Polovez of “collusion” with American Soap Artisans, Please start the investigations!

Igor, you have some really amazing soaps! Do you have Cherries in the Chamber by Ballenclaugh? I need this one! I missed it last year.

Ha ha ha Rob, you know, I live in Russia. I buy all my soaps and pay for expensive shipping. In my collection there are no donated soap cans from any American manufacturer. And I will never take it, because I value the soap dispassionately. I have cherries. If you are in Russia I will give you. Send to America? I don’t know if I can do this. I never sent parcels outside of Russia

Polo, I travel to Moscow frequently on biz. Less so obviously now with covid. I hope to be there again this fall. I am glad to bring a suitcase load of supplies to you. Let me know -

Our company dwellings are near Europinski mall and the Kievskaya metro. I am guessing I will be there in October / November.  This will cost you at least one shot of Ruusian Standard on the Arbot

Tomski

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Thank you for the suggestion ! I really appreciate your attention. When there is time closer to your trip, we can return to this conversation. There is a truth, one small BUT. I live in St. Petersburg, not in Moscow. And I’m close to the Kievskaya metro station, about 800-850 km. This is a joke, but it really is. But it's not a problem . I think this can also be solved.