What soap/cream did you use today?

E&S Rasage Traditionnel Equinoxe
Fougere Aromatique

This beautifully scented soap performs at a high level.

Truly one of the best vegan soap bases on the market.

At the Northwest Wet shavers meet Douglas gifted me a set of Tokyo Rose.  Rose scents are an enigma to me.  Unlike say Bay Rum, which are all different but mostly enjoyable, rose scents are polar opposite of that for me and I assume it has to do with the high cost of rose scent and the masculinity vs floral that’s rooted in most men.  First off, I love to stuff my nose in a garden rose flower and inhale.  Roses are right up there with lilacs in the “I like it” category.  Thus, I’m very interested in rose soaps.  But rose soaps seem to fall into two categories, straight rose, and rose with other friends.  Straight rose most often misses the mark for me due to synthetic scent that truly does a deep dive into the bottom of Madams Purse.  The best straight up rose I’ve had is the discontinued Art of Shaving rose.  Then there are the “manly roses” that attempt to offer a fella the kiss of a rose without your biker buddies ribbing you.  This rose is one of those.  Rose is certainly a main player but a lot of other notes round it out.  It’s a good one like Sir Henrys Kentucky Rain is a good one.  Finally we start to see some new roses on the scene. Oh, and the aftershave is light scented as is the soap so I’m free to use the scent of my choice.

Nice read and yet another teaser on Kentucky Rain.....

La Fougère Parfaite (Wholly Kaw) light fougère
Shave 21 ・ 74 g left

I’m really liking La Fougère Parfaite aftershave toner. It smells like Brut, but it’s Brut done with quality ingredients, so everything is smooth and tidy. The scent doesn’t last long, but while it’s around, it’s very nice. And the toner itself is a smorgasbord of excellent skin foods: organic aloe leaf juice, sodium hyaluronate crosspolymer, glycerin, propanediol, croton lechleri resin powder, white willow bark extract, edelweiss extract, d-panthenol.
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Razor Karve Christopher Bradley 3" Argyll ・ Blade PolSilver ・ Brush Amber Aerolite ・ Hoard 17,271 g (⇣1,211 g)

Head Shave

Razor: Executive Fatboy
Blade: Astra SP
Brush: Grizzly Bay "Heavy Metal" 26mm
Soap: Southern Witchcraft Carpathia
Splash: Tabac

Carpathia is an exciting scent. It takes me to a damp forest with a sweet floral scent in the air Not a bad one and of course, the SW base is excellent as always. This was my first time using the tabac aftershave and It's ok not as strong as I was hoping.

I would give this shave a 7 out of 10.

Notes: Evergreen forest, musk, herbs, rose, coffee, black tea

Soap: Southern Witchcraft Carpathia

Carpathia is an exciting scent. It takes me to a damp forest with a sweet floral scent in the air Not a bad one and of course, the SW base is excellent as always.

Southern Witchcrafts makes a great shave soap. (I don't like megaphoning that it's vegan, because you'd never know, and I think a lot of us (me included) unfairly take a point off for that in our minds. It's excellent compared to the best of the best. Easy shave, easy lather, and skin is sooo soft and pampered afterwards.) Of course, as many noted, one does need to explore to find the right scent, they are frequently unusual. Maggard's has samples thankfully.

Declaration Grooming Albizia - Milksteak

A high-quality citrus-floral puck layered with a nice green bitter accord. DG's website describes it aptly as a green spring day. These descriptions or spring-like pucks almost always disappoint, however this one is not synthetic, not candle shop reminiscent. It has reminded me of a high end fragrance that escapes my nose-brain link. I will need a few more lathers, but will get their on identifying what fragrance memory it is tickling. This one is a high quality freshie, and that milksteak base lathers in the tip top tier.

C U all tomorrow

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