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Wednesday, February 15, 2023 - Soap of the Day

Grooming Dept Before The Fire

Love the scent of roses so if you’re going to ask me to buy your rose scented soap, it needs to be a really good rose scent or it needs to be blended really well with other notes.  For example, I love Coates creams performance but thier rose scent doesn’t smell like grandmas purse, it smells like a hankie lost in ‘57 and has been hiding in the deepest reaches of that matriarchal repository.  It’s wretched stuff and unfortunately a lot of straight rose scents are.  Contrast that with a couple of other roses that have rose as a main player but with other wonderful notes and you get Caties Dirty Prose (a Vetiver and rose) Sir Henrys Kentucky Rain (sort of a barbershop rose) and Shannon’s Somali rose and you have winners.  Art of Shaving Rose is straight, wonderful, floral rose.  It smells like grandmas rose garden vs g-mamas rucksack.   Mine is hard now like a soap but it still smells wonderfully Rosie and shaves like a dream.

Windsor (D.R. Harris) vetiver cologne
Shave 29 ・ 87 g left

For about a week now, I’ve been using just one brush, the Simpson Trafalgar T2. It’s a tidy little tool, possessing a certain suppleness in its bristles and a commendable rigidity in its core. But I can’t say it’s hungry. In search of something that could truly sink some teeth into this adamantine puck of Windsor, today I chose the boar bristle Semogue 1250. With a modified Marco method, I drew an impressive quantity of soap, and whipped up a heap of lather.

After yesterday’s close cropping with the Vector, there was very little for me to shave off this morning. I like adrian.suta's clever advice, but I just don't have the beard to pull off two shaves each day. This morning one quick pass with the Kelvin sufficed, serving to underscore just how efficient the Vector was. And once again I truly enjoyed the superior smoothness of this Wizamet blade. After five days, it's still sharp and shows no signs of rust.
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Razor Edwin Jagger DES89KN Kelvin ・ Blade Wizamet ・ Brush Semogue 1250 ・ Hoard 19,948 g (⇣21,211 g)

Viking Shave Soap - Sweden


                                                                          

Loved it so much yesterday used it again tonight.  GD Mumtaz

I can see a lot of GroomingDept lather churned up in the coming months. This Kairos SE is as good as it gets. 

I will be in London next week and I can hear 29 St James’s Street calling. Our resident wordsmith planted some Windsor thoughts in my head. Thank you my friend, something to look forward to. 

I can see a lot of GroomingDept lather churned up in the coming months. This Kairos SE is as good as it gets. 

I will be in London next week and I can hear 29 St James’s Street calling. Our resident wordsmith planted some Windsor thoughts in my head. Thank you my friend, something to look forward to. 

If I was in London, I'd want to hit a couple of others too!

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Face Shave

Razor: Masamune
Blade: Feather (3)
Brush: TNS H4
Soap: DG Albizia
Splash: The Club Boo

I really love this TNS H4 and is a top-three brush for me.


Head Shave

Razor: Blackbird Ti
Blade: Astra SP (1)
Brush: DG B15
Soap: DG Albizia
Splash: Gentleman’s Nod Musashi

I love the Declaration Grooming B15 knots. This one is in the Sombre Hour pour and is a Goat brush. I wanted a Sombre Hour for a long time and this one fell into my lap. This is my first time using Musashi, this splash I bought used with soap and decided to pair it with Albiza (close to killing it). Musashi smelled so good I went and bought the EDT tonight. A few vendors that had it just days ago are sold out today.