What soap/cream did you use today?

GENTLEMANS NOD / Kanpai

Right back to it today.  Does it lather as easily as Sir Henrys?  Nope.  But I love the scent.  

Lipripper660: great to see you up on your feet and flexing your joints. All the best to you and your knee. Now, tell us about the scent of this B Cubed. Are we talking Bay Rum? (DG is amazingly reticent about what exactly their fragrances are made up of.)

I know what you mean.  Great scents and names but not much direction as to the notes in the accord.  I think he goes for an emotion or feeling rather than just a scent and for me it works.  B Cubed to my understanding is a snappy new name for BlackBerry Blossom Bay.  This scent was originally an LE for this forum and our own Marko can likely state things better than I.  What it is not:  this is not a bay rum although it certainly gives a nod to those roots.  Bay is a prevailing note.  What it is:  the top notes are certainly a very masculine floral that I’d guess was the blackberry blossom.  There is spice in the middle reminiscent of Shultons Old Spice but not nearly so powerful.  Just a really nice and rounded spice background.  The bay smells of true bay and not frag oils.  And I swear I’m picking up a sandalwood base.  It’s unlike anything ive sniffed but it sure is nice.

Thanks for this description, Lipripper660! You've got a great schnoz. Sounds like I might have to dip a brush into this B3.

Fendrihan's "Charcoal" Shaving Cream
Strange colour, strange scent.
The lather it makes is much lighter in colour, but still is a weird grey.


Fragrance notes – "A dynamic fragrance that combines cedarwood, sandalwood, musk and vanilla."  (Sure, I guess.)
Ingredients – Aqua (Water), Stearic Acid, Myristic Acid, Potassium Hydroxide, Coconut Fatty Acid, Activated Charcoal Powder, Glycerin, Parfum (Fragrance), Triethanolamine, Sodium Hydroxide, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Alpha Iso-Methyl Ionone.

"Activated Charcoal Powder" - Shouldn't that neutralize any fragrance ingredients?

"Made in England" for Fendrihan, and I have this suspicion that it's made by the same folks who make TOBS creams. The characteristics are similar, and their Sandalwood version is (to me) indistinguishable from TOBS' Sandalwood.

Finally - Is it just me, or does it resemble J-B Weld Metal Epoxy?

That is some wicked ugly shave cream, John Rose. If I was the Tin Man, though, I know what I'd reach for every morning.

Wholly Kaw King of Oud

+9

That is some wicked ugly shave cream, John Rose. If I was the Tin Man, though, I know what I'd reach for every morning.

It's only a matter of time.


As far as "ugly" goes, I can do better.
I have some of this. It has nearly whole pieces of flax seeds throughout.

I mentioned to the vendor at the Farmers' Market how they could do without the flax seeds because it would have absolutely no benefit to a shave soap.
They said "yeah, it seemed like a good idea at the time", but they've made no effort to change the formula.

B Cubed to my understanding is a snappy new name for BlackBerry Blossom Bay.  This scent was originally an LE for this forum and our own Marko can likely state things better than I.  What it is not:  this is not a bay rum although it certainly gives a nod to those roots.  Bay is a prevailing note.  What it is:  the top notes are certainly a very masculine floral that I’d guess was the blackberry blossom.  

My guess is that they were referencing the traditional Old Timey/Bluegrass tune, "Blackberry Blossom", more than any actual flower.

In their words:

Going back to the idea of if bay rum is for pirates, this is would be for the more refined seafarer, I started thinking about steamboats going down the Mississippi River through St. Louis. I could imagine a collection of gentlemen, from river destinations like Memphis, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge congregating on the deck as the boat docks in the old city where the Gateway Arch now stands. This is a scent that I could imagine them smelling like as they listen to the band play "Blackberry Blossom" as they sun goes down behind the Old Cathedral and Old Courthouse, before they were considered to be old.

Fine Accoutrements / Snake Bite

8/19/42

CO Bigelow

Water heater went out last night but I still had appointments today. That meant a nice cold shower and shave. Couldn't take pics because my fingers were too frozen to hold my camera