What soap/cream did you use today?

Zagara Gelsomino v. (Tcheon Fung Sing) sweet floral

Zagara Gelsomino is a soapy sweet floral made up of only two notes: orange blossom (zagara) and jasmine (gelsomino). There’s absolutely nothing in it that could possibly offend. Though the label says "forte" and “intenso,” the scent is actually quite mild. Your wife will love it.
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Feather AS-D2 • Feather Hi-Stainless (5) • Semogue 1250 • CRSW Morning Ghost Aftershave • Tom Ford Grey Vetiver

   

Bouki, which one is a cinnamon bomb? Not this one, right?

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Yesterday
Proraso Cypress & Vetyver in the udder

Nice performance. The scent is honestly not so true to it's name... It is more of a resinous scent than anything, which is not what the name conjures up in my mind.

Tonight
PAA Strange Island

Today, the soap choice was more about the fact that I wanted to use the PAA Cube (the new seasonal one, the Xmas Fir tree scent) that came in today, so I had to stay with the brand and Strange Island seemed the most complementary scent from my Phoenix stash.

I've never used a pre-shave soap before but I'm a sucker for the Fir tree scent. My favorite outdoors scent. So much better than spruce and pine.

Not that the shave soap needs help, but I do think the pre-shave soap added to the performance. Completely boring easy shave, just the way I like them.

Grooming Department Peach Chypre
GD#2

Nice, light peach, creamy fragrance. Slick yogurt like lather.

Plan on using GD up to Xmas - have about 10 flavors

C U all tomorrow

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TommyCarioca: Tcheon Fung Sing's cinnamon bomb was Arancio Amaro "bitter orange." It was bitter, believe me.

Groomong Dept L’ Avventura

Razorock Lime Soap

Groomong Dept L’ Avventura

My #1 GD soap

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I know the winter scene on the dish is simply an artist rendition of a holiday situation but it’s pretty obvious said artist has never hitched a horse to a sleigh.  This sleigh would be light duty (one-horse open sleigh) thus a collar and hames would be replaced by a saddle and breast strap as in the picture.  (Geometry is wrong but the thought is ok).  The horse is going to pull the weight with his chest.  But this is the last of the “real” harness stuff.  There needs to be a solid attachment to the horse and on a one horse sleigh that would be accomplished by two shafts (or shaves) on either side of the horse. These would be to maintain proper distance from the back of the horse to the front of the sleigh (way too close in this image) but more importantly for steering of the sleigh.  They would be hitched to the saddle mid-horse.  Then the straps you see from the horse back to the sleigh, called traces or tugs, do just that, tug the sleigh along.  But how to stop the sleigh from slamming into the horse?  There should be a breaching seat and cruppers, leather straps that come behind the horse (breaching, or britchin) and back to the shafts/saddle, and under the tail (cruppers) to keep things in place.  These are the brakes and “hold back” when slowing down or going downhill.  To top it all off there are no lines from the driver to the horse head to drive with.  I’m guessing that is how the the one horse open sleigh got upsot.