What soap/cream did you use today?

Niiiiice stuff

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Plus you get a lot for your money.

Crabtree & Evelyn Mysore Sandalwood shaving soap (tallow)

Murphy and McNeil Ogham Stone again.  I have been struggling to find the scent that keeps me interested so I looked up Bills scent list and sure as shooting Peony is one of the notes.  He states Frankincense and Myrrh on top, Rose and Peony mid, Amber base.  I mostly get the rose and peony, but the peony is the note that was tickling my olfactory bulb.  Our home sat off the road about 200 yards and the lane went past my moms kitchen window and continued on to the barn and shop and stack yards.  Along some of that lane she planted peony so she could watch them while she worked.  I recall how much the ants liked those flowers and would stop and see them gathering sticky sap from the about-to-bloom flowers.  The blossom pre-emergence was about the size of a ping pong ball and when they opened they were showy to say the least.  Further towards the road, the lane was lined with cherry, apricot, and pear trees.  Then parallel with the lane but 20 yards to the south a field fence was lined with apple trees that gave way to lilacs and a huge couple of Walnut trees.  I watched two tomcats get to scrapping and fall probably 60 feet out of the top of one of them.  Mom had poppy’s planted along then south side of the house and I loved their showy, albeit short-lived blooms.  In the back yard was a flowering crabapple that was brilliant in the spring and a damn mess the rest of the year.  An irrigation ditch came under the lane, across the back of the yard, and turned to go behind the shop.  I liked throwing a dam in the ditch and watching the water spill into the yard to water the plants and huge garden.  But the Peonys!  I will always associate their smell with memories of my mom.  

Nice post. Felt like I was there

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Ginestra di Taormina v. (Tcheon Fung Sing) broom flower

It Italy, ginestra (cytisus scoparius, aka broom) was burned to ward off witches. Let’s hope a shave with ginestra will keep off Hawaiian nightmarchers as well.
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Tcheon Fung Sing: Ginestra di Taormina (168 grams left) ・ Henson Al13 ・ Astra Superior Platinum ・ Phoenix Shaving Solar Flare ・ Soap Hoard: 11,011 g ・ Used this year: 147 g

Top ten scented puck for me

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Grooming Department Mandarin Bay

I have about 20 shaves left in this puck. Love it.

Plays well with Dan's sentimental favorite : Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet

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Pareidolia is seeing faces or patterns in things where the face or pattern is really not there. Examples would be the “Sleeping Giant” north of Helena MT or Beaverhead Rock south of Dillon MT that if you know what a beaver in the water looks like really does look like a beaver.  
I don’t rightly know what Douglas had in mind when he named this wonderful soap Pareidolia but it sure is nice.  Sandalwood is the star and you know me, sandalwood junkie.  PAA was the first place that taught me veg could equal, or even best tallow as a soap fat.  The soap is white as snow. Easy to load and lather.  Post is awesome.  And why does an Idaho fella post Montana pictures? My bride is from Helena and we still have a place in the hills nearby and I used to farm in Dillon and went by the Beaverhead often.

Lipripper660, I was puzzling over this soap just yesterday wondering was a pareidolia was. Thanks for the explanation. And thanks for your note on the quality of the soap. I'm thinking I may have to dip my brush into a few more Phoenix Shaving tubs. As for Montana, I've never made it, but I think I should go soon, not for the obvious reason of planting a crop of dental floss, but rather to visit Butte. The city attracts me for two important reasons: first, it's the setting for Dashiell Hammett's blood-soaked Red Harvest, one of my favorite reads of last year; and second (and more importantly really), it's the birthplace of Evil Knievel, still the greatest bus jumper there ever was.

Pure musical genius!

Churchill for better or worse saved the possibility of Western Liberal Democracy.

Really loving this soap!  Today was the 2nd day with Laugar and I am really loving this soap!  The Alvdans scent is lemongrass forward and reminiscent of Mike's Lemongrass and Eucalyptus 

Ethos Pure Collection “Clean” (Thanks Dan):