What soap/cream did you use today?

Barrister’s Reserve Fern  (Barrister & Mann) oak moss, lavender, & tonka
Shave 9 ・ 93% left

I’ve been sucked deep into the fougèrity. Doused with Brut, powdered with Mr Taylor’s talc, and skooshed liberally with Rive Gauche pour Homme, I lie here on my cot imagining I’m a moss-covered log crumbling to pieces on the forest floor. My wife stands in the doorway of my study, takes a whiff, and says I reek like an old man who’s been lost in the gents for decades and wouldn’t I like a quick hose down, please. I wish I could help myself, but when the fougère’s deep green grabs hold of me, it warps my senses and leaves me teetering on the very edge of reason.
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Razor Henson AL13 Medium ・ Blade Astra SP ・ Brush Phoenix Shaving Peregrino ・ YTD 690 g

Bouki my friend, relax and take a page (or several pages) from Joseph Conrad:  When you penetrate deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness, you should be loyal to your own nightmare.  You've got to own your own dream.

For Bouki 

Awesome, ExtraProtein. Really incredible. What a wide range of styles you have, from the flat, highly detailed sea bream horse bursting through a bed of chrysanthemums to this livid rendition of Angel done up in sumi and blood chilling red ochres. Creepy? yeah. . . but so intriguing.

Anything in colour outside of pencils is done with the new iPad Pro 12.9

Having said that, let’s be crystal clear on one thing….. “Actors and Models don’t look like that in real life”

If you draw on an iPad, yes, it’s your work, HOWEVER, you press a button and it auto-corrects shite line work or makes it disappear.  I’ll have to do a side by side of some flowers I’m working on for Sunday.  It’s almost not fair, lol. You can draw a stick figure with a hat and ipad will change it up and make it look like Cary Grant modeling 

Also, it’s double work if you ask me.  Sit down with pencils and knock one out, throw a brush, soap and razor on it and call it SOTD.  I’ve done some elaborate work tho with it.  Went to Kinkos print shop to have a 24x24 colour print done….and I walked out, cost was ridiculous.  I’ll purchase a used print shop large scale printer and print my own stuff, sign them, put them on ETSY before I pay 2 zillion quid for a little print….rubbish

Barrister’s Reserve Fern  (Barrister & Mann) oak moss, lavender, & tonka
Shave 9 ・ 93% left

I’ve been sucked deep into the fougèrity. Doused with Brut, powdered with Mr Taylor’s talc, and skooshed liberally with Rive Gauche pour Homme, I lie here on my cot imagining I’m a moss-covered log crumbling to pieces on the forest floor. My wife stands in the doorway of my study, takes a whiff, and says I reek like an old man who’s been lost in the gents for decades and wouldn’t I like a quick hose down, please. I wish I could help myself, but when the fougère’s deep green grabs hold of me, it warps my senses and leaves me teetering on the very edge of reason.
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Razor Henson AL13 Medium ・ Blade Astra SP ・ Brush Phoenix Shaving Peregrino ・ YTD 690 g

Bouki my friend, relax and take a page (or several pages) from Joseph Conrad:  When you penetrate deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness, you should be loyal to your own nightmare.  You've got to own your own dream.

As much as love Conrad, was immediately taken to Frost's 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'

Martin de Candre Agrumes

78 degrees in Dallas yesterday! Still can roll with the summer soaps and post shave scents.

C U all tomorrow

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If you go up Merlins Canyon to where Merlin Ottley’s house sits and bear off south from there you will find a good trail to a notch in the ridge we call the drag trail.  Merlins Canyon is properly named Stinson Creek and it has great big timber in the head.  Some giant firs tucked in up there.  But that is another 7 miles up from Merlins.  However If you take a team of horses over the drag trail and into the bottom of Dry Canyon the timber is much closer and easier to “drag” through the drag trail.  There is a flat bench in the bottom of Dry Canyon that had a grand stand of timber before my time but it had been logged off many years before I joined humanity and what remained were some jumbo stumps so my whole life we called it Stump Flats and the new timber growing there were and are prime Christmas tree sized.  The top end is filled with Douglas Fir but the lower end has some Piñon Pine and when it was time to cut a tree I’d drive up to Merlins and hump up over the drag trail with a bowsaw in hand.  Most often there was about a foot of snow which allowed me to drag the trees out without skinning all the needles off one side but on dry years I had to carry the trees off over my shoulder.  This First Snow soap had me working up to the drag trail with a couple of trees over my shoulders and my head buried in the branches.  The air is cold and biting and the scent of fir is lively!  My knees aren’t aching and I have the stride of a youthful, powerful, young man.  I’m excited to get the trees back to mom and my bride and let the kids get to setting them up.  I still go up the drag trail  but anot to cut a tree.  my tree lives in a box in the garage.  Man I enjoy memory lane!

Reef Point Soaps / Fougere Santal.

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Felce Aromatica (Saponificio Varesino) easy green
Shave 16 ・ 79% left

This one’s very easy on the nose. It’s just clean and green. The lather’s as good as any, fairly low structure, and as thirsty as sandstone. Always gives a great shave.
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Razor Henson AL13 Mild ・ Blade Astra SP ・ Brush Phoenix Shaving Peregrino ・ YTD 686 g ・ The Three Musketeers, Chap. 11 "In Which the Plot Thickens"  (81% left)

I've never tried this brand I think I took a pass based on the packaging and maybe the price. A refill would do though but it looks like they make their pucks such a size they wouldn't comfortably fit in most mugs. The scent sound nice and easy going it doesn't quite come through in your description so I may be mistaken by I was under the impression this was a dupe or homage as soap makers say of Azzaro Pour Homme.