What soap/cream did you use today?

Stirling Soap Co - Tuscany

                                                   

You wanna talk about a stinker!  Well here’s your oyster!  With a scent profile including things like motor oil, leather, gun cleaner, birch tar etc you know it’s going to smell like a shop rag.  I’ve always been interested but the scents seemed to eclectic, and the name too “back alley” to expect it not to be so hyper masculine as to become a joke.  Awhile back I got a little sampler of the aftershave in a trade I’d worked out with a fella and surprise! I liked it.  I mean I really truly enjoyed this scent so now I have full sized of the whole shebang.  Is it masculine?  Let’s just say my shirt won’t button across the chest.  Is it delicious?  Nope, it smells of gun cleaner and motor oil and birch tar.  But who ever mixed this scent did so masterfully and added enough Cade, oak moss, vanilla, citrus, to take the harsh edges away and gents, it is glorious.  Who would have thunk it?  I enjoy this stinker more than Salters dirty French Vetiver.  The name Stag though will tell you all you need to know about it’s prowess to woo the ladies however.  I know I’m going stag when I roll this one out and I’ll keep the Creed scents around for the lady.  

Love the scent. Early days but not sure I'm as enthusiastic about the new soap base at least in terms of producing a lather.

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!

Your posts always take me back to a similar youth albeit in the NorthEast

Eufros Tobacco shaving soap (tallow)

Friday DecemBOAR 3, 2021
Razor: Game Changer .84
Blade: Wizamet
Brush: Rubberset 400/Oumo Boar
Soap: Ethos Pineapple/Coconut
AS 1: Humphrey's Alcoholado Maravilla 70
AS 2: Nivea Deep
Fragrance: Mr. Burberry
Consecutive Daily Shaves - # 1122

Got home yesterday and opened my box with two new soaps from Frank of Ethos. This one was an overrun of a special order by somebody and so I got one of the two extra tubs. My wife caught a whiff of it and said this is nice !!! I said no ma'am that's mine and you'll have to use your Shannon's soaps pineapple banana that you stole from me already. Filled the bathroom that I shave in with this beautiful scent that lingered even after the shave this morning. Glad I got this one Frank Dragonsbeard and whomever custom ordered it.......Thanks. Tomorrow is ALL Dragonsbeard themed in the new F base.

Damn Fine Shave/Panna Crema Pure2O Shave Soap

Friday DecemBOAR 3, 2021
Razor: Game Changer .84
Blade: Wizamet
Brush: Rubberset 400/Oumo Boar
Soap: Ethos Pineapple/Coconut
AS 1: Humphrey's Alcoholado Maravilla 70
AS 2: Nivea Deep
Fragrance: Mr. Burberry
Consecutive Daily Shaves - # 1122

Got home yesterday and opened my box with two new soaps from Frank of Ethos. This one was an overrun of a special order by somebody and so I got one of the two extra tubs. My wife caught a whiff of it and said this is nice !!! I said no ma'am that's mine and you'll have to use your Shannon's soaps pineapple banana that you stole from me already. Filled the bathroom that I shave in with this beautiful scent that lingered even after the shave this morning. Glad I got this one Frank Dragonsbeard and whomever custom ordered it.......Thanks. Tomorrow is ALL Dragonsbeard themed in the new F base.

Pina colada scent??

Friday DecemBOAR 3, 2021
Razor: Game Changer .84
Blade: Wizamet
Brush: Rubberset 400/Oumo Boar
Soap: Ethos Pineapple/Coconut
AS 1: Humphrey's Alcoholado Maravilla 70
AS 2: Nivea Deep
Fragrance: Mr. Burberry
Consecutive Daily Shaves - # 1122

Got home yesterday and opened my box with two new soaps from Frank of Ethos. This one was an overrun of a special order by somebody and so I got one of the two extra tubs. My wife caught a whiff of it and said this is nice !!! I said no ma'am that's mine and you'll have to use your Shannon's soaps pineapple banana that you stole from me already. Filled the bathroom that I shave in with this beautiful scent that lingered even after the shave this morning. Glad I got this one Frank Dragonsbeard and whomever custom ordered it.......Thanks. Tomorrow is ALL Dragonsbeard themed in the new F base.

Pina colada scent??

No Rum or Maraschino Cherry. Just a nice blend of the coconut and pineapple. Interesting that neither overpowers the other. Both are present and discernible. Very nicely done !

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.

In spite of its name, I don't think we can call Felce Aromatica a true aromatic fougère. It lacks the spice and heavy moss of something like Azzaro pour Homme. This soap smells mostly of citrus, sage, ginger, and fir. I don't get any lavender, coumarin, or oak moss.

Midnight Stag  (Chiseled Face) motor oil
Shave 1 ・ 100% left

This is just to confirm that Lipripper660 has his nose on straight. When he says this stuff stinks, he’s not lying. Glad to see he’s made a full olfactory recovery.
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Razor Henson AL13 Medium ・ Blade Astra SP ・ Brush Phoenix Shaving Amber Aerolite ・ YTD 690 g