What soap/cream did you use today?

TOBS Grapefruit

Haslinger Salbei [tallow, blue puck in background]

I am sad this is not available. Great lather. Sage scent. Thx ski maniac.

C U all tomorrow

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My kid home was off the black top road and down a lane about 100 yards.  Along the north side of that lane were feed bunks for some massive corrals and the south side was a row of pear trees.  This time of year the corrals were full of cattle and the scents of warm steers, hay, and silage were what I smelled walking the lane.  The ditches and borrow pits along the county road will be drifted full of snow and the cold biting wind will whistle out of the west and down that lane.  It was a great life but when the snow started to give way to mud, and the crocus started to push through the snow, the world changed.  The big old smooth barked cherry was the first to bloom, and about a week lather the pears would blossom and fill the air with a heady, syrupy aroma that was most enjoyable.  The apples came on about a week later.  We’d pray for no frost and a bounty of fruit which mom would can in 2-quart jars to preserve them for later.  I haven’t seen a two quart jar in years but they once were common when families did more home canning and had more children.  But those pear blossoms!  This soap takes me there.  It takes me to the first days of spring when I’d head out to chore without a heavy coat.  It’s sunshine on my shoulders.  It’s earth awakening after the deep freeze. 

I have Rhapsody in the Soft Heart base and like the scent a lot. One of the reasons I follow this thread is to get ideas for my own upcoming shaves. So you may soon be seeing an echo.

I really enjoy reading your descriptions. Very evocative.

MdC Fougere

That brush! Reminds me I need another cold Shiner Bock! Mmmm

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Barrister’s Reserve Classic (Barrister & Mann) a fougère by any other name
Shave 2 ・ 113 g left

I used to despise this scent. It reminded me of the hair tonic my trombone tutor wore back in 1973. I guess I despised trombone, too, for that matter. So due to all that emotional baggage, I didn’t touch this pot of soap for ages. But sometime in the last six months I must have exorcised my demons, because this morning nothing could have smelled better than Barrister’s Reserve Classic. It’s based on Gillette’s Sun Up cologne, a name that might lead you to expect lots of citrus and high screechy notes, but to me Classic smells fairly dark and brooding. I’m loving it, and I’m loving the lather, too, now that I’ve learned to load it lightly and give it lots of water.
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Razor Henson AL13 Mild Green ・ Blade Astra SP ・ Brush Phoenix Shaving Peregrino ・ Soap Hoard 17,931 g ・ YTD 48 g
   

Haslinger Salbei [tallow, blue puck in background]

I am sad this is not available. Great lather. Sage scent. Thx ski maniac.

C U all tomorrow

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It's a great scent, isn't it?

COLONIA by Ethos Grooming Essentials.Edition  DAMN FINE SHAVE. ?