What soap/cream did you use today?

ETHOS Mandarino Fumo - whole lotta Fumo, little if any Mandarino.  

For tobacco leaf lovers this may be the best rendition of a tobacco curing house that can be found.  It's a bomb too.  Spritzed both wrists last night and it still there after 3 washings.  Typically great ETHOS soap base.

ETHOS Mandarino Fumo - whole lotta Fumo, little if any Mandarino.  

For tobacco leaf lovers this may be the best rendition of a tobacco curing house that can be found.  It's a bomb too.  Spritzed both wrists last night and it still there after 3 washings.  Typically great ETHOS soap base.

Amen Brother!  I like your scent description better than mine, and the EDP is certainly the gift that keeps on giving - a delightful fragrance, with all the sillage and projection that Frank promised/warned us about.  I really think Frank outdid himself on this one.

ETHOS Mandarino Fumo - whole lotta Fumo, little if any Mandarino.  

For tobacco leaf lovers this may be the best rendition of a tobacco curing house that can be found.  It's a bomb too.  Spritzed both wrists last night and it still there after 3 washings.  Typically great ETHOS soap base.

Personally, I enjoyed it but was hoping for a little more mandarin. This is very heavy on tobacco which overwhelms the mandarin. From what I recall, Burley and Virginia. Burley in particular is very strong. I guess I am glad Latakia was not part of the blend. Also, a type of tobacco with some spicy notes might have been used in place of some of the burley to good effect.

Ethos Lavender

Dunhill pipe guy here. Favourite tobacco was Balkan Sobranie 759 and Dunhill Early Morning. Clearly am a huge fan of Latakia

Razorock - Santa Maria del Fiore

Seaforth! Fleur de France (Spearhead) flougère
Shave 2 ・ 107% left

Some thoughts on today’s shave: (1) Fleur de France isn’t as thirsty as most state-of-the-art high-tallow soaps, but if you load about three grams, you get an excellent lather. (2) The Merkur 15C has a knurled handle, but it’s still a slippery little eel. (3) Lilac Vegetal smells a whole lot better once you get it out of that reeking plastic bottle it comes in. A few months ago I dumped mine into a big glass lemonade bottle and set it in the back of the closet. Yesterday I uncorked it and discovered that most of the skunky note was gone. What remains is a nice lilac scent that dries down into a sweet floral bouquet. It lasts a good twenty hours on me and makes my wife jealous the whole time.
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Razor Merkur 15C ・ Blade Gillette Silver Blue ・ Brush AP Blue Lagoon ・Aftershave Lilac Vegetal ・ Hoard 16,166 g (⇣2,316 g)