What soap/cream did you use today?

Spearhead Seaforth! Black Watch in collaboration with Shawn Maher
Highland Base
Scent notes include: Bergamot, Jasmine, Plum, Leather, Oakmoss, Incense, and Sandalwood.

Fine Accoutrements / Green Vetiver

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Grooming Dept Unam

American Blend (Fine) woody fougère
Shave 6 ・ 95 g left

Fougère Friday is upon us again. This week we’ll celebrate with Fine’s American Blend. What an excellent slick lather it makes, and I really the like the smell. Based on YSL’s Rive Gauche pour Homme, this is a very nice woody fougère that’s lighter on the oakmoss and geranium than most. Only wish it would last all the way through the shave.

I'm not sure what's wrong with my nose, but all I get from this scent are razor-sharp, perfumy aldehydes. I've had the soap a couple times and the aftershave. Hard pass for me, but I wish I got out of it what most do, then I'd be all about it.

Neroli, this one I like.

It is purty close to Rive Gauche, not as "rounded and full" as I think there are some expensive or more hard to add notes that YSL has in it that Fine does not utilize.

Similar to PAA CAD I think. Rive Gauche another masterpiece that is gone forever. My most complimented EDT for a decade. I have one bottle left. Bouki is keeping us on our toes with some good reaches lately.

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Fougère Friday
Grooming Department Mallard Fougère

Like some of the big perfumers / fragrance houses, there are certain accords that are characteristic, one can pick up and identify as a 'marker': Guerlain, Chanel, Dyptique to name a few. Grooming Department soaps have some underlying blend that hooks & holds my attention. I have 3-4 pux I lather quite frequently. NYC Chypre, Cedarwood, Soap, and La Aventurra. This fougère has both the NYC Chypre & La Aventurra accords buried in the blend. This one is going to grow on me quickly - like Tabac did.

C U all tomorrow



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C U all tomorrow

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Dirtyver (Declaration Grooming) vetiver & cedar
Shave 2 ・ 106 g left ・ 10 months old

I like Declaration Grooming’s luxurious lather, but I’m a bit irked to find mold growing on the soaps. “Keep your brush out of the jar,” I hear you say. But my sweet brushes never touch a DG puck. I always scrape them with a spatula and then smash the knurdle in my acacia loading bowl. Looking carefully at the jar, I don’t see any use-by date, but from my experience with these soaps, it may be best to gobble them up before they celebrate their first birthday.

Nero I'm with you on the aldehydic after tones in Fine's American Blend. It's nowhere as dry, sweet, or complex as Rive Gauche per Homme (you know, TommyCarioca, that's still my favorite fougère. I have ¾ of a bottle left, so it only comes out of the garage once a week when the weather is clear). To me AB smells like old time shaving cream, sort of cheap and fleeting, but I'm good with that once in a while, especially when I'm in a nostalgic mood. I'd use it more but the Fine hard soap base bleeds through quite a bit. I think that's why I retired or piffed all my other Fine pucks. I've never tried the new soft base. How does it smell?
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Razor Karve Christopher Bradley 3" Argyll SB-B ・ Blade PolSilver ・ Brush Peregrino ・ Hoard 17,281 g (⇣1,201 g) ・ 35 consecutive shaves

   

Dirtyver (Declaration Grooming) vetiver & cedar
Shave 2 ・ 106 g left ・ 10 months old

I like Declaration Grooming’s luxurious lather, but I’m a bit irked to find mold growing on the soaps. “Keep your brush out of the jar,” I hear you say. But my sweet brushes never touch a DG puck. I always scrape them with a spatula and then smash the knurdle in my acacia loading bowl. Looking carefully at the jar, I don’t see any use-by date, but from my experience with these soaps, it may be best to gobble them up before they celebrate their first birthday.

Nero I'm with you on the aldehydic after tones in Fine's American Blend. It's nowhere as dry, sweet, or complex as Rive Gauche per Homme (you know, TommyCarioca, that's still my favorite fougère. I have ¾ of a bottle left, so it only comes out of the garage once a week when the weather is clear). To me AB smells like old time shaving cream, sort of cheap and fleeting, but I'm good with that once in a while, especially when I'm in a nostalgic mood. I'd use it more but the Fine hard soap base bleeds through quite a bit. I think that's why I retired or piffed all my other Fine pucks. I've never tried the new soft base. How does it smell?
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Razor Karve Christopher Bradley 3" Argyll SB-B ・ Blade PolSilver ・ Brush Peregrino ・ Hoard 17,281 g (⇣1,201 g) ・ 35 consecutive shaves

   

Bouki-master, YSL RG my#1 fougère as well. I have vapors left in the old cylinder bottle. I have a backup in the square glass bottle. Not quite the same juice, but 98% of nectar of the God's is still great. Why do these houses do this to us?

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