What soap/cream did you use today?

Ethos Honeysuckle - custom

Sorry no pic... Traveling.

Was making a sales call, traveling in a golf cart with a Vietnam vet and a young black man from Texarkana. As we all were talking, the young fella asked me what fragrance I was sporting. I told him and he said he loved it, and was looking for something realistic like the Ethos. I tried to remember Frank's website, but just asked the guy to follow me to my car and I gave him my EDP, and the soap. He was grateful and now will be a customer, and he has Frank's info on the back of the bottle.

So Frank, this stuff has broad apoeal. It may be for the rednecks and southern boys that appreciate the 'suckle, but get busy.

C U all tomorrow

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Stirling Unscented Beeswax

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Thursday, May 4, 2023 - Shave of the Day

Barrister and Mann 42

It’s trying.  It’s trying really hard to get to spring but this weekend will put snow on the roof of the mountain cabin.  Snow you say?  Yes sir, the bison are dropping calves on the snow this year.  There are open meadows that get full sun. So the animals are starting to hit the green-up but the green is critically late this year and the poor deer are suffering for it.  They are still down amongst the farms because the lower elevation has allowed themto get a mouthful of green shoots.  Farmers have been extraordinarily kind and allowed deer and elk to hammer their expensive haystacks.  Usually we haze them back because they are lazy but this year they were not so lazy as they were desperate.  Most that made it through the winter will likely make it to true spring now.  The only question is how many made it?  
I love the scent of new mud appearing from under the showbanks.  Last night after turning a bowl on the lathe for a gift I jumped up on the dry farms above my place just to see what was going on.  Schwieder and his bunch were redrilling winter-killed grain and were glad to be dry enough to go.  Simmons was doing the same.  I spent a bit of time talking to Mr Schwieder and he mentioned I needed to go a couple of miles down the road.  Then I’d know why his grain winter killed.  I did. And wow!  Certainly this is in a windy spot so the snow piled in here but there has to be lots of snow for the wind to move it!  Yep, that’s too much dark for the grain to survive well.
I’m sad that Fine killed todays shave but I get it.  Green Vetiver is not an easily approachable scent to many.  It’s just a bit piquant I suppose but for a full face of Vetiver it is hard to beat.  Citrus, Vetiver, coumarin, oakmoss.  Man it smells like that moldering mud at the edge of a snow bank.

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Ethos Honeysuckle - custom

Sorry no pic... Traveling.

Was making a sales call, traveling in a golf cart with a Vietnam vet and a young black man from Texarkana. As we all were talking, the young fella asked me what fragrance I was sporting. I told him and he said he loved it, and was looking for something realistic like the Ethos. I tried to remember Frank's website, but just asked the guy to follow me to my car and I gave him my EDP, and the soap.  He was grateful and now will be a customer, and he has Frank's info on the back of the bottle.

So Frank, this stuff has broad apoeal. It may be for the rednecks and southern boys that appreciate the 'suckle, but get busy.

C U all tomorrow

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Hey, I resemble that remark.  And yeah, I love that 'suckle scent wafting through the air in late spring early summer.

Speick shaving cream

The Full Measure of Man (Barrister & Mann) tobacco praline
Shave 4 ・ 94% left

My Semogue boar brushes have a reputation for gobbling up lather with reckless abandon. That’s not all bad. They allow me to use copious amounts of soap – around 3½ grams per shave – to achieve a perfect lather without making a whole wheelbarrow full of suds. Together with these lather-hogging brushes, I use the Sori Yanagi Martian bowl, crafted from sleek stainless steel. This minimalist masterpiece also has a peculiar talent for guzzling down lather. Together, the boar brushes and the otherworldly bowl keep my overloaded lathers under control, preventing them from exploding out of hand.

One problem, though, has me troubled. In my humid seaside environment, these boar brushes take days to dry. Seems like I truly need a larger rotation of these porcine face mops. I’m sure you’ve got a favorite. What can you recommend? (And Lipripper660, you gotta tell me where you got that double-duck boar you brought out today!)
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