Rosa (Ethos)
damask roses
Shave 2 ・ 96% left
Yesterday’s shave with Ethos
Rosa was so enchanting, I had no choice but to reach for this soap again. My brush, dangling from the ceiling to dry in the sea breeze, filled the room all day with the heady scent of damask rose, intoxicating my senses until nothing but this fragrant bouquet seemed fitting. "Scatter roses everywhere, disdainful of stingy hands," our flop-eared poet Horace proclaimed two millennia ago. Aye, he was inspired, and inspiring. I opened my new jar of
Rosas and wonderful rich notes, both verdant and woody, made me feel as if I were a guest at the feast of Heliogabulus, smothered by a curtain of drooping petals. Indeed, in this season of bounteous blooms, why hold back?
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Pre Ice cube ・ Brush Slightly Cloudy ・ Lather palm ・ Coolant WS-23 (45%) ・ Razor Blackland Vector Ti ・ Blade Feather Soft Guard (day 16) ・ Passes 3 ・ Result BBS ・ Post Guerlain Habit Rouge ・ Hoard 22,491 g
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, The Roses of Heliogabulus (1888)