What soap/cream did you use today?

13 April, 2024

14 April, 2024

A wonderful fougère hailing from a couple hours west of Madrid. All essential oils, and blended and presented beautifully in my favorite homemade base on the market right now. Similar enough to the Eufros fougère but blended a bit better in the Spanish Fern. Jose Martinez is leading the pack these days.  

MANY of us would be glad to bounce you a sample or two per your wish list.

That's generous and great to hear.  Full disclosure should be made that I now own soap enough to possibly exceed my life expectancy.  The exploration of scents and performance continues, however.  In theory, one might be able to curate a collection towards what winds up being the most appealing.  I'm very open to sample exchanges and tub trades.   

Eufros Fougère smells dark and piney. I also get some camphor. This isn’t a clean Barbasol style fougère. It’s more like the aromatic fougères of the Seventies and Eighties. It also reminds me of wool trousers that have just come back from the dry cleaners.  — Bouki

You had me at darkness and pine.  The dry-cleaning chemicals must be there for complexity . . . or to help stave off countless customer orders for soaps.

[Fern is] similar enough to the Eufros fougère . . .  — vmarks

Useful info for avoiding unnecessary duplication.

Fern, for me, is a mint bomb . . . very mint-dominant and can be kind of a tonic for heat or any itchiness.  To me, it smells very bright: no darkness or pine is detectable . . . (not that pine registers as dark; I think pine is non-determinative on a bright-to-dark spectrum). 

Brihuega arrived at my house simultaneously with Spanish Fern, both blind buys, and as Lamiaceae-family herbals for me at this point, they are arguably redundant. Brihuega cites tobacco and tonka, neither of which I perceive; I get clean, herbal lavender . . . rounder, softer, and more muted than the bracing Fern.  Both great, it's just that in (at that point) a two-soap Joserra aggregation, the wonderful Bernardo de Gálvez or Rodrigo de Jerez would've added far more diversity and range.

Glad we're describing our parts of the elephant.

Monday April 15, 2024
Razor: Occams O.R.E.N.
Blade: Feather Pro
Brush: Sorrentino/Synthetic
Soap: Stirling Smoky Grapefruit
AS : Witch Hazel + CFG Ghost Town Barber
Fragrance:
Consecutive Daily Shaves - # 1,986

Monday, April 15, 2024 - Declaration Grooming Darkfall

 

Grooming Dept

First off, Thank You to the member who sent this to me.  This is a very interesting scent. Sometimes it smells like dirt and sometimes it smells like rotting onions.  In a nutshell, it's weird smelling and I'm intrigued.

I wish Frank would archive his soaps on his site so you can go back and read about them.

Proraso Red

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