I have to say that Meißner Tremonia Lavender de Luxe (with essential oils from lavender, geranium, and cypress) has to be one of my favorite lavender-scented soaps. This one is terrific, and it also makes a terrific lather, today with the Vie-Long horsehair brush shown. Horsehair, like boar, requires wetting the knot some minutes before you shave and letting the wet brush stand and absorb. But then the lavender is wonderful and the feel of the brush is very pleasant: a kind of coarse grain, unlike the total smoothness of an angel-hair synthetic or silvertip badger.
The razor is the iKon X3, due out sometime next month, and this morning it rides atop a UFO handle. In shaving with it I began to entertain the idea that I like this razor better than the 102. It feels, obscurely, disloyal, but the total absolute comfort—it’s hard to tell that the razor has a blade in it except for the otherwise mysterious disappearance of every trace of stubble—combined with extreme efficiency impress me. I imagine that I will buy one of the production X3s to compare, and one of the two will go to my son or a grandson.
A good splash of Chantillon Lux’s Vide Poche: amber, sweet orange, geranium, honeysuckle, lavender, and bergamot. I like this one, too, and perhaps will order it in the full (2 oz) bottle.
Great start to the day. I’m sleeping much more soundly now that I’ve started taking a daily walk.
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