The French part is everything but the razor: Plisson synthetic and Creed Green Irish Tweed. The lid is presented sideways because I didn’t notice—it’s difficult to read and I was still perhaps sleepy.
Creed shaving soaps are very expensive: $125, exactly twice the price they were when I bought my Green Irish Tweed some years ago. However, it is indeed an excellent shaving soap, so there’s some consolation in that: a rich, creamy, and fragrant lather. Green Irish Tweed is famously the fragrance Cary Grant preferred, and I, though no Cary Grant, like it a lot myself.
I wanted to again do a comparison of the Dorco PL602 with the RazoRock Baby Smooth, and they are indeed very close in feel and performance. Thus IMO the Dorco PL602 is the ideal razor for a man who just wants to try DE shaving to see what it’s all about.
Three passes and a splash of GIT EDT as an aftershave: great start to the day. (And a late start: after Molly got me up at 5:00am I went back to bed and slept very well. He she is on her cat-tree in the study, acting innocent.