Vanilla Cream and Paul Sebastian’s vanilla note (from the tonka bean) go together quite well. The Bruce synthetic from Italian Barber made a lusciously lovely lather with a fine fragrance, and my Maggard V3A on its UFO handle quite easily stripped the stubble away. Speaking with my marketing hat on, I would have named the razor the Maggard V3C, to emphasize Comfort. Instead, they chose Aggressive (the A) to emphasize efficiency, creating a sales barrier for those who fear harshness (the meaning Aggressive has when referring to comfort). Perhaps this is projection, since I hesitated to buy it because of my negative experience with razors aggressive on the comfort front (the 2011 Mühle R41, the Fatip Grande).
And just wanted to share this:
I’ve been thinking about memes, and their strategies to get copied, and here we see an example. In the tens of thousands of years before sound recording, and more before video recording, this performance would be by now totally forgotten. A crowd of people, enjoying the day, listening to good jazz or talking among themselves, oblivious. That was the “recording device” before Edison recorded sound.
But once sound is recorded, the meme persists, and so we to this day can enjoy that unique (meant literally) performance: the day, the crowd, the band, the dress, the hat the gloves, and oh my goodness, the singing.
That’s how a meme survives.