The Rooney Victorian had no trouble raising an excellent Vetiver lather from Jabonman’s Vetiver de Haiti. His soaps are quite good.
The Holy Black’s SR-71 slant uses the Merkur head design, a solid choice. The heavy brass handle feels stubby, but that is an artifact of the weight and larger diameter: it in fact is the same length as the Merkur 37 handle. And with 3 passes, my face was smooth once more.
A splash of Stirling’s Vetiver aftershave (the bottle from some years back — that’s not the bottle he currently uses — finished the job.