A bright sunny day — with a very high pollen count, so window shut and fan with HEPA filter running continuously on low — made me want a floral shave. Honeysuckle seems just the ticket for summer and here I have Micke’s Natural Wild Honeysuckle, which yielded a sweet-smelling lather with the aid of my Simpson Persian Jar 2 Super.
In a comment I made back on June 11, I recommended some razor options, including the Henson AL13-M, and I decided the next shave to use it — the 11th was a Saturday, i don’t shave Sunday, Monday is reserved for a slant, so the Henson was slated for Tuesday.
Well, the best-laid plans of mice and men gang oft agley, as Robert Burns pointed out, and as you know things went a different direction on Sunday, with the result that I didn’t shave again until yesterday — which, in my world, had to be a slant shave. So today at last I get around finally to demoing the Henson AL13-M for Ferit.
And a very nice razor it is, too — and a surprising razor as well, given how extremely smooth my face is after using a razor that, from its feel on my face, didn’t seem to be doing much: three passes to total smoothness.
A splash of Phoenix Artisan’s Honeysuckle aftershave (with a couple of squirts of Hydrating Gel), and I’m set for a beautiful if pollen-heavy day. (Window is shut, Dyson fan with HEPA filter is running nonstop on low, and I’m fine.)
The tea this morning is Murchie’s Queen Victoria: “rich Darjeeling and Ceylon, smoky Lapsang Souchong, and sweet Jasmine.”