In a sense, today’s shave is just a regular workaday shave: not trying any new products, not comparing products or techniques, just getting shaved to start the day. Yet, withal, it is a pleasure. My Rooney Style 2 Super Silvertip looks good, feels good in my hand, and does a fine job, especially with a high-quality shaving cream like Extro 17 Stormo. This shaving cream is grey-brown in color and has a wonderful fragrance:
Woody, aromatic fragrance that boldly contrasts mysterious, erotic and warm aromas with top notes of black pepper and with hints of heliotropies, resins and coffee and with a background of incense, oudh, amber, musk, and red pepper.
The lather was thick and creamy with excellent glide, and the Fatip Testina Gentile did a wonderful job. The testina is indeed gentile but also highly efficient and easily produced a BBS result.
A splash Pinaud Lilac Vegetal — the oldest aftershave on the market (not this particular bottle, you understand, though it is indeed quite old) — augmented with a couple of squirts of Grooming Dept’s Aion Hydrating Gel, and the shave is complete — a pleasurable and satisfying experience that makes me feel ready for the day.
The tea this morning is Murchie’s 1894 Select Orange Pekoe: “A union of bright Ceylon and rich Assam tea.”