Another very good shave, and I think I’m becoming accustomed to the handle: seemed perfectly okay today.
The Semogue has more breaking in to do: lather was gone by the third pass, so I just reloaded. But I think it’s coming along, and the knot’s well behaved.
I do like the fragrance of Phoenix Artisan’s Otra shaving soap, and the lather was quite good. On the Phoenix Artisan site, he tells quite a tale of the origin of the fragrance (and in the process makes me want to buy the Al Fin soap or aftershave):
Otra is built on a fougère base that I constructed from the ground up, note for note and drop by drop. I could have just stopped there but I chose to go further and build on top of this very green foundation, imagining it to be the mossy green wrappings around the riverbed. Next comes the sandalwood and rosewood, scents I imagine the trees that populate the forest to be emitting. I sprinkled the forest bed with white clover and watched it shoot to life, full & four leafed! Then the river itself, reeds and water plants were created with the addition of white sage hydrosol, rose water, and organic seaweed extract, not overpowering but in the background, you wouldn’t notice it sitting on the banks but you would if it was absent. Lastly our star player, Centaurea Cyanus.
Three passes with the Mongoose holding the Kamisori blade, and once again a trouble-free shave. However, I’m getting the impression that the Kamisori does not cut quite so easily as some of the others. I’ll give it one more shave, then I’m replacing it with a different brand to see.
A good splash of Bathhouse Soapery’s aftershave splash, and the shave is done.
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