A very smooth, very pleasant shave today. On reading the description for Stirling Soap Company’s Sharp Dressed Man, I saw that he was going for the fragrance of Creed’s Green Irish Tweed, so today I’d thought I use that. The soap is expensive but also extremely good, and the lather is fragrant indeed. Calling it “Sharp Dressed Man” somehow brings the fragrance in a new focus, different from when I think of it as “Green Irish Tweed.” Our minds shape our perceptions significantly.
The Rooney Style 2 Finest is a favorite brush and did its usual great job. The Apollo Mikron seems to me like the parent of the Merkur Progress, and both razors are truly excellent. Three passes to a trouble-free BBS result, enjoyable all the way. (It’s interesting that when I first got this razor, it seemed to nick me unmercifully, to the point that, had I not liked the look of it so much, I would have abandoned it. But I did like the look, so I persisted, and then—fairly quickly—the nicks became less frequent and then stopped altogether. Apparently I had unconsciously adapted my technique—i.e., I had “learned” the razor.)
A small splash of Creed’s Green Irish Tweed EDT as an aftershave, and the day is open to me.
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