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Dark chocolate reprised
I enjoyed the lingering transformation of yesterday’s dark-chocolate aftershave from definitely chocolate to something more difficult to define though still very pleasant. So I decided to have another...
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This week brings the baby-brush brigade. Today: Simpson Wee Scot, with Rose...
I thought I’d run through my smaller brushes, and the star of that particular show is my (pre-Vulfix-acquisition) Simpson Wee Scot, which made a fine lather from Dr. Jon’s Rose of Phrygia — fine...
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Alt-Eleven and Lupo for a great shave
The brush is a 19mm Yaqi Bunny Brush, presumably the Easter Bunny, given the egg-shaped handle. (The photo at the right shows the base of the brush.) It easily worked up a very nice lather from...
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Cognac bliss
Tallow + Steel make impressive shave soaps and aftershaves. So far as I can tell, they make a group of soaps and aftershaves, and when those sell out after a few months, they move on to another...
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Grog is good
I decided to continue in a Tallow + Steel vein and brought out this wonderful fragrance from yesteryear, their take on bay rum. The fragrance greets you nose with the glory of a tropical sunrise in...
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Dark and wonderful
Tallow + Steel Dark is a wonderful fragrance — coffee, cocoa, vetiver, ginger, and the like — and the lather raised by the little Omega badger brush was a pleasure. I must have changed the blade...
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A great shave, with an aftershave that originated around 190 years ago
Yesterday, I came across this passage in a Sharpologist article on the best aftershaves now on the market: Although references to after shave preparations (for hygienic rather than cosmetic purposes)...
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Timing your shave
Photo by Veri Ivanova on Unsplash (modified by author) In the Guide, I recommend that novice DE shavers time their shave from time to time. Because one’s attention is so focused on the act of shaving...
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5 minutes 11.11 seconds
Following the protocol laid out in the previous post, I timed today’s shave. To be clear, the time does not reflect collecting and setting out the shave paraphernalia, nor does it include the...
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Back online again: 8 days of shaves
The return of my now-repaired computer is a great relief. Here I’ll play a little catch-up on the past 8 shaves, shown in here reverse chronological order (most recent at top left, oldest at bottom...
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Shave Propaganda!
It’s pleasant to be back on my regular schedule, and also to resume with a fine shave. I like Dr. Jon’s Propaganda shaving soap fragrance a lot, with its “notes of vanilla, sandalwood, mandarin,...
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Love that Yuzu/Rose/Patchouli from Declaration Grooming
A late start this weekend, but a great shave when I got to it. In an earlier post, I list the ingredients of this soap, their Bison formula, and also their newer Milksteak formula. The Milksteak is...
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A highly appropriate Valentine’s Day shave
My RazoRock Amici brush seemed an ideal choice for both name and color, and Phoenix Artisan’s Dark Chocolate was a Valentine special some years back: wonderful lather, wonderful fragrance. And, of...
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Love Bombs away!
Using PA’s CK-6 formula this morning immediately, in the Love Bombs fragrance after using their Kokum Butter formula yesterday allowed me to experience clearly the noticeable difference in the two...
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First night and a bright dawn
Thought TBH it’s not exactly dawn. There’s an apartment building to the east, and the sun must rise enough to surmount that shadow. But I whiled away the time playing with the new watch/exercise...
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A Victorian shave
Living as I do in Victoria, a Victorian shave seems apropos, and so it is today: my Rooney Victorian brought forth a fine lather from Phoenix Artisan’s CK-6 version of Cavendish, and surely the...
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High-glycerin soaps make a pleasing lather
High-glycerin soaps, like Mama Bear’s and (a decade or so ago) QED’s and Col. Conk, make a wonderful lather in soft water. I don’t know how well they would fare in hard water, but the lather today...
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Rooney Emilion has a nice loft after all
I tend to think of my Rooney Emilion as having a short loft, but I noticed this morning after I had loaded it and worked up the lather, the knot had puffed out noticeably from being engorged with...
View ArticlePhoenix Artisan’s Organism 46-B is being closed out
Fragrance preferences vary a lot from person to person, but I really like Organism 46-B (“Scent Notes: burnt sugar – bitter orange – brandy – Hedione – tobacco absolute – benzoin resin – ambergris”),...
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Organism 46-B and the Emperor
I thought that with Organism 46-B’s upcoming departure from the scene, I should visit it again. I really do like this fragrance, but fragrances are notoriously YMMV. Still, if you’d like to try it,...
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