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Armeaudelaren
- Brush: Dogwood Handcrafts Papa Eld with Declaration Grooming B3 knot
- Razor: Razorock Hawk V3 (standard plate)
- Blade: Feather Professional
- Lather: Chicago Grooming Co. / House of Mammoth Armonía
- Aftershave: Barrister and Mann Beaudelaire
- Fragrance: Stirling Soap Co Varen
Busy scentscape, this 😅
Beaudelaire got a bit eclipsed between Armonía and Varen, but another great shave with Wally’s Hawk and fantastic Darwing is in the books
All great fougères, but Beaudelaire never stood a chance.
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One of my favourite parts of getting new software is doing these little experiments.
I’m quite keen to try Armonía and almost did a blind buy. I’ll be getting a sample of this soon, but I expect a tub to follow soon thereafter.
It’s a very green, alive scent that reminds me a bit of Weinstrasse. Somehow tart.
Fruit, Cognac, and Neroli
- Brush: Trotter Handcrafts Daliesque 26mm Manchurian T1 Badger
- Razor: Mühle Rocca R94
- Blade: Gillette 7 O’Clock Super Stainless (Green) [7]
- Lather: House of Mammoth - Funny Valentine - Soap
- Post Shave: Ariana & Evans - Peach & Cognac - Aftershave
- Fragrance: Noble Otter - Monarch - Eau de Parfum
A little bit of a different Mammoth Monday with some scents boasting various fruits, cognac, and some neroli. A nice blend of scents to start the week.
Rating: 4.5/5
Peach and Cognac ++;
May 27, 2024 – Silver Mountain Monday
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Brush: AP Shave Co Summer 28mm G5C
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Lather: Stirling Soap Co. - Mountain Man - Soap
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Toner: Thayers - Lemon - Toner
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Aftershave: Stirling Soap Co. - Mountain Man - Aftershave
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Fragrance: Creed Silver Mountain Water
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Talc: Yardley Gold
2 passes. Face lather. Excellent shave.
Trotting out my inaugural Silver Mountain Monday. This is definitely a setup I want to repeat. Wonderful shave.
Today was a test shave. I badly needed to refresh the edge on this razor and decided to do it with a starter kit of sharpening stones that I purchased to see how they would perform. I was really surprised by how good this edge was. I was prepared to touch it up after this shave with one of my more expensive finishing stones. Instead I enjoyed the shave so much, I will leave it as is.
I learn something everyday! Here’s the video
Today is Memorial Day here in the states. It is a holiday that marks the beginning of summer but, more importantly, it is a day when we honor those in our military who died serving their country.
It’s reassuring that this setup passes the gcgallant test because it’s essentially my setup (I have the 3000/10000 combination stone), and I don’t have any other stones to compare my setup to.
Thanks! The drawing out of the bevel shape that your trailing edge strokes produce helps with the transition to the 10K. I don’t think that the jump between 3K and 10K will be much different than the jump between 5K and 10K, but It’s worthwhile to push sharpness on the 10K to see what it can do.
at some point, I’ll be getting a Jnat like you and Pudding like for comparison, and I’m also curious whether I can feel the difference between 8k, 10k, or 12k Naniwa finishing stones
I think that you will. Once you have shaved with 10K and 12K synthetic edges, and assuming you like that level of keenness, 8K will likely feel unfinished.
Moving to packing peanut testing last July, and then in September, made a huge difference for me. Now I have a means to tailor keenness consistently and thereby improve my idea of how apex and edge feel varies with different sharpening stone patterns. You’re going to enjoy this rabbit hole. I’m sure of it.
Yeah, definitely a fun rabbit hole extension ;)
Mountain Man ++;
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May 27, 2024
- Brush: Zenith 508A XL/Bristle (B35) (MOAR BOAR) 31mm
- Razor: Personna BBS-0
- Blade: Bolzano Superinox (German) (1)
- Lather: Barrister & Mann - Fougère Classique - Soap
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Varen - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Nivea Sensitive Balm
- Fragrance: London Razos - Mountain Laurel - EdP
Marvelous.
Stanky! 😊
Fougère Classique’s stank is unrivaled.
This goes on my Friday list
27.05.2024
- Prep: head and face wash; moisturiser
- Razor: Leaf Thorn (Fig)
- Blade: Derby Premium half DE
- Brush: Omega Roma Colosseo 31 mm
- Lather: WestMan - MazaGran
- Post Shave: Westman MazaGran ASB
1 pass head shave at night (in my time zone at least). Good shave.
As I mentioned yesterday, I started reading American Psycho and apart from the shaving brush passage that stood out to me, Bateman also applies moisturiser before he shaves as some kind of pre-shave. Just out of curiosity, I tried this today - the results aren’t really convincing me to do this again. It wasn’t bad, but there was just no positive effect to be felt from this.
Something else I tried out that I saw in a video by YouTuber Baldcafe is starting my head shave from the back of the head. I already tried this for 2 pass shaves, but today was the first time I actually started this way. Well, I can see his reasoning: the worst part is behind you after that (pun intended) since the sides and top of the head are a walk in the park for experienced head shavers. OTOH, I generally like to give the coarser hair around my crown a bit more time to be softened up by my lather. But well, you’ll never know if you don’t try out some things.
MazaGran is a delightful gourmand scent that smells like a noble coffee house. I’m glad to have a matching set of it and the WestMan base is very agreeable for my sensitive scalp.
