@gcgallant
@sub.wetshaving.socialSeptember 4, 2024
Brush: Zenith B40 28mm Boar
Razor: Iwasaki 13/16" Full Hollow Square Point Tamahagane
Lather: House of Mammoth - Smash - Soap
Toner: Thayers - Rose - Toner
Aftershave: Ariana & Evans - Peach & Cognac - Aftershave
2 passes. Bowl lather. Excellent shave.
Smash and Peach & Cognac go very well together IMO, and the Tamahagane steel on the Iwasaki takes such an incredible edge. The Zenith B40 keeps marching on. Even though it is only its fourth day, I'm starting to get lather to flow through the brush.
Pretty much an unparalleled shave today.
September 3, 2024
Brush: Zenith B40 28mm Boar
Razor: Parker 510 13/16" Square Point Full Hollow
Lather: House of Mammoth - Tobacconist - Soap
Toner: Thayers - Rose - Toner
Aftershave: Barrister and Mann - Leviathan - Aftershave
2 passes. Bowl lather. Excellent shave.
This Zenith boar is progressing incredibly well. It had a tiny bit of funk on first use but that's gone. The bristles were stiff but not objectionable on day one also. Now, no funk, and the brush is already beginning to soften.
Tobacco and coffee go so well together. My Leviathan soap was killed long ago, and I only have a couple more uses on this splash. Such an amazing scent.
I liked everything I read on the MacDuffs website. I’m looking forward to trying some of their product.
September 2, 2024
Brush: Zenith B40 28mm Boar
Razor: Tanifuji Spalding 0411 6/8" Full Hollow
Lather: TTFFC - Campfire - Soap
Toner: Thayers - Rose - Toner
Aftershave: Fabergé - Brut - Aftershave
2 passes. Bowl lather. Excellent shave.
I've been missing these tobacco leaf, smokey, nutty, scents. This is a good one I think. Naturally, and as we all know, Brut complements any scent and this one was the vintage Fabergé OG aftershave. However, I think the madern incarnations of the scent might even be better. The only aftershave that I can think of that exceeds Brut is, of course, Shulton Old Spice which has no modern equivalent. Lovely shave today.
Frio 18;
I don't think I've tried the Premium base. I have some of his Luxury soaps and they are great. I have Blugère coming and that's in the Premium base IIRC.
Are you planning to use the 17 all September? My plan is to use the same brush, but a different straight each day. [though, yesterday's R. Saito makes me want to use it again sooner than October]
I admit that as we leave summer (here in the northern hemisphere), I'm really looking forward to some leather and tobacco scents. I haven't tried Oro Valley, so I'll probably add that to my next coffee and bath soap order from Stirling.
The top notes of that soap read like "lavender, lavender, lavender". I admit that I don't associate that with the night sky. How did you find the scent? And, what do you think of the soap, itself. I'm looking forward to trying Old Strathcona on the 18th (smush received, btw, thanks!).