Nocturne++;

I was disappointed that Pomona gave me frag burn, it’s a wonderful fall scent!

Saturday, November 16, 2024: FLS - First Luxury Legacy Shave

• Brush: Zenith - B21 boar
• Razor: Chiseled Face - Titanium Legacy Razor
• Blade: Personna - Lab Blue (1)
• Lather: Stirling - Deep Blue Sea
• Post: Stirling - Deep Blue Sea Aftershave splash (+ menthol)
• Post: Ginger’s Garden - Unscented AS balm (+ menthol)
• Frag: Stirling - Deep Blue Sea EdT

New razor day!

I recently got a great deal on this razor from a kind soul over on the Discord. Today was my first shave with it, and damn did it perform. Much more blade gap than I’m used to, but it was easy to find the right angle. I’m definitely glad I picked this up!

Stirling + boar gave an amazing lather, as always.

🍳 Created with Neovim & sotd.nvim 🍳

deleted by creator

Very cool!

I love the handle, makes sense that you’d want to do a transplant.

Friday, November 15, 2024: SLS - The Halfway Point

• Brush: Omega - 10048 boar
• Razor: Gillette - Super Speed Black Tip
• Blade: Gilette - 7 O’Clock SharpEdge (4)
• Lather: Barrister and Mann - Cologne Russe
• Post: Stirling - Oro Valley Aftershave splash
• Post: Stirling - Glacial Unscented Aftershave balm
• Frag: Stirling - Oro Valley EdT

A comfortable and close shave was a great way to finish out a difficult week.

Oro Valley and Cologne Russe are, perhaps unsurprisingly, a great combination and quite complementary.

We’re halfway through BBS November and I have to say: a man could get used to shaving twice a day. It’s really remarkable – I’ve gone from dreading a shave to deliberately making time in my day to shave. Funny how life works like that sometimes.

Off to the weekend!

🍳 Created with Neovim & sotd.nvim 🍳

I agree. It starts off so intensely but then dries down into such lovely smokey leather.

I just wish my wife enjoyed it as much as I do! :)

Friday, November 15, 2024: FLS - Fougère Meets Stag Friday

• Brush: Omega - 10048 boar
• Razor: Gillette - Super Speed Black Tip
• Blade: Gilette - 7 O’Clock SharpEdge (3)
• Lather: Barrister and Mann - Fougère Angelique
• Post: Barrister and Mann - Fougère Angelique Aftershave Splash
• Post: Stirling - Glacial Unscented Aftershave balm
• Frag: Chiseled Face - Midnight Stag EdP

Angelique is a lovely scent that highlights citrus and florals. In the end, I felt like a contrast, so I went with Midnigh Stag for the frag. It was an interesting contrast, for sure, but the strength of Stag completely overpowered the scent of the soap and splash.

No complaints.

The Super Speed gave excellent results this morning. This razor is a real winner as long as I remember to use a very light touch.

TFIF!

🍳 Created with Neovim & sotd.nvim 🍳

Tbh it almost seems extra insulting to put a bad knot in such a pretty handle…

Yeah, this is certainly geared more toward folks who are already using/familiar with neovim.

If what you’re doing ain’t broke, don’t fix it! :)

Thursday, November 14, 2024: SLS - Nocturnal

• Brush: Yaqi - Mysterious Space 24mm 2-band Badger
• Razor: Rockwell - 6C
• Blade: Bic - Chrome Platinum (2)
• Lather: Barrister and Mann - Nocturne
• Post: Stetson - Cooling Moisture Aftershave splash
• Post: Stirling - Glacial Unscented Aftershave balm
• Frag: Stirling - Stirling Gentleman EdT

Tonight I used the Yaqi badger to compare it with the v24 Fanchurian I’ve been testing out over the last few days. The Fanchurian is certainly softer and denser, but the Yaqi honestly still made a great lather. It does do a worse job holding the lather in the knot (a lot falls through to the bottom) but still performed admirably.

Nocturne is a great scent. Unfortunately my wife doesn’t love it, so I probably will stop with just the sample.

Praise Friday.

🍳 Created with Neovim & sotd.nvim 🍳

Nice, I’m glad you enjoyed it! It’s a very simple scent, but it really feels great on the skin.

Thursday, November 14, 2024: FLS - Mango Mammoth

• Brush: Grizzly Bay - v24 Fanchurian 26mm badger
• Razor: Rockwell - 6C
• Blade: Bic - Chrome Platinum (1)
• Lather: House of Mammoth - Voices
• Post: Mennen - Skin Bracer Aftershave splash
• Post: Stirling - Glacial Unscented Aftershave balm
• Frag: Barrister and Mann - Fougère Aromatique EdT

On theme this morning with a mango sticky rice lather. I think this is my first time using the HoM base, and it gave me a stellar lather.

I’m not the biggest fan of sweet scents, but this wasn’t cloying at all. I doubt I’d buy a full tub, but it’s nice to have a sample kicking around.

Almost to the weekend y’all!

🍳 Created with Neovim & sotd.nvim 🍳

I’m also vaguely considering a refactor to use a sqlite file instead of json. I think that would be a better experience, even though the file format is more opaque.

Plus then I could in theory track my shaves in the database and do my own analytics!

Something like this might work (caveat that I haven’t tried it)

https://csvjson.com/

You’d lose the blade count tracking though unless you tossed the json back into csv format after each shave.

I wonder how difficult it would be to support csv as a format. Would that meet your needs, or would .xlsx be necessary?

Wednesday, November 13, 2024: SLS

• Brush: Grizzly Bay - v24 Fanchurian 26mm badger
• Razor: Gillette - Super Speed Black Tip
• Blade: Gilette - 7 O’Clock SharpEdge (3)
• Lather: Stirling - Haverford
• Post: Stirling - Haverford Aftershave splash
• Post: Stirling - Glacial Unscented Aftershave balm
• Frag: Stirling - Haverford EdT

An easy two pass shave tonight. Haverford just felt right for a chilly, dark, autumn evening.

I’m running low on the Haverford EdT and AS samples. I might need to get another Stirling order in the mail…

🍳 Created with Neovim & sotd.nvim 🍳

Well that’s not what you want! 😄

I haven’t, but the description sounds right up my alley. I love a good tobacco scent.

Razorock - Puros - Aftershave

Oro Valley + Puros sounds like a winning combination.

It’s definitely a pretty one!

Wednesday, November 13, 2024: FLS

• Brush: Zenith - B21 boar
• Razor: Rockwell - 6C
• Blade: Bolzano - Superinox (5)
• Lather: Stirling - Sandpiper
• Post: Stirling - Ramblin’ Man Aftershave splash
• Post: Ginger’s Garden - Unscented AS balm (+ menthol)
• Frag: Stirling - Ramblin’ Man EdT

Easy luxury (™️) shave this morning. The Bolzano blade is still performing well, and Sandpiper is a lovely scent for a sunny day. No notes.

🍳 Created with Neovim & sotd.nvim 🍳