Musk. Overload.
If you like musk, if you are a muskhead, this is one of the soaps (and she makes an even stronger one that’s just musk) you might want to get.
Ginger’s Garden’s British Empire is as much a White Musk bomb as the old Dior’s Eau Sauvage EDP was a Myrrh bomb.
And boy does her scent last a long, long time.
Application of her cologne will last you at least 8 hours. Last time I used this, I was a little too liberal with the spray and almost 12 hours later, my clothes were still giving off that musky scent.
Of course this time I know better and a just one spray will do. I’ll probably still smell of musk even by the time I go to bed but hey, I am not complaining.
I will experiment layering this with PAA’s Supreme Sandalwood Science to see if I can tame that musk a little with a deeper sandalwood base in the future though. Or maybe with something Fougere / Floral.
R5 plate with a Bic blade.
Holy crap what was I thinking?!
I really felt that blade going over the skin and if the lather was less then stellar, I’d be punished for it. Thankfully, Irena’s Argan base soaps are slick as heck and I had no weepers but it was a very, very close shave.
No pun intended.
I really can’t believe that people were complaining that the R5-R6 plates weren’t aggressive enough.
Put a feather or Bic in there and you tell me if its not “aggressive” enough.
Alum application had a very slight sting, which told me that I almost paid for the Glass BBS chase.
Worth it though.
- Bowl : Van Yulay Resin
- Pre-shave : Shower, Blue Beard’s Revenge Shave Oil
- Brush : Friendship Shaving’s Macy Dual Band Manchurian Badger
- Soap : Ginger’s Garden’s British Empire
- Razor : Rockwell 6S-R5 w/Bic Platinum (5)
- Post shave Ginger’s Garden’s British Empire Aftershave and Balm
- Others : Ginger’s Garden British Empire Cologne spray
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