Simple and easy work day shave with WSP, with Gaelic Tweed’s scent, pleasing as well. WSP’s performance is as always superb.
I know most hate the Rockwell Razor Blades but it works great in the Model T. Its still lightly tuggish but not uncomfortable and was able to give a clean no irritation BBS shave.
Sometimes, going down that Full Monty experience route needs a little more effort.
In this case I had to allow the lit candle some time to heat up the top layer of wax to allow for the scent to fill the bathroom, about ten minutes, then blowing it out and allowing the melted wax’s heat to waft up its stored scent.
The scent can be boiled down in description as spice lavender oud and woods. While there’s a lot going on with the scent notes, those are the most prominent, especially lavender.
Personally I love the fusion of old and new, of East and West, but I think this might be a polarizing scent.
You’ll either love or hate it.
Strongly suggest you get a sample if you can before buying.
The soap itself and lather produced is pretty good, though, you do have to load a little heavier than with say with PAA or Stirling, with those soaps ten to twelve swirls with a damp brush in the tub will generate lather enough for 5 or more passes, while with the Cardinal base, on my first use, I had to work the brush a little more before I was happy with the feel of the soap taken up by the brush.
Lather is thirsty, and if you face lather, that initial build up will be fantastic, but the follow up applications may feel a little thin. Still the lather has good overall slickness, residual and post shave.
The CATA-DOC with a Feather easily buffed off any growth off the face, leaving only a clean, glass BBS skin.
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Pre De Provence 63 is relatively easily available via Amazon for Singaporean wet shavers.
Scent notes are :
Peppers, Citrus, Cedar, Plum, Violet leaves, Amber, Leather and tobacco.
Scent on both balm and soap is light so it won’t interfere with any scent you want to wear.
Lather is relatively good. It’s thirsty, has good slickness with decent residual slickness and post shave.
Balm is of the creamier lotion type and goes on easy.
All in all, the lathering up, scent and shave feel from the lather is quite enjoyable.
It’s a decent offering for those who just wants a good shave soap that’s a step up from Proraso and not pay too much (free shipping with Amazon Prime) to get it to you.
Oh, I choose to add in a little menthol to the shave as its been a warm night here in the tropics.
Used the Occam’s Razor Oren last night and for the morning, went with the Vector.
I take back that the Vector edges the Oren out, I think it blows the Oren out of the water.
The Vector is much easier to handle and because the head is so nimble, your control of the shave is just that much more precise.
While the Oren is more comfortable, almost cartridge razor in feel because of the floating blade, having that balance of blade feel, comfort, extreme ease of handling and control makes the Vector a much better choice for me.
YMMV of course.
Finished with Osage rub, than the balm.
Fanfreakingtastic!
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The second Stirling I own, Glacial Obsidian didn’t disappoint.
Scent is sweet anise, think of Hacks Black Cough-drops, with menthol.
A whole lot of menthol.
Any menthol head needs to get one of these.
Seriously.
The only way I can describe the amount of menthol in it and the Aftershave is, “Cold to the point where it borders on pain and pleasure.”
If you are sensitive to menthol, this soap and splash is NOT for you.
Oh yeah, the lather is fanfrackingawesome!
Thirsty as heck but once you work enough water into it, you get that epic creamy lather you know is going to be glide perfection.
Picked up the big sister Assassin today and paired it with a Feather.
Given Stirling’s superb lather, it was essentially a 1 pass shave. Plus pickup.
WTG, XTG and ATG all in that first face lather build up, then re-applied to pick up on my usual trouble spots.
Smooth, perfect, glass BBS shave.
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Irish Moos!
Oh boy, this scent takes me back to my childhood visiting barbers who surprisingly were either using Stetson or Irish Moos or a facsimile of those scents.
With notes of Bergamot, Lemon, Orange, Rosemary, Coriander, Lavender, Cedar, Geranium, Clove, Patchouli, Oakmoss and Tonka Bean, the scent is so familiar, so old school, it made me smile.
CK-6 lather needs no introduction which just made the shave that much better.
The Vector with a Feather Super Pro made for a rather interesting shave. Compared to the Oren which gave a softer shave, the Vector’s geometry and firm blade, gave a much more precise and controlled shave.
That is not to say that one is better then the other, as one has outstanding comfort, while the other gives you complete control over the blade.
For me though, I feel that the Vector edges out the Oren
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WTF Lodge 49 is based on Tom Ford’s White Suede and since I have not used that scent I cannot vouch for its accuracy to the scent.
What I did get from it is a light suede note blended with light floral musk.
Soap’s scent is light and is not animalic, thankfully.
If you like lightly scented musk and suede, this would be right up your lane.
Soap’s performance is as per WTF offerings, Fanfrackingtastic.
The CATA-DOC with a Feather riding on the WTF lather made for easy buffing making the shave a 1 lather pass + touch up, clean, irritation free BBS shave.
I need to get the Stainless Ascension when I can.
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Heath’s shaving cream is one that I usually use for the night shaves but I thought I’d swap it around some.
Scent is a very pleasant Tasmanian Pepper and Tea Tree.
Wanted to test out something and went with the Oren with a Feather Super Professional blade.
Shave was surprisingly soft and smooth but still took a few more strokes than I was accustomed to to get a true clean BBS shave.
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Old spice day! Love Soap Commander’s performance and scent.
I need to try a few more Old Spice based soaps but for the moment, Soap Commander is my goto for the True Old Shulton.
Decided to go with the milder Tatara and it never amazes me just how much or rather how little of the blade you feel as you shave. Just to be clear, the Masamune is a mild shave and while the default Masamune is the smoothest razor I have used, its negative -013mm blade exposure geometry makes for shaves that unless you use a Feather or better, will leave micro whiskers and for the BBS chaser, this can lead to over shaving.
The Masamune Plate and Nodachi top cap combo brings that blade geometry to a true neutral shave (0.00mm) which while still retaining that extremely smooth shave, takes off growth closer to the skin.
It was an amazing epic shave.
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I am surprised that not many SOTDs feature this soap given that it has to be owned by quite a few.
Its not bad, not great but not bad.
It’s scent is a rather unique barbershop with licorice as the main note.
Still going with the Warhammer and Feather.
Easy, clean glass BBS shave.
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Decided to go with a theme of Unity for the 4th of July.
While I myself don’t celebrate the day, it’s significance is important and I just want to say that we are all one species, human.
Went with the old Warhammer, the 6S today, armed with a Feather, its just an easy, smooth, “resistance is futile”, no irritation BBS shave.
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