Yes, I love old spice.
Good old scent that still smell as great as it did decades ago.
Old fashioned perhaps, still a class of its own.
One really good thing with Supreme Sandalwood Science is that it pairs well with many of the scents out there. Most men’s scents use either vetiver or sandalwood as their base. And even those that don’t doesn’t clash too much with sandalwood, usually blending well with it.
Off day shave!
Bay rum day!
One thing about PAA’s CK-6 formula is that it doesn’t take much for the soap to explode in a ton of lather. Just 12 swirls, 12 times the brush went around in the container and I had enough soap loaded on the brush to create enough lather to fill more than half of an 8″ slanted mixing bowl. Enough for 3 passes and clean-up to the face, body shave and still more left behind.
The other thing about PAA’s Atomic Age Bay Rum, are the aftershaves. Doug definitely gave this more love than his other offerings.
Star Jelly goes on, smells great, and with a very light kiss of alcohol, you might get a light burn, but the Aftershave Cologne … Holy crap!
Even after the application of Star Jelly, it still gave you that burn and scent burst.
Fucking amazing stuff and god help you if you had a too close of a shave. 🤣
Last work day of the week for me, yeah, its a Sunday, but those in the Aviation industry knows no holidays.
What do you mean Sunday’s a holiday? Don’t you wake up at 0200hrs to go to work? 😜
So, going out with a bang, can’t go wrong with smelling of Aventus.
Love spice bomb but always felt that it while its a beautiful warm spice scent, it lacked a fuller body. Something to back that spice and leather.
So I asked Irena of Ginger’s Garden if she could make a custom scent, combining an already earthy scent of Dragon’s Blood with Spice bomb.
And we get Dragon Spice.
Wearing this for the day and I’ll see how it goes.
Mail call from Irena, there was a little accident but luckily she taped the cap and I managed to salvage most if not all of the roll-on’s contents.
Mail came while I was shaving though, so I’ll need to shave with it in the morning to get a better feel of the scent.
Though, judging from the scent from the leakage, I like!
Evening shave was with PAAs’ Planet Phoenix soap that came with the travel scuttle.
Anyone else shaved with it yet?
My first impression was “Boozy Copalli and Blood Orange” or “Bourbon woods with a touch orange / blood orange”.
What about you guys? What did it remind you of?
Sage! Herbalicious sage!
Love this scent but still debating on the EDP.
Might bite on a solid cologne though had there been one available.
So you live in the tropics (or its Summer / still too effing hot) and you want a really cool shave.
You already have the software and have ground in extra menthol but you want to take it up a level, what do you do?
You make your lather in a scuttle that has been sitting in the fridge for the past half hour filled with ice cold water!
And if you are wondering, yes it feels damn fracking good! At least in this heat.
PAA’s travel scuttle is not exactly a large “bowl” but it is deep so generating lather and keeping it in is fine as long as you aren’t using a huge brush, otherwise you’ll have the same issue with shallower bowls, you’ll be pushing lather out and over the rim instead of generating and keeping it all in.
PAA’s scuttle is not the “best” bowl out there, but it does the job, should be able to take some punishment and though I am pretty sure if you drop it filled from waist height, you are going to crack it open rendering it useless until you find a way to repair it.
This is however just my fear speaking and not something that I have tested out.
I can tell you right now though, that my evening shaves will not be the same.
ICE COLD LATHER BABY!!
Back to an oldie.
One of my favorites. Scent on this is awesome.
The Single Edge line or Professional line has better slickness and residual slickness, though post shave is about the same as the regular creams and soaps.
Still a good one to use.
And surprisingly one locally available.
Have to admit though, once I use up the pre-shave, I’ll be using the Cube.
Its hard to beat the cube as a pre-shave.
Enigma is one of my top favorite scents in both soap and personal grooming. And yes, that’s even comparing it to “Designer Houses” like Gucci, Dior, Bvlgari, Davidoff, Channel and others.
As with shaving, the term YMMV holds true, since what you are going to smell like is a very very personal affair, Enigma hits many of the right notes for me.
Pine, Cedar, Amber, Sandalwood, Patchouli and Vanilla with skin safe scented notes of Marshmallow, Musk, Brown Sugar and Coconut
Love smelling good along with a great shave from a really good shaving product.
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