What soap/cream did you use today?

Shaving Soap: Saponificio Varesino Mirto di Sardegna

FlashOne, did you have to show me your beautiful burner? Filled my heart with longing. And I really enjoyed your note on Rania J's Oud Assam ... "a huge barnyard with a thousand goats kicking around an enormous gorgonzola cheese" ... got to get me some of that! Let’s hope Santa leaves a little cash in my Christmas stocking for a subitism burner and some chips. Until then I’ll keep messing with Ensar’s oily offerings. Today’s Maroha Myaku is a woody wild-harvested oud with hints of gasoline and chocolate. The dry down is sedate and ashen.

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If burning curiosity gets the better of you, Santa could take a look at your neighbor Yi Xin Craft Incense. As name suggests, he mostly works with burning sticks but he often sells some top notch chips, oils and teas too.

Back more on topic - yet still about burning - here’s my soap for today (actually, for all past week):


I’m usually pretty proud when a new death hole appears in my den, but not here.
One of my all-time favorite birch tar scent, smells like autumn leaves + incense + plastic burning on a damp ground to me. What strikes me the most is that synthetic accord (similar to the one in Southern Witchcrafts Valley Of Ashes, but harsher), it really gives an original and unique vibe, can’t get enough.
Old V3 base from Chad is still up there with nowadays best ones, super thick lather, great slickness and pampered post shave feel. Wish I could say the same about Maol Grooming AS, smells awesome but terribly oily to my face, never understood how they were a thing some time ago...

Friday, December 13, 2024 - Wholly Kaw King of Bourbon

 

MdC Original

C U all tomorrow

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Dickens is a Christmas scent.  Well, it is for Will at B&M. He tells us it’s the scent of a Christmas cookie his family made.  I have no such memories of this Cookie. My Christmas scents were just like every other day. Warm cattle in cold air. The sour steam of the chopped corn in the silage pit. Fresh straw bales that we scattered on Christmas so the livestock would have a clean bed this day. Mom never had cinnamon simmering on the stove but the distinct scent of coal smoke from the range and bacon and eggs would be ready and present and ALL CHORES  were done before any Christmas trees were surrounded. So yeah, my Christmas scents are not of cookies. However this is my second tub of Dickens and over time it sure has come to smell of,Christmas to me.

Dickens is a Christmas scent.  Well, it is for Will at B&M. He tells us it’s the scent of a Christmas cookie his family made.  I have no such memories of this Cookie. My Christmas scents were just like every other day. Warm cattle in cold air. The sour steam of the chopped corn in the silage pit. Fresh straw bales that we scattered on Christmas so the livestock would have a clean bed this day. Mom never had cinnamon simmering on the stove but the distinct scent of coal smoke from the range and bacon and eggs would be ready and present and ALL CHORES  were done before any Christmas trees were surrounded. So yeah, my Christmas scents are not of cookies. However this is my second tub of Dickens and over time it sure has come to smell of,Christmas to me.

Well stated; brought back memories. Masculinity is disparaged and men have become feminized in this everything fake post modernist dystopia