SOTD : Saturday 3rd February - Friday 9th February 2018.

View attachment 33184 ~SOTD~ Wednesday 7th Feb 08

Prep ~ Shower, Mysore Sandalwood Soap
Razor ~ Ever-Ready 1912 - Fat SS Handle
Blade ~ Gem SS Coated
Soap ~ Barrister And Mann ~ Leviathan
Brush ~ Omega Boar
Post ~ Myrsol Blue Aftershave
Scent ~ Creed Royal Oud. (Decant)

Fab shave, no suprise there! :) P.

Have a good day but let's be careful out there........:) P.
Man alive - that's a cracking line-up, Paul :).
 
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Good evening, comrades.
ADD 7-2-18.
Pre: Oil Pre No. 1 of Jabonesbyluna.
Brush: Druid Amphora luxury Silvertip.
Soap: Martin de Candre.
Razor: Paradigm 17-4 SS with Voskhod.
Shaving: F-C-L and retouching, I did not need so many passes, but I enjoyed shaving.
After: Thayers lotion and L'occitane balm.
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Great combination of elements that have given me a magnificent, smooth and delicious shave. I have recreated myself in shaving so much that I wished it would not end, but friends "Everything good is ephemeral" ... or we think so.
 
What you said B. @Rohleder what's the painting? Pre-Raphaelite for sure - Rossetti, Millais perhaps or Waterhouse possibly? If in the future you need another 'rose' background - 'The Roses of Heliogabalus,' by Sir Lawrence Alama-Tadema might be entirely suitable? Yours - I.

It is Waterhouse (The soul of the rose, 1908) ;)

Funny you should recommend Heliogabalus, I already have it in high-res saved ready for my next rose SOTD... I'm also fond of Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose by Sargent. I grew up surrounded by Pre-Raphaelite artwork so to me its the epitome of what constitutes "good art". Despite being perennially unpopular they bring me great joy.
 


Pre: Valobra Glycerlanolina soap, Castle Forbes pre-shave gel
Brush: Tony Forsyth P&C LE 2017 Platypus
Cream: Speick Active
Razor: Ever Ready 1912
Blade: Ted Pella Gem SS (6)
Post: Myrsol Emulsion / Proraso White Sensitive
EdC: Farina Original 1709

Finally got around to trying the Speick cream I picked up in Germany last year. Very impressed. Lather explosion, and the lather was very persistent, which is a property lacking in some creams. The scent is delightful - clean and fresh, with hint of herbal citrus.
On the third pass, I could feel that the blade was starting to deteriorate, so to the blade bank it shall go. A lovely shave with DFS+ closeness. I was not prepared to risk the clean-up buffs to take it to BBS, given the blade feel. Finished with the wonderful Farina 1709 Original cologne. The name says it all - they've been making in since 1709 in, well,........Cologne :sneaky:. Beautiful citrus notes perfectly balanced by a base of gentle herbaceous florals. A timeless classic.
 
Despite being perennially unpopular they bring me great joy.

I know what you mean - I had the pleasure of seeing - years ago - a retrospective of Alma-Tadema in the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. I'd never heard of him previously. The Heliogabalus painting is quite something in real life. Have you seen it? It seems to shimmer and move as you look at it. Few people painted marble or water so well. I don't think that technically he is Pre-Raphaelite - but very much of the same vision. Victorian - the Academy - I think? Like the Pre-Raphaelites - there was no way this sort of idealisation of classical motifs or allusions to medieval - or indeed Gothic - chivalry were going to survive the meat grinder of the First World War. So badly out of step with what was about to happen - that they remain - as you correctly say - deeply unfashionable. Like you - I'm very fond of them though. Waterhouse was a bit of an outlier to the movement but had that essential ingredient - the poetry reference - I didn't know that the painting alludes to Tennyson - 'And the musk of the roses blown.' On a more prosaic level - I'm very fond of a bit of redhead miff - in a flimsy dress engaging in a bit of mimsy. Ha ha. Yours - I.
 
Man alive - that's a cracking line-up, Paul :).
Thankyou Tom, it's very kind of you to say , the soap is one of my favourites, for its scent and it performs well as does the razor and brush, with this line-up I always get great results . For the money the ER 1912 imo must be the best razor ever and performs wonderfully with a ER Corrux hollow ground blade although the Gem blades are very good too. :) Paul .
 
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