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I've done just that today mate and I think I'll send him an email also just to help him understand potential demand for them. Might help him prioritise better if he knows
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Great stuff.
I've done just that today mate and I think I'll send him an email also just to help him understand potential demand for them. Might help him prioritise better if he knows
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Maseto Memphis Finest 2 Band
Leresche 901
Treet Falcon (3)
Klar Kabinett Original (sample)
Thayers Rose, Nivea Balm & Saponificio Varesino Cosmo aftershave (sample)
What a lather with the Klar, it is pretty much identical to the Dusy version, though the scent is weaker on this, probably due to age and it being a sample. Very impressed by it and am happy to have tried it finally. A superb shave the Lesresche and ever impressive Falcon blade, a bulk purchase in the future.
The Cosmo is very interesting, like all SV aftershaves it has good face feel, on application I absolutely hated it very pungent and too coffee and something else I can't put my finger on. A few hours later it's muted and more pleasant to me but I don't think this is one I would be buying. So far the only scent of three I have tried that I wouldn't purchase. Maybe the soap is more pleasant but I wouldn't fancy taking a risk except on a sample.
Talking of samples, received a Pannacrema Nuavia Nera sample today, absolutely the dogs danglies in terms of scent. Looking forward to that one tomorrow. I am pretty sure I will be treating myself to a pot for a birthday present! Overpriced and paying for the pot or not!!
@Blackmass
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.