Brush: Chisel and Hound - Intrepid (26 mm Zenith boar knot at 53 mm loft) #COMPOSITE #FRANKENBRUSH
Razor: Above the Tie - Calypso R1 #CNC #RAINBOW
Blade: Feather - new Hi-Stainless
Lather: YRFCE - Yard Raised Fresh Chicken Eggs
Post Shave: Barrister and Mann - Roam
Osma: Osma - Osma
Fragrance: House of Mammoth - Shire 2
Happy YRFCE day! Three years ago, u/pppork revived this mythical chicken tallow soap and published the best documentary in wetshaving history. Definitely worth a watch if you haven’t had the pleasure!
The chicken tallow makes this perfectly on theme, and the relevant post shave and fragrance through-line here lies in three different versions of grassy scents of nature: YRFCE has notes of grass, dry hay, and vetiver. Not exactly clean, but light and subtle. Roam is the exact opposite: Wet grass, earth, smoke, dirt. This is the scent of a camp site that smelled like YRFCE three rainy days ago. When the weather turns good again and the land dries again cleaner, that’s when it smells like Shire: violets and fresh air (= warm hay to my nose, but that’s a side note), fresh vetiver. I like these happy roller coaster fragrance progressions that tell a #FOF story. I’m really looking forward to the Roam 2 splash, because the balm in the Covid era finger balm tub starts looking a bit sus.
Great shave with the blue AtT. It’s a good razor, it’s just not very exciting. As a result it doesn’t tend to get a lot of use. Not sure why I find it boring, but I do.
Today’s Sponsor Wholly Kaw is the maker of controversial Entropy Man, one of my all time favourite scents in cough syrupwetshaving, and for that alone I’ll be forever a fan ♥.
I adore the story behind YRFCE… the original documentary takes place in Kenyon, Rhode Island, which is a mere 6 miles from where I grew up. Small world! It gets better, though. It was recently pointed out to me by VisceralWatch that the second video in the series gives musical credit to Jeff “Tain” Watts – who happens to live 2 houses down from my sister in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Also, VisceralWatch is coming out with a jazz trio album in October (so I hear) which is chicken themed. Coincidence? I think not.
Where’s the Beef?
Happy YRFCE day! Three years ago, u/pppork revived this mythical chicken tallow soap and published the best documentary in wetshaving history. Definitely worth a watch if you haven’t had the pleasure!
The chicken tallow makes this perfectly on theme, and the relevant post shave and fragrance through-line here lies in three different versions of grassy scents of nature: YRFCE has notes of grass, dry hay, and vetiver. Not exactly clean, but light and subtle. Roam is the exact opposite: Wet grass, earth, smoke, dirt. This is the scent of a camp site that smelled like YRFCE three rainy days ago. When the weather turns good again and the land dries again cleaner, that’s when it smells like Shire: violets and fresh air (= warm hay to my nose, but that’s a side note), fresh vetiver. I like these happy roller coaster fragrance progressions that tell a #FOF story. I’m really looking forward to the Roam 2 splash, because the balm in the Covid era finger balm tub starts looking a bit sus.
Great shave with the blue AtT. It’s a good razor, it’s just not very exciting. As a result it doesn’t tend to get a lot of use. Not sure why I find it boring, but I do.
For the #Photocontest, I first planned to do the Bird theme (obviously), but then I got in the mood of doing Fill the frame instead because I enjoy the perspective and calm a closeup gives, the details and imperfections revealed, the tricks of depth-of-field, the visceral experience of one’s size, and, of course, the tiny bokeh balls.
The chicken with its piercing look is a fun subject for closeups, even getting very close. I also experimented with a shorter focal length macro lens, but it was a bit over the top.
Today’s Sponsor Wholly Kaw is the maker of controversial Entropy Man, one of my all time favourite scents in
cough syrupwetshaving, and for that alone I’ll be forever a fan ♥.I adore the story behind YRFCE… the original documentary takes place in Kenyon, Rhode Island, which is a mere 6 miles from where I grew up. Small world! It gets better, though. It was recently pointed out to me by VisceralWatch that the second video in the series gives musical credit to Jeff “Tain” Watts – who happens to live 2 houses down from my sister in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Also, VisceralWatch is coming out with a jazz trio album in October (so I hear) which is chicken themed. Coincidence? I think not.
You are at the epicentre of this cryptic gallic epic!