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Frigid Friday

"Product must contain a cooling agent in its published ingredient list (e.g. menthol, menthyl methyl lactate, synthetic cooling agents).
Caveat: Adding an after-market cooling agent to a non-cooling product will not satisfy this theme."
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    16 days ago

    Frigid Stacking Friday

    • Brush: Zenith 506B MB (27 mm × 51 mm Manchurian badger)
    • Razor: Fatip - Lo Storto - Testa Dentata
    • Blade: Mühle
    • Lather: Noble Otter – Orbit
    • Post Shave: Barrister and Mann – Terror
    • Fragrance: Mäurer und Wirtz – Tabac Man Gravity

    We’ve arrived in Rome for a Friend’s Wedding yesterday evening. The temperatures are already brutally hot so it’s excellent timing for Frigid Friday.

    Theme justification: Orbit has a healthy dose of the synthetic cooling agent W23.

    Relevant post and frag: Terror has the same cooling agent, and Tabac Gravity is so close to Orbit in scent and marketing that I wonder whether M&R took “inspiration” from it. both have cool blue space-themed packaging and both are cool rose scents with fresh metallic notes.

    I chose Italian hardware for this trip to blend in with the locals, with my trusty Lo Storto which simply cannot give a bad shave, and my brand new beautiful butterscotch badger. It’s both my first Zenith badger and my first Manchurian badger knot. The brush has a scrubby loft with a good backbone and a bit of scritch. My initial impression of this lovely brush is great, let’s see how it breaks in.

    Challenge: Our friends are getting married in a bougie hotel that hands out Acqua di Parma products as their toiletry amenities. When I saw it, I knew that I had to incorporate them into the stack. In my eagerness, I overlooked half of them, so have an additional AdP mini stack.

    On a side note, when I flipped through my stack pictures, I noticed a fun detail: in the background of the picture that ended up getting the nod, there is what I believe to be the first documented evidence of a free Roman Spice in its natural habitat. What a find!