Share your shave of the day!

If you’re playing the Lather Games on the other website, today’s theme is:

Father’s Day

Product must be from a company that is older than you. Caveat: Spearhead is not older than you, even if their Seaforth! trademark is.

  • djundjilaMA
    5·
    11 days ago

    Father’s Day

    • Brush: Zenith 506B MB (27 mm × 51 mm Manchurian badger)
    • Razor: Fatip - Lo Storto - Testa Dentata
    • Blade: Mühle
    • Lather: D.R. Harris – Arlington
    • Post Shave: Spearhead Shaving Company – Seaforth! Roman Spice
    • Fragrance: Zoologist – Dodo

    I’m really loving this Zenith Badger so far. Good flow through even though it feels quite dense, pleasant scritch and backbone. I might have to come to terms with me being too much of a philistine to fully appreciate expensive knoots, because this feels great and I’m not sure the my B3 and B16 are better! Let’s see if the break-in process changes my mind.

    Theme: D.R. Harris was founded in 1790, so this definitely qualifies, even recursively for several generations of fathers.

    Relevant post & frag: Arlington is a typical classic cologne scent, aromatic citrus. This scent category was created in 1709 when Johann Maria Farina recreated the fragrance of Italian spring. Well it is still spring for a few days and do you know what else is in Italy? Rome is, and that’s where Roman Spice is from! “Roman Spice” is almost certainly a reference to silphium (°), the spice used in ancient Roman cuisine that was so delicious that with the rise of the Roman Empire, Roman purchasing power became strong enough to create the economic conditions in which the plant it’s produced from was systematically overharvested in the entire Mediterranean region. The plant is now extinct like – you guessed it – the Dodo. Boom.

    Challenge: not this year. I’ll leave this one to those who can actually win something.

    (°) Listen to the excellent Dr Emma Southon and Janina Matthewson in episode 85 of their podcast if you’re looking for more info on Roman cuisine and its extravagance.

    • gcgallant
      2·
      11 days ago

      “Roman Spice” is almost certainly a reference to silphium (°)

      Wonderfully academic! If I did it, the word pedantic would be used :)

      • djundjilaMA
        2·
        11 days ago

        Who says it didn’t get used around here? 😅

  • gcgallant
    3·
    11 days ago

    June 16, 2024

    OK, so you whippersnappers have a clear advantage in this challenge. The only soap I have where the product’s introduction predates me is Old Spice. I have already used that as (what everyone would agree) the optimal choice for Ahoy! day. And, I want to use the Stank® this month. While Tabac was introduced to the world a few years after I was, Mäurer and Wirtz was established long before. So I’ve got that going for me … which is nice.

  • waldenOPMA
    2·
    11 days ago

    June 16, 2024

    • Brush: Maggard 24mm 2 Band Badger
    • Razor: Blackland Era - Level 3 SB
    • Blade: Bolzano Superinox (German) (7)
    • Lather: Arko
    • Post Shave: Pinaud - Clubman Special Reserve - Aftershave

    Another great Arko shave. As it turns out, it meets today’s theme, too! This page says Arko has been around since 1957. I was born in the 1980’s.