Atlas Shaves Theme:
RazoRock Don Marco - Notes: Bergamot, Neroli
Atlas Shaves II - Day 24
- Brush: Wild West Brushworks Blue & Black 26mm BOSS Synthentic Knot
- Razor: RazoRock SLOC
- Blade: Gillette 7 O’Clock Super Stainless (Green) [11]
- Lather: Razorock - For Chicago - Soap
- Post Shave: House of Mammoth - Almond Leather - Splash
While I don’t have Don Marco, I do have a sample of Razorock’s For Chicago, which is a dupe of Issey Miyake L’Eau d’Issey Pour Homme. The lather was on par for an Italian croap, and the SLOC made for an enjoyable shave.
Category ∑ Δ Daily theme soap 24 0 Artisan 56 +4 Scenter 0 0 Half of the scent notes 12 0 Airbudding the day 0 0 Cross posting 24 +1 Snitching 1 0 Snitching incorrectly 0 0 Goody Two-Shoes 17 0 Total 133 +5 Feb. 24, 2025
- Brush: Chisel & Hound Bocote Lilly V23 Badger
- Razor: Blackland Sabre
- Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (6)
- Lather: Catie’s Bubbles - Two To Mango - Croap
- Post Shave: Catie’s Bubbles - Two To Mango - Aftershave
Day 56 how’s about a Mango Monday?
- Catie’s count.
- Day 1 Florentine Fern.
- Day 2 Ménage a Lavande.
- Day 3 Valley of Fire.
- Day 4 Lancaster Leather.
- Day 5 Le Piment de La Vie.
- Day 6 Azure.
- Day 7 Waterlyptus.
- Day 8 Revolution (AirBud).
- Day 9 Retreat.
- Day 10 Le Nude (Sample).
- Day 11 Connecticut Shade.
- Day 12 Mille Chypre.
- Day 13 V.
- Day 14 Barnegat Bay Original Italian Style.
- Day 15 322
- Day 16 Porch Drinks.
- Day 17 Un Jour Gris
- Day 18 Grapefroot
- Day 19 Glace Herbe
- Day 20 Colonia.
- Day 21 Blugère
- Day 22 Pine Barrens.
- Day 23 Whack and Unwrap
- Day 24 Two To Mango
That brush is stunning. You’re brush collection is really something 🤩
February 24, 2025
- Brush: Wolf Whiskers – “Gianmaria” w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
- Razor: Fatip Classic Testina Gentile
- Blade: Personna 74 (29)
- Lather: Barrister & Mann - Pencil Pusher - Soap
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Varen - Aftershave
- Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral
- Fragrance: Spearhead – Seaforth! Leather – EdP
This blade will easily cruise through 30 uses. I’ve been using it with mild razors and it has been pretty great overall.
Monday, February 24, 2025
- Brush: Grizzly Bay - Chisel & Hound v24 Fanchurian badger
- Razor: Chiseled Face - Titanium Legacy Razor
- Blade: Personna - Lab Blue (2)
- Lather: Chiseled Face - Ghost Town Barber
- Post Shave: Chiseled Face - Ghost Town Barber Aftershave splash
- Post Shave: Ginger’s Garden - Unscented Aftershave balm (+ menthol)
- Fragrance: Stirling - Oro Valley EdT
The lather was pretty fluffy and airy this morning, but I got good results nonetheless.
- lather: Spearhead Shaving Co. - Seaforth! Black Watch
Atlas daily points: 2 points for matching scent notes +1 for crossposting on lemmy and reddit
Atlas cumulative points: 108
Day 24 of Atlas Shaves 2 – Electric Boogaloo Mon 24 Feb 2025
- Brush: Zenith Kintsugi 505CB SE
- Razor: Weck Hair Shaper (blue translucent scales)
- Blade: Kismet Rostfrei, Polymer beschichtet
- Lather: Razorock – Blue Label
- Post Shave: Brut – Oceans
- Fragrance: Spearhead Shaving Company – Seaforth! Fleur de France
Razorock’s Don Marco with bergamot and neroli notes must be the easiest pick for AS2EB to date, so I’m not expecting any dropouts today (except for possibly myself, see below).
This tub of Razorock soap is one of my earliest wetshaving purchases and it’s practically full because I almost immediately moved on to artisan soaps. It’s a nice fresh aquatic, no hardship using it every once in a while.
Side note:
I’m Schrödinger’s djundjila right now, in that I’m not sure whether I’m still in the competition or not. Yesterday’s SOTD of mine was called into question by u/Priusaurus because he doesn’t agree that Gemütlichkeit and Coastal are made by the same artisan, a statement that would have been entirely uncontroversial three and a half weeks ago. Now, u/Priusaurus holds the opinion that “artisan” in the rules does actually not refer to artisans, but to brands. I think this is patently absurd and made even more absurd by his suggestion to downgrade my match to a just the same scenter. If the scenter is a match, and the scenter and the artisan are one and the same person, Ron, then it surely follows from his suggestion to count scenter points, that the artisan points count as well, since again, they are one and the same person.
So I will not downgrade my points to a scenter match, and if I’m in the wrong here, I’m sure @[email protected] and u/crossan1983 will let me know, confirming u/Priusaurus’s consensus and I’ll take my DQ. If you’re wondering why I’m leaving out pridetwo, it’s because of this.
Provisional Road to Victory:
Category ∑ Δ Daily theme soap 12 0 Artisan 52 +4 Scenter 0 0 Half of the scent notes 16 0 Airbudding the day 1 0 Cross posting 21 +1 Snitching 7 0 Snitching incorrectly -5 0 Goody Two-Shoes 20 +1 Total 130 +6 Have to agree with DJ. In this case if the scenter is considered to be the same, the artisan has to as well. Either that or interpret artisan as brand, in which case anything not branded stubble buster can only be used for scent notes
Thanks, appreciate it
Not in this contest, but this sounds very weird: so if the chosen soap would be something of the now-defunct Oleo Soapworks, you can’t use anything under Chicago Grooming Co. despite Vida being the artisan behind both names, just re-branded? Same with Scott and L&L/Declaration Grooming? IMHO, that sounds like BS to me. The rules don’t seem to mention the same brand name.
I agree with your reading of the rules
Oh, I missed another juicy debate it sounds like.
For this year, at least, I thought we were allowing the “person” as the “artisan” based on the LASSCO theme on one of the first days.
I don’t know what the statute of limitations is for challenging a status quo.
I thought so too, let’s see how it shakes out
