Where’s the Beef?: Day 16 of Lather Games

• Brush: Chisel and Hound – Flame On with v26 Fanchurian
• Razor: Wade & Butcher The Sheffield (9/8", extra hollow ground) #Revenant #Str8Snob
• Lather: Grooming Dept – Almond Vanilla
• Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Almond Leather
• Fragrance: Tom Ford – Lost Cherry

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Theme justification: This base has duck fat. Almond vanilla has this sweet kind of almond that smells like cherry, and its a fun little experiment to sniff it between more almondy almond like HoM Almond Leather and real cherry in TF Lost Cherry. When I sniff Almond leather and Almond Vanilla, Almond Vanilla smells like straight cherry to me. But after sniffing a bit of Lost Cherry, Almond Vanilla switches to almond in my brain. Oh the fun you can have.

I typically lather up and then shave, and today’s challenge would invert that order. Luckily for me, I forgot about the challenge until it was too late.

I honed up this razor during my lunch break, just before the shave, and its a pretty one. I thought I was buying a typical quarter- or half-hollow W&B à la FBU, but this one is fully hollow ground. I didn’t know that WB did such grinds until now.