Comment on Saturday SOTD Thread, June 28th, 2025 (#746)

walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

June 28th, 2025: Mid-Head Night Wood

Today was really really fun. I was hemming and hawwing between Rhapsody in Indigo and You & I Will Die Down at the River, but in the end I decided to do something that I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. Midnight Stag, Gearhead, and Wood Shop are all sort of the same genre to me. They all evoke a similar type of working person, blue collar vibe.

I mixed them together in what I thought would be appropriate ratios based on my perceived scent strenght, so Midnight Stag had the least, and Gearhead and Wood Shop had relatively more soap used. Mixing them together confirmed it – it’s a great idea.

What really surprised me was that I couldn’t pick out any individual soap - it was definitely it’s own thing, but with attributes from each fragrance.

Another thing that surprised me was the scent strenght – it wasn’t as strong as I thought it’d be during the shave. After the shave, I huffed each individual tub (and sample in the case of M.S.) and each one was stronger than the mixed concoction. Weird!

So, did stuff cancel each other out? Was my nose simply confused and not sure what to look for? Below is a table of the individual scent notes that I could find, along with which soaps contain them. Motor Oil is common in all of them, and then there’s Leather and Cedar that are present in 2/3, and then there’s a bunch that are unique.

Relevant Post Shave and Frag: Motor Oil is present in all 3 soaps, and Lamplight Penance smells like Lamp Oil, a different type of oil. Leather is present in 2/3 of the soaps, so I used Seaforth! Leather.

I took the quiz and got 25%!!! Stellar! A couple of them were on the tip of my tongue.

Scent Note Midnight Stag Wood Shop Gearhead/Redneck
Motor Oil ✓ ✓ ✓
Leather ✓ ✓
Cedar ✓ ✓
Gunpowder ✓
Dirt ✓
New Tires ✓
Coffee ✓
Bourbon ✓
Pine ✓
Plywood ✓
Hoppes #9 ✓
Birch Tar ✓
Oakmoss ✓
Gasoline ✓
Smoke ✓
Cade ✓
Bergamot ✓
Vanilla ✓

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