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Dave in KY
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Nearly 5 pm here and still no sight of my 3 packages...........?
They regularly deliver UPS here until 7 and around the holidays I've gotten as late as 9pm. Now flippin Fed Ex. I've had packages on the truck not be delivered and delayed because I'm told they have to stop delivering after a certain period of time. I like them tough dudes in brown.
Dave in KY
Shave Newbie
This is USPS though
Dave in KY
Shave Newbie
Don't know how they crammed everything into the mailbox. Got the samples from KJ and posted those in that thread. My Karve razor is back and this baby found it's way to me. May I introduce you all to "Aretha" who demands "A little respect"
Dave in KY
Shave Newbie
Saw that, nice snag. Forgot about, Pfff
Dave in KY
Shave Newbie
Thanks for the review KJ. You're gonna love the cooling agent in the Ghost Pineapple. It really builds more slowly over the passes compared to the 1st ones.
Dave in KY
Shave Newbie
Oh yeah and I got a Graham Field blade Chad was *Cough* Kind enough *Cough* to include, that I will do a video with if KJ send one to Don and he does a video of it too. Well Don ??
Oh, I know. I was his guinea pig for a test batch when he first got the cooling agent in. Just in a different scent.
Dave in KY
Shave Newbie
Haven't gotten an acknowledgment from any of the parties yet............
Hey! I’m the one that doesn’t want to waste a shave.
Dave in KY
Shave Newbie
Go back to sleep. This is just a subliminal message of solidarity....
They're starting to trickle in...2 packages today.
Ariana & Evans (The Club) -
Choco Cubano - Oh chocolate bliss! Smells like it's skirting the edge of being a straight up and down gourmand scent, but there's enough other things going on that it's not. Chocolate with some tobacco notes underneath to ground it and give it needed depth.
Signature - Oh...My....Goodness. I love me some citrus and lavender scents...but this might just jump up into my top 5 scents. A bourbon forward scent, but without the booziness that I can't stand from brown liquors. Take all the subtleties of a good barrel aged bourbon and throw it into a soap scent...that's what this is. I've only gotten a few sniffs out of it, but good god, this is one that I'm going to be grabbing a whiff of any time I go back to the room. Amazing!
Barrister & Mann -
Waves - Fresh and clean smell, kind of like an oceanic drier sheet. Quite nice!
Vespers - In a similar vein to Stirling's Christmas Eve, but with much more complexity, which I would expect from Will at B&M. Conjures up memories and images of the holidays, but in a different way than other holiday scented soaps. No hint of the baking sweets here, it's pine with some smokiness in the background complimented by other scents (again, only got a couple of good sniffs off of it) that transport you back 150+ years to a small wintery town in a pine forest with fires going. I'll have a better idea of the scent when I lather it up.
Ariana & Evans (The Club) -
Choco Cubano - Oh chocolate bliss! Smells like it's skirting the edge of being a straight up and down gourmand scent, but there's enough other things going on that it's not. Chocolate with some tobacco notes underneath to ground it and give it needed depth.
Signature - Oh...My....Goodness. I love me some citrus and lavender scents...but this might just jump up into my top 5 scents. A bourbon forward scent, but without the booziness that I can't stand from brown liquors. Take all the subtleties of a good barrel aged bourbon and throw it into a soap scent...that's what this is. I've only gotten a few sniffs out of it, but good god, this is one that I'm going to be grabbing a whiff of any time I go back to the room. Amazing!
Barrister & Mann -
Waves - Fresh and clean smell, kind of like an oceanic drier sheet. Quite nice!
Vespers - In a similar vein to Stirling's Christmas Eve, but with much more complexity, which I would expect from Will at B&M. Conjures up memories and images of the holidays, but in a different way than other holiday scented soaps. No hint of the baking sweets here, it's pine with some smokiness in the background complimented by other scents (again, only got a couple of good sniffs off of it) that transport you back 150+ years to a small wintery town in a pine forest with fires going. I'll have a better idea of the scent when I lather it up.
