Sunday 3rd December
Boots Old English Lavender (Vintage) Shaving Bowl & Mohawk w/PurTech Synthetic 22mm
Muhle Rocca (Polished Head) w/Souplex Bakelite Handle & BIC Chrome Platinum (3)
Brut Splash-On
Well, colour me impressed!
I'm tentatively saying that the BIC Chrome Platinum has ramped into third place in my list of favourite blades behind the Treet Platinum (1st) and Personna Platinum Chrome (2nd) and I say tentatively since I do need to run a few more through to confirm, but I'm experienced enough to get a very good sense of what's going on. The first shave is quite harsh, but I'm used to that drill with the GEM by Personna blades in the likes of a 1912. The second onwards are absolutely lovely! I've read of folks continuing for several more shaves saying that the blade just doesn't dull ... even read of one person rotating every four weeks, while another a staggering 37! Somewhat like those '80s turbo bricks where you'd stamp on the loud pedal and have to count to three before you got a kick in the back and you left the world behind in your rear view mirror, that lag in performance is actually part of the character ... I think that translates certainly to the GEM blade and to this BIC blade.
Curious, very curious as I've quite literally hated this blade from trying it out quite early on when I came to traditional shaving (recalling the name BIC from my disposable days) and a few harsh runs through since, but most recently a couple of lovely shaves in the Leaf Twig and what I think is the perfect marriage of blade and razor in the Muhle Rocca. While on the Muhle Rocca, my polished V4 head sitting on the Souplex bakelite handle is absolutely sweet! Applying the Highlander principle (as in "there can only be one") ... it's "the one", edging ahead of the Gillette Hybrid Tech and Gillette Ranger Tech sitting there in 2nd and 3rd places.
... and so, give what I can clearly establish as my top 3 razors and my top 3 blades, I'm wondering if I'm finally at that point that I could say I've finished? Haha! Nah! Not me.
The picture is the same as yesterday but I did switch out the Potter & Moore Lavender for the Boots Old English Lavender tonight ... and so ends my week with lavender which was those two this weekend and Dr Selby throughout the week, Ach Brito and Brut providing the splashes. Lovely! Onto a sandalwood themed week next.
Best of, for the coming week Gents.