SMF

When I first started looking at SMF, I was looking for a forum related to SE razors and didn't find anything that seemed to fit. Is there some way the description could be reworded to indicate that it includes threads related to any type of safety razors? Regards, Tom Agreed, it appears ambiguous f...

Luckily for us Brits, there is a source for the old 'grey caps' at very reasonable prices - well, for Creed anyway! What source is that? There used to be a place in Queensway but they're not there any more; where's the place you're thinking of? A flagon of Orange Spice and one of Baie de Genievre a...

Agree with Mr. Brothers Esq. Actually I'd give the Progress the edge; the Vision was just too big and fiddly for me, and the Futur, which a great razor, always left me slightly leery of slicing my thumb changing blades (that pop-off/pop-on cap is a cut to the bone waiting to happen, if you're a klut...

Just got my Tradere SB a couple of days ago and I love it. Beautifully-machined, much better-looking in reality than in the photos, and a superb, quick, moderately aggressive but extremely smooth shaver. I too thought it might be tricky to find the angle with that flat (rather than curved, like the ...

...till I need the money for taxes or something ... You, too? I thought I was the only one. I learnt a new word today - petrichor , which seems apposite to the discussion of autumnal scents. Now I have the right word for the wet-earth underlying the rose in Voleur de Rose. Chris I used to live in a...

drmoss_ca wrote: Not a habit you should get into with Leica lenses.


Chris

SHUT UP about that old 35mm Summilux. That goes for the Noctilux and the... no. NO. I am NOT LISTENING *sticks fingers in ears, sobs*.

First, Coromandel and l'Air ... if they are your two staples then we don't need to do Big Data; we already know all about your olfactory self (merged, of course, with the o.s. of Mrs Sam, which is as it should be). Here's my take, for what it's worth. Comme des Garcons 2 Man : not as interesting as ...

... initial rooty blast of the Giant Honkweed is really fine -- Honkweed? I don't find this with Google. A typo perhaps or just obscure? I made it up. "Honk" is slang for a powerful odour. Seemed appropriate. (Just think, every single word we use has been made up by someone, originally. L...

Go to page 6 of this PDF company newsletter and look at the picture at the top of the page: http://www.soapworksltd.co.uk/sites/default/files/soapworks_may_newsletter_single_pages_lo-res.pdf Yep, this company produces Penhaligon's soaps as well. I missed a few other names on the company's Our Clien...

It's great stuff. How it's held up to the oakmoss nonsense, I don't know, but my last bottle was about 3 years ago and I was surprised how good it still smells. The ionone (violet) kick-start was not quite as surprising as it was once, but still a splendid summer smell. Glad to have been reminded of...

... the big houses seem to settle for cedramber and iso e super (and even that is now limited by IFRA guidelines) these days. You forgot -- hang on while I... where's my chalk?... okay, that's the pentacle and just let me light these candles and can someone hand me the Holy water... thanks -- Ambro...

Well I find I'm redundant on this, as I agree with everything Tim says. (Except that I'm even sadder about the Hammam than he is.) It's bad news; but we should expect it. Fragrance finds it hard to breathe these days, crushed between accountants, private equity punters, and regulators. But I do love...

SO how much are they asking for this stuff in the USA? Here, it's about a mid-list price: £75 ($115) for 100ml. For comparison, Hammam Bouquet is £85 ($130).

But, yes, I agree, it's a fine lavender soliflore, perhaps the best.

Sables: seconded. It's remarkable and one of my personal top five. Though a friend who also wears it tells me it's been reworked, and is now much smoother without the edge we're used to. The mad toffee/liquorice/fenugreek-and-cumin smell of Imortelle sauvage has been attenuated. I hope he's wrong bu...

...With respect to your response to my tight-fistedness... Yes; I realised after I'd posted my comment that it could be interpreted like that, and I meant to post a follow-up, but then forgot. I didn't mean to suggest that you were a skinflint and I am sorry if I gave that impression. Your damn' ri...

And you will. It'll happen. Happens to us all.

Expensive, yes... but by doubling your expenditure from Acqua di Parma you go up an order of magnitude in the kind of experience the fragrance will give you. Mona di Orio's Vetyver is not to my taste -- too much else going on, though the initial rooty blast of the Giant Honkweed is really fine -- bu...

I think green, grass, chocolate and smoke are part of the deal with vetiver. The Guerlain has downplayed the vetiver until to my nose it's not really paying its way, and the Tom Ford Grey Vetiver is in the same category -- to me it fetches up as a sort of citrus with something wrong about it, and an...

I have two of the classic pencils. Old one: Made in USA. Sturdy, reliable, beautifully made. New one: Made in China. Flimsy metal, poorly milled (sharp uncomfortable ridge where the two halves join) and some cheap plastic lead-advance mechanism touted as a "feature" which can be removed to...