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Saturday SOTD Thread - January 11th, 2025 (#580)
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Successful Half-Blind Mail Call
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A very long awaited mail call from Black Friday finally made it to me and I was a bit worried about two of the blind buys in it. Fortunately I got lucky across the board.
The goods, from the safe buys to the risky ones:
- A bottle of SBS Valedictorian EdP. This has been one of my favourite outdoorsy scents for a few years now, but I've never had the frag so far.
- A bottle of uncool Shire splash. I love the scent of Shire, but the cooling agent in the previous splash always felt jarring to me. So far, all know stuff for me.
- A set of CF Gemรผtlichkeit soap and splash. I love warm wintry gourmands, so I was pretty sure I'd like this one and it's delightful off the tub. I'm looking forward to trying it soon.
- A trickhole set of CB Blugรจre. It felt a bit stupid to blind buy an entire trickhole set, but shipping and reshipping for alcohol over pond is super expensive and adding a frag to a shipment costs so much less that adding a shipment for the frag, so I made the gamble that I'd like it and would regret not getting the frag. I think that was the right call.
- A set of CB DFTR soap and splash. The description for this one has had me intrigued for a while now. Boozy green fig with tobacco and woods? Sounded delightful. The scent is really interesting (in a nice way): Bright fresh green with warm tobacco.The combination reminds me of both CGC/HoM Armonรญa and T&S Madagascar. I'll enjoy exploring this in more detail.
It feels good when a gamble pays off ๐
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