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Successful Half-Blind Mail Call (sub.wetshaving.social)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social to c/wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social

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 Gemütlichkeit 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 Blugère. 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 Armonía and T&S Madagascar. I'll enjoy exploring this in more detail.

It feels good when a gamble pays off 😊

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[-] gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Blugère++;

Pure genius on Chris' part. I'll probably buy the frag at some point. Hope you like it as much as I do :)

Cool stuff. I personally know the feeling of ordering something blind all too well; so far though, only a few duds. These here look and sound comfortable and not very risky at all 👍🏻

Yeah, this one wasn't too risky. Just DFTR had me worried🙂

Yeah, this one wasn't too risky. Just DFTR had me worried🙂

[-] snooting@sub.wetshaving.social 3 points 1 day ago

Looks like a really great haul!

I don’t have any CB yet, but DFTR sounds like a great scent.

Yeah, a big BF bundle 😊

CB has great stuff, both scent and base wise

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 3 points 1 day ago

I need more Cbubs in my life.

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