Special 218
Sorry about the upside-down lid—why does that happen with QED? But, as you see, it is the marvelous Special 218, with its mysterious fragrance. If you’re good with identifying fragrances, help me out here. What is the fragrance of Special 218?
A fine lather with the G.B. Kent BK4, then three good passes with the Red-Ring Eclipse with a slowly dying Swedish Gillette blade. In fact, the end result was still a bit less than perfection, so I did an oil pass, which I normally don’t do. That did indeed get it to perfection, and a splash of Geo. F. Trumper Spanish Leather (class today, so wanted something Spanish) finished the task.
I’ll now replace the blade in the Eclipse.
My olfactory senses are far rom sophisticated but given my origins I may have a clue…I think I definitely smell the pine forests of New England, especially Cape Cod and the South Shore of Massachusetts, including parts of Rhode Island. There’s something else mixed it but the pine seems dominant.
Yoda20
12 May 2011 at 10:20 am
Aha! Now that you name it, I can identify that. Thanks.
LeisureGuy
12 May 2011 at 10:36 am