The Sandalwood Shaveoff

I've been looking forward to this. I want to smell TOBS' Sandalwood Shave Cream again to see if I'm still picking up those floral notes from my first experience.
As I open the tub, I get a good whiff. And I like what I smell.
Same as yesterday: some gentle sandalwood with notes of geranium.
It's time to lather up. As you can see, I've kept everything the same, except for the AS. I went with something more floral and reached for Alt-Innsbruck.

I get my face wet with cold water, dip my brush in the shaving cream two or three times, then face-lather.
I'm getting some of the sandalwood notes hitting my nostrils, and I like it. My face is now covered with a nice rich lather and my brush looks like this. Luscious and amazing, right?

I go through my three passes to obtain a DFS. The lather was great, allowed for my razor to glide smoothly through my whiskers.
There's plenty of lather left over in my brush for at least two more passes.

Specifically, I choose Ogallala Bay Rum and Sandalwood, while keeping everything else unchanged from my first shave. This AS was suggest by my daughter. It is one of her favourites, and she nicknamed it "Gingerbread Pirate" aftershave.
She picked it after taking a good whiff of the TOBS shaving cream. To her it smelled like the beach. Specifically, this beach, in the Britannia neighbourhood, in Ottawa. And wouldn't you know it. She was bang on!
Aren't olfactory triggers incredible, that way? As soon as she mentioned this beach, my mind immediately took me there. As a result, TOBS Sandalwood Shave Cream is forever now associated with our family outings to this beach.
T&H: You have your work cut out!
Today's shave lineup looks like this:

I have dialed in the dosage of this cream, so I wet my face with cold water and face-lather like a boss!
Three passes and the result is clear: This is another rocking DFS shave.
And the bonus is that SWMBO also really enjoy the aroma of this shaving soap.

Actually, I select that has the same notes as the first one I used:

Brush: Omega boar
Razor: Merkur 33C
Blade: Gillette 7 o'clock yellow
Soap: Truefitt & Hill Sandalwood shave cream
AS: Razorock The Freedberg (which is, like Fine Platinum, inspired by Creed Aventus)

I open the shave cream's bottle and squirt a nice dollop into my wet brush. Then I face lather. After I add the right amount of water, and keep on face lathering, I am expecting for some notes to explode in my nostrils but nothing is happening. This is odd...I call my wife and she confirms for me that she can indeed smell this shaving cream. She describes it to me a cologne-y. To me: nothing.
This has happened to me only one other time: with the Captain's Choice Sandalwood AS. I had to PIF it, because I could not smell it.
So I resort to some more unorthodox. I plant my nose into my fully lathered shave brush, and I finally catch a gentle fragrance. And I do see what my wife referred to. Cologne-y is an appropriate way to describe this scent. I can smell woodier notes of sandalwood, with some of the sweetness I associate with musky colognes (like Avon Black Suede, for example). It smells good, but too gentle for my unrefined nostrils. It's a good thing that I will be lathering with this cream for one week. It will give us a change to know each other better.
As I am face-lathering, I am impressed by the thickness of the lather with this cream. It lathers like a champion. This is what my brush looks like as I put it down, ready for my first pass.

I go through a three-pass shave. The results are great, a DFS to be sure.
There is also enough lather left over for a few more passes:

Today's shave lineup looks like this:

I've switched Razorock's The Freedberg for XXX.
It's another good shave, but I felt I was off with the amount of cream I squeezed on my brush. After wetting my face with cold water, and face lathering, my brush looked like this:

Not a luscious and marshmallowy as yesterday. Still, three passes, and a DFS.
The XXX does not sting much, other than in the usual spots.