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June 2021 Acquisitions
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Now that is a bargain I would pay £20 for the Murdock black tea alone fantastic stuff.
Northam Saint
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It is indeed, tried that as it was a late shave today, fantastic scent.
I bought a large bottle after having a wet shave at Murdock several years back. I just find Murdock products to ooze class. However I now always wait for their sales. I was disappointed when their hair paste (Matt Mudd) halved in content and increased in price, also a different formulation.
Northam Saint
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Have you tried any other of their colognes the Patchouli sounds good. I see they do a vetiver, but I’m stuck on Miller Harris Vetiver Insolent for my Vetiver fix. Not enough hair for hair products LOL !!!!!!!!
I have tried a couple of others but in all honesty the black tea scent was my favourite. Avalon was decent but for the price I prefer other brands.
Missoni
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Northam Saint
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Trouble is with these grooming boxes they do tend to lead you down a path. I was introduced to Miller Harris by one.
Jester
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Bart's been! Although it's to be discontinued - and is no longer showing on the site - @BartsBalm was happy to mail out a Ben Vorlich. Looking forward to seeing what Grapefruit and Black Pepper's like.....
HereticHermit
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I don't have much problem with soap being old stock especially when it has turned into a 'soap' from croap and good part of water has evaporated. But the fact remains that they shouldn't be selling such old stock with current prices. I have sent out an email to both to let them know what I think of such practice and how underwhelming the soap has performed. I am yet to receive a response.That's such a disappointment, especially after waiting so long and paying so much! It could be worth contacting AYLM with the batch code and asking when it was made, I could be totally wrong but "06717" feels to me like it may have been made in 2017(that is coincidentally when this soap was first released.)
I do know for certain that last year they switched production from TFS (the budget soap maker used by Razorock etc) to in-house so technically the newer one's should be superior quality I would expect. Anyway, if you can confirm with them how old it is then if I were you I'd contact the seller expressing your disappointment at receiving a 4 year old croap... This is not exactly a triple milled soap which will last decades in storage, the high water content composition means it has a finite storage life and they should be taking that into consideration, just my opinion
Notwithstanding the age and vanished scent, I expected the soap to perform for what it is. But I am sorry to report it was an under performer in every sense, for a shave soap. My silvertip did not pick enough soap was user error and I tried to make up for that and visited the tub 3 times during shave.
All i got was wispy, flaky and dry proto lather that just hated water. It was apparent that little goes long way IF you use cutthroat razors but you have a task cut for you trying to use it for DE shave. Slickness was saving grace but for almost half the price many USA soaps will run circles around Krokos. For next shave I will try to use a Boar and report if any improvement is noticed.
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Going to give plunder a run tomorrow ! Looking forward to it. Many respects as always my friend. J.Got the same as you .... love them - Great choice
N0ggie
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Hi Nishy, I picked up one of these boxes after seeing Seans post. The star of the show for me is the Murdock Black Tea British Cologne, it's got the wow factor! One thing, it says cologne on the tube but I can easily detect this a good 10 hours later, is it just named cologne & is an actual edt or edp do you know?
Cheers,
Nick
