I've been pondering lately, partly because I've been regularly reading here besides my usual dwellings, about a certain kind of appeal.

To wit : do you sometimes feel that your appeal to some razors is fueled by some kind of "exotism" ?

Like finding that a Japanese or German razor are attractive partly because they differ to what you see most usually ?
Or that you must have that specific razor, not because it has all the hallmarks of aesthetics, but because it's too unusual ? (for example, a SK1)

Or do you (and by you I don't mean a collective you, more like "what is your personnal feeling/opinion") feel more attracted to the same kind of aesthetics, sticking to a family, broad as it is, of blades ? (like for example some people only collect 14-type blades)