Hello gents, and ladies if any are reading, I have been lurking around here and posting here and there, as of today I am using a parker shavette. I actually purchased a dovo silver steel off ebay last week which should be here tomorrow and even though I will be sending it off to be honed before giving it a try, I realized "Dope, you don't have a strop." So over the weekend I realized I had a gift card from Christmas that I haven't even activated, it got activated today and I purchased a 3in red latigo strop from SRD and while poking around, I figured I will also throw in a nice new shave cream to try.

I have not really seen or heard anything bad about CF products, so I decided to order the Lavender cream as well with the strop. I am extremely excited to try it out as it seems to be a benchmark, next to lets say Martin De Candre or some say XPEC (for those that havent tried MDC myself included.) I did do some searching of the forum here and I see the most talked about is the CF lime and cedarwood and sandalwood. I do like my mama bears vanilla sandalwood soap, and that is the prime reason I didn't get the CF version. I want to experience new things, different scents can make this quite the adventure. However I do have a question in this post. Those of you who use the Lavender, how is the scent? Is it potent and sticks with you, is it too "feminine" or will my lady appreciate it on me and not make fun of me for getting lavender shave cream . I suppose this could be a YMMV type of thing, but just trying to see what you good people think is all.

I noticed there are a lot of different methods for loading up a brush with this stuff and getting the superior lather it is famous for in this forum, so I suppose depending on when I try my first round with it we will find out if I need to repost asking about how to get this to its ultimate performance. As always, I appreciate all responses and thanks for stopping by!