Pre-shave: Warm Water
Brush: Wolf Whiskers - custom 30mm blackwolf
Soap/Cream: A&E - Tibetan Temple
Razor: Karve Razorock - Lupo SS 95
Blade: Astra - Superior Platinum (2)
Post-shave: A&E - Tibetan Temple AS splash / A&E - Post Shave Serum
2 pass WTG = DFS + daily shave. Another great shave and very impressed with the intial use of the Lupo SS 95. ( actually more than impressed with a big grin

). Intial impressions, this is my type of razor. Extra effcient, super smooth, a little blade feel to let you know your shaving, all the trimmings for a fine razor. Yes its a level above the effciency of the Rocca. Somewhere in the Karve CB - SB, E - F plate with the Astra used. No review yet, as I would like to get a feel for this razor and other blades.
The soap Ariana & Evans -Tibetan Temple. Scent is medium to strong off the tub and medium, for the splash. Scent Notes, Tobacco leaf, honey, iris, sandalwood, amber, musk, frankincense, myrh, smoke, rose, patchouli, Himalayan cedar and hay. This is a beautiful masculine dark refined woody oriental scent which could be used as an evening scent anytime of the year or for colder weather.
To me as I have a fairly wide variety of A&E soaps, it smells very similar to about 1/2 a dozen other soaps that have a similar dark sweet oriental type accord. (Khalifa, Chasing the Dragon, Amber Rose, Revolution, Grecian Horse, Novelist, Vanille de tabac, The Club) If you could take the best elements from the scents of those soaps and combine them together, this is what Tibetan Temple is.
This is 100% two thumbs up from me on the the soap and splash .


I may like it more than Khalifa and Grecian horse.