Now, this is not my first boar brush but it's the first new one I've had in years. I opened the box figuring I'd smell that pig skunky smell we're all familiar with. But no, what I smelled was my long gone grandmother's closet. He closet was filled with moth balls and that is a smell of my youth, one that never leaves you when you smell it! The brush smelled like moth balls (inoffensive odor to me).
Too impatient to break it in properly, I stuck it in a glass of water for awhile and did a couple lathers. Now, it smelled like wet mothballs but not that funk. I decided to use it for today's shave and, after showering, whipped up a lather using an old grated Palmolive stick which has lost most of its fragrance. Whipped up a great lather with this brand new brush and had a great shave. Brush still smells of wet mothballs but now that I broke its cherry, I'll break in properly.
Is this something new with Omega brushes or have they done a better job of cleaning the hair so it's not as odoriferous as they used to be? And no, nothing wrong with my sense of smell, it's quite acute. Anyway, hate the chrome handle but I can tell it's gonna be a great brush. Bigger than any of my others save for the Kent BK8.
Too impatient to break it in properly, I stuck it in a glass of water for awhile and did a couple lathers. Now, it smelled like wet mothballs but not that funk. I decided to use it for today's shave and, after showering, whipped up a lather using an old grated Palmolive stick which has lost most of its fragrance. Whipped up a great lather with this brand new brush and had a great shave. Brush still smells of wet mothballs but now that I broke its cherry, I'll break in properly.
Is this something new with Omega brushes or have they done a better job of cleaning the hair so it's not as odoriferous as they used to be? And no, nothing wrong with my sense of smell, it's quite acute. Anyway, hate the chrome handle but I can tell it's gonna be a great brush. Bigger than any of my others save for the Kent BK8.