Gillette Sensor Excel Shaving Cartridges

Before my Amazon purchase, the last time I bought these was in Bucharest. I found them in a dusty bazaar on the outskirts of Bucharest. A dimly lit stall tucked between a vendor selling brass sextants and a woman peddling jars of wildflower honey said to be harvested under a blood moon. The cartridges were unassuming, but I knew it was a treasure and pointed eagerly at them. The vendor nodded knowingly, muttering something in Romanian that sounded like a prophecy. I didn’t understand the words, but the meaning was clear: these are not made in the West anymore. Rare, coveted, almost mythical. Now, for my Amazon purchase of the same brilliant cartridges; a plain white sticker obscures their provenance as if guarding a secret too dangerous to share; I believe they are still made somewhere out Eastern Europe. But the quality is as good as I remember; each cartridge features self-adjusting twin blades—spring-mounted, no less—designed to glide effortlessly over the terrain of your face like a gondola on the canals of Venice. The soft Microfins whisper against your skin, holding it taut in a gentle embrace, like a maître d’ pulling a chair for you at the Hôtel Ritz. The result? A shave so close, so smooth, it might make you question reality itself. $17.99 for a 10-pack (a paltry $1.80 per blade, considering their scarcity). Supplies are finite, much like youth and good weather. Act accordingly.