Gato, as always, thanks for the friendly feedback. I guess my question was actually not about "too much" oil as whether you can oil too many times in a given day. Standard advice on the board, even for very long beards, seems to be just a few drops per application (which I understand to be once per day). Even with my very short beard right now, I've found that 6-7 drops in the morning seems to be the amount that gets my beard soft without the excess, unabsorbed oily feling. But whether it's the weather or just my dry complexion, the benefits of my morning oil seem to be gone within a few hours now. I guess I'll just start bringing my oil with me when I leave the house and re-applying throughout the day as necessary and see how that goes! Good luck to you in the winter ahead -- I'll be looking forward to hearing how your beard handles it.

Stefano, thanks for the feedback! Very nice of you, though having scrolled through many an impressive beard-journey thread on these forums, and seeing how amazing the beards of so many posters here are (see gato above), I'll take your lovely compliment with a grain of salt