March 3, 2025 • 30 mins
Our episode kicks off with tales from Milan, where Myke encountered various airport mishaps that turned into memorable anecdotes, bringing out our shared connection through fragrance and travel.
Transitioning from airborne adventures, we dive into the carefully curated unboxing of Kajal's latest release, Ruby—a captivating cherry almond fragrance. With our first impressions flowing and sensory details laid bare, we reflect on how the scent resonates emotionally, stirring up nostalgic memories while also considering its multifaceted demographic appeal.
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Ryan (00:03):
hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the
cologne podcast.
I'm mike and I'm ryan.
Myke (00:12):
We're two best friends, right, yeah, yeah, we're just.
Yeah, we're two friends, justfriends going on a fragrance
podcast adventure.
God, I'm out, I forgot thewhole tagline.
I've been gone so long, goodlord welcome back.
Ryan (00:26):
He just got back from milan, italy.
Yeah, just, we're at assance.
You got to hang out with abunch of cool people, the
coolest people, and we'll dabblein that throughout the episode
yeah, we're gonna have someepisodes coming up where we talk
to the guys and get theiropinions on it.
Yes, sir, and he just slept for12 hours.
Myke (00:47):
I had to.
I had flight delays.
I got trapped in Paris again,good Lord, yeah.
So I walk up to the counter,I'm in Milan flying out and they
keep pushing my flight back.
And I had before.
The flight got pushed backwhenever I landed in paris.
I had 30 minutes to get to mygate.
(01:09):
Damn to get on the flight fromparis to atlanta to get back.
And the flight got pushed backan hour.
So immediately I go, I'mmissing my flight.
Then it got pushed back twohours.
So I go up to the lady at likethe ticket encounter and she
goes well, do you want to see ifyou can try to still catch your
flight before we change yourtickets?
And I'm like, unless that planeis also a DeLorean, we're not
(01:35):
making this flight, because I'mlike I would have to be on it an
hour ago.
Ryan (01:45):
By the way, speaking of all this plane shit yes, you
know, you guys out there rip meall the time, say I'm a fucking
loser because I won't get on aplane.
Mike's telling me everything'sgood.
From the time you left till yougot back, it's been one
incident after another in theseplanes, man.
Some are landing upside down,some are crashing out.
(02:06):
Yeah, some are literally barelymissing each other.
One's taking off, one's runningthrough the freaking runway
there Right and people areriding first class with freaking
dead bodies.
Myke (02:17):
Yeah, heard about that as well.
Ryan (02:18):
Dude, I'm like what the hell?
I'm good.
Our patrons are like we reallyneed to start a fun for Ryan to
go on this trip Like through aYou'll never go.
Myke (02:29):
What's it called GoFundMe?
Ryan (02:30):
Well, they were saying GoFundMe, but they were saying
they want to book a cruise, likeI'm doing it by sea.
Myke (02:36):
Oh my God, that would take you like two months to get
there.
What is this?
The Demeter?
This is Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Ryan (02:44):
Oh God.
So yeah, it would.
Just, it would take an act ofGod, I think, to get me going,
ryan.
Columbus selling the.
Myke (02:51):
Seas of Blue.
Yeah, but you're back.
Ryan (02:54):
I'm happy for you to be back.
Yes, I'm happy for you to beback.
He brought tons of goodies back.
Tons of full bottles.
We're going bag tons of fullbottles.
We're gonna pass it along toour patrons.
If you're not a patron, I'mtelling you I'm not saying this
in an insulting way.
Stop being a fucking idiot.
Become a patron.
Myke (03:09):
Well, yeah, so the one we smell today going out to the
patrons, then we're also doinganother episode for the patrons
that another full bottle's goingout so we don't keep full balls
here.
Ryan (03:20):
We pass that on to the friends of the podcast, and that
was our patreon members.
Yeah.
Myke (03:24):
I mean, here's the thing we see people go.
Yeah, they're just out therefor the free bottles, the free
bottles.
We don't keep the free bottles,we don't, they go out, and
that's our freaking spiel.
Ryan (03:33):
Literally if we like something.
This has been more Mike than me, but we'll ship it out.
You'll go and buy the bottleyou want it, it's true.
Myke (03:41):
Speaking of liking something, okay, I've got a
review from Fragrantica, fromDumplings.
Ryan (03:50):
Is it spelled D-U-M-B?
Yeah?
Myke (03:53):
So Dumplings says love Kajal fragrances but always been
a hater of cherry and almond.
Let's see if Kajal can finallymake me a fan of the cherry and
almond fragrances.
Excited to test this, but Ihave a feeling it's going to
have the play-doh or medicinesmell from cherry and almond
(04:14):
combos.
Interesting also it just gotreleased, not even a couple
weeks ago.
It actually launched on avalentine's day.
Yeah, so there wasn't anyreviews from people who've
actually smelled it.
Yeah, so that's why we got that.
Ryan (04:28):
Before we get into it, though, we got to give our one
night stand review that'shappened over a week ago now,
yeah Of Tom Ford's Boise PacificGeek or whatever.
How do you pronounce that?
Myke (04:40):
Hit the music, todd.
Yeah, one night stand review.
Ryan, I actually let Clement CCFragrances hear the way you
said that Okay In previousepisode and she thought it was
super cute.
She actually thinks it's cutewhen people try to do the French
(05:04):
names.
Really, yeah, because me, herand Steve were having a
conversation.
We were asking her is it superannoying to hear people just
absolutely butcher it?
Okay, and she's like, no, Iactually find it charming.
Oh well, that's cool.
Yeah, and I was like because,yikes, right, yeah.
Ryan (05:32):
Mega yikes on my part because I know, yeah, you know,
I know people have told they'vewritten in and they're like I
love you and mike's voices andstuff like that.
It's so funny, though I'm justoff, so shoot.
But you know, obviously againI'm bringing it up, marvel
rivals, I play the hell out ofit.
But anytime I'm like, uh, hey,don't line aside the healer.
They're like who's this country, motherfucker?
I'm like god damn, am I thatcountry sounding?
Myke (05:52):
Hey, now y'all Good lord, so you're getting on the mic
with them and they're like jeez.
Ryan (06:05):
Yeah, I'm like playing rank and I'm always playing
healer like a strategist classor a healer, and everybody this
is me being nerdy now, right now, but I don't know if it's just
console players or whatever, butGod damn, my teams always suck
and I'm like trying to literallydo everything.
Yeah, everything, and I'mreally not just saying that, I'm
just being blunt and honest.
I'm not great, but I'm doingeverything I can.
Myke (06:20):
Well, the funny thing about accents.
I was talking with Chris aboutthis.
He was asking me could I noticethe difference between his and
Steve's accent?
Because he said, you know,whenever I listen to American
accents I can detect a Southernaccent, like a Northeastern
accent.
And I was like no, I can'teither.
I can't really distinguish thedifference between those two.
(06:41):
Now, them in strong stylefragrances, yes, big time.
And them and berry, big timeberries is so different that I
kept telling him I'm like to anamerican, we'd think you were
like scottish or something.
Yeah, because that's just likemy ignorance of the area over
there.
Yeah, but yeah, it's funny that, yeah, here in america too, you
(07:02):
can like really pick up on thedifferences.
But uh, you guys have moresubtleties over there across the
pond.
Ryan (07:07):
Definitely.
I would feel like it's moresubtle there.
Here I feel like it's very moredistinct.
I mean literally To our ear atleast Dude.
Literally you go next door toLouisiana and the accent there
is crazy, yeah, especially whenthey have that Cajun accent Dude
it's wild dude.
Myke (07:23):
Yeah, okay, we should probably talk about tom ford boy
.
Pacific um the woods of thepacific.
Ryan (07:31):
It wasn't bad, but it wasn't.
Was it crazy memorable to you?
Myke (07:35):
yeah, it was.
It was decent.
I actually talked with lickybecause she got to go smell it.
Okay, what'd they think?
Yeah, she gave me a fullbreakdown of her wearing and she
liked it, but her complaint, Ithink, is our complaint, which
is it didn't really last thatlong shocker yeah, what do you
know?
Ryan (07:54):
I shouldn't tear it down that hard, but uh, yeah it was.
It was not bad, it smelled gooddefinitely woodsy.
Myke (08:00):
Do you think they're handicapping them to make you
want to buy higherconcentrations in like the
designer world?
You think they're handicappingthem to make you want to buy
higher concentrations in thedesigner world?
Do you think they'reintentionally doing that?
Ryan (08:11):
To some degree I would have to say yeah, because I can
think about older stuff thatI've bought in the past, like
old school designer fragrancesthat were loud and proud and
lasted forever.
Myke (08:23):
That was Tony with Turdermes.
Yeah, you could smell it.
It was great it was popping offof him and he was wearing an
EDT.
Ryan (08:30):
See what I'm saying.
Yeah, like the originalAcquadugio EDT, like now.
I wouldn't even swear to God.
You know, I bought it for mydad, I'll turn it down.
That's what he wore, and I'dalways be like you smell good,
(08:51):
dad, and his joke would alwaysbe like well, I would hope so.
I drank some of it because hethat's how much he used it.
Well, well, the fact he had touse a lot of because he felt
like it didn't last long, oh sohe was just like drowning
himself in it, gotcha so, but Iagree, yeah, I just think it
lost its uh thing, which makessense.
If we just look at anythingcorporatey, they're like we got
to make more money we can, wherecan we make cuts at?
so yeah, I do believe there'ssomething there.
Myke (09:07):
I don't know what, I'm not an expert and it's obviously an
opinion but yeah, well, I knowthere's been some distance, but
at least what did you think ofthe actual smell?
Longevity aside, so somebodydoesn't care about that it did
smell good.
Ryan (09:19):
It was this really cool woodsy type of vibe and I did
really like it and I actuallygot somebody smelling they.
They liked it as well, but itwas.
Myke (09:25):
It did feel like a skin scent to me I think that there
are other niche fragrancesprobably for a decent price,
yeah that are similar to that,that I think you could get away
with, just going the differencein the route.
I think I kept seeing like andytower and stuff like that as
well you kept mentioning that.
Ryan (09:43):
yeah, like so like a big andy, like that as well.
Yeah, you kept mentioning that.
Yeah, like a big Andy Towerfanboy.
Myke (09:46):
Well, compared to that, I remember that one was so loud.
Yeah, you know the problem withthe Tom Fords now is you kind
of run out of you know runway,if we're going to keep the
airplane analogies going.
Yeah, it's a skip.
Yeah, I'm with you.
I think it's a skip too.
Ryan (10:01):
It's a skip, because if it was really strong enough to be
a sample, I'd be like hey,that's a good thing, go sample
it, because you may like it.
I just feel like it's kind ofyou know.
Myke (10:09):
Yeah, look, we're not going to like just completely
slurp off a Tom Ford justbecause it's brand new.
No, you know, you can trustthis guys.
Ryan (10:24):
Now let into today's fragrance, because I'm really
excited about this.
It's brand new.
Yeah, you're taking pictures atthe photo booth there,
beautiful red kajal shimmering.
Myke (10:29):
Yes photo booth.
Yeah, they've started doingthat.
I think the last two yearsthey've done that I liked it.
Ryan (10:34):
It was really cool.
I liked uh, they got youropinion on it.
Posted that that was cool.
Myke (10:40):
Yeah, I did.
That was my first instagramlive I've ever done really with.
Ryan (10:43):
I was with them.
Yeah Well, dang gum.
They popped your cherry on that.
Huh, cherry almond.
Let's smell it.
It's a brand new fragrance andwe're going to open this package
up, look at the bottle, smellthis bad boy, and then later on
we're going to tell you who wonthis thing.
Oh baby, you want to do thehonors?
You go ahead.
Okay, get ready for the ASMRpart of the show.
Myke (11:18):
Okay, this is the exciting part about opening.
A Kajal is always apresentation.
They go all out, out, wow thatis pretty.
Ryan (11:25):
It is a ruby red bottle and it has little.
What would you call that?
I mean they're ruby-ish.
I know they're probably notreal rubies, or this would cost
a fuck ton no, I think they'rereal rubies actually, right?
No, do not say that, but itdoes look really cool.
I've always been a fan of theirbottle caps, just because I don
don't know, it's just kind ofintricate and something new and
(11:47):
different.
Myke (11:47):
It's something that's like very authentic to them.
Yeah, very much so.
Nobody goes like, oh, thatbottle looks like so-and-so's
brand.
No, Kajal doesn't look likeanybody else.
Ryan (11:57):
No, it doesn't?
It's really cool, man, andlet's smell this bad boy.
Myke (12:04):
I'm freaking pumped or bad girl.
So we've got to hit thelisteners to a little secret.
What's the secret?
I tested you yesterday.
I lied to you Really and Iloved lying to you.
Ryan (12:25):
Ryan, really Okay, that's great, I'm glad you love being
deceitful towards me, your bestfriend, apparently.
Myke (12:34):
I didn't actually lie, but what I did was I was like I'm
going to catch Ryan and see ifhe actually likes his fragrance.
I'm going to test him to see ifhe's just a Kajal fanboy or if
he really likes this fragrance.
Okay, so I sprayed Ruby on atester strip and you went off.
I don't know what you weredoing.
You're out in the worldexploring things.
You come back to the studio andI had sprayed it like 15, 20
(12:55):
minutes before that, yeah, and Igo hey, what do you think about
this?
You know what is this and youget it and I don't say anything.
I just let you smell it.
I want to hear your reaction.
I didn't want to preface it, youknow, because we love Kajal.
So I didn't want to tell you itwas a Kajal, because then I
thought, just in case him goingoh, it's Kajal, I better like
(13:18):
this because they've done somuch for us.
So I'm just like just tell mewhat it is, it's just something,
it's just something from thebag of goodies.
And you smell it and you go ohmy God, this is gorgeous.
Ryan (13:27):
Yeah, that was actually the exact words I used.
It's really gorgeous.
Myke (13:31):
Yeah.
Ryan (13:31):
So no, lies it.
Now it's smelling a littledifferent because it's actually
first rip here.
Yeah, but it is definitely aunique scent.
This smells really good.
It was loud yesterday or theother day.
Yeah, it's loud today.
Oh, they're so loud.
I'm saying this, but it's not abad thing here.
(13:52):
Mm-hmm, is this the firstcherry almond thing we've ever
smelled before that I can thinkof?
Myke (13:57):
Hmm.
Ryan (13:59):
Good question.
I think we've smelled maybesome cherry but not cherry
almond.
But I think we smelledsomething maybe some cherry but
not cherry almond.
But I think we smelledsomething like a Guerlain Home
IDL or whatever the hell it wasat time.
Myke (14:09):
Oh, or Heritage, was it?
Ryan (14:10):
Heritage.
I think that one's supposed tohave like a cherry one.
That's been a long time agoMaybe, so yeah, but I can kind
of see where somebody wouldthink cough syrup a little bit.
Myke (14:20):
I'm not really.
Ryan (14:24):
I'm not getting that, though.
Specifically, I'm actuallygetting more.
God, should I say this Iactually like these things.
There's a certain kind ofalmost like candy, like a
lozenge, yeah, but they're.
They're not like the hauls,they're not crazy, you know.
Oh, it's like luden's cherry.
Myke (14:39):
Yeah, yeah, they're sweet, very sweet.
It's like a piece of candy.
Ryan (14:42):
Basically, yes, basically, yeah, it's more of that route,
but then it's immediately that Iguess that fruit part is kind
of like softening up and what'sunder here is really soft and
gorgeous.
Myke (14:55):
Right.
So I think dumplings is rightthen, and I don't know if this
is what happens with that combo.
There is a certain medicinalquality to it.
This is what I say whenever Ismell it for the Instagram live,
because they're like we wantyour first impressions, okay.
So I'm smelling it and thefirst thing I get is it's like a
sweet red fruit yeah, I don'tknow any of the notes at the
(15:16):
time.
And then I was like and there'sthis medicinal quality, that
one, I think, cuts it from beingtoo sweet, I agree, and then
also it makes it kind ofaddictive to smell.
I remember going like I can'tstop smelling this whenever I
did the live.
Yeah, because I'd take it awayfrom my nose and I'd be talking
about it and then I'dimmediately want to smell it
again and keep bringing it backup, and I was like I can't stop
(15:38):
smelling this thing.
And I think typically, when wesmell sweet fragrances or fruity
fragrances, they lean reallysweet and I like that.
There's a little bit moreattitude to this.
There's a little bit more biteto it with that sort of, like
you said, that kind of medicinaltype smell in there.
That kind of makes it morepalatable and not so like sickly
(16:00):
sweet it's really good, likeseriously really good.
Ryan (16:05):
I don't know if this is a bad complaint, but the only hang
up and I may be skipping aheadtoo far here, stop me if I am is
the demographic I think this isfor no go into.
Okay, so obviously, mike's overmilan enjoying the fucking time
of his life.
Of course I'm.
I'm just over here, sappy Ryan.
Myke (16:25):
Your choice.
It was your decision.
Ryan (16:28):
But we did get a chance to talk briefly a couple of times
and one of them, when you weretalking about smelling this, the
first thing he says I thinkit's kind of feminine yeah, for
sure, not as a bad thing, justlike you think it leans, more
feminine.
And so when I smelled it theother other day, the first thing
I said was obviously I was like, wow, this is really gorgeous
(16:48):
fragrance.
And then you said what it wasand after our you know we had
that conversation said, yeah, Iagree this is.
It may be unisex, but Idefinitely think it's more
feminine, leaning for sure.
And the fact that it came outon Valentine's Day kind of makes
sense because, let's just bereal, valentine's is for the
ladies, not for the man.
Myke (17:08):
Yeah, it's for us to shower others with gifts,
exactly, which is fun.
Yeah, it's always nice to givesomeone you love something
special.
Yeah, like I don't knowChocolates or something.
I'm smelling a fragrance rightnow.
Ryan (17:30):
Speaking of chocolates, guys, let me tell you about old
chocolatier boy over here.
Oh yeah, he comes back.
He brings a little bit ofchocolate, mm-hmm, he makes me
try one, and he's like I watchedthe fucking chocolatier himself
.
Myke (17:45):
I didn't say that.
I said you can watch him makeit.
Ryan (17:48):
Well, yeah, he said you can watch the chocolatier
himself freaking, make thesefreaking things, and he got me
to try one that was rose, andwhat else?
Raspberry.
Myke (17:59):
Yeah Well, I was guessing on the raspberry, but it had
rose in the name.
My Italian sucks guys, so it'slike trying to break it down.
I have no clue.
Ryan (18:08):
Let me tell you, though legitimately, just straight up
I'm not crazy about just eatinga chocolate by itself.
It's usually a chocolate chipcookie, yes, but hands down, the
best chocolate I've ever put inmy mouth, that rose vibe to it
was was insane, so I screwed up.
Myke (18:27):
Last year I didn't do it, but the year before as well, I
brought back chocolates fromitaly, yeah, and we had a moment
where we were trying them andtalking about it and so, yeah, I
I feel like that's a greattradition that needs to kind of
happen.
But I find it so interesting,especially over there, because I
(18:49):
don't really see it.
We have a local candy shop thatyou can go in and they actually
make the candy back there andthey make the chocolates and
stuff too, which is great, butthey're not as artistic as it is
over there.
And to have these rose notesand stuff like that in the
actual food, it does make itinteresting.
And I just remember tasting itand going like this is the first
(19:11):
time I've really tasted rose ina candy, 100%, and really liked
it.
And it actually connects toKajal because, remember, that's
where Mo started.
Yeah, mo started on theculinary side and got interested
in it, and I think the two gohand in hand.
They absolutely do.
In fact, if you lose your senseof smell and you become anosmic
we've talked about this before.
(19:31):
That's what happened to the Benand Jerry's guy yeah, then you
don't have a taste.
Yeah, this has to correspondwith your taste buds.
Ryan (19:40):
So I'm tasting this chocolate that he brought and
I'm literally going.
This tastes like somefragrances we've smelled.
Yeah, exactly, it was intense,it was easily just straight up
chocolate by itself, the bestchocolate I've ever had.
And it was also.
The texture was perfect, right,yes, but I will say they don't
call them turtles here, becauseapparently we found out that oh,
that's owned by Russell Stover.
(20:01):
Yeah, but they have thesethings called caramel rounds
here that are giant chocolate,on one side, big gob of caramel
and then on top of that hugefucking Pecan, pecan Like
half-holed pecans on it.
And they're goddamn ridiculous.
They are, and so is hisfragrance.
Let me tell you the notes,since we have been talking about
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notes a little bit here.
Top notes, which is strange.
I didn't get this Pineapple.
Do you get that any?
Huh?
Myke (20:33):
I don't get that at all.
I wonder if that's like kind ofconnecting the house with Lamar
.
Ryan (20:40):
Maybe, but it's pineapple, cherry, red berries, coconut I
actually do get coconut andalmond I do get that as well.
Middle notes are brown sugar,whipped cream, ice cream, and
then base notes are amber, tonka, bean, musk, vanilla and
benzenoin.
Myke (20:58):
That's interesting.
I really want to continue towear this and smell it.
I did not spray it on skin inMilan.
One of the reasons is I didn'thave any more places on my skin
to spray anything and plus Ijust kept wearing I can over and
over and over again.
Ryan (21:14):
We just posted a picture with all the stuff that you
brought back in that one andanother one where people want to
know what that smells like.
And guess what they're going tofind out today?
Because we're going to be doinga special bonus episode for the
patron of I Can't After this,yeah, and giving away that
bottle.
Myke (21:30):
And then meeting up with George Zaharoff and he asked me.
He said, hey, is there anythingin the line that you haven't
smelled, that you want to smell?
And I said I would like tosmell Coco Loco.
I haven't got to smell it yet,but that's what I've been really
interested about.
Yeah, so he immediately got onhis phone and shot us samples of
everything he makes.
So we have all those as well.
Ryan (21:51):
Somebody's gonna get those , yeah, the whole line, the
whole fucking line.
You get to test it.
Yeah, after we test.
Yeah, we're gonna take about 75out of it.
Now, I'm kidding, but this isreally.
It dries down really soft andbeautiful.
Myke (22:08):
It's very beautiful.
That's kind of where you gotinto it.
You know, 20, 30 minutes inwhen you smelled the tester that
I had sprayed this fragrance is.
It's not for everybody, becauseit really is strong in one
direction, but we ask for thisall the time.
We ask for a fragrance that hasa strong identity.
We don't need the genericdesigner type things anymore.
(22:29):
Take a chance.
Yeah, we need something thatspeaks to a small demographic of
people.
Ryan (22:34):
Yeah.
Myke (22:35):
That makes it where it's like.
Oh, this smells like you, right?
This is what we're alwayshunting after.
We even had a Patreon say that,that they're giving themselves
till 2016, 2017, something likethat to find their signature
fragrance 2016?
Ryan (22:49):
You mean 2026?
Yeah, oh my.
Myke (22:51):
God, where am I Still working out the lack of sleep?
Goodness gracious, I just tookaway a decade there.
I'm sure we'd all like that,yeah, giving himself the next uh
, one or two years to find asignature scent.
Then he said he's getting ridof his whole collection and he's
(23:12):
just going to commit.
Ryan (23:14):
Yeah, I think he goes by wild card that's right yeah, he
is the wild one of the bunch.
It looks like so far we got oureyes on you, buddy.
Myke (23:22):
So that's kind of the thing, though, with this is like
it's so strong in its ownpersonality.
It could be that one fragranceyou find that you go.
If this is you, you go.
This is me price and popularity.
Ryan (23:42):
For 100 ml, this bad boy right here, $252.
That's a great price, not bad.
Myke (23:48):
Not bad Retail.
I mean that at retail for aniche fragrance.
Again, we talk about this allthe time.
Sub 300 is the way to be.
Ryan (23:55):
Yeah, you got designers trying to be like that price.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
So, yeah, good deal on thatPopularity.
And I think it's just becauseit's new.
It hasn't had a lot of votesyet, but it's 3.27 out of 5, 15
votes only on Free Grant today.
I mean, it's brand fucking new.
Yeah, it's not even two weeksold.
Yeah, I can smell the coconut alot actually I feel like it's
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that and some cream thing goingdown.
It has whipped cream in it.
It says, yeah, the fruit partis like after that initial burst
, which is the strongest part,but after that kind of cools
down, you kind of got that verylight fruit.
But it's mostly to me likecoconut and like a cream, maybe
(24:37):
the little ice cream kind ofvibe going on, which, admittedly
, I guess that leans towards agourmand.
So it'd be hard for me to wearpersonally.
Myke (24:46):
Yeah, I'm not going to peg this as you, ryan, it's not
because it is to me.
In my opinion, it's so feminine, which is not a bad thing.
It's also slightly on themature side, I feel, because
it's sharp and less sweet, yeah,which is good.
We kind of need that.
Most people making fruityfragrances are making them hyper
sweet, which to me saysyouthful, like a younger sort of
(25:08):
audience.
Ryan (25:09):
Well, flesh it out.
Who do you think is actually?
Who's the prototypical, as youwould like to say, avatar for
this?
Myke (25:15):
fragrance right here, I think it's going to be 35 and up
.
Okay, and someone, male orfemale, that leans really heavy
into feminine fragrances?
Gotcha, yeah, that wants thesofter side you don't want it to
be.
I don't know that this ismasculine at all.
Ryan (25:33):
Yeah, it does say that it is unisex, but I definitely
think it is.
If you're looking at a thinggoing, you know tilting, it is
more feminine.
Myke (25:41):
Yeah, and that's okay If that's your route.
I think that you're going tofind fragrances like this and
you're going to be like, ohperfect.
Ryan (25:48):
Is this for a dressed up occasion?
Is this an everyday wear?
Is this office friendly?
Myke (25:52):
I think it's office and out yeah, I don't think it's
like everyday, probably notspraying it on to go to the
store, unless that's yourpersonality.
Yeah, that's your personality.
Yeah, if you're dressing up toyou know, go to target, yeah,
then splash it on.
But this to me is there's anelegance to it that I don't know
that you're walking around insweat pants and smelling like
(26:15):
this yeah, I think, yeah, yeah,I'm with you on that but I do
think it's beautiful and I wouldlike to smell it on a woman
absolutely.
Ryan (26:26):
It is really a gorgeous scent.
I think whoever gets this isgonna fucking love this.
Yeah, and that person is denise.
That's right, denise.
You've been a patron for awhile yeah, our little cowgirl
out there.
Yes, ma'am and uh, we are gonnagive this to you.
I think you will enjoy this.
(26:47):
I really do.
It's very unique.
And uh, thank you for being apatron.
If you want to be like denise,become a patron.
But, mike, are you gonna skipit?
Myke (26:57):
sample it or buy it.
What are you going to do, Ryan?
Ryan (27:03):
Well, mike, for me I hate to say this it's like I can't
technically say sample for mebecause it's not something I
would personally wear.
Right, it's a sample out therefor somebody else.
It's a skip for me personally,but it's a sample out there If
you want to try something unique.
It definitely is gorgeous, itis definitely feminine.
Myke (27:25):
A young lady wearing this, I'm telling you, this smells
really good from a guy'sperspective here, but personally
, it's a skip, yeah, I would sayI'm probably leaning in a
similar vein, although what Ineed to do is just try it, yeah,
and wear it.
And here's why Chris had acouple of his normal dude bro
(27:46):
friends come out on a trip aswell, which is what I wanted you
to do, but no big deal.
One of them was Ben, and he wasable to secure a Zerjoff.
You got a full bottle.
We'll be doing an episode on it.
Okay, when I smelled thisfragrance initially thought, oh,
this is because for the ladies,yeah.
(28:07):
But he wore it a few nights andit wore really well on him, and
so sometimes I may be writingthings off, going oh, it's too
feminine, without actuallytrying at first to just see what
is.
What are people going to say ifI wear it?
Yeah, and then maybe they go,oh, I like that smell on you.
I don't really know what it isor how it dries down, because
you know nine times out of ten,me and you can spray something
(28:30):
on our skin, it's gonna smelldifferent on you than me.
So I do think I need to betrying fragrances that I would
write off, initially going itsmells beautiful, but it's not
for me.
And if I think it smells reallygood, then maybe just give it a
shot.
So maybe I I'm going to saysample on this, but I'm right
for you.
My initial brain reaction to itwas this is not really the type
(28:51):
of fragrance I'd wear.
However, I really like it and Ido think you should get out
there and try it if it soundslike something you'd be into.
Ryan (28:58):
Absolutely.
And just to let you know,Denise, he's not going to be
spraying from this.
You actually brought home sometravel atomizers of it.
Myke (29:06):
Yeah, and we'll be giving those away as well to other
patrons.
So we have two travel atomizersof this that we will be giving
away, but we also have samplesfrom Kajal and that's what we'll
be using.
So this will be full bottle,full presentation for Denise.
Ryan (29:22):
Also, denise, just a heads up.
You're going to get to samplethe other latest, kajal Lamar
Noir.
We're going to send that withthis, that's right.
Well, he's officially back.
Guys, you have to bear with us.
We may have to get our swimminglegs back under us over here
Right.
But it's good to have you back.
I'm glad you're able to takethis trip.
(29:43):
Thank you to Kajal for makingthat happen as well, yeah, and
for giving us some greatfragrances to check out.
100%.
Guys, we seriously love you all.
We're glad you've been going onthis journey with us, for is
this year four now?
Yes, so this is year four ofthe podcast, and, man, you guys
have constantly showed us love,constantly showed up, and that
you guys have constantly showedus love, constantly showed up,
(30:04):
and that's what we're trying todo for you guys.
I know we missed this last weekbecause Mike was over in Milan.
My bad, he's back.
I would do it again.
Yeah, he would love to neglectall you guys.
Yeah, but seriously, thank youall, because without you the
listeners, first and foremostnone of this would be possible
(30:24):
for us or for Mike, and so a bigthank you to all you guys and,
as well, thank you to Kajal.
Myke (30:33):
And until next time, spray it up y'all.
hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the
cologne podcast.
I'm mike and I'm ryan.
Myke (00:12):
We're two best friends, right, yeah, yeah, we're just.
Yeah, we're two friends, justfriends going on a fragrance
podcast adventure.
God, I'm out, I forgot thewhole tagline.
I've been gone so long, goodlord welcome back.
Ryan (00:26):
He just got back from milan, italy.
Yeah, just, we're at assance.
You got to hang out with abunch of cool people, the
coolest people, and we'll dabblein that throughout the episode
yeah, we're gonna have someepisodes coming up where we talk
to the guys and get theiropinions on it.
Yes, sir, and he just slept for12 hours.
Myke (00:47):
I had to.
I had flight delays.
I got trapped in Paris again,good Lord, yeah.
So I walk up to the counter,I'm in Milan flying out and they
keep pushing my flight back.
And I had before.
The flight got pushed backwhenever I landed in paris.
I had 30 minutes to get to mygate.
(01:09):
Damn to get on the flight fromparis to atlanta to get back.
And the flight got pushed backan hour.
So immediately I go, I'mmissing my flight.
Then it got pushed back twohours.
So I go up to the lady at likethe ticket encounter and she
goes well, do you want to see ifyou can try to still catch your
flight before we change yourtickets?
And I'm like, unless that planeis also a DeLorean, we're not
(01:35):
making this flight, because I'mlike I would have to be on it an
hour ago.
Ryan (01:45):
By the way, speaking of all this plane shit yes, you
know, you guys out there rip meall the time, say I'm a fucking
loser because I won't get on aplane.
Mike's telling me everything'sgood.
From the time you left till yougot back, it's been one
incident after another in theseplanes, man.
Some are landing upside down,some are crashing out.
(02:06):
Yeah, some are literally barelymissing each other.
One's taking off, one's runningthrough the freaking runway
there Right and people areriding first class with freaking
dead bodies.
Myke (02:17):
Yeah, heard about that as well.
Ryan (02:18):
Dude, I'm like what the hell?
I'm good.
Our patrons are like we reallyneed to start a fun for Ryan to
go on this trip Like through aYou'll never go.
Myke (02:29):
What's it called GoFundMe?
Ryan (02:30):
Well, they were saying GoFundMe, but they were saying
they want to book a cruise, likeI'm doing it by sea.
Myke (02:36):
Oh my God, that would take you like two months to get
there.
What is this?
The Demeter?
This is Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Ryan (02:44):
Oh God.
So yeah, it would.
Just, it would take an act ofGod, I think, to get me going,
ryan.
Columbus selling the.
Myke (02:51):
Seas of Blue.
Yeah, but you're back.
Ryan (02:54):
I'm happy for you to be back.
Yes, I'm happy for you to beback.
He brought tons of goodies back.
Tons of full bottles.
We're going bag tons of fullbottles.
We're gonna pass it along toour patrons.
If you're not a patron, I'mtelling you I'm not saying this
in an insulting way.
Stop being a fucking idiot.
Become a patron.
Myke (03:09):
Well, yeah, so the one we smell today going out to the
patrons, then we're also doinganother episode for the patrons
that another full bottle's goingout so we don't keep full balls
here.
Ryan (03:20):
We pass that on to the friends of the podcast, and that
was our patreon members.
Yeah.
Myke (03:24):
I mean, here's the thing we see people go.
Yeah, they're just out therefor the free bottles, the free
bottles.
We don't keep the free bottles,we don't, they go out, and
that's our freaking spiel.
Ryan (03:33):
Literally if we like something.
This has been more Mike than me, but we'll ship it out.
You'll go and buy the bottleyou want it, it's true.
Myke (03:41):
Speaking of liking something, okay, I've got a
review from Fragrantica, fromDumplings.
Ryan (03:50):
Is it spelled D-U-M-B?
Yeah?
Myke (03:53):
So Dumplings says love Kajal fragrances but always been
a hater of cherry and almond.
Let's see if Kajal can finallymake me a fan of the cherry and
almond fragrances.
Excited to test this, but Ihave a feeling it's going to
have the play-doh or medicinesmell from cherry and almond
(04:14):
combos.
Interesting also it just gotreleased, not even a couple
weeks ago.
It actually launched on avalentine's day.
Yeah, so there wasn't anyreviews from people who've
actually smelled it.
Yeah, so that's why we got that.
Ryan (04:28):
Before we get into it, though, we got to give our one
night stand review that'shappened over a week ago now,
yeah Of Tom Ford's Boise PacificGeek or whatever.
How do you pronounce that?
Myke (04:40):
Hit the music, todd.
Yeah, one night stand review.
Ryan, I actually let Clement CCFragrances hear the way you
said that Okay In previousepisode and she thought it was
super cute.
She actually thinks it's cutewhen people try to do the French
(05:04):
names.
Really, yeah, because me, herand Steve were having a
conversation.
We were asking her is it superannoying to hear people just
absolutely butcher it?
Okay, and she's like, no, Iactually find it charming.
Oh well, that's cool.
Yeah, and I was like because,yikes, right, yeah.
Ryan (05:32):
Mega yikes on my part because I know, yeah, you know,
I know people have told they'vewritten in and they're like I
love you and mike's voices andstuff like that.
It's so funny, though I'm justoff, so shoot.
But you know, obviously againI'm bringing it up, marvel
rivals, I play the hell out ofit.
But anytime I'm like, uh, hey,don't line aside the healer.
They're like who's this country, motherfucker?
I'm like god damn, am I thatcountry sounding?
Myke (05:52):
Hey, now y'all Good lord, so you're getting on the mic
with them and they're like jeez.
Ryan (06:05):
Yeah, I'm like playing rank and I'm always playing
healer like a strategist classor a healer, and everybody this
is me being nerdy now, right now, but I don't know if it's just
console players or whatever, butGod damn, my teams always suck
and I'm like trying to literallydo everything.
Yeah, everything, and I'mreally not just saying that, I'm
just being blunt and honest.
I'm not great, but I'm doingeverything I can.
Myke (06:20):
Well, the funny thing about accents.
I was talking with Chris aboutthis.
He was asking me could I noticethe difference between his and
Steve's accent?
Because he said, you know,whenever I listen to American
accents I can detect a Southernaccent, like a Northeastern
accent.
And I was like no, I can'teither.
I can't really distinguish thedifference between those two.
(06:41):
Now, them in strong stylefragrances, yes, big time.
And them and berry, big timeberries is so different that I
kept telling him I'm like to anamerican, we'd think you were
like scottish or something.
Yeah, because that's just likemy ignorance of the area over
there.
Yeah, but yeah, it's funny that, yeah, here in america too, you
(07:02):
can like really pick up on thedifferences.
But uh, you guys have moresubtleties over there across the
pond.
Ryan (07:07):
Definitely.
I would feel like it's moresubtle there.
Here I feel like it's very moredistinct.
I mean literally To our ear atleast Dude.
Literally you go next door toLouisiana and the accent there
is crazy, yeah, especially whenthey have that Cajun accent Dude
it's wild dude.
Myke (07:23):
Yeah, okay, we should probably talk about tom ford boy
.
Pacific um the woods of thepacific.
Ryan (07:31):
It wasn't bad, but it wasn't.
Was it crazy memorable to you?
Myke (07:35):
yeah, it was.
It was decent.
I actually talked with lickybecause she got to go smell it.
Okay, what'd they think?
Yeah, she gave me a fullbreakdown of her wearing and she
liked it, but her complaint, Ithink, is our complaint, which
is it didn't really last thatlong shocker yeah, what do you
know?
Ryan (07:54):
I shouldn't tear it down that hard, but uh, yeah it was.
It was not bad, it smelled gooddefinitely woodsy.
Myke (08:00):
Do you think they're handicapping them to make you
want to buy higherconcentrations in like the
designer world?
You think they're handicappingthem to make you want to buy
higher concentrations in thedesigner world?
Do you think they'reintentionally doing that?
Ryan (08:11):
To some degree I would have to say yeah, because I can
think about older stuff thatI've bought in the past, like
old school designer fragrancesthat were loud and proud and
lasted forever.
Myke (08:23):
That was Tony with Turdermes.
Yeah, you could smell it.
It was great it was popping offof him and he was wearing an
EDT.
Ryan (08:30):
See what I'm saying.
Yeah, like the originalAcquadugio EDT, like now.
I wouldn't even swear to God.
You know, I bought it for mydad, I'll turn it down.
That's what he wore, and I'dalways be like you smell good,
(08:51):
dad, and his joke would alwaysbe like well, I would hope so.
I drank some of it because hethat's how much he used it.
Well, well, the fact he had touse a lot of because he felt
like it didn't last long, oh sohe was just like drowning
himself in it, gotcha so, but Iagree, yeah, I just think it
lost its uh thing, which makessense.
If we just look at anythingcorporatey, they're like we got
to make more money we can, wherecan we make cuts at?
so yeah, I do believe there'ssomething there.
Myke (09:07):
I don't know what, I'm not an expert and it's obviously an
opinion but yeah, well, I knowthere's been some distance, but
at least what did you think ofthe actual smell?
Longevity aside, so somebodydoesn't care about that it did
smell good.
Ryan (09:19):
It was this really cool woodsy type of vibe and I did
really like it and I actuallygot somebody smelling they.
They liked it as well, but itwas.
Myke (09:25):
It did feel like a skin scent to me I think that there
are other niche fragrancesprobably for a decent price,
yeah that are similar to that,that I think you could get away
with, just going the differencein the route.
I think I kept seeing like andytower and stuff like that as
well you kept mentioning that.
Ryan (09:43):
yeah, like so like a big andy, like that as well.
Yeah, you kept mentioning that.
Yeah, like a big Andy Towerfanboy.
Myke (09:46):
Well, compared to that, I remember that one was so loud.
Yeah, you know the problem withthe Tom Fords now is you kind
of run out of you know runway,if we're going to keep the
airplane analogies going.
Yeah, it's a skip.
Yeah, I'm with you.
I think it's a skip too.
Ryan (10:01):
It's a skip, because if it was really strong enough to be
a sample, I'd be like hey,that's a good thing, go sample
it, because you may like it.
I just feel like it's kind ofyou know.
Myke (10:09):
Yeah, look, we're not going to like just completely
slurp off a Tom Ford justbecause it's brand new.
No, you know, you can trustthis guys.
Ryan (10:24):
Now let into today's fragrance, because I'm really
excited about this.
It's brand new.
Yeah, you're taking pictures atthe photo booth there,
beautiful red kajal shimmering.
Myke (10:29):
Yes photo booth.
Yeah, they've started doingthat.
I think the last two yearsthey've done that I liked it.
Ryan (10:34):
It was really cool.
I liked uh, they got youropinion on it.
Posted that that was cool.
Myke (10:40):
Yeah, I did.
That was my first instagramlive I've ever done really with.
Ryan (10:43):
I was with them.
Yeah Well, dang gum.
They popped your cherry on that.
Huh, cherry almond.
Let's smell it.
It's a brand new fragrance andwe're going to open this package
up, look at the bottle, smellthis bad boy, and then later on
we're going to tell you who wonthis thing.
Oh baby, you want to do thehonors?
You go ahead.
Okay, get ready for the ASMRpart of the show.
Myke (11:18):
Okay, this is the exciting part about opening.
A Kajal is always apresentation.
They go all out, out, wow thatis pretty.
Ryan (11:25):
It is a ruby red bottle and it has little.
What would you call that?
I mean they're ruby-ish.
I know they're probably notreal rubies, or this would cost
a fuck ton no, I think they'rereal rubies actually, right?
No, do not say that, but itdoes look really cool.
I've always been a fan of theirbottle caps, just because I don
don't know, it's just kind ofintricate and something new and
(11:47):
different.
Myke (11:47):
It's something that's like very authentic to them.
Yeah, very much so.
Nobody goes like, oh, thatbottle looks like so-and-so's
brand.
No, Kajal doesn't look likeanybody else.
Ryan (11:57):
No, it doesn't?
It's really cool, man, andlet's smell this bad boy.
Myke (12:04):
I'm freaking pumped or bad girl.
So we've got to hit thelisteners to a little secret.
What's the secret?
I tested you yesterday.
I lied to you Really and Iloved lying to you.
Ryan (12:25):
Ryan, really Okay, that's great, I'm glad you love being
deceitful towards me, your bestfriend, apparently.
Myke (12:34):
I didn't actually lie, but what I did was I was like I'm
going to catch Ryan and see ifhe actually likes his fragrance.
I'm going to test him to see ifhe's just a Kajal fanboy or if
he really likes this fragrance.
Okay, so I sprayed Ruby on atester strip and you went off.
I don't know what you weredoing.
You're out in the worldexploring things.
You come back to the studio andI had sprayed it like 15, 20
(12:55):
minutes before that, yeah, and Igo hey, what do you think about
this?
You know what is this and youget it and I don't say anything.
I just let you smell it.
I want to hear your reaction.
I didn't want to preface it, youknow, because we love Kajal.
So I didn't want to tell you itwas a Kajal, because then I
thought, just in case him goingoh, it's Kajal, I better like
(13:18):
this because they've done somuch for us.
So I'm just like just tell mewhat it is, it's just something,
it's just something from thebag of goodies.
And you smell it and you go ohmy God, this is gorgeous.
Ryan (13:27):
Yeah, that was actually the exact words I used.
It's really gorgeous.
Myke (13:31):
Yeah.
Ryan (13:31):
So no, lies it.
Now it's smelling a littledifferent because it's actually
first rip here.
Yeah, but it is definitely aunique scent.
This smells really good.
It was loud yesterday or theother day.
Yeah, it's loud today.
Oh, they're so loud.
I'm saying this, but it's not abad thing here.
(13:52):
Mm-hmm, is this the firstcherry almond thing we've ever
smelled before that I can thinkof?
Myke (13:57):
Hmm.
Ryan (13:59):
Good question.
I think we've smelled maybesome cherry but not cherry
almond.
But I think we smelledsomething maybe some cherry but
not cherry almond.
But I think we smelledsomething like a Guerlain Home
IDL or whatever the hell it wasat time.
Myke (14:09):
Oh, or Heritage, was it?
Ryan (14:10):
Heritage.
I think that one's supposed tohave like a cherry one.
That's been a long time agoMaybe, so yeah, but I can kind
of see where somebody wouldthink cough syrup a little bit.
Myke (14:20):
I'm not really.
Ryan (14:24):
I'm not getting that, though.
Specifically, I'm actuallygetting more.
God, should I say this Iactually like these things.
There's a certain kind ofalmost like candy, like a
lozenge, yeah, but they're.
They're not like the hauls,they're not crazy, you know.
Oh, it's like luden's cherry.
Myke (14:39):
Yeah, yeah, they're sweet, very sweet.
It's like a piece of candy.
Ryan (14:42):
Basically, yes, basically, yeah, it's more of that route,
but then it's immediately that Iguess that fruit part is kind
of like softening up and what'sunder here is really soft and
gorgeous.
Myke (14:55):
Right.
So I think dumplings is rightthen, and I don't know if this
is what happens with that combo.
There is a certain medicinalquality to it.
This is what I say whenever Ismell it for the Instagram live,
because they're like we wantyour first impressions, okay.
So I'm smelling it and thefirst thing I get is it's like a
sweet red fruit yeah, I don'tknow any of the notes at the
(15:16):
time.
And then I was like and there'sthis medicinal quality, that
one, I think, cuts it from beingtoo sweet, I agree, and then
also it makes it kind ofaddictive to smell.
I remember going like I can'tstop smelling this whenever I
did the live.
Yeah, because I'd take it awayfrom my nose and I'd be talking
about it and then I'dimmediately want to smell it
again and keep bringing it backup, and I was like I can't stop
(15:38):
smelling this thing.
And I think typically, when wesmell sweet fragrances or fruity
fragrances, they lean reallysweet and I like that.
There's a little bit moreattitude to this.
There's a little bit more biteto it with that sort of, like
you said, that kind of medicinaltype smell in there.
That kind of makes it morepalatable and not so like sickly
(16:00):
sweet it's really good, likeseriously really good.
Ryan (16:05):
I don't know if this is a bad complaint, but the only hang
up and I may be skipping aheadtoo far here, stop me if I am is
the demographic I think this isfor no go into.
Okay, so obviously, mike's overmilan enjoying the fucking time
of his life.
Of course I'm.
I'm just over here, sappy Ryan.
Myke (16:25):
Your choice.
It was your decision.
Ryan (16:28):
But we did get a chance to talk briefly a couple of times
and one of them, when you weretalking about smelling this, the
first thing he says I thinkit's kind of feminine yeah, for
sure, not as a bad thing, justlike you think it leans, more
feminine.
And so when I smelled it theother other day, the first thing
I said was obviously I was like, wow, this is really gorgeous
(16:48):
fragrance.
And then you said what it wasand after our you know we had
that conversation said, yeah, Iagree this is.
It may be unisex, but Idefinitely think it's more
feminine, leaning for sure.
And the fact that it came outon Valentine's Day kind of makes
sense because, let's just bereal, valentine's is for the
ladies, not for the man.
Myke (17:08):
Yeah, it's for us to shower others with gifts,
exactly, which is fun.
Yeah, it's always nice to givesomeone you love something
special.
Yeah, like I don't knowChocolates or something.
I'm smelling a fragrance rightnow.
Ryan (17:30):
Speaking of chocolates, guys, let me tell you about old
chocolatier boy over here.
Oh yeah, he comes back.
He brings a little bit ofchocolate, mm-hmm, he makes me
try one, and he's like I watchedthe fucking chocolatier himself
.
Myke (17:45):
I didn't say that.
I said you can watch him makeit.
Ryan (17:48):
Well, yeah, he said you can watch the chocolatier
himself freaking, make thesefreaking things, and he got me
to try one that was rose, andwhat else?
Raspberry.
Myke (17:59):
Yeah Well, I was guessing on the raspberry, but it had
rose in the name.
My Italian sucks guys, so it'slike trying to break it down.
I have no clue.
Ryan (18:08):
Let me tell you, though legitimately, just straight up
I'm not crazy about just eatinga chocolate by itself.
It's usually a chocolate chipcookie, yes, but hands down, the
best chocolate I've ever put inmy mouth, that rose vibe to it
was was insane, so I screwed up.
Myke (18:27):
Last year I didn't do it, but the year before as well, I
brought back chocolates fromitaly, yeah, and we had a moment
where we were trying them andtalking about it and so, yeah, I
I feel like that's a greattradition that needs to kind of
happen.
But I find it so interesting,especially over there, because I
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don't really see it.
We have a local candy shop thatyou can go in and they actually
make the candy back there andthey make the chocolates and
stuff too, which is great, butthey're not as artistic as it is
over there.
And to have these rose notesand stuff like that in the
actual food, it does make itinteresting.
And I just remember tasting itand going like this is the first
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time I've really tasted rose ina candy, 100%, and really liked
it.
And it actually connects toKajal because, remember, that's
where Mo started.
Yeah, mo started on theculinary side and got interested
in it, and I think the two gohand in hand.
They absolutely do.
In fact, if you lose your senseof smell and you become anosmic
we've talked about this before.
(19:31):
That's what happened to the Benand Jerry's guy yeah, then you
don't have a taste.
Yeah, this has to correspondwith your taste buds.
Ryan (19:40):
So I'm tasting this chocolate that he brought and
I'm literally going.
This tastes like somefragrances we've smelled.
Yeah, exactly, it was intense,it was easily just straight up
chocolate by itself, the bestchocolate I've ever had.
And it was also.
The texture was perfect, right,yes, but I will say they don't
call them turtles here, becauseapparently we found out that oh,
that's owned by Russell Stover.
(20:01):
Yeah, but they have thesethings called caramel rounds
here that are giant chocolate,on one side, big gob of caramel
and then on top of that hugefucking Pecan, pecan Like
half-holed pecans on it.
And they're goddamn ridiculous.
They are, and so is hisfragrance.
Let me tell you the notes,since we have been talking about
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notes a little bit here.
Top notes, which is strange.
I didn't get this Pineapple.
Do you get that any?
Huh?
Myke (20:33):
I don't get that at all.
I wonder if that's like kind ofconnecting the house with Lamar
.
Ryan (20:40):
Maybe, but it's pineapple, cherry, red berries, coconut I
actually do get coconut andalmond I do get that as well.
Middle notes are brown sugar,whipped cream, ice cream, and
then base notes are amber, tonka, bean, musk, vanilla and
benzenoin.
Myke (20:58):
That's interesting.
I really want to continue towear this and smell it.
I did not spray it on skin inMilan.
One of the reasons is I didn'thave any more places on my skin
to spray anything and plus Ijust kept wearing I can over and
over and over again.
Ryan (21:14):
We just posted a picture with all the stuff that you
brought back in that one andanother one where people want to
know what that smells like.
And guess what they're going tofind out today?
Because we're going to be doinga special bonus episode for the
patron of I Can't After this,yeah, and giving away that
bottle.
Myke (21:30):
And then meeting up with George Zaharoff and he asked me.
He said, hey, is there anythingin the line that you haven't
smelled, that you want to smell?
And I said I would like tosmell Coco Loco.
I haven't got to smell it yet,but that's what I've been really
interested about.
Yeah, so he immediately got onhis phone and shot us samples of
everything he makes.
So we have all those as well.
Ryan (21:51):
Somebody's gonna get those , yeah, the whole line, the
whole fucking line.
You get to test it.
Yeah, after we test.
Yeah, we're gonna take about 75out of it.
Now, I'm kidding, but this isreally.
It dries down really soft andbeautiful.
Myke (22:08):
It's very beautiful.
That's kind of where you gotinto it.
You know, 20, 30 minutes inwhen you smelled the tester that
I had sprayed this fragrance is.
It's not for everybody, becauseit really is strong in one
direction, but we ask for thisall the time.
We ask for a fragrance that hasa strong identity.
We don't need the genericdesigner type things anymore.
(22:29):
Take a chance.
Yeah, we need something thatspeaks to a small demographic of
people.
Ryan (22:34):
Yeah.
Myke (22:35):
That makes it where it's like.
Oh, this smells like you, right?
This is what we're alwayshunting after.
We even had a Patreon say that,that they're giving themselves
till 2016, 2017, something likethat to find their signature
fragrance 2016?
Ryan (22:49):
You mean 2026?
Yeah, oh my.
Myke (22:51):
God, where am I Still working out the lack of sleep?
Goodness gracious, I just tookaway a decade there.
I'm sure we'd all like that,yeah, giving himself the next uh
, one or two years to find asignature scent.
Then he said he's getting ridof his whole collection and he's
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just going to commit.
Ryan (23:14):
Yeah, I think he goes by wild card that's right yeah, he
is the wild one of the bunch.
It looks like so far we got oureyes on you, buddy.
Myke (23:22):
So that's kind of the thing, though, with this is like
it's so strong in its ownpersonality.
It could be that one fragranceyou find that you go.
If this is you, you go.
This is me price and popularity.
Ryan (23:42):
For 100 ml, this bad boy right here, $252.
That's a great price, not bad.
Myke (23:48):
Not bad Retail.
I mean that at retail for aniche fragrance.
Again, we talk about this allthe time.
Sub 300 is the way to be.
Ryan (23:55):
Yeah, you got designers trying to be like that price.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
So, yeah, good deal on thatPopularity.
And I think it's just becauseit's new.
It hasn't had a lot of votesyet, but it's 3.27 out of 5, 15
votes only on Free Grant today.
I mean, it's brand fucking new.
Yeah, it's not even two weeksold.
Yeah, I can smell the coconut alot actually I feel like it's
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that and some cream thing goingdown.
It has whipped cream in it.
It says, yeah, the fruit partis like after that initial burst
, which is the strongest part,but after that kind of cools
down, you kind of got that verylight fruit.
But it's mostly to me likecoconut and like a cream, maybe
(24:37):
the little ice cream kind ofvibe going on, which, admittedly
, I guess that leans towards agourmand.
So it'd be hard for me to wearpersonally.
Myke (24:46):
Yeah, I'm not going to peg this as you, ryan, it's not
because it is to me.
In my opinion, it's so feminine, which is not a bad thing.
It's also slightly on themature side, I feel, because
it's sharp and less sweet, yeah,which is good.
We kind of need that.
Most people making fruityfragrances are making them hyper
sweet, which to me saysyouthful, like a younger sort of
(25:08):
audience.
Ryan (25:09):
Well, flesh it out.
Who do you think is actually?
Who's the prototypical, as youwould like to say, avatar for
this?
Myke (25:15):
fragrance right here, I think it's going to be 35 and up
.
Okay, and someone, male orfemale, that leans really heavy
into feminine fragrances?
Gotcha, yeah, that wants thesofter side you don't want it to
be.
I don't know that this ismasculine at all.
Ryan (25:33):
Yeah, it does say that it is unisex, but I definitely
think it is.
If you're looking at a thinggoing, you know tilting, it is
more feminine.
Myke (25:41):
Yeah, and that's okay If that's your route.
I think that you're going tofind fragrances like this and
you're going to be like, ohperfect.
Ryan (25:48):
Is this for a dressed up occasion?
Is this an everyday wear?
Is this office friendly?
Myke (25:52):
I think it's office and out yeah, I don't think it's
like everyday, probably notspraying it on to go to the
store, unless that's yourpersonality.
Yeah, that's your personality.
Yeah, if you're dressing up toyou know, go to target, yeah,
then splash it on.
But this to me is there's anelegance to it that I don't know
that you're walking around insweat pants and smelling like
(26:15):
this yeah, I think, yeah, yeah,I'm with you on that but I do
think it's beautiful and I wouldlike to smell it on a woman
absolutely.
Ryan (26:26):
It is really a gorgeous scent.
I think whoever gets this isgonna fucking love this.
Yeah, and that person is denise.
That's right, denise.
You've been a patron for awhile yeah, our little cowgirl
out there.
Yes, ma'am and uh, we are gonnagive this to you.
I think you will enjoy this.
(26:47):
I really do.
It's very unique.
And uh, thank you for being apatron.
If you want to be like denise,become a patron.
But, mike, are you gonna skipit?
Myke (26:57):
sample it or buy it.
What are you going to do, Ryan?
Ryan (27:03):
Well, mike, for me I hate to say this it's like I can't
technically say sample for mebecause it's not something I
would personally wear.
Right, it's a sample out therefor somebody else.
It's a skip for me personally,but it's a sample out there If
you want to try something unique.
It definitely is gorgeous, itis definitely feminine.
Myke (27:25):
A young lady wearing this, I'm telling you, this smells
really good from a guy'sperspective here, but personally
, it's a skip, yeah, I would sayI'm probably leaning in a
similar vein, although what Ineed to do is just try it, yeah,
and wear it.
And here's why Chris had acouple of his normal dude bro
(27:46):
friends come out on a trip aswell, which is what I wanted you
to do, but no big deal.
One of them was Ben, and he wasable to secure a Zerjoff.
You got a full bottle.
We'll be doing an episode on it.
Okay, when I smelled thisfragrance initially thought, oh,
this is because for the ladies,yeah.
(28:07):
But he wore it a few nights andit wore really well on him, and
so sometimes I may be writingthings off, going oh, it's too
feminine, without actuallytrying at first to just see what
is.
What are people going to say ifI wear it?
Yeah, and then maybe they go,oh, I like that smell on you.
I don't really know what it isor how it dries down, because
you know nine times out of ten,me and you can spray something
(28:30):
on our skin, it's gonna smelldifferent on you than me.
So I do think I need to betrying fragrances that I would
write off, initially going itsmells beautiful, but it's not
for me.
And if I think it smells reallygood, then maybe just give it a
shot.
So maybe I I'm going to saysample on this, but I'm right
for you.
My initial brain reaction to itwas this is not really the type
(28:51):
of fragrance I'd wear.
However, I really like it and Ido think you should get out
there and try it if it soundslike something you'd be into.
Ryan (28:58):
Absolutely.
And just to let you know,Denise, he's not going to be
spraying from this.
You actually brought home sometravel atomizers of it.
Myke (29:06):
Yeah, and we'll be giving those away as well to other
patrons.
So we have two travel atomizersof this that we will be giving
away, but we also have samplesfrom Kajal and that's what we'll
be using.
So this will be full bottle,full presentation for Denise.
Ryan (29:22):
Also, denise, just a heads up.
You're going to get to samplethe other latest, kajal Lamar
Noir.
We're going to send that withthis, that's right.
Well, he's officially back.
Guys, you have to bear with us.
We may have to get our swimminglegs back under us over here
Right.
But it's good to have you back.
I'm glad you're able to takethis trip.
(29:43):
Thank you to Kajal for makingthat happen as well, yeah, and
for giving us some greatfragrances to check out.
100%.
Guys, we seriously love you all.
We're glad you've been going onthis journey with us, for is
this year four now?
Yes, so this is year four ofthe podcast, and, man, you guys
have constantly showed us love,constantly showed up, and that
you guys have constantly showedus love, constantly showed up,
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and that's what we're trying todo for you guys.
I know we missed this last weekbecause Mike was over in Milan.
My bad, he's back.
I would do it again.
Yeah, he would love to neglectall you guys.
Yeah, but seriously, thank youall, because without you the
listeners, first and foremostnone of this would be possible
(30:24):
for us or for Mike, and so a bigthank you to all you guys and,
as well, thank you to Kajal.
Myke (30:33):
And until next time, spray it up y'all.
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