March 17, 2025 • 35 mins
Ready for a $800 fragrance giveaway? Grab your favorite beverage and settle in as we unbox and review Xerjoff's luxurious Purple Accento – a limited edition fragrance with a hefty price tag that's about to find its way to one very lucky Patreon supporter.
This dreamsicle-like scent opens with notes of pineapple, mandarin, and orange before transitioning to loganberry, pink pepper, and jasmine, finally settling into a comfortable base of vanilla, musk, amber, sandalwood, and a hint of agarwood. While frequently compared to Erba Pura, Purple Accento stands apart with its fresher profile and distinctive citrusy bite. Though it leans slightly feminine, its versatility might surprise you – as we discovered when a male friend confidently rocked this fragrance throughout a fragrance expo with stellar results.
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Ryan (00:03):
hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the
cologne podcast.
Myke (00:07):
I'm mike and I'm ryan and we're not gonna keep doing that.
We're two best friends on afragrance journey, smelling big
juicy bottles and giving youuneducated opinions today and,
by god, listen up closely.
Ryan (00:24):
If you're a patreon, today you really like to hear this.
We're gonna be smelling a brandnew big juicy bottle of
zherjoff purple achinto.
Oh yeah, and at the end of thisepisode we are going to
announce the winner of said full100 ml bottle of this.
Myke (00:44):
Oh god, actually I think it's more than 100 mil.
What?
Ryan (00:47):
just kidding, it's 100 mil , okay, this so, uh, yeah, stay
tuned to that if you're.
If you're not a patron, go be apatron, because this is what
happens.
They get bonus episodes everyweek and then they also get
stuff like this.
When we get full bottles likethis, we are raining the
juiciest of bottles down.
Myke (01:05):
Dude.
This makes what.
How many now?
This is five in one week, intwo weeks, jesus.
Five in two weeks, that is alot.
It is a lot.
We've got to slow down.
How can we afford to do this?
Because they were given to usfor free.
Ryan (01:17):
Mike, that's right.
We pass the savings on to youguys, yeah.
Myke (01:22):
There may be youtubers out there that are saying this is
what happened at assance and youknow the free bottle brigade,
and but the reality of thesituation is you go there, you
meet some nice people.
If they do give you a big juicybottle, guess what?
Ryan (01:41):
it's passed on to a patreon and the beauty of us is,
if this is garbage, we will letyou know yeah, and still pass
it on.
Myke (01:47):
So that's right, we're gonna force this bottle upon you
.
Speaking of forcing bottles,I've got an opinion from frey
grantica.
I'm gonna force spawn you guysfrom skite, who says it's not
just herbapura.
But yes, it's very close, it'sherbapura with more pineapple
(02:08):
and added oud.
Personally, I prefer herbapuraand I don't know why this has a
chinto in the name doesn't makeany sense why are you making him
sound so pretentious, or shewhy?
Are you?
Ryan (02:22):
making them sound so pretentious when they're
actually kind of taking up forit.
Myke (02:25):
Oh, I don't know I think I just think of a negative review
.
I just have to get a littlelike I don't know why this is
called me, you know uh, throwinga little shade right there, it
seems I'm throwing a lot ofshade.
I mean mean, because here's thething Go ahead, you know certain
(02:46):
YouTubers out there arecreating videos, and it's fine,
until you actually personallyknow some of these people that
they're kind of throwing shadeat, and you've got to meet them,
you've got to be around them,and then you just go
categorically this is false.
Yeah, I'm with you on that.
It's just irritating at thispoint.
Ryan (03:04):
Yeah, you know this is false.
Yeah, I'm with you on that.
It's just irritating at thispoint.
Yeah, I wasn't like bought intoit, but you told me to go take
a look at it and I did and I waslike, yeah, that doesn't line
up.
Myke (03:10):
I tried to watch the whole thing and the whole time I was
just like so wait, there's a guywho said he almost went but
decided not to go.
But he's going to make a videoon exactly how things go down at
said event.
That he's never been to Seemsweird.
Ryan (03:28):
It is kind of weird.
Myke (03:29):
I'm not upset about it.
Let's go to our one night standreview, Ryan.
Ryan (03:34):
Of 403 Mer Shadow by Bon Perfumer.
Myke (03:42):
Hit the music, Todd yeah.
Ryan (03:47):
One night stand review well, mike, after lying in bed,
staying up at night stressingabout how good or bad this
fragrance was yes, what do youhave to say?
Myke (04:00):
about it.
Uh, love it, absolutely love it.
Ryan (04:04):
I'm sad to see it go yes, I am in the same camp, okay we a
little caveat to the people.
We did another episode that dayfor our patreon members, for
oud tonic yeah, from the gate,gave away a big juicy bottle of
that.
Myke (04:20):
Yes, and you obsessed over that, by the way, in that
episode we did.
Yeah, you were loving it andyou were conflicted.
I was of the two.
That day you couldn't decidewhich one you liked more and I
was literally stressed, textingmike going.
Ryan (04:35):
Yeah, I thought I love this new tonic but I'm loving
this mer shadow.
And then it kind of went thisback and forth route.
But I'm here to tell you aftera long, lengthy battle yeah,
that mer shadow edged it out.
It was the dry down of thatthing.
Myke (04:52):
Yeah, it be thingin you know what I'm saying.
Yeah, I mean, we live in aworld, ryan, where it doesn't
have to be one or the other.
You know, it just so happenedthat we did those two episodes
at the same day, otherwise Idon't think you'd ever have
compared the two.
They're vastly different.
That's true too.
You know, you'd never reallyput those up head to head.
(05:13):
Hey idea.
Should we do episodes like thathead to head?
Which fragrance is better?
Hmm, huh.
Ryan (05:21):
It had to be positioned by like a vote of like which
fragrances?
I think.
Yeah, of course, that would becool.
I'd be down with that.
Myke (05:28):
It'd be fun hey, let us know.
Yeah, so back to mer shadow,though.
I loved it, you loved it, lovedit.
Steve was a man.
Steve steve's crazy yeah he is.
Ryan (05:40):
He's liking some weird shit lately and then telling us
that all of our shit sucks.
Oh, that's true.
Yeah, he's kind of a wild card,that guy.
I'm not vibing it, steve, Iknow you listen to this.
Myke (05:51):
He's got great taste in fragrances though.
Ryan (05:55):
He does, and of the ones he's shown us, we've always kind
of loved them.
He turned us on to ByronParfums yeah, the Chronic God
and another 13 by Le Labo wasanother great one.
Myke (06:09):
Yes, and he hit me to Liquid Braun.
Yeah, that was good.
The Altair clone, that smellsreally good.
I mean there's really a lot.
Ryan (06:23):
He's been a valuable resource for this podcast, but
it's just unfortunate he's wrongon this one.
Myke (06:25):
Well, that's kind of the thing is every time we love
something, it doesn'tnecessarily mean that he will
Every time that he does lovesomething I typically do like it
.
Ryan (06:34):
Yeah, you think he's just disagreeing with us to disagree.
Myke (06:38):
Hmm, is that?
Ryan (06:40):
what you're doing, Steve?
Is that what you're trying tofucking do?
Myke (06:43):
Come clean you, son of a bitch okay, well, until he comes
clean, that's all I have to sayabout it.
I loved it, you loved it.
Ryan (06:54):
It's big juicy bottle worthy it is very much a big
juicy sample worthy, but I wouldsay there's a good portion of
people will smell that and go.
I, I need to borrow this.
It smells amazing.
Myke (07:05):
Yeah, the thing I really like about it is that it does
smell so unique.
It does that if you do fall inlove with it and you have that
fragrance, not many people aregoing to be walking around
smelling like that, so it couldbe easy to make that your kind
of signature scent.
It is so gorgeous.
Ryan (07:22):
Just trust us.
Okay, there you go kind ofsignature scent.
Myke (07:26):
It is so gorgeous.
Just trust us.
Okay, there you go.
Yeah, try to get a sample ifyou can.
If not, you know one of youpatreons gonna be wearing it all
day long, every day okay, nowwe're gonna get into today's
episode.
Ryan (07:37):
I've been staring at this big purple fucking box for over
a week now, since you've beenback from milan.
I'm ready to freaking smellthis.
And I'm about to freaking smellthis.
I'm about to give you the ASMRtreatment because it is in a
full bottle and it's fullywrapped.
Here we go.
Myke (08:17):
Do it.
Ryan (08:17):
it's like I'm deconstructing yeah, you're
tearing the studio down, goddamn okay.
So rock the bet.
I do have questions about this,do you as well?
Myke (08:25):
Yeah, so this is a new bottle type, apparently?
Yeah, the old one.
Now I do know that Zerjoffchanged their bottles, looks
like, a couple times now.
Ryan (08:36):
The bottle's gorgeous, the packaging is fucking insane.
Myke (08:40):
Yeah, zerjoff always kills it.
With the presentation.
We did a giveaway of Naxos,that thing like laid in a satin
bed and had a little blankiethat covered it and everything.
What's this on the bottle?
Ryan (08:52):
It says tap to connect.
What the hell what?
They got freaking QR codes orsome shit.
Myke (08:57):
Oh, it's like an NFC type thing.
Interesting.
There's something special aboutthis one.
I can't remember, so this wasgiven to me when we went to the
zirjoff launch party for the newduran duran fragrances.
They're doing okay and they'recoming out this month actually,
but he said something.
There's something special aboutthis one.
I can't remember what he said.
(09:17):
It's a very limited thing, huh,and because of that, whoever we
give this to, it's going to bevery lucky, because I have a
feeling that you're not going tobe able to get this same thing,
even if you can get the samefragrance.
Yeah, there's something specialabout this one that he said
that this was a gift to us thatyou weren't going to be able to
get your hands on, and I can'tremember what it was.
Ryan (09:39):
Maybe we'll have Todd reach out to George off and ask
him yeah, that'd be good.
No, you go first.
You go first.
No, you Dude, I literally dolove this bottle.
I love the Zerjoff bottles.
Myke (09:51):
I'm so glad they stopped doing the furry ones they used
to have, like the felt bottles.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of that.
Ryan (09:57):
Here we go.
Myke (10:06):
This bottle is like a frosted see-through glass so you
can see the juice in it.
Ryan (10:11):
It's got beautiful gold hardware.
I mean, this smells reallypretty, this is really pretty
for real.
I don't know if I get extrapineapple, though.
I don't even know if I getpineapple at all I kind of get
what they're saying.
Myke (10:26):
Herbapura, the one that everyone keeps comparing this to
it does smell similar.
This is fresher.
It has a more kind of citrusybite.
I do get kind of the pineapplein there.
Really I'm shocked.
So a friend and patreon memberthat I've been around quite a
bit wears tons of herbapura.
Yeah, I'm very familiar withthat fragrance.
(10:47):
This is different.
I see where they're related,though.
Really, yeah, that's like atree or something and that one's
a very powdery yeah, likefruity this is fresher, god.
Ryan (10:59):
I haven't looked at the notes yet, but am I crazy?
Does it smell kind of like adream sickle on the tester?
Myke (11:05):
I was gonna say it reminds me of summer sunscreen, fresh,
almost almost.
Has like a banana type vibe toit possibly.
Hmm, this is really nice manI'm.
It's really beautiful though.
Ryan (11:19):
Right, yeah, I prefer this over a rapura here.
I'm gonna go ahead and just hitthe notes, because I am curious
what's in here and what we'rekind of smelling here.
Before I read it, though, wouldyou say this is maybe a little
bit effeminate.
It's very soft.
It's really beautiful smelling.
Myke (11:34):
Well, I'm going to have to hold you up here because I'm
about to tell a story.
Go ahead.
No, that's fine.
And I said this on the Ruby onenight stand.
We got this early on.
This was like the first bigparty night and chris's friend,
ben, was gifted a bottle of thisas well, okay.
And then he wore it the nextcouple of nights, this fragrance
(11:55):
okay.
And when I smelled it on him Iwas like, oh, that kind of works
, I enjoy it.
But smelling it on the card,because they went around and
part of the expo type thing theyput on there, their little
speech thing, they let us smellthese.
They sprayed them and passedthem around and my initial
thought whenever I smelled itwas, yes, oh, this does smell
feminine.
(12:15):
But Ben wore this a couple ofnights and it did kind of work
with what he was wearing.
It did smell good and I didn'tfeel like it was out of place at
all.
So it made me question how Ihandle fragrances, because
originally I would have beenlike I can't really wear this.
This does smell pretty feminine.
Ryan (12:32):
But you feel like it fit for you.
It smelled good.
Yeah, it worked.
Kind of off subject, but on thesubject of you being an essence
, while you were there, I neverthought to ever ask this.
Myke (12:49):
But you're smelling a million things throughout the
day.
Does it all just start blurringtogether as far as scents go?
Kind of truthfully, I got afunny story though.
Okay, yeah, so we're allwearing the loud shit me less so
than the rest of the guys.
Yeah, and we're on like thelittle trolley, which is like
the little train car, that kindof takes you around the streets.
Yeah, so we're on there andeverybody's smelling really loud
, and then just a regular personoff the street gets on the cart
(13:10):
at the end and once we get tohis stop, he walks through the
middle of us and on the way outand as he does, everybody just
looks at each other like thismotherfucker, and they're like
god damn, he smells so good.
And he was wearing sauvage, butwe were like it's undeniable,
(13:30):
god damn, it smelled good onthis guy.
Ryan (13:32):
It's sauvage, like the metallica fragrances, like I
think so.
It's like they're so loved andhated right, yeah, for sure.
Myke (13:39):
Yeah, it's kind of that when it becomes mainstream, yeah
, yeah, it's like, oh, it's cooltill everyone likes it.
Now it's uncool, yeah, and Ithink that's what's kind of
happening.
And to go back to my littletirade at the beginning of this
podcast, that's where I thinksome of the fragrance community
is happening too.
I was hinting at Robes08,.
(14:00):
Mark made this video aboutbasically ignore all of the
content that's being madepost-Essence.
But he kept saying now there'ssome of these guys.
They don't really have achannel, they're hobbyists.
I'm not putting them in theboat because you can trust them
the small guys, and it's almostlike we do this thing where once
the channel gets big, thenyou're like, no, fuck them.
(14:23):
But when they're little, you'relike, no, fuck them.
But when they're little, you'relike, yeah, they're good.
I trust they're saying, youknow, so it's a weird thing.
Ryan (14:31):
You think we'll ever get big enough that people would
just fucking hate us?
Yeah, we already have thatReally.
Myke (14:36):
Yeah, we had TLTG on and somebody before we just
announced that we were havinghim on.
The episode didn't even go liveyet and we already had people
that were like I'm unsubscribing, I'll never listen to you guys
again.
How could I fucking trust youafter you get in the bed with
him?
And it's like the episodedidn't even hit the airways yet.
It was just that we did anepisode with him that the people
(15:00):
were just like, just because wedid the podcast, there were
people that were like no, I'mout, can never trust y'all again
.
Ryan (15:07):
I think the irony of that.
I guess it qualifies irony aslike full disclosure.
Tltg is really nice to us,we're nice to him.
Myke (15:16):
Yeah, we handle each other on a very professional basis.
But as far as the Steves, theChris's, the Tony's, those guys
we're interacting withsemi-regularly, yeah, and so
we've kind of have like anactual relationship with them.
But I think people, as you growand you become more mainstream
and accepted, then it's like oh,we can't like them anymore.
Ryan (15:36):
That sucks Well.
If it happens more and more,I'm sorry.
We're not assholes, I don'tthink.
Myke (15:41):
I think it is the way you conduct yourself, but then also,
too, I don't know that we'vecommitted to the type of content
that will allow us to be hellamainstream.
Ryan (15:51):
Yeah, I do wonder about that, tom.
It does kind of keep me up atnight, if I'm being real.
Myke (15:56):
Well, if that's the case, then Robes 08 definitely isn't.
You know, he's one of yourdad's friends.
One of the old guys is justcomplaining about how life used
to be.
Ryan (16:09):
I remember back in my day.
A quarter get you to the moviesin a candy bar.
Myke (16:13):
Dude, that's exactly how it went.
Yeah, it's just the back in myday, sort of shit.
And then the complaints abouthow it's not that way any longer
.
Too many kids came in, likewhat they're doing now with
their skateboards and their hulahoops and all that shit.
Ryan (16:27):
Like what they're doing now with their skateboards and
their hula hoops and all thatshit.
You know, mine would be.
I know I've been mentioninggames a lot lately, but mine
would be like if I was going tobitch about something would be
games, because when I played Iplayed competitively for uh,
soul caliber tech and back in myday and that was before youtube
was big we would upload ourhighlights from, like our
motorola razors.
It's like a ftp shared folderpeople can download and watch
(16:49):
stuff and it's like we made nomoney.
Like we would try travel tolouisiana and mop the floor with
people and it's like I got likeI don't know 100 bucks for the
whole travel, talking, stay thenight and everything else.
It's like now kids are like Idon't know playing millions oh
yeah, fucking drinking, energydrinks and fucking vibrators.
Sit on the table with them andshit Making fucking money.
(17:11):
Dude, it's fucking nuts, dude.
Yeah, but is that a bad thing?
It's absolutely not a bad thing.
Myke (17:15):
Okay, I mean.
Ryan (17:16):
I'm happy for the community.
I think it's badass.
Myke (17:28):
I think it's, I mean in retrospect, for that it's like
now seems kind of cool, right,so it's kind of neat.
Yeah, see, that's how I feel,like he should feel about it.
The community grows and thereare going to be people within
the community that you don'talign with.
Yeah, I get that, but you kindof want to go hey look, this
thing that used to be on thevery outskirts, the very fringes
, is now a semi mainstream thing.
That's kind of cool.
People are interested.
(17:49):
And then there are going to bepeople that are gaming it to
make their money, and then thereare going to be people that are
genuinely enjoying it, and youcan't really have one without
the other.
Ryan (18:00):
I don't want to make this whole episode about him or that
dumb shit, but I will say onething that I said to you off air
was the odd thing about allthis is that a lot of the things
that he's saying about certainpeople were the same people that
, when we first started off,always talked him up as being
(18:21):
like the granddaddy of all thisshit.
Yeah, they were like giving himhis due fucking respect, right,
right, yeah.
So I feel like that's thatsucks, you know, daddy of all
this shit.
Yeah, they were like giving himhis due fucking respect, right,
right, yeah.
So I feel like that's, uh, thatsucks, you know and maybe he may
not know that, but that doessuck, you know, like your people
that are coming up or somewhere, hey, this is the guy that kind
of started all this.
Myke (18:39):
You know right, at least to at least what we've heard
yeah, I look this is a longstory short on this, but
basically he feels like the guythat liked a band.
Then it got popular and nowhe's pissed off that other
people like this niche thingthat he used to only enjoy with
a small handful of his friends.
Yeah, and now it's like youknow, oh yeah, too many people
(19:02):
are doing this and that, andhe's like trying to kind of tear
it down.
Ryan (19:06):
Sorry, buddy, you can't sit in your room and smoke weed
all day and listen to the record.
Everybody else is jamming it.
Now, that's right.
Freaking high school girls arewearing the t-shirts to the
freaking school.
Myke (19:17):
Can't name three songs just hey, name three songs.
You know they do that shit.
You'd wear a band t-shirt andthen they'd always be like we'd
name three songs of them, youknow hey, remember we were going
to talk about the notes on thisthing.
Ryan (19:29):
Oh yeah, go for that.
Well, the top notes havepineapple, mandarin, orange and
I don't even know what the fuckthat word is hyacinth, hyacinth,
hyacinth, I don't know.
The middle notes are loganberry I don't know if there's
any relation to the balls pinkpepper, jasmine, and then base
notes are vanilla, musk, amber,sandalwood and argawood.
(19:50):
Oud, ooh, so kind of like oudtonic.
I don't get this oud vibe goingon.
Yeah, I don't.
Maybe this is like for themasses.
They didn't want it to be crazy, so they dialed it back a
little bit.
It's not very, as they wouldcall, fecal smelling.
It's not really loud andstenchy.
Myke (20:09):
It's honestly pretty soft and beautiful.
Ryan (20:11):
It's really the only way we can handle that sort of thing
maybe so, but I will say, sincethat long fucking rant that we
just did of fucking nothingness,yeah, I will say it'll cut down
the tester strip.
I'm not liking it right now.
Hmm, it's like honestly kind ofdoing the opening of Love and
Black by Creed.
Remember I had that like kindof.
(20:31):
I think back then I compared itto the, remember the toy rubber
shark.
Oh yeah, kind of has that smell.
You think it has like asynthetic smell to it.
I don't know if that'ssynthetic, it just has like I
don't know.
Myke (20:43):
Not to me.
It smells like bananaflavoredflavored wonka candy.
What were those things called?
They were the shapes of thefruit.
Ryan (20:52):
Runts.
Maybe I know that Runts is thatone.
Yeah, that's what it reminds meof.
Yeah, somebody I know hatesthat.
They can never find the chewyversions of that all the time.
Oh, those were good, let me hityou with a little price and
popularity on this bad boy, okay.
Uh, let me get you a littleprice and popularity on this bad
boy, okay.
Well, mike, if you want a bigjuicy bottle like this and again
(21:20):
, this is why it shows to pay tobe a fucking patreon oh god,
for 100 ml you going to have topull out of your fucking socks
700 euros.
So this is like a 750 to 800dollar fragrance.
Myke (21:37):
Yeah, that's massive.
Ryan (21:39):
Shit is expensive, yeah yeah.
Now are we thinking that'sworthy of this right now?
Is this a little too spicy onthe pricey?
Myke (21:50):
I need to smell like original Acinto.
So I'm wondering why there's anAcinto and then a purple Acinto
and also Zerjoff.
Are they just buying smallercompanies and then doing
re-releases Because they did thesame thing with that you were
saying?
Ryan (22:06):
that before the episode.
Is this something they bought?
Myke (22:09):
well, it was like I kept seeing maybe they're related,
maybe they're not, maybe it was.
We should really do a betterjob of no research.
No, that's the spiro brand orsomething like that.
Okay, they have like a similarfelt bottle and like they had a
very zirjoff looking vibe tothem, interesting.
But then a couple of essencesago, zirjoff did uh re-release
(22:34):
with that.
What was that brand name?
It was like kimmy magic orsomething like that.
And then they did the hyatt,that hyatt one was fucking great
.
Ryan (22:42):
Yeah, whatever they got from that, I don't know where
that came from.
Myke (22:44):
That shit was good but either way, I'd love to smell
the original.
But, dude, I fucking love this.
I think this smells great thisis your vibe 100 well, not like
to wear, but to smell.
Ryan (22:57):
On a lady, yes, or on ben, apparently by the way,
popularity, and then we'll getinto who's wearing it.
Yeah, popularity, it's a 4.05out of 5.
How many Less than 200 votes?
Oh, really, in which case it'sbeen out since 2021.
Uh-huh, not a lot of.
Myke (23:18):
Again, I think this is kind of a limited thing.
Hmm, I think it's harder to getyour hands on.
Ryan (23:24):
Interesting.
Well, who would be theprototypical male or female or
both, that would wear this inAmerican dollars here, about
$800.
Fragrance, first of all, thatis just too high for any
fragrance.
Myke (23:39):
It's fucking nuts.
I just look.
Ryan (23:43):
Hey, you hear that, robes, are we in this off?
Myke (23:46):
No, I mean the fragrance.
I will not deny, deny, I'mreally liking the way it smells.
I really do.
I just, for me, call meclosed-minded, call me limited
by my socio-economical statushere, which would be a poor man.
Ryan (24:04):
Okay, this one, clara, don't worry, I'm there with you.
Myke (24:07):
I just can't see spending that type of money on a
fragrance.
I can't Look.
Not denying the art behind it.
I'm not denying that this is afantastic presentation.
Ryan (24:18):
Yeah.
Myke (24:18):
Still, that's a lot of fucking money.
Ryan (24:21):
Dude, I just think there's people that own like 50 of
these in their own personal homecollection.
Myke (24:26):
Yeah, what the hell.
But it makes me feel good thatwe're going to pass this along.
Somebody's going to have areally nice bottle to add to the
collection.
They're going to have a damngood time with this.
Ryan (24:38):
It does smell good.
I do feel like this is morefeminine leaning.
Yeah, I do think.
What are we thinking Like?
Maybe 30s and up, maybe, 25 andup.
Myke (24:47):
No, I was about to say I think this is a little bit, a
little bit youthful really.
Yeah, maybe it's the kind ofbanana vibe that I'm getting.
Ryan (24:57):
You know, I don't banana's not in there, but I get that
sort of like banana flavoringthe initial opening of kind of
like the dreamsicle vibe Ifucking as much as much as I
don't like dreamsicles I feltlike this was really well done.
Yeah, it still smells good, butit's not what I was thinking
towards the beginning.
Myke (25:15):
But I think that any of the ickies could wear this.
You think so, I do, and thatkind of spans the range, because
I think it goes 28.
28.
You're really going to say allthe ages right.
He's 39.
He did it, I'm in trouble here.
Ryan (25:33):
Ladies, direct all your hate to him out of the lickies
there.
I didn't say who it was.
Myke (25:38):
Lickies and look, there is beauty at all ages.
Ryan (25:42):
Look one thing I know about women they can be 25 and
125.
They never want to talk abouttheir age.
Myke (25:49):
Yeah, it's weird, even if you're like look how beautiful
this person is.
Ryan (25:54):
Yeah, you can be Margo fucking Robbie, and they're just
like I'd rather not say my ageLike what the hell.
Myke (26:01):
We're just a bunch of old men.
Last night I was walking to bedand I just go, I'm talking to
my kids, I go, girls, I'm an oldman.
Without missing a beat, they goyep, you are old.
Oh God, I feel it Some days.
(26:26):
I fucking feel it.
Ryan (26:27):
I'm feeling it more mentally than physically, really
.
Yeah, you just feel like I mean, I'm fat and out of shape, but
I don't feel like crazy, feel itsome days, I fucking feel it.
I'm feeling it more mentallythan physically really, yeah.
Yeah, you just feel like I meanI'm fat and out of shape, but I
don't feel like crazy, like Istill feel like body wise, I
still feel like my strength of,like you know, late 20s, early
30s, wow I feel like it's theopposite for me.
Myke (26:41):
I don't know if it was just the gratuitous amount of
drinking that happened over inmilan, but most mornings I would
wake up and as soon as I wentto stand out of bed I was like
my whole fucking body is on fire.
Really, yes, huh.
I don't know if it's becausewe're walking all day, we're
drinking and dehydrating ourbodies all night.
Ryan (27:00):
Yeah, but you kind of like you've abused your body, not in
alcohol or drugs, but work-wiseyou're.
You're a workhorse.
Yeah, I've always been like the.
Hey, can we work?
A little smarter, and bysmarter, not that much.
You're a workhorse, yeah, andI've always been like, hey, can
we work a little smarter and bysmarter, not that much.
You're the armchair quarterback, yeah, yeah.
So maybe I didn't put a lot ofwear and tear on my body.
I don't know.
You definitely aren't.
Myke (27:22):
If somebody's posted up chillaxing, that's you, ryan.
Doctor's like goddamn he's gotthe joints of an 18-year-old man
.
He's like he never uses them.
Skip it, sample it or buy it.
What are you going to?
Ryan (27:36):
do Ryan Sadly, it's a skip .
Myke (27:41):
Yeah.
Ryan (27:42):
It smells good.
There's a couple of things,though.
It's not my vibe.
It's more effeminate leaningand it's just too goddamn much
for me, yeah.
Myke (27:52):
So here's my thoughts on it.
I won't call it a skip.
I mean it's a skip for me.
I'm not gonna wear it.
I don't think it's a skip.
As a fragrance, though, okay, Ithink it smells good.
I think the presentation'samazing.
I think on the right male orfemale, if you want feminine
leaning, I'm gonna say woman,just because that's my
preferences.
I'd love to smell this on awoman is amazing.
I think.
On the right male or female, ifyou want feminine leaning, I'm
going to say woman, just becausethat's my preferences.
I'd love to smell this on awoman.
(28:13):
I think it's amazing.
I just yes, the only kickerhere is the price tag.
The price tag for meunfortunately disqualifies it,
because other than that,fragrance is pretty baller.
I really like it.
I think this is a summer jamfor quite a few ladies out there
.
Maybe you're just rich, though.
(28:33):
You got to be a rich lady,because who's dropping that kind
of money?
Ryan (28:37):
I'll tell you who won't have to drop any coin on this,
who.
That is our very loyalsupportive Patreon Jill.
That's right, jill, you justwon this bad boy.
Myke (28:51):
And this might be the most high-dollar fragrance we've
given away to date it absolutely, is without question.
I mean, look, I hope that we'reable to start doing more like
this.
You hear that fragrance brandsyeah, don't listen to robes,
keep giving us bottles that'sright.
Ryan (29:12):
If you're listening to the show, make sure to write all
the brands out there and letthem know about this show and to
send us stuff and we'll passalong to you guys.
Myke (29:17):
You know how we roll yeah, you know how we do.
Ryan (29:20):
We're just climbing up that corporate ladder I have a
feeling that we'll just, we'llbe kind of like the jan silent
bob of this industry.
They'll just think like no, notthose guys, we can't work with
those guys.
Myke (29:31):
You'd think that, but we've mentioned how rough some
of the people are out there,especially these new TikTokers.
Oh yeah, there's some out therethat you're like what brand
would work with that person?
And then they're working withtons of brands.
Ryan (29:46):
Interesting.
Well, yeah, maybe we just gotto get the word out, maybe we're
terrible about that.
Myke (29:51):
Well, my argument was look , there are companies that are
putting ads on the back of parkbenches where homeless people
are freaking, jerking off andlaying down.
They'll put their ads anywhere,bro.
Ryan (30:15):
Oh Lord, you know I I'm gonna say this in the game have
you noticed that there's alsobeen like a few ads where
they'll like basically remixsomebody's like real or tiktok,
but they'll be kind of negativeto that person?
It's like this reverse pcculture happening right, really,
yeah, like really.
Like you know, I'm just sayingthe word but just like fat
shaming people and stuff For anad.
Myke (30:33):
Huh, no, I haven't heard that Really wild dude.
I've seen there's been somekick up closerly related to the
music industry before this thing.
So I've seen some of my friendsthat are still in the music
industry is still in the musicindustry and I've seen some
people getting upset overcontent that people are making
quote, unquote, fat shamingpeople Really.
(30:55):
Yeah, I don't know.
Look, I used to be pretty hefty.
I'll have to post a picture ofFat Mike in our community chat.
Ryan (31:05):
You're a brave man, not because you look bad.
I'm never putting anunflattering thing of me out
mean, but that's the thing is.
Myke (31:11):
Never once in my life did I ever get upset about somebody
calling something saying theword fat or overweight.
Ryan (31:20):
Like you know, I just, I think me and you kind of grew up
in different era, though wewere taught to have kind of like
thick skin about stuff that'show guys just kind of, even when
you're kids, that's just kindof how you play with each other.
No, you know, you're just kindof like all right, fat ass you
know, I think about all thetimes I've been called that
growing up and I look at my highschool picture.
I'm like what the fuck?
Myke (31:38):
man, oh man, I'd pay so much goddamn money to be that
skinny right now so here'ssomething that backfired on me
and I I was kind of being adouche and I got called out
pretty quickly.
Ryan (31:50):
I love these stories.
Go ahead.
Myke (31:53):
I went to a conference with a friend.
This has been, god, a decadenow and I was gaining weight and
there was a guy who was aspeaker that got up and he was
giving like a 45-minute talk.
Halfway through the talk, theguy he's just a really big guy,
really big guy.
Halfway through the talk he hadto ask for a chair to sit down
(32:13):
because his knees were hurtinghim.
So he's so big and I just lookover at my friend and I know
this is going to color me veryunflattering.
You were a kid, I go, you thinkI'll ever get that big.
Ryan (32:23):
And he said like literally off the top of his head as soon
as I said that he goes keepgoing the way you're going.
You're like leaning over liketwo hot dogs in your head.
Hey, they ever be that big Fuck.
Myke (32:41):
Yeah, and he was like, yeah, just keep on, bud, you're
on your way.
That, like that, actually kindof hit me in a hard way and I
was like like damn, thismotherfucker's right I'm like
gaining weight hey, we're out ofhere.
Ryan (32:53):
But let me just tell you why he was telling that story of
him getting reverse fat shamed.
Uh, I sprayed this again and Ireally do love this opening.
I genuinely don't like dreamsickles.
I think they're disgusting, butthe way this is kind of done is
really gorgeous.
Myke (33:10):
It's fresh and fruity.
It's really good.
Beautiful how did we thisepisode Look?
It is what it is.
I just think we've gone allover the place, but people love
it.
I think it was more my fault.
I keep bringing stuff in.
I'm in a weird mood right now.
Ryan (33:28):
You've been in a weird mood all day actually.
Yeah, huh, sometimes I don't.
I get this vibe like you're not, like you don't like me right
now or something what.
Yeah, like earlier today I waslike I feel like this guy was
like fucking pissed being aroundme.
Myke (33:40):
No, I swear to god huh, yeah, today you got that the
whole time before we went tolunch.
Yeah, weird.
No, it wasn't like that at all.
Now there are some days when Icome in and you're like trying
to overly be positive to whereit comes across, kind of like
you're really trying.
I'm like why am I so annoyed bythis?
(34:03):
you're just trying to have agood mood and then be in good
spirits and yeah, but me goingall out is like you're level
three yeah, it's true, no, no,look, I'm arguably the more
annoying of the two, but I thinkit's because normally when I
see you in the morning, nearlyevery morning, you're like mid
first coffee, oh yeah, andyou're kind of like, hey, man
(34:27):
drinking this coffee.
So when I come in, you're like,hey, how we doing today,
partner, I'm like shut the fuckup, give me 10 minutes of like
boring ryan you know, good lord,you make me sound like my.
My average temperature is like adeadbeat salesman or something
(34:50):
dude, I mean most, yeah, mostmornings you're just like hey
man, hey, what's up?
You know, most of the time it'sme going.
Hey partner, all right, youknow, oh shit until next time,
spray it up.
Ryan (35:06):
This was random shit, just like an hour long fucking
podcast terrible.
hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the
cologne podcast.
Myke (00:07):
I'm mike and I'm ryan and we're not gonna keep doing that.
We're two best friends on afragrance journey, smelling big
juicy bottles and giving youuneducated opinions today and,
by god, listen up closely.
Ryan (00:24):
If you're a patreon, today you really like to hear this.
We're gonna be smelling a brandnew big juicy bottle of
zherjoff purple achinto.
Oh yeah, and at the end of thisepisode we are going to
announce the winner of said full100 ml bottle of this.
Myke (00:44):
Oh god, actually I think it's more than 100 mil.
What?
Ryan (00:47):
just kidding, it's 100 mil , okay, this so, uh, yeah, stay
tuned to that if you're.
If you're not a patron, go be apatron, because this is what
happens.
They get bonus episodes everyweek and then they also get
stuff like this.
When we get full bottles likethis, we are raining the
juiciest of bottles down.
Myke (01:05):
Dude.
This makes what.
How many now?
This is five in one week, intwo weeks, jesus.
Five in two weeks, that is alot.
It is a lot.
We've got to slow down.
How can we afford to do this?
Because they were given to usfor free.
Ryan (01:17):
Mike, that's right.
We pass the savings on to youguys, yeah.
Myke (01:22):
There may be youtubers out there that are saying this is
what happened at assance and youknow the free bottle brigade,
and but the reality of thesituation is you go there, you
meet some nice people.
If they do give you a big juicybottle, guess what?
Ryan (01:41):
it's passed on to a patreon and the beauty of us is,
if this is garbage, we will letyou know yeah, and still pass
it on.
Myke (01:47):
So that's right, we're gonna force this bottle upon you
.
Speaking of forcing bottles,I've got an opinion from frey
grantica.
I'm gonna force spawn you guysfrom skite, who says it's not
just herbapura.
But yes, it's very close, it'sherbapura with more pineapple
(02:08):
and added oud.
Personally, I prefer herbapuraand I don't know why this has a
chinto in the name doesn't makeany sense why are you making him
sound so pretentious, or shewhy?
Are you?
Ryan (02:22):
making them sound so pretentious when they're
actually kind of taking up forit.
Myke (02:25):
Oh, I don't know I think I just think of a negative review
.
I just have to get a littlelike I don't know why this is
called me, you know uh, throwinga little shade right there, it
seems I'm throwing a lot ofshade.
I mean mean, because here's thething Go ahead, you know certain
(02:46):
YouTubers out there arecreating videos, and it's fine,
until you actually personallyknow some of these people that
they're kind of throwing shadeat, and you've got to meet them,
you've got to be around them,and then you just go
categorically this is false.
Yeah, I'm with you on that.
It's just irritating at thispoint.
Ryan (03:04):
Yeah, you know this is false.
Yeah, I'm with you on that.
It's just irritating at thispoint.
Yeah, I wasn't like bought intoit, but you told me to go take
a look at it and I did and I waslike, yeah, that doesn't line
up.
Myke (03:10):
I tried to watch the whole thing and the whole time I was
just like so wait, there's a guywho said he almost went but
decided not to go.
But he's going to make a videoon exactly how things go down at
said event.
That he's never been to Seemsweird.
Ryan (03:28):
It is kind of weird.
Myke (03:29):
I'm not upset about it.
Let's go to our one night standreview, Ryan.
Ryan (03:34):
Of 403 Mer Shadow by Bon Perfumer.
Myke (03:42):
Hit the music, Todd yeah.
Ryan (03:47):
One night stand review well, mike, after lying in bed,
staying up at night stressingabout how good or bad this
fragrance was yes, what do youhave to say?
Myke (04:00):
about it.
Uh, love it, absolutely love it.
Ryan (04:04):
I'm sad to see it go yes, I am in the same camp, okay we a
little caveat to the people.
We did another episode that dayfor our patreon members, for
oud tonic yeah, from the gate,gave away a big juicy bottle of
that.
Myke (04:20):
Yes, and you obsessed over that, by the way, in that
episode we did.
Yeah, you were loving it andyou were conflicted.
I was of the two.
That day you couldn't decidewhich one you liked more and I
was literally stressed, textingmike going.
Ryan (04:35):
Yeah, I thought I love this new tonic but I'm loving
this mer shadow.
And then it kind of went thisback and forth route.
But I'm here to tell you aftera long, lengthy battle yeah,
that mer shadow edged it out.
It was the dry down of thatthing.
Myke (04:52):
Yeah, it be thingin you know what I'm saying.
Yeah, I mean, we live in aworld, ryan, where it doesn't
have to be one or the other.
You know, it just so happenedthat we did those two episodes
at the same day, otherwise Idon't think you'd ever have
compared the two.
They're vastly different.
That's true too.
You know, you'd never reallyput those up head to head.
(05:13):
Hey idea.
Should we do episodes like thathead to head?
Which fragrance is better?
Hmm, huh.
Ryan (05:21):
It had to be positioned by like a vote of like which
fragrances?
I think.
Yeah, of course, that would becool.
I'd be down with that.
Myke (05:28):
It'd be fun hey, let us know.
Yeah, so back to mer shadow,though.
I loved it, you loved it, lovedit.
Steve was a man.
Steve steve's crazy yeah he is.
Ryan (05:40):
He's liking some weird shit lately and then telling us
that all of our shit sucks.
Oh, that's true.
Yeah, he's kind of a wild card,that guy.
I'm not vibing it, steve, Iknow you listen to this.
Myke (05:51):
He's got great taste in fragrances though.
Ryan (05:55):
He does, and of the ones he's shown us, we've always kind
of loved them.
He turned us on to ByronParfums yeah, the Chronic God
and another 13 by Le Labo wasanother great one.
Myke (06:09):
Yes, and he hit me to Liquid Braun.
Yeah, that was good.
The Altair clone, that smellsreally good.
I mean there's really a lot.
Ryan (06:23):
He's been a valuable resource for this podcast, but
it's just unfortunate he's wrongon this one.
Myke (06:25):
Well, that's kind of the thing is every time we love
something, it doesn'tnecessarily mean that he will
Every time that he does lovesomething I typically do like it
.
Ryan (06:34):
Yeah, you think he's just disagreeing with us to disagree.
Myke (06:38):
Hmm, is that?
Ryan (06:40):
what you're doing, Steve?
Is that what you're trying tofucking do?
Myke (06:43):
Come clean you, son of a bitch okay, well, until he comes
clean, that's all I have to sayabout it.
I loved it, you loved it.
Ryan (06:54):
It's big juicy bottle worthy it is very much a big
juicy sample worthy, but I wouldsay there's a good portion of
people will smell that and go.
I, I need to borrow this.
It smells amazing.
Myke (07:05):
Yeah, the thing I really like about it is that it does
smell so unique.
It does that if you do fall inlove with it and you have that
fragrance, not many people aregoing to be walking around
smelling like that, so it couldbe easy to make that your kind
of signature scent.
It is so gorgeous.
Ryan (07:22):
Just trust us.
Okay, there you go kind ofsignature scent.
Myke (07:26):
It is so gorgeous.
Just trust us.
Okay, there you go.
Yeah, try to get a sample ifyou can.
If not, you know one of youpatreons gonna be wearing it all
day long, every day okay, nowwe're gonna get into today's
episode.
Ryan (07:37):
I've been staring at this big purple fucking box for over
a week now, since you've beenback from milan.
I'm ready to freaking smellthis.
And I'm about to freaking smellthis.
I'm about to give you the ASMRtreatment because it is in a
full bottle and it's fullywrapped.
Here we go.
Myke (08:17):
Do it.
Ryan (08:17):
it's like I'm deconstructing yeah, you're
tearing the studio down, goddamn okay.
So rock the bet.
I do have questions about this,do you as well?
Myke (08:25):
Yeah, so this is a new bottle type, apparently?
Yeah, the old one.
Now I do know that Zerjoffchanged their bottles, looks
like, a couple times now.
Ryan (08:36):
The bottle's gorgeous, the packaging is fucking insane.
Myke (08:40):
Yeah, zerjoff always kills it.
With the presentation.
We did a giveaway of Naxos,that thing like laid in a satin
bed and had a little blankiethat covered it and everything.
What's this on the bottle?
Ryan (08:52):
It says tap to connect.
What the hell what?
They got freaking QR codes orsome shit.
Myke (08:57):
Oh, it's like an NFC type thing.
Interesting.
There's something special aboutthis one.
I can't remember, so this wasgiven to me when we went to the
zirjoff launch party for the newduran duran fragrances.
They're doing okay and they'recoming out this month actually,
but he said something.
There's something special aboutthis one.
I can't remember what he said.
(09:17):
It's a very limited thing, huh,and because of that, whoever we
give this to, it's going to bevery lucky, because I have a
feeling that you're not going tobe able to get this same thing,
even if you can get the samefragrance.
Yeah, there's something specialabout this one that he said
that this was a gift to us thatyou weren't going to be able to
get your hands on, and I can'tremember what it was.
Ryan (09:39):
Maybe we'll have Todd reach out to George off and ask
him yeah, that'd be good.
No, you go first.
You go first.
No, you Dude, I literally dolove this bottle.
I love the Zerjoff bottles.
Myke (09:51):
I'm so glad they stopped doing the furry ones they used
to have, like the felt bottles.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of that.
Ryan (09:57):
Here we go.
Myke (10:06):
This bottle is like a frosted see-through glass so you
can see the juice in it.
Ryan (10:11):
It's got beautiful gold hardware.
I mean, this smells reallypretty, this is really pretty
for real.
I don't know if I get extrapineapple, though.
I don't even know if I getpineapple at all I kind of get
what they're saying.
Myke (10:26):
Herbapura, the one that everyone keeps comparing this to
it does smell similar.
This is fresher.
It has a more kind of citrusybite.
I do get kind of the pineapplein there.
Really I'm shocked.
So a friend and patreon memberthat I've been around quite a
bit wears tons of herbapura.
Yeah, I'm very familiar withthat fragrance.
(10:47):
This is different.
I see where they're related,though.
Really, yeah, that's like atree or something and that one's
a very powdery yeah, likefruity this is fresher, god.
Ryan (10:59):
I haven't looked at the notes yet, but am I crazy?
Does it smell kind of like adream sickle on the tester?
Myke (11:05):
I was gonna say it reminds me of summer sunscreen, fresh,
almost almost.
Has like a banana type vibe toit possibly.
Hmm, this is really nice manI'm.
It's really beautiful though.
Ryan (11:19):
Right, yeah, I prefer this over a rapura here.
I'm gonna go ahead and just hitthe notes, because I am curious
what's in here and what we'rekind of smelling here.
Before I read it, though, wouldyou say this is maybe a little
bit effeminate.
It's very soft.
It's really beautiful smelling.
Myke (11:34):
Well, I'm going to have to hold you up here because I'm
about to tell a story.
Go ahead.
No, that's fine.
And I said this on the Ruby onenight stand.
We got this early on.
This was like the first bigparty night and chris's friend,
ben, was gifted a bottle of thisas well, okay.
And then he wore it the nextcouple of nights, this fragrance
(11:55):
okay.
And when I smelled it on him Iwas like, oh, that kind of works
, I enjoy it.
But smelling it on the card,because they went around and
part of the expo type thing theyput on there, their little
speech thing, they let us smellthese.
They sprayed them and passedthem around and my initial
thought whenever I smelled itwas, yes, oh, this does smell
feminine.
(12:15):
But Ben wore this a couple ofnights and it did kind of work
with what he was wearing.
It did smell good and I didn'tfeel like it was out of place at
all.
So it made me question how Ihandle fragrances, because
originally I would have beenlike I can't really wear this.
This does smell pretty feminine.
Ryan (12:32):
But you feel like it fit for you.
It smelled good.
Yeah, it worked.
Kind of off subject, but on thesubject of you being an essence
, while you were there, I neverthought to ever ask this.
Myke (12:49):
But you're smelling a million things throughout the
day.
Does it all just start blurringtogether as far as scents go?
Kind of truthfully, I got afunny story though.
Okay, yeah, so we're allwearing the loud shit me less so
than the rest of the guys.
Yeah, and we're on like thelittle trolley, which is like
the little train car, that kindof takes you around the streets.
Yeah, so we're on there andeverybody's smelling really loud
, and then just a regular personoff the street gets on the cart
(13:10):
at the end and once we get tohis stop, he walks through the
middle of us and on the way outand as he does, everybody just
looks at each other like thismotherfucker, and they're like
god damn, he smells so good.
And he was wearing sauvage, butwe were like it's undeniable,
(13:30):
god damn, it smelled good onthis guy.
Ryan (13:32):
It's sauvage, like the metallica fragrances, like I
think so.
It's like they're so loved andhated right, yeah, for sure.
Myke (13:39):
Yeah, it's kind of that when it becomes mainstream, yeah
, yeah, it's like, oh, it's cooltill everyone likes it.
Now it's uncool, yeah, and Ithink that's what's kind of
happening.
And to go back to my littletirade at the beginning of this
podcast, that's where I thinksome of the fragrance community
is happening too.
I was hinting at Robes08,.
(14:00):
Mark made this video aboutbasically ignore all of the
content that's being madepost-Essence.
But he kept saying now there'ssome of these guys.
They don't really have achannel, they're hobbyists.
I'm not putting them in theboat because you can trust them
the small guys, and it's almostlike we do this thing where once
the channel gets big, thenyou're like, no, fuck them.
(14:23):
But when they're little, you'relike, no, fuck them.
But when they're little, you'relike, yeah, they're good.
I trust they're saying, youknow, so it's a weird thing.
Ryan (14:31):
You think we'll ever get big enough that people would
just fucking hate us?
Yeah, we already have thatReally.
Myke (14:36):
Yeah, we had TLTG on and somebody before we just
announced that we were havinghim on.
The episode didn't even go liveyet and we already had people
that were like I'm unsubscribing, I'll never listen to you guys
again.
How could I fucking trust youafter you get in the bed with
him?
And it's like the episodedidn't even hit the airways yet.
It was just that we did anepisode with him that the people
(15:00):
were just like, just because wedid the podcast, there were
people that were like no, I'mout, can never trust y'all again
.
Ryan (15:07):
I think the irony of that.
I guess it qualifies irony aslike full disclosure.
Tltg is really nice to us,we're nice to him.
Myke (15:16):
Yeah, we handle each other on a very professional basis.
But as far as the Steves, theChris's, the Tony's, those guys
we're interacting withsemi-regularly, yeah, and so
we've kind of have like anactual relationship with them.
But I think people, as you growand you become more mainstream
and accepted, then it's like oh,we can't like them anymore.
Ryan (15:36):
That sucks Well.
If it happens more and more,I'm sorry.
We're not assholes, I don'tthink.
Myke (15:41):
I think it is the way you conduct yourself, but then also,
too, I don't know that we'vecommitted to the type of content
that will allow us to be hellamainstream.
Ryan (15:51):
Yeah, I do wonder about that, tom.
It does kind of keep me up atnight, if I'm being real.
Myke (15:56):
Well, if that's the case, then Robes 08 definitely isn't.
You know, he's one of yourdad's friends.
One of the old guys is justcomplaining about how life used
to be.
Ryan (16:09):
I remember back in my day.
A quarter get you to the moviesin a candy bar.
Myke (16:13):
Dude, that's exactly how it went.
Yeah, it's just the back in myday, sort of shit.
And then the complaints abouthow it's not that way any longer
.
Too many kids came in, likewhat they're doing now with
their skateboards and their hulahoops and all that shit.
Ryan (16:27):
Like what they're doing now with their skateboards and
their hula hoops and all thatshit.
You know, mine would be.
I know I've been mentioninggames a lot lately, but mine
would be like if I was going tobitch about something would be
games, because when I played Iplayed competitively for uh,
soul caliber tech and back in myday and that was before youtube
was big we would upload ourhighlights from, like our
motorola razors.
It's like a ftp shared folderpeople can download and watch
(16:49):
stuff and it's like we made nomoney.
Like we would try travel tolouisiana and mop the floor with
people and it's like I got likeI don't know 100 bucks for the
whole travel, talking, stay thenight and everything else.
It's like now kids are like Idon't know playing millions oh
yeah, fucking drinking, energydrinks and fucking vibrators.
Sit on the table with them andshit Making fucking money.
(17:11):
Dude, it's fucking nuts, dude.
Yeah, but is that a bad thing?
It's absolutely not a bad thing.
Myke (17:15):
Okay, I mean.
Ryan (17:16):
I'm happy for the community.
I think it's badass.
Myke (17:28):
I think it's, I mean in retrospect, for that it's like
now seems kind of cool, right,so it's kind of neat.
Yeah, see, that's how I feel,like he should feel about it.
The community grows and thereare going to be people within
the community that you don'talign with.
Yeah, I get that, but you kindof want to go hey look, this
thing that used to be on thevery outskirts, the very fringes
, is now a semi mainstream thing.
That's kind of cool.
People are interested.
(17:49):
And then there are going to bepeople that are gaming it to
make their money, and then thereare going to be people that are
genuinely enjoying it, and youcan't really have one without
the other.
Ryan (18:00):
I don't want to make this whole episode about him or that
dumb shit, but I will say onething that I said to you off air
was the odd thing about allthis is that a lot of the things
that he's saying about certainpeople were the same people that
, when we first started off,always talked him up as being
(18:21):
like the granddaddy of all thisshit.
Yeah, they were like giving himhis due fucking respect, right,
right, yeah.
So I feel like that's thatsucks, you know, daddy of all
this shit.
Yeah, they were like giving himhis due fucking respect, right,
right, yeah.
So I feel like that's, uh, thatsucks, you know and maybe he may
not know that, but that doessuck, you know, like your people
that are coming up or somewhere, hey, this is the guy that kind
of started all this.
Myke (18:39):
You know right, at least to at least what we've heard
yeah, I look this is a longstory short on this, but
basically he feels like the guythat liked a band.
Then it got popular and nowhe's pissed off that other
people like this niche thingthat he used to only enjoy with
a small handful of his friends.
Yeah, and now it's like youknow, oh yeah, too many people
(19:02):
are doing this and that, andhe's like trying to kind of tear
it down.
Ryan (19:06):
Sorry, buddy, you can't sit in your room and smoke weed
all day and listen to the record.
Everybody else is jamming it.
Now, that's right.
Freaking high school girls arewearing the t-shirts to the
freaking school.
Myke (19:17):
Can't name three songs just hey, name three songs.
You know they do that shit.
You'd wear a band t-shirt andthen they'd always be like we'd
name three songs of them, youknow hey, remember we were going
to talk about the notes on thisthing.
Ryan (19:29):
Oh yeah, go for that.
Well, the top notes havepineapple, mandarin, orange and
I don't even know what the fuckthat word is hyacinth, hyacinth,
hyacinth, I don't know.
The middle notes are loganberry I don't know if there's
any relation to the balls pinkpepper, jasmine, and then base
notes are vanilla, musk, amber,sandalwood and argawood.
(19:50):
Oud, ooh, so kind of like oudtonic.
I don't get this oud vibe goingon.
Yeah, I don't.
Maybe this is like for themasses.
They didn't want it to be crazy, so they dialed it back a
little bit.
It's not very, as they wouldcall, fecal smelling.
It's not really loud andstenchy.
Myke (20:09):
It's honestly pretty soft and beautiful.
Ryan (20:11):
It's really the only way we can handle that sort of thing
maybe so, but I will say, sincethat long fucking rant that we
just did of fucking nothingness,yeah, I will say it'll cut down
the tester strip.
I'm not liking it right now.
Hmm, it's like honestly kind ofdoing the opening of Love and
Black by Creed.
Remember I had that like kindof.
(20:31):
I think back then I compared itto the, remember the toy rubber
shark.
Oh yeah, kind of has that smell.
You think it has like asynthetic smell to it.
I don't know if that'ssynthetic, it just has like I
don't know.
Myke (20:43):
Not to me.
It smells like bananaflavoredflavored wonka candy.
What were those things called?
They were the shapes of thefruit.
Ryan (20:52):
Runts.
Maybe I know that Runts is thatone.
Yeah, that's what it reminds meof.
Yeah, somebody I know hatesthat.
They can never find the chewyversions of that all the time.
Oh, those were good, let me hityou with a little price and
popularity on this bad boy, okay.
Uh, let me get you a littleprice and popularity on this bad
boy, okay.
Well, mike, if you want a bigjuicy bottle like this and again
(21:20):
, this is why it shows to pay tobe a fucking patreon oh god,
for 100 ml you going to have topull out of your fucking socks
700 euros.
So this is like a 750 to 800dollar fragrance.
Myke (21:37):
Yeah, that's massive.
Ryan (21:39):
Shit is expensive, yeah yeah.
Now are we thinking that'sworthy of this right now?
Is this a little too spicy onthe pricey?
Myke (21:50):
I need to smell like original Acinto.
So I'm wondering why there's anAcinto and then a purple Acinto
and also Zerjoff.
Are they just buying smallercompanies and then doing
re-releases Because they did thesame thing with that you were
saying?
Ryan (22:06):
that before the episode.
Is this something they bought?
Myke (22:09):
well, it was like I kept seeing maybe they're related,
maybe they're not, maybe it was.
We should really do a betterjob of no research.
No, that's the spiro brand orsomething like that.
Okay, they have like a similarfelt bottle and like they had a
very zirjoff looking vibe tothem, interesting.
But then a couple of essencesago, zirjoff did uh re-release
(22:34):
with that.
What was that brand name?
It was like kimmy magic orsomething like that.
And then they did the hyatt,that hyatt one was fucking great
.
Ryan (22:42):
Yeah, whatever they got from that, I don't know where
that came from.
Myke (22:44):
That shit was good but either way, I'd love to smell
the original.
But, dude, I fucking love this.
I think this smells great thisis your vibe 100 well, not like
to wear, but to smell.
Ryan (22:57):
On a lady, yes, or on ben, apparently by the way,
popularity, and then we'll getinto who's wearing it.
Yeah, popularity, it's a 4.05out of 5.
How many Less than 200 votes?
Oh, really, in which case it'sbeen out since 2021.
Uh-huh, not a lot of.
Myke (23:18):
Again, I think this is kind of a limited thing.
Hmm, I think it's harder to getyour hands on.
Ryan (23:24):
Interesting.
Well, who would be theprototypical male or female or
both, that would wear this inAmerican dollars here, about
$800.
Fragrance, first of all, thatis just too high for any
fragrance.
Myke (23:39):
It's fucking nuts.
I just look.
Ryan (23:43):
Hey, you hear that, robes, are we in this off?
Myke (23:46):
No, I mean the fragrance.
I will not deny, deny, I'mreally liking the way it smells.
I really do.
I just, for me, call meclosed-minded, call me limited
by my socio-economical statushere, which would be a poor man.
Ryan (24:04):
Okay, this one, clara, don't worry, I'm there with you.
Myke (24:07):
I just can't see spending that type of money on a
fragrance.
I can't Look.
Not denying the art behind it.
I'm not denying that this is afantastic presentation.
Ryan (24:18):
Yeah.
Myke (24:18):
Still, that's a lot of fucking money.
Ryan (24:21):
Dude, I just think there's people that own like 50 of
these in their own personal homecollection.
Myke (24:26):
Yeah, what the hell.
But it makes me feel good thatwe're going to pass this along.
Somebody's going to have areally nice bottle to add to the
collection.
They're going to have a damngood time with this.
Ryan (24:38):
It does smell good.
I do feel like this is morefeminine leaning.
Yeah, I do think.
What are we thinking Like?
Maybe 30s and up, maybe, 25 andup.
Myke (24:47):
No, I was about to say I think this is a little bit, a
little bit youthful really.
Yeah, maybe it's the kind ofbanana vibe that I'm getting.
Ryan (24:57):
You know, I don't banana's not in there, but I get that
sort of like banana flavoringthe initial opening of kind of
like the dreamsicle vibe Ifucking as much as much as I
don't like dreamsicles I feltlike this was really well done.
Yeah, it still smells good, butit's not what I was thinking
towards the beginning.
Myke (25:15):
But I think that any of the ickies could wear this.
You think so, I do, and thatkind of spans the range, because
I think it goes 28.
28.
You're really going to say allthe ages right.
He's 39.
He did it, I'm in trouble here.
Ryan (25:33):
Ladies, direct all your hate to him out of the lickies
there.
I didn't say who it was.
Myke (25:38):
Lickies and look, there is beauty at all ages.
Ryan (25:42):
Look one thing I know about women they can be 25 and
125.
They never want to talk abouttheir age.
Myke (25:49):
Yeah, it's weird, even if you're like look how beautiful
this person is.
Ryan (25:54):
Yeah, you can be Margo fucking Robbie, and they're just
like I'd rather not say my ageLike what the hell.
Myke (26:01):
We're just a bunch of old men.
Last night I was walking to bedand I just go, I'm talking to
my kids, I go, girls, I'm an oldman.
Without missing a beat, they goyep, you are old.
Oh God, I feel it Some days.
(26:26):
I fucking feel it.
Ryan (26:27):
I'm feeling it more mentally than physically, really
.
Yeah, you just feel like I mean, I'm fat and out of shape, but
I don't feel like crazy, feel itsome days, I fucking feel it.
I'm feeling it more mentallythan physically really, yeah.
Yeah, you just feel like I meanI'm fat and out of shape, but I
don't feel like crazy, like Istill feel like body wise, I
still feel like my strength of,like you know, late 20s, early
30s, wow I feel like it's theopposite for me.
Myke (26:41):
I don't know if it was just the gratuitous amount of
drinking that happened over inmilan, but most mornings I would
wake up and as soon as I wentto stand out of bed I was like
my whole fucking body is on fire.
Really, yes, huh.
I don't know if it's becausewe're walking all day, we're
drinking and dehydrating ourbodies all night.
Ryan (27:00):
Yeah, but you kind of like you've abused your body, not in
alcohol or drugs, but work-wiseyou're.
You're a workhorse.
Yeah, I've always been like the.
Hey, can we work?
A little smarter, and bysmarter, not that much.
You're a workhorse, yeah, andI've always been like, hey, can
we work a little smarter and bysmarter, not that much.
You're the armchair quarterback, yeah, yeah.
So maybe I didn't put a lot ofwear and tear on my body.
I don't know.
You definitely aren't.
Myke (27:22):
If somebody's posted up chillaxing, that's you, ryan.
Doctor's like goddamn he's gotthe joints of an 18-year-old man
.
He's like he never uses them.
Skip it, sample it or buy it.
What are you going to?
Ryan (27:36):
do Ryan Sadly, it's a skip .
Myke (27:41):
Yeah.
Ryan (27:42):
It smells good.
There's a couple of things,though.
It's not my vibe.
It's more effeminate leaningand it's just too goddamn much
for me, yeah.
Myke (27:52):
So here's my thoughts on it.
I won't call it a skip.
I mean it's a skip for me.
I'm not gonna wear it.
I don't think it's a skip.
As a fragrance, though, okay, Ithink it smells good.
I think the presentation'samazing.
I think on the right male orfemale, if you want feminine
leaning, I'm gonna say woman,just because that's my
preferences.
I'd love to smell this on awoman is amazing.
I think.
On the right male or female, ifyou want feminine leaning, I'm
going to say woman, just becausethat's my preferences.
I'd love to smell this on awoman.
(28:13):
I think it's amazing.
I just yes, the only kickerhere is the price tag.
The price tag for meunfortunately disqualifies it,
because other than that,fragrance is pretty baller.
I really like it.
I think this is a summer jamfor quite a few ladies out there
.
Maybe you're just rich, though.
(28:33):
You got to be a rich lady,because who's dropping that kind
of money?
Ryan (28:37):
I'll tell you who won't have to drop any coin on this,
who.
That is our very loyalsupportive Patreon Jill.
That's right, jill, you justwon this bad boy.
Myke (28:51):
And this might be the most high-dollar fragrance we've
given away to date it absolutely, is without question.
I mean, look, I hope that we'reable to start doing more like
this.
You hear that fragrance brandsyeah, don't listen to robes,
keep giving us bottles that'sright.
Ryan (29:12):
If you're listening to the show, make sure to write all
the brands out there and letthem know about this show and to
send us stuff and we'll passalong to you guys.
Myke (29:17):
You know how we roll yeah, you know how we do.
Ryan (29:20):
We're just climbing up that corporate ladder I have a
feeling that we'll just, we'llbe kind of like the jan silent
bob of this industry.
They'll just think like no, notthose guys, we can't work with
those guys.
Myke (29:31):
You'd think that, but we've mentioned how rough some
of the people are out there,especially these new TikTokers.
Oh yeah, there's some out therethat you're like what brand
would work with that person?
And then they're working withtons of brands.
Ryan (29:46):
Interesting.
Well, yeah, maybe we just gotto get the word out, maybe we're
terrible about that.
Myke (29:51):
Well, my argument was look , there are companies that are
putting ads on the back of parkbenches where homeless people
are freaking, jerking off andlaying down.
They'll put their ads anywhere,bro.
Ryan (30:15):
Oh Lord, you know I I'm gonna say this in the game have
you noticed that there's alsobeen like a few ads where
they'll like basically remixsomebody's like real or tiktok,
but they'll be kind of negativeto that person?
It's like this reverse pcculture happening right, really,
yeah, like really.
Like you know, I'm just sayingthe word but just like fat
shaming people and stuff For anad.
Myke (30:33):
Huh, no, I haven't heard that Really wild dude.
I've seen there's been somekick up closerly related to the
music industry before this thing.
So I've seen some of my friendsthat are still in the music
industry is still in the musicindustry and I've seen some
people getting upset overcontent that people are making
quote, unquote, fat shamingpeople Really.
(30:55):
Yeah, I don't know.
Look, I used to be pretty hefty.
I'll have to post a picture ofFat Mike in our community chat.
Ryan (31:05):
You're a brave man, not because you look bad.
I'm never putting anunflattering thing of me out
mean, but that's the thing is.
Myke (31:11):
Never once in my life did I ever get upset about somebody
calling something saying theword fat or overweight.
Ryan (31:20):
Like you know, I just, I think me and you kind of grew up
in different era, though wewere taught to have kind of like
thick skin about stuff that'show guys just kind of, even when
you're kids, that's just kindof how you play with each other.
No, you know, you're just kindof like all right, fat ass you
know, I think about all thetimes I've been called that
growing up and I look at my highschool picture.
I'm like what the fuck?
Myke (31:38):
man, oh man, I'd pay so much goddamn money to be that
skinny right now so here'ssomething that backfired on me
and I I was kind of being adouche and I got called out
pretty quickly.
Ryan (31:50):
I love these stories.
Go ahead.
Myke (31:53):
I went to a conference with a friend.
This has been, god, a decadenow and I was gaining weight and
there was a guy who was aspeaker that got up and he was
giving like a 45-minute talk.
Halfway through the talk, theguy he's just a really big guy,
really big guy.
Halfway through the talk he hadto ask for a chair to sit down
(32:13):
because his knees were hurtinghim.
So he's so big and I just lookover at my friend and I know
this is going to color me veryunflattering.
You were a kid, I go, you thinkI'll ever get that big.
Ryan (32:23):
And he said like literally off the top of his head as soon
as I said that he goes keepgoing the way you're going.
You're like leaning over liketwo hot dogs in your head.
Hey, they ever be that big Fuck.
Myke (32:41):
Yeah, and he was like, yeah, just keep on, bud, you're
on your way.
That, like that, actually kindof hit me in a hard way and I
was like like damn, thismotherfucker's right I'm like
gaining weight hey, we're out ofhere.
Ryan (32:53):
But let me just tell you why he was telling that story of
him getting reverse fat shamed.
Uh, I sprayed this again and Ireally do love this opening.
I genuinely don't like dreamsickles.
I think they're disgusting, butthe way this is kind of done is
really gorgeous.
Myke (33:10):
It's fresh and fruity.
It's really good.
Beautiful how did we thisepisode Look?
It is what it is.
I just think we've gone allover the place, but people love
it.
I think it was more my fault.
I keep bringing stuff in.
I'm in a weird mood right now.
Ryan (33:28):
You've been in a weird mood all day actually.
Yeah, huh, sometimes I don't.
I get this vibe like you're not, like you don't like me right
now or something what.
Yeah, like earlier today I waslike I feel like this guy was
like fucking pissed being aroundme.
Myke (33:40):
No, I swear to god huh, yeah, today you got that the
whole time before we went tolunch.
Yeah, weird.
No, it wasn't like that at all.
Now there are some days when Icome in and you're like trying
to overly be positive to whereit comes across, kind of like
you're really trying.
I'm like why am I so annoyed bythis?
(34:03):
you're just trying to have agood mood and then be in good
spirits and yeah, but me goingall out is like you're level
three yeah, it's true, no, no,look, I'm arguably the more
annoying of the two, but I thinkit's because normally when I
see you in the morning, nearlyevery morning, you're like mid
first coffee, oh yeah, andyou're kind of like, hey, man
(34:27):
drinking this coffee.
So when I come in, you're like,hey, how we doing today,
partner, I'm like shut the fuckup, give me 10 minutes of like
boring ryan you know, good lord,you make me sound like my.
My average temperature is like adeadbeat salesman or something
(34:50):
dude, I mean most, yeah, mostmornings you're just like hey
man, hey, what's up?
You know, most of the time it'sme going.
Hey partner, all right, youknow, oh shit until next time,
spray it up.
Ryan (35:06):
This was random shit, just like an hour long fucking
podcast terrible.
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