April 3, 2025 • 29 mins
The buttery popcorn and makeup accord of Jean-Paul Gaultier's Le Male Elixir Absolu takes center stage as Myke and Ryan work through their initial skepticism about yet another "elixir" release. Their breakdown reveals a fragrance that defies expectations – sweet, slightly salty, and reminiscent of the lipstick accord found in Dior Homme. Despite one scathing online review claiming it "smells like sperm," our hosts find something genuinely appealing in this sophisticated designer offering.
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Ryan (00:03):
hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the
cologne podcast.
Myke (00:06):
I'm mike, I'm ryan.
We're two best friends.
We're going on a fragrancejourney and, if you haven't
noticed, we're smelling brandnew fragrances, giving you
uneducated opinions and, if youhaven't noticed it yet, you just
got a second episode.
This way, we're just like hey,you know what, fuck it, let's
get them yeah, I mean, I thinkwe kind of want to do this more
and we're not promising anything.
Calm the fuck down.
But listen.
Please calm down.
(00:26):
It's something that we arehighly interested in doing is
increasing the volume.
We're going to say more work,yes, yeah, because, as you guys
know, we have no life, no dayjobs or anything.
We're just straight up onlypodcasting.
That's how huge this thing is.
Don't let him lie to you.
(00:48):
We're begging for fucking moneyon the road.
Some have called us the JoeRogans of fragrances.
Yes, some people.
Yeah, our moms.
What is the full name of thisfragrance?
I feel like people are gettingfucking wild with elixirs now.
Ryan (01:05):
Yeah, this is Jean-Paul Gaultier's Le Mans Elixir
Absolute.
Yeah, and yeah, let's have thatquick discussion before you
read us a bad review over there.
Okay.
Myke (01:15):
Well, you don't know, I could have picked a good one.
You could have picked a goodone.
Okay, I never, but I could have.
Ryan (01:20):
Do?
We feel like it's getting alittle trivial now Because we
just did an episode on Aqua DejoElixir.
Hope you guys enjoyed that one.
We'll give you our one nightstand review of that here in
just a minute.
I'm sure you're all pumped forthat.
And we got this one.
And then we have the Azaraone's even more nutty.
It's like Azara wanted by night.
Two men, one woman.
(01:40):
Absolute Elixir edition.
Yeah, menage a trois.
Yeah, it's.
It's getting nutty with thenames, guys.
Myke (01:48):
It really is.
They're running out of ways tobe like.
This is another elixir, butit's even more.
It's an absolute elixir, yeah,I feel like it.
Ryan (01:55):
It gives them that get out of jail free card of actually
coming up with a cool name fortheir fragrance.
They can just go.
Myke (02:00):
Oh, lamar, the perform elixir right yes, look, you guys
know we're fans of Kajal, forsure.
They're great people andthere's some great fragrances.
I like that.
When they went to do somethingfor Lamar Exactly, they didn't
just go Lamar Elixir, yeah,because he was even saying we
(02:21):
thought about that, we wanted todo.
You know, it's a very popularfragrance, it's a beloved
fragrance.
How do we take it up a notch?
How do we give the people more?
And instead of just doing anelixir or higher concentration,
they were like let's tell moreof the story, yeah.
And now that I see companiesthat are just kind of doing that
, we have something to point toand go.
(02:43):
You could have done it this way, absolutely.
You that are just kind of doingthat we have something to point
to and go.
You could have done it this way, absolutely.
Ryan (02:48):
You could have made it better, but instead you just
slapped on another one.
We'll see, because the personwho perfumed this has been a
part of this ever since FrancisCurgeon handed over the keys,
and that's Quentin.
Bish, he's done the Le ParfumRight.
He did the Le Mans Elixir.
He's done this one, yeah.
So he's had his hands in acouple of these, and those
aren't bad ones.
Myke (03:07):
Quinny the Bish.
Yeah Well, I do have a negativereview.
Oh shocker.
From.
Ryan (03:13):
Shattuck12.
I feel like you've readShattuck before on this podcast
Probably.
I'm almost positive.
Myke (03:19):
Well, this is what he has to say.
I'm someone who's tried it andit's super bad.
Here's why I picked this.
He said straight up it smellslike sperm.
Okay, I just I'm going to havea hard time believing that.
Ryan (03:41):
We won't say it here, but you were saying.
Myke (03:43):
A certain fragrance reminded you of that yeah, I
sure was just a couple days ago.
Ryan (03:50):
Yeah, ironic huh, yeah, and here we are again.
Myke (03:53):
What are these designer, you know, fragrance houses doing
to try to?
They're trying to get us intothe bedroom and do very naughty
things.
Ryan (04:05):
Well, before we get into this Lamar Elixir Absolute,
we've got to give you that onenice standard view of that
fragrance that me and Mikereally bonded over, and that
would be Giorgio Armani's aquadigio elixir hit the music, todd
yeah one night stand review.
(04:28):
Well, mike, after lying in bed,yeah, with a bucket next to you,
what do you have to say afterwaking up, giving yourself away
to georgio armani's?
To say, after waking up, givingyourself away to giorgio
armani's aquaticio elixir, didyou wake up with regret?
(04:49):
Did you have to do a walk of?
Myke (04:49):
shame it actually got better.
Shocked, okay, becausetypically, or at least with the
profumo, yeah it was like goodup front and then it got aquatic
, and that's when I was like Ilike it for a little bit and
then I hate it.
This was the opposite.
I like hated it for hours andhours and hours and then on the
deep, dark, dry down of it itwasn't that bad.
(05:10):
Oh, that's, that's great tohear.
Yeah, it did change.
I mean, the day that we sprayedit we went over to a mutual
friend's house, we played pool,pool, we had cigars.
Ryan (05:22):
And I laced up, by the way .
Yeah, you did Like unabashed,unapologetic.
You're going to smell me from amile away, Mm-hmm and nothing,
yeah nobody said a thing, mm-mm,if they did, it was behind my
back.
Myke (05:38):
I mean, we did have wings that night.
Ryan (05:40):
Oh, we had some hellacious cookies Best chocolate chip
cookies I've ever had in my life.
Man Fresh out the oven.
They were thin and soft.
Myke (05:50):
And I was drinking a hard seltzer and I said if this was a
freaking bottle of milk.
I was like you boys have to putme to bed with these cookies
because, oh my God.
Ryan (06:01):
We also smoked on some cigars.
Myke (06:03):
I was kind of a first stogies yeah, we went uh
schwarzenegger on them, yeah wegot to play pool with a doctor.
Ryan (06:11):
Okay, guys, yeah, if you can't tell you jealous, which,
by the way, quick caveats, allthat georgio armani aquadesio
elixir is garbage.
But, um, yeah, nobody's countedon you the whole night.
Uh, quick caveat to that youknow one of the things that we
left after hanging out when hewas a good friend ours, by the
way but it's like the guy couldpretty much buy and sell our
(06:33):
freaking broke asses.
But it's like doctors generally, just they don't care to show
off.
You know what they're doing.
Myke (06:39):
Good, you know what I mean , yeah, I mean at least the one
we know yeah, it's just like.
Ryan (06:44):
He's just like, uh, he's cool with, like, the pool table
he got for free.
Myke (06:49):
Yeah, exactly he was like he was kind of bummed that he
had to spend so much to get itleveled properly, which I mean
you kind of have to on those.
But yeah, he's just, he's notthe guy that's flaunting, you
know found out, his everydaydrive is a 25-year-old vehicle.
And that happens a lot too.
It's kind of like even what'shis name?
Oh, what do they call him?
The Minnesota miracle worker?
(07:10):
What's his name, tell me.
Ryan (07:12):
like what's his name?
Billy the Kid or something.
What is this?
Minnesota?
Who?
Myke (07:15):
No, it's, oh gosh.
He's the billionaire fromberkshire hathaway.
Oh god, I don't fucking know.
Warren buffett, oh okay, hedrives like an old camry or some
shit like that eats freakingmcdonald's for breakfast
probably, yeah, and he's like ifthe market's down then I don't
get my extra biscuit, orsomething like that.
I mean, it's like we figuredthis out because one year we had
(07:37):
a really good year.
That was a fun year yeah, andall the things that we had on
our list of wants.
As soon as we had a giantinflux of money and we could get
those things, we, yeah, kind ofstopped wanting them yeah, we
did.
We didn't have any desire forthem and then, as soon as the
money was gone, we were like,man, I want these things again
it just shows you guys like usas typical americans and anybody
(07:59):
listening.
Ryan (08:00):
Stop living above your means and stop.
I'm not trying to make this apreach here but you know what?
I mean, it's like everybody,you just want the next best
thing.
It's like it's okay to justexist and be around friends and
family and have a good time.
Myke (08:14):
Yeah, you don't need all these things to prove to other
people that you've made it.
You just have to believe ityourself.
And I think that's what, a lotof times, what we're trying to
do.
We think that, gettingvalidation from other people,
that they recognize that we'resuccessful, we'll finally
believe it.
We'll finally believe thatwe're happy.
Ryan (08:32):
Yeah, there you go.
And hey, watch that Mike's beenwearing.
It's under $100.
He gets compliments on it allthe time.
Myke (08:39):
Yeah, and you'll wear a nicer watch and people will be
like, yeah, I don't care aboutthat piece of shit.
My that is 78 watch is prettybadass.
Ryan (08:47):
You know it just shows you and I'm telling you there's
something to it.
You don't.
Nobody can see a rolex logounless they're right up on it.
Okay, there's a reason whythese videos are showing fakes,
and they got to do it undermicroscopes okay.
Myke (08:59):
The point that we're trying to say is the elixir
version of Acqua Di Gio is trash.
Ryan (09:06):
Yeah, take it from me.
I am a Acqua Di Gio aficionado.
I was born in it, raised by it,molded by it.
Yeah, I've gotten hundreds ofcompliments wearing this
throughout its line.
Okay, the EDT, the Profumo,profumo, the parfum, all great
versions.
Yeah, profundo, I know there'ssome people out there y'all love
(09:27):
that shit side, but the elixirtotal letdown to me doesn't even
smell like what aqua dejoshould smell like, like the true
dna of it.
Myke (09:35):
I did not like it yeah, and you have like a little bit
of a bottle left to the.
I think it's the parfum yeah, inthe car and on the way over
there we were smelling.
We were going like see, this isbadass compared to even this,
and I know there are some fansout there, but it says something
that we decided to spend thesix minutes of our one night
stand review talking about.
(09:57):
You know, you guys working onyour mental health and trying
not to.
You know, completely commityourself to consumerism instead
of gloating about the dry downof ADG elixir yeah, it's bad it
wasn't great.
Ryan (10:11):
Although that's purely opinion, it's subjective, go
sample it.
It's at Dillard's or whatever.
Myke (10:15):
Macy's, wherever you're at .
I have a feeling that Shattuckwould probably think that
smelled equally like seminalfluids.
Ryan (10:23):
I sure did okay, let's really get into what we're here
for today.
By the way, me and mike didsome nicotine for that.
That was fun.
He taught me into it.
My brain's on fire.
But let's do jean-paul godier'slamar elixir absolute.
Hit it up.
(10:43):
You want to start it first.
You start it first.
You think I did the.
Aquadesio first.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I kind oflike to see your reaction
sometimes.
Myke (10:48):
First and we're off, oh no .
Ryan (10:53):
And we're not.
Is the Atomizer broke on it?
Let's see, here we go.
You're going to have to.
You just sprayed all over yourgoddamn mic.
Myke (11:07):
Yeah, that's so while I'm talking, I can smell it too.
Ryan (11:11):
This piece of shit.
Give it a little twist.
Absolute piece of fucking shit.
God damn it.
I took the fucking there we go.
Myke (11:23):
Do you want daddy to do it ?
Maybe, dude, I think I shouldjust dob it on me.
No, we saw how that went lasttime.
Give me a couple more on there.
Ryan (11:32):
Here have the card.
It's loud, it's real loud man.
Myke (11:44):
This kind of has like a your own vibe to it.
I don't know if I get that yetI'm shocked.
Ryan (11:50):
You don't get that.
Maybe subtly, yeah, I couldprobably see that.
Yeah, but what are we reallysmelling?
Mike, I'm really referencestuff that nobody knows anything
about.
Myke (11:59):
I'm sorry I had to do it.
No, it's okay you're.
I mean, you're totally right.
It smells like, uh, somebodytook some popcorn and mixed some
makeup into it.
It's kind of salty and sweetand then it has, like it's kind
of makeupy type smell, what?
Ryan (12:14):
a weird and accurate description.
It kind of makes me not likeyou because I'm not big on like
having like a buttery oh yeah,savory flavor to me over here.
Myke (12:22):
Okay, I've talked about this a hundred because I'm not
big on like having like abuttery oh yeah, savory flavor
to me over here.
Okay, I've talked about this ahundred times.
I'm gonna keep talking about itbecause I think it's kind of a
revelation.
Okay, vanessa van edwards sheis part of a group who studies
human behavior, all right, andthis is one of the things that
you've heard me talk about inthe past, and she's talked about
fragrances and that wascomplimented.
(12:44):
Fragrance on a person was thatthey literally took a popcorn
bag and rubbed it on their neck.
That's it.
Yes, and having that sort ofsavory, salty type smell edible
smell almost is enticing and Ican see why it's in here.
Huh, okay, now I'm just sayingI could see where this could go
(13:05):
somewhere.
Ryan (13:05):
He is half right on.
It does smell a little bit ofsweet, a little bit of that kind
of popcorn vibe which is kindof weird, Like kettle corn
almost.
I'd say more of that thanbutter.
Myke (13:16):
There is a little saltiness to it, but not in like
the aquatic saltiness and Ihalfway get the makeup vibe.
Ryan (13:22):
Yeah, that is a really weird scent.
Myke (13:26):
Huh, that makeup vibe is why I previously mentioned Dior
Homme Sorry to name drop,because immediately that's the
fragrance I think about.
Yeah, this, this ain't too bad.
Ryan (13:38):
Yeah, I don't get seminal fluids.
I don't either At all.
Who is that Skitty?
What's his name?
Yes, skittatic, shattuck,shattuck.
Yeah, he's a moron.
Myke (13:53):
Well, we don't know what his fluids could smell like.
Ryan (13:57):
They smell like this and he's the bottle of that shit.
Yeah, no joke, it's prettypleasant.
I know this is.
I actually don't know this.
I was gonna say it's unisex, butno, typically designers don't
lean that hard into making aunisex type fragrance we're
about to find out, because I'mliterally about to look if this
slow piece of shit phone wouldactually load it up.
(14:17):
It is for men, but I dare I saythat this could be unisex.
Yes, I get.
I get why you're saying that.
Got on the tester strip.
By the way, it's likeeverything we described, but
like the hintiest of hint of.
Myke (14:33):
Like bubbly, like bubble gum right, yeah, the sweetness
underneath.
You know I was prepared to justbitch and moan that this was
just, you know, kicking the candown the road, but something
about this makes it feel alittle different.
Ryan (14:48):
It's definitely your alley , by the way.
Myke (14:50):
Yeah, this is your vibe.
Ryan (14:52):
I could get down with this .
Hmm, let me hit you with alittle price and popularity.
I would love that.
I would love that Price for 4.2fluid ounces.
That's a big fucking bottle.
Yeah, $175.
Myke (15:11):
Huh, I feel like that's a decent deal no-transcript For
more cost on elixirs I'm goingto get you a drink there, buddy.
Ryan (15:28):
Yeah, hold on, guys, sorry .
Myke (15:29):
I think what he was saying as he was throwing up a lung,
was Aquadigio Elixir, which wasa 50 mil bottle for 160.
Ryan (15:37):
Yeah, Same price 1.7 ounces.
Yes.
Myke (15:41):
That is just and this is 125 mil, so it's more than
double for similar price 1.7ounces yes, that is just.
Ryan (15:48):
And this is 125 mil, so it's more than double for
similar price.
Fucking nuts, really pretty.
I like it.
I do like it.
I'm pleasantly surprised.
It's really pretty.
Parts of me I'm smelling it andI'm going I shouldn't.
My brain's telling me Ishouldn't like it.
I would kind of not really vibesomething like this.
But there is something quiteunique about it.
I really do think it kind ofmeets what you're talking about,
has a little bit of all thatkind of wrapped up in there, so
(16:10):
it does make it really unique.
Oh, quinny the Bish, you know,maybe it's a date night
fragrance that the guy took someyoung lady out to.
Okay, it's very sweet, smellinglady out too.
Okay, it's very sweet smelling.
Maybe you're sharing a bucketof popcorn, maybe at the theater
, and you can smell her makeupon her, maybe because she's
smooching on you, yeah andyou're like you better quit it.
Myke (16:32):
I'm trying to catch the second half of this new robert
eggers film it's pleasantlysurprising.
Ryan (16:41):
It's good.
I mean, I'm not the type of guythat's going to overhype this.
This is not my vibe, this isall you so like in your
wheelhouse.
I mean, is this a contender foranything?
Are you really vibing?
Myke (16:53):
with it.
I wouldn't say I'm reallyvibing.
I appreciate it.
I'm surprised at how much I dolike it.
Yeah, I am leaning more towardsfresher fragrances right now.
This is very like rich, but itis nice man that tester strip is
getting good, though, real good.
Ryan (17:12):
Okay, who's wearing it?
I kind of described a scenario,yeah, of what the fragrance
smells like.
But, genuinely, when is theappropriate time to wear
something so sweet and delicious, seductive and seminal.
Myke (17:30):
Um, I agree with you.
I think this is very datenighty.
I just can't imagine you'regoing like hey man, I need to
make a run to sam's, you want,want to join me, and I'm like
hold on, let me throw on this.
Ryan (17:44):
Elixir.
Myke (17:45):
Absolue?
Yeah, I can't imagine doingthat, but I could see if, just
depending on how big the throwis for me and this is only a
personal preference but if it'stoo loud, I wouldn't wear it on
a date night Because I thinkwe've got that backwards, guys.
I feel like on a date nightbecause I think we've got that
(18:05):
backwards, guys, I feel like ona date night you should probably
want fragrances that are goingto live closer to your skin,
because if anybody's going toget up on you and be smooching
around, you really don't want tobe choking them out.
I can kind of agree with that.
I mean, if they're like youknow, ryan, look, I'd really
like to kiss on you right now,but but I can't breathe, you'd
be pretty bummed.
Ryan (18:24):
I've never had that issue, by the way, guys, ever in my 40
plus odd years of life.
Myke (18:29):
Yeah Again, because you don't really have anybody trying
to smooch up on you either.
Ryan (18:36):
It is pretty damn good.
This is definitely date night.
You don't wear this to theoffice, yeah, unless you're
trying to hit on somebody andbreak a few rules.
Myke (18:45):
But yeah, kind of like we saw at lunch today.
Ryan (18:48):
Oh my, God, oh God.
So we're Look, this is a smallEast Texas town, y'all, yeah,
and we're eating at kind of alocal cafe.
Myke (18:58):
There's a diner here.
It's pretty much a diner here.
Ryan (19:01):
It's pretty much a diner.
I'm really not a big fan of theplace.
It's all right.
Yeah, my brother thinks it'stits.
He thinks it's incredible.
Myke (19:09):
Because it's like we'll only go to it if everywhere else
is closed.
Ryan (19:14):
Which is today.
Myke (19:14):
Mondays everything's closed.
Everything's closed.
Obviously, you guys are hearingthis on a Wednesday but being
recorded on a monday,everything's closed with this
diner.
We go in for lunch and there'sa pretty young lady that's
serving us and this is how smallit is, literally in front of
our table.
Is the booth or is the podiumthat people walk up?
Ryan (19:34):
to to be seated.
Myke (19:35):
we're like literally two feet from this thing, and so
she's taking people and seatingthem and then turning around and
waiting on us, and then rightnext to that is the counter
where you go pay, and I guessthis guy.
Ryan (19:47):
He had bought us food.
He picked it up.
It was a pickup order.
Myke (19:50):
Oh yeah, like to go, okay, yeah.
And so he's standing there atthe counter and she's you know,
I guess marking tallies on whattables are filled and that stuff
, yeah, and he walks over andhit him with his pickup line.
Do you remember me?
Ryan (20:07):
oh, yeah, I think so, yeah he'd been standing there for
like almost a good solid fiveminutes.
She's like she was she kind ofpersonally oh do I need to get
you anything, sir?
Like yeah, I'm thinking he'slike y'all forgot my goddamn
silverware in here.
What the hell?
Yeah, and it was nope, it wasuh, hey, do you remember me?
She's like uh, yeah, he's likeI worked over in the other town,
(20:31):
over by herself.
Oh, okay, then he gave her theold.
What time you take your breakat?
Myke (20:37):
she's like you probably won't be around.
It's after one.
Maybe we'll see each otheraround, maybe.
Yeah, have a great day, okay.
Ryan (20:51):
The secondhand cringe that me and Mike developed was man.
It was in stratosphere.
Myke (20:58):
Look, if the guy walked up looking like Hemsworth or
something, it'd be a differentstory.
He wouldn't have had to havegone.
Excuse me, miss Do you rememberme?
Ryan (21:15):
Hey, young fellows out there, look, I'm not a looker,
I'm not a ladies man, but I canassure you, if you've got to ask
anybody, especially a youngwoman, if they remember you,
it's over.
Yeah, don't even pursue it anyfurther, just get your fucking
to-go order and go eat in thetruck.
Myke (21:33):
Or if you have to wave them down to get their attention
, to then make your pass.
Ryan (21:38):
just wait, Look some guys got the riz and some don't.
Myke (21:43):
I'm one of those guys that don't.
Ryan (21:44):
So I know where I stand.
I don't go in trying to likethrow down and pick up on
somebody.
It ain't going to work that way.
Myke (21:50):
Yeah, that's a lot of rizzless attitudes around here.
But that was rough, it wasbrutal, and I don't think he was
wearing this elixir absolute.
No, he wouldn't.
And it don't think he waswearing this.
Ryan (22:02):
Elixir Absolute?
No, he wouldn't, and itwouldn't have helped either.
Myke (22:06):
One thing I think there's a little confession we need to
make right here is that we kindof did peek at the notes before
the episode and there were someinteresting notes that they're
adding to this fragrance that wegot excited about.
Do you think you smell any ofthose?
I don't.
Ryan (22:21):
So the note that we were really excited for was two big
juicy plums.
Myke (22:25):
Oh, they were beautiful beautiful plums and we were like
bluish, purple, hue.
I actually kind of can suss itout a little bit if I'm looking
for it, I can't and it isgetting really makeupy, by the
way, on the tester.
Yeah, for sure, yeah, you mightwant to watch out, because if
you wear this on a date nightand she gets close, she might be
like, hey, you've been kissingup on her.
Ryan (22:46):
Why you smell like you're another lady I don't know what
demographic of a woman that is,but she's interesting for sure.
Myke (22:54):
Are you gonna skip it, sample it or buy it?
Ryan (22:57):
you're gonna do right well , mr bish, this is actually a
pretty damn good fragrance.
Yeah, it is just not mywheelhouse.
This is.
This is not for the rizzless.
Okay, if you're rizzless, donot put this fragrance on.
It's not it.
So this is a polite skip fromme.
Myke (23:18):
It smells great I'm shocked as good as it smells.
I feel like it should be asample for you.
You should want to try it.
Maybe I will.
Maybe I will.
Ryan (23:27):
It is doing the makeup thing.
But I just feel like Dior HomeIntense or Dior Home Intense
absolutely crushes that vibe ofmakeup Lipstick in a makeup bag
yeah, and there's something sexyabout that and you can kind of
get it somewhat kind of cheap.
So it's like, I don't know,that's when it's hard to pick
over that pick something likethis.
(23:47):
So I feel like this is a skipfor me.
If I sampled I don't think Iwould fall in love with it hmm,
it's a sample for me, for sure,I am interested in it.
Myke (23:55):
I want to see if, wearing it around people, they would
recognize it as oh, this makes,this makes sense.
This is you, this feels likeyou, you know that sort of thing
.
Yeah, because I'm kind ofgetting to a point now where
I've got the nice little mixwhere people go oh, this smells
like you, yeah, and I thinkthat's what we all kind of want,
right?
Oh, yeah, for sure there's afew guys out there that they
(24:18):
want to wear something differentevery single day of the you
know the year.
Yeah, I'm not that way.
Yeah, I'm the same way.
I just kind of want a couple ofyou know, man, it's really hot
outside.
I'll wear this thing.
wu long cha aqua dejo yeah no,it's a nice cool summer breeze.
I'm gonna wear this, you know,aqua decio wu long.
(24:41):
No, there I'm going insidious,layered with, straight to heaven
.
Ryan (24:46):
Yeah, sometimes that cool breeze got to get that red
tobacco on it, dude, not in thesummer.
Well, you might, I would, Iwouldn't care.
Yeah, this is a polite skip forme.
Myke (24:59):
It's not a skip for me, it's definitely a sample.
I want to try it on.
I want to wear it around seewhat people say.
They go oh, you smell good ornot.
I'm doing a lot of like voicestoday.
Yeah, they're all different.
Yeah, they're all bad.
Ryan (25:20):
You know I think we're fixing to follow this up.
I'm sorry.
Do a couple of episodes here.
For the main podcast we had aPatreon.
We have a tier called FiresideChat in our Patreon.
Yeah, we've done two lives nowbut in that tier we do like a
live sit down just kind ofvibing out chat.
Myke (25:36):
Yeah, people jump on.
They can talk about certainthings.
We'll have people postquestions, we'll talk about it,
but this previous episode we didsomething special.
Ryan (25:45):
Yeah, one of our Patreon members who's been there for
quite a while and been alistener of the show forever,
goes by MK on there.
He had sent us four huge assdecants, yeah, all just with a
number on each one of them.
They were, and he had like aseparate thing to the side that
we could open up and see whatthey were called.
But he wanted us to blind smellthem, right.
So we had no influence, nobottle influence, no name brand,
(26:07):
nothing, yeah.
And they were all vacuum sealed.
Yeah, all of them vacuum sealed.
They ended up all being kind ofniche fragrances.
One was a discontinued, uh,christian dior, yeah.
Two of them were rojas, yeah,and then one was a creed
fragrance right.
Myke (26:21):
So he sent us these decants and closed little
envelopes of them numbered andthen for the fireside chat we
went through, we smelled them,we talked to him, we actually
brought him on the live and hedid the fun thing of like
reading the notes and telling usthe price of each one and we
(26:42):
were trying to guess.
And then people in the audiencewere trying to guess and a
couple got a few right justbased on the notes and what we
were kind of talking about withfragrances.
Ryan (26:51):
We have another tier called the meaty clacker tier.
It's only one slot and one guyright now holds it and he read
the notes.
Mk read the notes of one ofthese fragrances.
He sent Just the notes.
Mk read the notes of one ofthese fragrances.
He sent just the notes, yeah,and the guy said 100, it's this
fragrance, and it was.
I was like how do you know thatfrom just the notes?
(27:11):
Yeah, he knew for a fact, noquestion about it.
Myke (27:14):
I mean honestly that guy.
He deserves to be king clackerfor real.
He is one of the guys that youjust he just knows his shit and
he's a great resource to otherpeople in the patreon.
He really has been great toeveryone in there.
Ryan (27:28):
So absolutely all of our patreon members are really
badass all this to say.
I know this sounds kind of likea pitch and whatever it is, I
fuck me right, but seriously gocheck it out.
I we've gotten plenty ofmessages recently uh, one from
another one Just how much theyhave enjoyed the community.
They say us that we created,but that's not the truth.
(27:48):
If I'm being real, we startedit, but really the members
themselves have actually madethis Patreon have its value, to
me at least.
Myke (27:57):
Yeah, it's a nice little corner in the fragrance
community, whatever.
That's really drama-free, a lotof encouragement and a lot of
fun in there.
And so these four fragrances onthis episode.
We smelled them and we kind ofsaid, you know, part of the
initial problem with our formaton the podcast is we do a lot of
(28:20):
blind rating but then we don'treally get to do a ton of
wearing on these fragrances.
And so we've decided we're goingto pick one or two of the four
that we did that initial episodeon and we'll actually do quite
a bit of wearings because hesent us, you know, seven mil-ish
of each one and we're going towear them a little bit and then
(28:40):
we'll do an episode and post itout there.
But that's a huge thanks to MKfor shooting these out and
honestly making such a uniquefun experience that we got to do
live with that group.
So don't worry if you're not apatron now and you want to be a
part of, like, a member of thatgroup.
The replays are all still theretoo, so you can watch the live
(29:01):
recordings that we've done.
Ryan (29:07):
And it's all video.
Yeah, yeah.
So there you go.
There's our spill.
Yeah, you should check it out.
We got a lot of fun stuff goingon, and if you don't like that,
it's okay, and until next time,spray it up, y'all.
hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the
cologne podcast.
Myke (00:06):
I'm mike, I'm ryan.
We're two best friends.
We're going on a fragrancejourney and, if you haven't
noticed, we're smelling brandnew fragrances, giving you
uneducated opinions and, if youhaven't noticed it yet, you just
got a second episode.
This way, we're just like hey,you know what, fuck it, let's
get them yeah, I mean, I thinkwe kind of want to do this more
and we're not promising anything.
Calm the fuck down.
But listen.
Please calm down.
(00:26):
It's something that we arehighly interested in doing is
increasing the volume.
We're going to say more work,yes, yeah, because, as you guys
know, we have no life, no dayjobs or anything.
We're just straight up onlypodcasting.
That's how huge this thing is.
Don't let him lie to you.
(00:48):
We're begging for fucking moneyon the road.
Some have called us the JoeRogans of fragrances.
Yes, some people.
Yeah, our moms.
What is the full name of thisfragrance?
I feel like people are gettingfucking wild with elixirs now.
Ryan (01:05):
Yeah, this is Jean-Paul Gaultier's Le Mans Elixir
Absolute.
Yeah, and yeah, let's have thatquick discussion before you
read us a bad review over there.
Okay.
Myke (01:15):
Well, you don't know, I could have picked a good one.
You could have picked a goodone.
Okay, I never, but I could have.
Ryan (01:20):
Do?
We feel like it's getting alittle trivial now Because we
just did an episode on Aqua DejoElixir.
Hope you guys enjoyed that one.
We'll give you our one nightstand review of that here in
just a minute.
I'm sure you're all pumped forthat.
And we got this one.
And then we have the Azaraone's even more nutty.
It's like Azara wanted by night.
Two men, one woman.
(01:40):
Absolute Elixir edition.
Yeah, menage a trois.
Yeah, it's.
It's getting nutty with thenames, guys.
Myke (01:48):
It really is.
They're running out of ways tobe like.
This is another elixir, butit's even more.
It's an absolute elixir, yeah,I feel like it.
Ryan (01:55):
It gives them that get out of jail free card of actually
coming up with a cool name fortheir fragrance.
They can just go.
Myke (02:00):
Oh, lamar, the perform elixir right yes, look, you guys
know we're fans of Kajal, forsure.
They're great people andthere's some great fragrances.
I like that.
When they went to do somethingfor Lamar Exactly, they didn't
just go Lamar Elixir, yeah,because he was even saying we
(02:21):
thought about that, we wanted todo.
You know, it's a very popularfragrance, it's a beloved
fragrance.
How do we take it up a notch?
How do we give the people more?
And instead of just doing anelixir or higher concentration,
they were like let's tell moreof the story, yeah.
And now that I see companiesthat are just kind of doing that
, we have something to point toand go.
(02:43):
You could have done it this way, absolutely.
You that are just kind of doingthat we have something to point
to and go.
You could have done it this way, absolutely.
Ryan (02:48):
You could have made it better, but instead you just
slapped on another one.
We'll see, because the personwho perfumed this has been a
part of this ever since FrancisCurgeon handed over the keys,
and that's Quentin.
Bish, he's done the Le ParfumRight.
He did the Le Mans Elixir.
He's done this one, yeah.
So he's had his hands in acouple of these, and those
aren't bad ones.
Myke (03:07):
Quinny the Bish.
Yeah Well, I do have a negativereview.
Oh shocker.
From.
Ryan (03:13):
Shattuck12.
I feel like you've readShattuck before on this podcast
Probably.
I'm almost positive.
Myke (03:19):
Well, this is what he has to say.
I'm someone who's tried it andit's super bad.
Here's why I picked this.
He said straight up it smellslike sperm.
Okay, I just I'm going to havea hard time believing that.
Ryan (03:41):
We won't say it here, but you were saying.
Myke (03:43):
A certain fragrance reminded you of that yeah, I
sure was just a couple days ago.
Ryan (03:50):
Yeah, ironic huh, yeah, and here we are again.
Myke (03:53):
What are these designer, you know, fragrance houses doing
to try to?
They're trying to get us intothe bedroom and do very naughty
things.
Ryan (04:05):
Well, before we get into this Lamar Elixir Absolute,
we've got to give you that onenice standard view of that
fragrance that me and Mikereally bonded over, and that
would be Giorgio Armani's aquadigio elixir hit the music, todd
yeah one night stand review.
(04:28):
Well, mike, after lying in bed,yeah, with a bucket next to you,
what do you have to say afterwaking up, giving yourself away
to georgio armani's?
To say, after waking up, givingyourself away to giorgio
armani's aquaticio elixir, didyou wake up with regret?
(04:49):
Did you have to do a walk of?
Myke (04:49):
shame it actually got better.
Shocked, okay, becausetypically, or at least with the
profumo, yeah it was like goodup front and then it got aquatic
, and that's when I was like Ilike it for a little bit and
then I hate it.
This was the opposite.
I like hated it for hours andhours and hours and then on the
deep, dark, dry down of it itwasn't that bad.
(05:10):
Oh, that's, that's great tohear.
Yeah, it did change.
I mean, the day that we sprayedit we went over to a mutual
friend's house, we played pool,pool, we had cigars.
Ryan (05:22):
And I laced up, by the way .
Yeah, you did Like unabashed,unapologetic.
You're going to smell me from amile away, Mm-hmm and nothing,
yeah nobody said a thing, mm-mm,if they did, it was behind my
back.
Myke (05:38):
I mean, we did have wings that night.
Ryan (05:40):
Oh, we had some hellacious cookies Best chocolate chip
cookies I've ever had in my life.
Man Fresh out the oven.
They were thin and soft.
Myke (05:50):
And I was drinking a hard seltzer and I said if this was a
freaking bottle of milk.
I was like you boys have to putme to bed with these cookies
because, oh my God.
Ryan (06:01):
We also smoked on some cigars.
Myke (06:03):
I was kind of a first stogies yeah, we went uh
schwarzenegger on them, yeah wegot to play pool with a doctor.
Ryan (06:11):
Okay, guys, yeah, if you can't tell you jealous, which,
by the way, quick caveats, allthat georgio armani aquadesio
elixir is garbage.
But, um, yeah, nobody's countedon you the whole night.
Uh, quick caveat to that youknow one of the things that we
left after hanging out when hewas a good friend ours, by the
way but it's like the guy couldpretty much buy and sell our
(06:33):
freaking broke asses.
But it's like doctors generally, just they don't care to show
off.
You know what they're doing.
Myke (06:39):
Good, you know what I mean , yeah, I mean at least the one
we know yeah, it's just like.
Ryan (06:44):
He's just like, uh, he's cool with, like, the pool table
he got for free.
Myke (06:49):
Yeah, exactly he was like he was kind of bummed that he
had to spend so much to get itleveled properly, which I mean
you kind of have to on those.
But yeah, he's just, he's notthe guy that's flaunting, you
know found out, his everydaydrive is a 25-year-old vehicle.
And that happens a lot too.
It's kind of like even what'shis name?
Oh, what do they call him?
The Minnesota miracle worker?
(07:10):
What's his name, tell me.
Ryan (07:12):
like what's his name?
Billy the Kid or something.
What is this?
Minnesota?
Who?
Myke (07:15):
No, it's, oh gosh.
He's the billionaire fromberkshire hathaway.
Oh god, I don't fucking know.
Warren buffett, oh okay, hedrives like an old camry or some
shit like that eats freakingmcdonald's for breakfast
probably, yeah, and he's like ifthe market's down then I don't
get my extra biscuit, orsomething like that.
I mean, it's like we figuredthis out because one year we had
(07:37):
a really good year.
That was a fun year yeah, andall the things that we had on
our list of wants.
As soon as we had a giantinflux of money and we could get
those things, we, yeah, kind ofstopped wanting them yeah, we
did.
We didn't have any desire forthem and then, as soon as the
money was gone, we were like,man, I want these things again
it just shows you guys like usas typical americans and anybody
(07:59):
listening.
Ryan (08:00):
Stop living above your means and stop.
I'm not trying to make this apreach here but you know what?
I mean, it's like everybody,you just want the next best
thing.
It's like it's okay to justexist and be around friends and
family and have a good time.
Myke (08:14):
Yeah, you don't need all these things to prove to other
people that you've made it.
You just have to believe ityourself.
And I think that's what, a lotof times, what we're trying to
do.
We think that, gettingvalidation from other people,
that they recognize that we'resuccessful, we'll finally
believe it.
We'll finally believe thatwe're happy.
Ryan (08:32):
Yeah, there you go.
And hey, watch that Mike's beenwearing.
It's under $100.
He gets compliments on it allthe time.
Myke (08:39):
Yeah, and you'll wear a nicer watch and people will be
like, yeah, I don't care aboutthat piece of shit.
My that is 78 watch is prettybadass.
Ryan (08:47):
You know it just shows you and I'm telling you there's
something to it.
You don't.
Nobody can see a rolex logounless they're right up on it.
Okay, there's a reason whythese videos are showing fakes,
and they got to do it undermicroscopes okay.
Myke (08:59):
The point that we're trying to say is the elixir
version of Acqua Di Gio is trash.
Ryan (09:06):
Yeah, take it from me.
I am a Acqua Di Gio aficionado.
I was born in it, raised by it,molded by it.
Yeah, I've gotten hundreds ofcompliments wearing this
throughout its line.
Okay, the EDT, the Profumo,profumo, the parfum, all great
versions.
Yeah, profundo, I know there'ssome people out there y'all love
(09:27):
that shit side, but the elixirtotal letdown to me doesn't even
smell like what aqua dejoshould smell like, like the true
dna of it.
Myke (09:35):
I did not like it yeah, and you have like a little bit
of a bottle left to the.
I think it's the parfum yeah, inthe car and on the way over
there we were smelling.
We were going like see, this isbadass compared to even this,
and I know there are some fansout there, but it says something
that we decided to spend thesix minutes of our one night
stand review talking about.
(09:57):
You know, you guys working onyour mental health and trying
not to.
You know, completely commityourself to consumerism instead
of gloating about the dry downof ADG elixir yeah, it's bad it
wasn't great.
Ryan (10:11):
Although that's purely opinion, it's subjective, go
sample it.
It's at Dillard's or whatever.
Myke (10:15):
Macy's, wherever you're at .
I have a feeling that Shattuckwould probably think that
smelled equally like seminalfluids.
Ryan (10:23):
I sure did okay, let's really get into what we're here
for today.
By the way, me and mike didsome nicotine for that.
That was fun.
He taught me into it.
My brain's on fire.
But let's do jean-paul godier'slamar elixir absolute.
Hit it up.
(10:43):
You want to start it first.
You start it first.
You think I did the.
Aquadesio first.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I kind oflike to see your reaction
sometimes.
Myke (10:48):
First and we're off, oh no .
Ryan (10:53):
And we're not.
Is the Atomizer broke on it?
Let's see, here we go.
You're going to have to.
You just sprayed all over yourgoddamn mic.
Myke (11:07):
Yeah, that's so while I'm talking, I can smell it too.
Ryan (11:11):
This piece of shit.
Give it a little twist.
Absolute piece of fucking shit.
God damn it.
I took the fucking there we go.
Myke (11:23):
Do you want daddy to do it ?
Maybe, dude, I think I shouldjust dob it on me.
No, we saw how that went lasttime.
Give me a couple more on there.
Ryan (11:32):
Here have the card.
It's loud, it's real loud man.
Myke (11:44):
This kind of has like a your own vibe to it.
I don't know if I get that yetI'm shocked.
Ryan (11:50):
You don't get that.
Maybe subtly, yeah, I couldprobably see that.
Yeah, but what are we reallysmelling?
Mike, I'm really referencestuff that nobody knows anything
about.
Myke (11:59):
I'm sorry I had to do it.
No, it's okay you're.
I mean, you're totally right.
It smells like, uh, somebodytook some popcorn and mixed some
makeup into it.
It's kind of salty and sweetand then it has, like it's kind
of makeupy type smell, what?
Ryan (12:14):
a weird and accurate description.
It kind of makes me not likeyou because I'm not big on like
having like a buttery oh yeah,savory flavor to me over here.
Myke (12:22):
Okay, I've talked about this a hundred because I'm not
big on like having like abuttery oh yeah, savory flavor
to me over here.
Okay, I've talked about this ahundred times.
I'm gonna keep talking about itbecause I think it's kind of a
revelation.
Okay, vanessa van edwards sheis part of a group who studies
human behavior, all right, andthis is one of the things that
you've heard me talk about inthe past, and she's talked about
fragrances and that wascomplimented.
(12:44):
Fragrance on a person was thatthey literally took a popcorn
bag and rubbed it on their neck.
That's it.
Yes, and having that sort ofsavory, salty type smell edible
smell almost is enticing and Ican see why it's in here.
Huh, okay, now I'm just sayingI could see where this could go
(13:05):
somewhere.
Ryan (13:05):
He is half right on.
It does smell a little bit ofsweet, a little bit of that kind
of popcorn vibe which is kindof weird, Like kettle corn
almost.
I'd say more of that thanbutter.
Myke (13:16):
There is a little saltiness to it, but not in like
the aquatic saltiness and Ihalfway get the makeup vibe.
Ryan (13:22):
Yeah, that is a really weird scent.
Myke (13:26):
Huh, that makeup vibe is why I previously mentioned Dior
Homme Sorry to name drop,because immediately that's the
fragrance I think about.
Yeah, this, this ain't too bad.
Ryan (13:38):
Yeah, I don't get seminal fluids.
I don't either At all.
Who is that Skitty?
What's his name?
Yes, skittatic, shattuck,shattuck.
Yeah, he's a moron.
Myke (13:53):
Well, we don't know what his fluids could smell like.
Ryan (13:57):
They smell like this and he's the bottle of that shit.
Yeah, no joke, it's prettypleasant.
I know this is.
I actually don't know this.
I was gonna say it's unisex, butno, typically designers don't
lean that hard into making aunisex type fragrance we're
about to find out, because I'mliterally about to look if this
slow piece of shit phone wouldactually load it up.
(14:17):
It is for men, but I dare I saythat this could be unisex.
Yes, I get.
I get why you're saying that.
Got on the tester strip.
By the way, it's likeeverything we described, but
like the hintiest of hint of.
Myke (14:33):
Like bubbly, like bubble gum right, yeah, the sweetness
underneath.
You know I was prepared to justbitch and moan that this was
just, you know, kicking the candown the road, but something
about this makes it feel alittle different.
Ryan (14:48):
It's definitely your alley , by the way.
Myke (14:50):
Yeah, this is your vibe.
Ryan (14:52):
I could get down with this .
Hmm, let me hit you with alittle price and popularity.
I would love that.
I would love that Price for 4.2fluid ounces.
That's a big fucking bottle.
Yeah, $175.
Myke (15:11):
Huh, I feel like that's a decent deal no-transcript For
more cost on elixirs I'm goingto get you a drink there, buddy.
Ryan (15:28):
Yeah, hold on, guys, sorry .
Myke (15:29):
I think what he was saying as he was throwing up a lung,
was Aquadigio Elixir, which wasa 50 mil bottle for 160.
Ryan (15:37):
Yeah, Same price 1.7 ounces.
Yes.
Myke (15:41):
That is just and this is 125 mil, so it's more than
double for similar price 1.7ounces yes, that is just.
Ryan (15:48):
And this is 125 mil, so it's more than double for
similar price.
Fucking nuts, really pretty.
I like it.
I do like it.
I'm pleasantly surprised.
It's really pretty.
Parts of me I'm smelling it andI'm going I shouldn't.
My brain's telling me Ishouldn't like it.
I would kind of not really vibesomething like this.
But there is something quiteunique about it.
I really do think it kind ofmeets what you're talking about,
has a little bit of all thatkind of wrapped up in there, so
(16:10):
it does make it really unique.
Oh, quinny the Bish, you know,maybe it's a date night
fragrance that the guy took someyoung lady out to.
Okay, it's very sweet, smellinglady out too.
Okay, it's very sweet smelling.
Maybe you're sharing a bucketof popcorn, maybe at the theater
, and you can smell her makeupon her, maybe because she's
smooching on you, yeah andyou're like you better quit it.
Myke (16:32):
I'm trying to catch the second half of this new robert
eggers film it's pleasantlysurprising.
Ryan (16:41):
It's good.
I mean, I'm not the type of guythat's going to overhype this.
This is not my vibe, this isall you so like in your
wheelhouse.
I mean, is this a contender foranything?
Are you really vibing?
Myke (16:53):
with it.
I wouldn't say I'm reallyvibing.
I appreciate it.
I'm surprised at how much I dolike it.
Yeah, I am leaning more towardsfresher fragrances right now.
This is very like rich, but itis nice man that tester strip is
getting good, though, real good.
Ryan (17:12):
Okay, who's wearing it?
I kind of described a scenario,yeah, of what the fragrance
smells like.
But, genuinely, when is theappropriate time to wear
something so sweet and delicious, seductive and seminal.
Myke (17:30):
Um, I agree with you.
I think this is very datenighty.
I just can't imagine you'regoing like hey man, I need to
make a run to sam's, you want,want to join me, and I'm like
hold on, let me throw on this.
Ryan (17:44):
Elixir.
Myke (17:45):
Absolue?
Yeah, I can't imagine doingthat, but I could see if, just
depending on how big the throwis for me and this is only a
personal preference but if it'stoo loud, I wouldn't wear it on
a date night Because I thinkwe've got that backwards, guys.
I feel like on a date nightbecause I think we've got that
(18:05):
backwards, guys, I feel like ona date night you should probably
want fragrances that are goingto live closer to your skin,
because if anybody's going toget up on you and be smooching
around, you really don't want tobe choking them out.
I can kind of agree with that.
I mean, if they're like youknow, ryan, look, I'd really
like to kiss on you right now,but but I can't breathe, you'd
be pretty bummed.
Ryan (18:24):
I've never had that issue, by the way, guys, ever in my 40
plus odd years of life.
Myke (18:29):
Yeah Again, because you don't really have anybody trying
to smooch up on you either.
Ryan (18:36):
It is pretty damn good.
This is definitely date night.
You don't wear this to theoffice, yeah, unless you're
trying to hit on somebody andbreak a few rules.
Myke (18:45):
But yeah, kind of like we saw at lunch today.
Ryan (18:48):
Oh my, God, oh God.
So we're Look, this is a smallEast Texas town, y'all, yeah,
and we're eating at kind of alocal cafe.
Myke (18:58):
There's a diner here.
It's pretty much a diner here.
Ryan (19:01):
It's pretty much a diner.
I'm really not a big fan of theplace.
It's all right.
Yeah, my brother thinks it'stits.
He thinks it's incredible.
Myke (19:09):
Because it's like we'll only go to it if everywhere else
is closed.
Ryan (19:14):
Which is today.
Myke (19:14):
Mondays everything's closed.
Everything's closed.
Obviously, you guys are hearingthis on a Wednesday but being
recorded on a monday,everything's closed with this
diner.
We go in for lunch and there'sa pretty young lady that's
serving us and this is how smallit is, literally in front of
our table.
Is the booth or is the podiumthat people walk up?
Ryan (19:34):
to to be seated.
Myke (19:35):
we're like literally two feet from this thing, and so
she's taking people and seatingthem and then turning around and
waiting on us, and then rightnext to that is the counter
where you go pay, and I guessthis guy.
Ryan (19:47):
He had bought us food.
He picked it up.
It was a pickup order.
Myke (19:50):
Oh yeah, like to go, okay, yeah.
And so he's standing there atthe counter and she's you know,
I guess marking tallies on whattables are filled and that stuff
, yeah, and he walks over andhit him with his pickup line.
Do you remember me?
Ryan (20:07):
oh, yeah, I think so, yeah he'd been standing there for
like almost a good solid fiveminutes.
She's like she was she kind ofpersonally oh do I need to get
you anything, sir?
Like yeah, I'm thinking he'slike y'all forgot my goddamn
silverware in here.
What the hell?
Yeah, and it was nope, it wasuh, hey, do you remember me?
She's like uh, yeah, he's likeI worked over in the other town,
(20:31):
over by herself.
Oh, okay, then he gave her theold.
What time you take your breakat?
Myke (20:37):
she's like you probably won't be around.
It's after one.
Maybe we'll see each otheraround, maybe.
Yeah, have a great day, okay.
Ryan (20:51):
The secondhand cringe that me and Mike developed was man.
It was in stratosphere.
Myke (20:58):
Look, if the guy walked up looking like Hemsworth or
something, it'd be a differentstory.
He wouldn't have had to havegone.
Excuse me, miss Do you rememberme?
Ryan (21:15):
Hey, young fellows out there, look, I'm not a looker,
I'm not a ladies man, but I canassure you, if you've got to ask
anybody, especially a youngwoman, if they remember you,
it's over.
Yeah, don't even pursue it anyfurther, just get your fucking
to-go order and go eat in thetruck.
Myke (21:33):
Or if you have to wave them down to get their attention
, to then make your pass.
Ryan (21:38):
just wait, Look some guys got the riz and some don't.
Myke (21:43):
I'm one of those guys that don't.
Ryan (21:44):
So I know where I stand.
I don't go in trying to likethrow down and pick up on
somebody.
It ain't going to work that way.
Myke (21:50):
Yeah, that's a lot of rizzless attitudes around here.
But that was rough, it wasbrutal, and I don't think he was
wearing this elixir absolute.
No, he wouldn't.
And it don't think he waswearing this.
Ryan (22:02):
Elixir Absolute?
No, he wouldn't, and itwouldn't have helped either.
Myke (22:06):
One thing I think there's a little confession we need to
make right here is that we kindof did peek at the notes before
the episode and there were someinteresting notes that they're
adding to this fragrance that wegot excited about.
Do you think you smell any ofthose?
I don't.
Ryan (22:21):
So the note that we were really excited for was two big
juicy plums.
Myke (22:25):
Oh, they were beautiful beautiful plums and we were like
bluish, purple, hue.
I actually kind of can suss itout a little bit if I'm looking
for it, I can't and it isgetting really makeupy, by the
way, on the tester.
Yeah, for sure, yeah, you mightwant to watch out, because if
you wear this on a date nightand she gets close, she might be
like, hey, you've been kissingup on her.
Ryan (22:46):
Why you smell like you're another lady I don't know what
demographic of a woman that is,but she's interesting for sure.
Myke (22:54):
Are you gonna skip it, sample it or buy it?
Ryan (22:57):
you're gonna do right well , mr bish, this is actually a
pretty damn good fragrance.
Yeah, it is just not mywheelhouse.
This is.
This is not for the rizzless.
Okay, if you're rizzless, donot put this fragrance on.
It's not it.
So this is a polite skip fromme.
Myke (23:18):
It smells great I'm shocked as good as it smells.
I feel like it should be asample for you.
You should want to try it.
Maybe I will.
Maybe I will.
Ryan (23:27):
It is doing the makeup thing.
But I just feel like Dior HomeIntense or Dior Home Intense
absolutely crushes that vibe ofmakeup Lipstick in a makeup bag
yeah, and there's something sexyabout that and you can kind of
get it somewhat kind of cheap.
So it's like, I don't know,that's when it's hard to pick
over that pick something likethis.
(23:47):
So I feel like this is a skipfor me.
If I sampled I don't think Iwould fall in love with it hmm,
it's a sample for me, for sure,I am interested in it.
Myke (23:55):
I want to see if, wearing it around people, they would
recognize it as oh, this makes,this makes sense.
This is you, this feels likeyou, you know that sort of thing
.
Yeah, because I'm kind ofgetting to a point now where
I've got the nice little mixwhere people go oh, this smells
like you, yeah, and I thinkthat's what we all kind of want,
right?
Oh, yeah, for sure there's afew guys out there that they
(24:18):
want to wear something differentevery single day of the you
know the year.
Yeah, I'm not that way.
Yeah, I'm the same way.
I just kind of want a couple ofyou know, man, it's really hot
outside.
I'll wear this thing.
wu long cha aqua dejo yeah no,it's a nice cool summer breeze.
I'm gonna wear this, you know,aqua decio wu long.
(24:41):
No, there I'm going insidious,layered with, straight to heaven
.
Ryan (24:46):
Yeah, sometimes that cool breeze got to get that red
tobacco on it, dude, not in thesummer.
Well, you might, I would, Iwouldn't care.
Yeah, this is a polite skip forme.
Myke (24:59):
It's not a skip for me, it's definitely a sample.
I want to try it on.
I want to wear it around seewhat people say.
They go oh, you smell good ornot.
I'm doing a lot of like voicestoday.
Yeah, they're all different.
Yeah, they're all bad.
Ryan (25:20):
You know I think we're fixing to follow this up.
I'm sorry.
Do a couple of episodes here.
For the main podcast we had aPatreon.
We have a tier called FiresideChat in our Patreon.
Yeah, we've done two lives nowbut in that tier we do like a
live sit down just kind ofvibing out chat.
Myke (25:36):
Yeah, people jump on.
They can talk about certainthings.
We'll have people postquestions, we'll talk about it,
but this previous episode we didsomething special.
Ryan (25:45):
Yeah, one of our Patreon members who's been there for
quite a while and been alistener of the show forever,
goes by MK on there.
He had sent us four huge assdecants, yeah, all just with a
number on each one of them.
They were, and he had like aseparate thing to the side that
we could open up and see whatthey were called.
But he wanted us to blind smellthem, right.
So we had no influence, nobottle influence, no name brand,
(26:07):
nothing, yeah.
And they were all vacuum sealed.
Yeah, all of them vacuum sealed.
They ended up all being kind ofniche fragrances.
One was a discontinued, uh,christian dior, yeah.
Two of them were rojas, yeah,and then one was a creed
fragrance right.
Myke (26:21):
So he sent us these decants and closed little
envelopes of them numbered andthen for the fireside chat we
went through, we smelled them,we talked to him, we actually
brought him on the live and hedid the fun thing of like
reading the notes and telling usthe price of each one and we
(26:42):
were trying to guess.
And then people in the audiencewere trying to guess and a
couple got a few right justbased on the notes and what we
were kind of talking about withfragrances.
Ryan (26:51):
We have another tier called the meaty clacker tier.
It's only one slot and one guyright now holds it and he read
the notes.
Mk read the notes of one ofthese fragrances.
He sent Just the notes.
Mk read the notes of one ofthese fragrances.
He sent just the notes, yeah,and the guy said 100, it's this
fragrance, and it was.
I was like how do you know thatfrom just the notes?
(27:11):
Yeah, he knew for a fact, noquestion about it.
Myke (27:14):
I mean honestly that guy.
He deserves to be king clackerfor real.
He is one of the guys that youjust he just knows his shit and
he's a great resource to otherpeople in the patreon.
He really has been great toeveryone in there.
Ryan (27:28):
So absolutely all of our patreon members are really
badass all this to say.
I know this sounds kind of likea pitch and whatever it is, I
fuck me right, but seriously gocheck it out.
I we've gotten plenty ofmessages recently uh, one from
another one Just how much theyhave enjoyed the community.
They say us that we created,but that's not the truth.
(27:48):
If I'm being real, we startedit, but really the members
themselves have actually madethis Patreon have its value, to
me at least.
Myke (27:57):
Yeah, it's a nice little corner in the fragrance
community, whatever.
That's really drama-free, a lotof encouragement and a lot of
fun in there.
And so these four fragrances onthis episode.
We smelled them and we kind ofsaid, you know, part of the
initial problem with our formaton the podcast is we do a lot of
(28:20):
blind rating but then we don'treally get to do a ton of
wearing on these fragrances.
And so we've decided we're goingto pick one or two of the four
that we did that initial episodeon and we'll actually do quite
a bit of wearings because hesent us, you know, seven mil-ish
of each one and we're going towear them a little bit and then
(28:40):
we'll do an episode and post itout there.
But that's a huge thanks to MKfor shooting these out and
honestly making such a uniquefun experience that we got to do
live with that group.
So don't worry if you're not apatron now and you want to be a
part of, like, a member of thatgroup.
The replays are all still theretoo, so you can watch the live
(29:01):
recordings that we've done.
Ryan (29:07):
And it's all video.
Yeah, yeah.
So there you go.
There's our spill.
Yeah, you should check it out.
We got a lot of fun stuff goingon, and if you don't like that,
it's okay, and until next time,spray it up, y'all.
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