April 14, 2025 • 37 mins
A single sip of champagne can conjure memories of celebration, luxury, and effervescence - but can a fragrance truly capture that same bubbly essence? Xerjoff certainly attempts this ambitious feat with their Louis XV 1722, a perfume collaboration inspired by the world's finest champagne.
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Ryan (00:03):
hello everybody, welcome to the glowing podcast I'm mike,
I'm ryan.
Myke (00:06):
We're two best friends.
We're going on a fragrancejourney across the world and
giving you uneducated opinionstoday we're gonna be tipping
back a glass.
Ryan (00:19):
No, not really.
We're to be smelling afragrance that is in
collaboration with some type ofchampagne made in some other
place, baby, it's Zerjoff, it'sLouis XV 1722.
Hoorah, you remember that's agood year on champagne, right oh
?
Myke (00:36):
that's the best year.
From what I hear, it's afantastic year.
Oh, philwillie12579 onFragrantico was saying it was a
great year.
Okay, no, not really.
He does have something to sayabout this fragrance.
It smells like outright boozein my experience.
Awesome, I kind of like that,like if you poured a bottle of
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vodka on yourself and then triedto add some fruity notes to it.
Honestly, very disappointingscent.
Maybe it does differ per skin,but I would not suggest applying
by it.
Hmm, oh, filly Willy.
Ryan (01:11):
Oh, chili Willy.
But before we get into that, Ikind of got to give you a
haphazard one night stand reviewof a Patreon episode.
We just set our dumb asses downin here, we grab this tester
strip and we go.
Oh God.
Myke (01:26):
Oh, this is like a triple one night stand review.
Let's do it.
Okay, is that fine?
You want to talk about aPatreon episode one night stand
review and then talk aboutJean-Paul Gaultier?
Ryan (01:37):
I'll just say this it's kind of a one night stand review
, it's.
I mean, obviously you can tellby the tone of what I was
putting down, yeah, that I wasgetting ready to lubricate some
things oh well, I'm sorry, thiswas uh unplanned very unplanned,
but I just want to say, uh,check out the patreon.
we cover a fragrance by clivechristian that I think has
(02:02):
turned into something quitepleasant Molto bene.
Also, while you're there,there's a great community there.
It has grown exponentiallybigger than we'd ever thought.
Everybody in there is fuckingamazing.
Hit the music, todd yeah.
One Night Stand Review.
(02:25):
I never told them what we wereOne Night Stand reviewing, but
we're One Night Stand reviewingJohn Paul.
Godier's Uh-huh Elixir,absolute yeah, the double the
double word use the mail.
We were both pleasantlysurprised.
Yeah, I mean, it's not bad,mm-hmm.
It's not groundbreaking thougheither.
Myke (02:45):
No, but it was a departure from what I expected out of Le
Mans Correct and felt a littlebit more in line with the Dior
vibes these days.
100% Shocked on that, but allin all pretty good, enjoyed it.
Ryan (02:59):
It was really good, but would you if I held a gun to
your head, Mike, just like?
Myke (03:05):
this Like a Springfield Hellcat Pro like to my freaking
noggin.
Ryan (03:08):
Yeah, and I'm looking down the sights and there's a
U-shape in the front and thatdot down the middle.
To help me just line it up withyour freaking temporal bone
Illuminated by tritium.
Yeah, if I had that, I don'treally have that pointed, but if
I did have that point right atyour fucking dome, yeah, would
you buy that over the dior homeline or intense?
Myke (03:29):
whatever.
Oh, that is a good question,especially with a gun in my face
yeah, what's the fucking answer.
Get that, okay, todd jesus, uh,hmm pop quiz hot shot yeah, I
don't know.
Is saying it that way?
Yeah, comparing it to dior, Idon't know.
(03:50):
On that, yeah, the price wasdecent for an elixir at 100 mil.
It's where it should be.
Ryan (03:56):
On price it was like 120 something that felt right to me,
that, well, that should bewhere the price should be.
Myke (04:02):
Yes, yeah, because the other elixirs for like four
ounces too, right, yeah theother elixirs, god, they're
going 50 mil.
They want 160 170 bucks.
That's way too much.
So I think jpg is right on theprice if that's something you're
into, for me I'm just not gonnawear it.
So I'm not gonna buy it.
I don't think it's bad.
I'd wear it occasionally.
Ryan (04:23):
You know, let me just put some blasphemy out there.
Man ADG can straight go offright now.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Myke (04:30):
Well, we've gone through that already.
Ryan (04:31):
I'm sorry.
Myke (04:32):
He's still burnt.
I'm burnt, man, don't fuck melike that.
We've been talking about ithere recently.
We even went back to D Again,just thinking maybe our noses
were on some crack cocaine thatday or something.
Nope, didn't get any better forus, and I would not put it on
my skin ever again.
Ryan (04:52):
Oh, so now we can do the quadruple fucking.
Myke (04:56):
You brought it up, okay, this is your fault.
You got us in this mess.
I'm trying to get us out.
Well, let me get us out of here.
Ryan (05:03):
I'll tell you what.
You got us in this mess.
I'm trying to get us out.
Well, let me, I'll get us outof here.
I'll tell you what.
On this Jean-Paul Gaultier, leMans, elixir Absolute, which is
just the longest convoluted nameever.
If somebody ever asked me whatI was wearing, I'd feel ashamed
to tell them.
Would you just say Le Mail.
Then you lie to them, becausethen they go.
I'm going to get that for myhusband.
Myke (05:25):
They're like this doesn't smell like that guy.
Yeah, I think it's actuallypronounced LaMail, LaMail,
whatever.
I saw somebody else had FrancisCourchon on oh, and he
pronounced it that way.
They were just talking abouthow far it's kind of come.
Ryan (05:35):
Well, this is what I'll say about it.
It was everything we just saida minute ago.
My only thing is and I don'tthink it's that much more
expensive being pure.
Myke (05:44):
This isn't Francis Kirkjohn, by the way.
I think it was Quentin Bishright who perfumed.
Yes.
Ryan (05:48):
The John Paul.
But I am saying like Justclarifying as far as my skip it,
sample it, buy it, yes, I wouldsay I would lean towards.
If I was going to get that kindof smell, I would go the Dior
home intents.
I think it just does everythingthat that does perfectly.
But I think it's that the JohnPaul's trying to do something
different and for their brand.
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But it is kind of similar toDior, right, but for that price
it's good.
I just feel like Dior kind ofdoes edge it out.
So if I was going to get one,it'd be that.
So for me it's a polite skip iswhat I was trying to say All
that to skip.
Myke (06:25):
I'd recommend it as a sample.
For sure, I'd occasionallyspray it on, but it's nothing
that I would ever spend money on.
If I, like you know, didn'thave anything that day and for
whatever reason was in dillard'sand for whatever reason was
drawn to the specific shape ofthat bottle, I might spray it on
that day maybe all right, let'sget out of this segment, okay,
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before something else pops up,and let's smell this brand new
zirjoff louis 15, 17, 22 okay,ryan, here it is thank you now
admitted, this is Mike's episode, by the way.
Ryan (07:06):
He was like I really want to smell that new Zergy.
Myke (07:09):
Yeah, I was.
Like you know.
We haven't done a Zergy off inI don't know three weeks.
Yeah, might as well do anotherone, right.
Ryan (07:17):
And you know I was like going with the flow.
But then when I was doing alittle research you know my
in-depth two and a half minuteresearch before the show, I was
looking at the notes for thisand one of the top notes is
champagne.
So my question to you and tomyself do we think this is going
to be a little bubbly, a littlepop in the top open?
Myke (07:36):
Oh, a little cork soaker yeah.
Ryan (07:41):
Is this going to be a cork soaker?
I don't know.
All right, let's see.
Myke (07:46):
I mean, I have smelled this before.
Ryan (07:48):
Never mind, I have soaked a cork before.
Myke (07:58):
Oh my, oh my, come on come on, I gotta give it to old
zirgy what are you whiffing?
Ryan (08:19):
well, first off, I do not get vodka and a little bit of
berry, something that wouldsound like it would kind of
imply it's a little harsh burn,right, wouldn't you think that?
Myke (08:29):
Well, I could see like a vodka tonic vibe that I can get
Gin and tonic, that's sort ofbright, effervescent alcoholic.
Ryan (08:39):
It smells really good, real good.
Myke (08:43):
I was a whiny little bitch in Italy.
Oh, in Italy, yeah, yeah.
Ryan (08:49):
Over what?
What were you, a whiny littlebitch about?
Myke (08:52):
Well, I'm going to say, on average, joe called me out on
this.
I got to make sure he listensto this episode so he knows I'm
with the guys and we've had acouple of parties up until this
one, and the Surge Off was byfar the wildest, most
entertaining party.
Yeah, and we're drinkingchampagne.
Up until a certain time.
(09:13):
They don't have the mixedcocktails, and what Zerjoff
would do at their parties whichis really cool is that they
would do drinks inspired byfragrances that they were
releasing.
It's really fun.
They're very well thought outand it is like a very immersive
experience.
But for the first I don't knowhour and a half, two hours, it's
just a champagne bar and I wastelling the guys we had been to
(09:35):
a couple of parties where it wasstrictly champagne and I'm not
a guy who can just drinkchampagne after champagne, after
champagne.
Yeah, like, give me one or twoglasses and then I'm kind of
done with it.
Yeah, champagne, like give meone or two glasses and then I'm
kind of done with it.
Yeah, you know.
And so the joke was I would justgo like guys, I'm just so bored
of drinking champagne, you know, like this is bougie, like oh,
couldn't be bothered to drinkanother champagne guys.
(09:57):
Oh, you know we're all jokingabout it because like when in
your life are you ever thatspoiled?
So I literally told the guys Iwas like I've had two or three
glasses of champagne.
I was just like I got to bedone until the other drinks come
out.
I just can't drink a lot of it.
And we're waiting around andthen I walk over and I see on
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average Joe and I go hey man,how you doing?
He goes, I'm doing amazing.
I'm at this badass Zerjoffparty.
I'm surrounded by amazingpeople.
I'm drinking Zerjoff Rose,which they only bring out for
very special occasions.
This is very special champagnethat they make.
And he's going on and on and inthat moment I felt a twinge of
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guilt of going.
Why can't I just appreciatethis moment?
Ryan (10:48):
Were you doing the Larry David 15-minute window view?
Myke (10:51):
I think so, you think so.
Yeah, just on the alcoholicbeverages yeah, okay, because
it's like I don't sip anything.
I don't slowly, you know,masticate anything.
I'm like I put it down.
Yeah, you masticate veryvigorously.
I have very vigorouslymastication, and the same with
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hydration.
I can't help it If I havesomething in my hand, it's like
I need to it's got to go in yourmouth, yeah, for sure.
Something like and at one pointI've got both hands full.
I'm like I got to make sureboth these go in my mouth very
quickly, you know, yeah um.
One you gotta masticate, one yougotta swallow yeah, exactly
yeah, there's just a lot goingon.
(11:34):
Yeah, you know how theseparties get.
Yeah, so I drink the drinksreally fast, just because, again
, like I'll, if I have it in myhand I'm gonna drink it.
I can't, for whatever reason, Ilack the throttle to like just
be slowly.
You know, that's why I can'treally get into wine.
I'm just like I can't go likeappreciate it, opening up and
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whatever.
You know I'm like done so.
I went through a couple, but Ididn't take the time to really
appreciate it.
And then, whenever I talked tojoe, I was like you know, this
guy is like he's savoring it,he's taking it in, he's really
enjoying it.
Yeah, and I'm just going, ifI'm gonna pound drinks, they
gotta be like not champagne.
You know, I'm the same way withbeer, though I can't just sit
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there and pound beers all night.
Yeah, like, give me somethingharder, really, yeah.
Ryan (12:25):
Yeah, I guess I kind of get that.
It's weird that me and you arejust not big drinkers really, or
smokers, tokers Right.
Myke (12:33):
Midnight jokers, Jokers yeah.
Ryan (12:36):
Yeah, we're just.
You put a fucking cake in frontof us though.
Yeah, pounding it.
Yeah, we are taking it to poundtown.
Myke (12:47):
We're all caked up.
Now going back to thisfragrance here yeah let it to
you know, do its own masticationthere's something I really like
about this.
Ryan (12:56):
I'm going to describe kind of some notes that I feel like
I I'm going to try somethinghere.
Okay, swear to god, the onlynote, the first note that I saw
what too I like champagne andplum was the top note, and the
first note that I saw, too I'lllie, champagne and plum was the
top note and I didn't look atany of the other notes, because
when I saw champagne I go, ohman, this might be a little
bubbly, right, right, which Idon't really get that bubbly
fizzy champagne, Really yeah.
(13:18):
I do Really Okay.
On the skin you don't Notreally, but it's not a bad thing
.
I'm just like what I'm smellingdoes smell good, but I kind of
get like this almost citrusy Iwould almost say lime, maybe
some rosemary type thing.
But also with what do you callit?
I do kind of get boozy.
I wouldn't say like rum, butlike an alcoholic base type
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thing, kind of like the gin andtonic thing I was about to say
I'm getting very gin and tonicon it.
But it's so smooth, Like it'sreally smooth.
It's like so smooth that that'swhy I can't buy into my brain
of it being like fizzy kind of.
Myke (13:51):
Oh okay, it's so blended well, yeah, this just has that.
You're right, it does have acitrus sort of quality to it.
To me it does kind of have thatbubbly sort of thing.
That's why I really feel likeit does have like a gin and
tonic sort of vibe and I do lovethose dude.
It's been a minute since I'vehad a gin and tonic dude.
I feel like if I bumped intojoe and I'd been drinking gin
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and tonics all night, I've beenlike I'm great I'm surrounded by
great people.
Ryan (14:17):
I'm drinking gin and tonics all night let me do read
the notes really quick, let'ssee if I got anywhere close.
There's champagne, grapefruit,plum, saffron, that's all.
Top Middle notes are hazelnut,coffee, rose, lavender and cocoa
or cocoa.
Base notes are sandalwood,white musk, cashmere, incense
and leather.
I honestly, other than prettymuch the grapefruit and
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champagne, I don't get anythingelse.
Myke (14:45):
And to me it's like champagne, lime, rosemary.
I can get some of thesavoriness that kind of reminds
me of the saffron.
Really, I can kind of get thata little bit.
Yeah, man, it is so good,though I'm going to be real with
you.
So at this party, the firstthing they did, they announced
that they were doing twocollaborative fragrances with
Duran Duran, which is cool.
A couple of guys came out forthat Before that.
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They were talking about 2024releases and they went around
and sprayed them and passed outtesters and everybody kind of
smelled them.
One was Purple, lachinto, onewas this one.
There were a few more that's inthis discovery set, and I think
it's because I was drinkingchampagne at the time.
Why am I like so sour when itcomes to champagne?
But I was drinking champagne atthe time.
That one went around that Ijust quickly sniffed it and was
kind of turned off by it Really,but now I'm really, really
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enjoying it.
Ryan (15:35):
So this one, you did get a sneak peek.
Myke (15:37):
Yes, yeah, at their release party, gotcha, which
again was so fun, we had a greattime.
I am being kind of whiny aboutthe whole champagne thing.
It really is a fantasticonce-in-a-lifetime thing.
I think we just were kind of inthis mode of like.
We were just having fun beinggoofy, luscious, you know, and I
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felt bad because I was kind ofin this mode of like, we were
just having fun being goofy,luscious, you know, and I felt
bad because I was walking aroundand I just would not have a
drink in my hand because I'mlike I don't want to drink a
shitload of champagne.
Yeah, I feel like thisepisode's quickly becoming
Mike's hatred to champagneepisode, which is just so weird
and boring.
Isn't that weird?
That's a weird, boring episodewe don't want that.
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But for whatever reason, I meanwe can talk about your
mastication skills.
Well, they did have someinteresting food there as well.
They had little sliders, butthen they also had spoons with
weird seafood things on them andstuff.
Ryan (16:36):
Okay, let me ask this because I kind of this vibe with
, like some weddings we'veworked in the past or some type
of big event.
I'm always leery of big eventfood because I always feel like
it always comes out in smallproportions one, two.
It's always like never hot.
It's always like, you know, thecatering company has been there
all day and they've got, likeyou know, little bunsen burners
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underneath fucking aluminumthings and yeah, like the little
alcohol type cans that yeah,and it's like barely like warm
food.
Myke (17:07):
It's always gross to me yeah, and they have like the
tartar type stuff which is likeyou don't know if you're gonna
be able to trust that or not.
Yeah, I mean, was the food likethat?
There was just like it was nice.
Everything about this party wastop notch.
It was really a great time.
There were a few really funones.
I would say the most funspectacle type night was
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Zerjoff's party, gotcha.
They really put on quite a show.
There was a lot of stuff to see.
The mixed drinks based on thefragrances were badass.
This year they were so good.
Yeah, that's where I really gotto hang out with Anthony Curly
Scents guy, yeah, and we got tochatting and then we all went
over to the Nishane party andthen it was like we became BFFs
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all of us.
Oh man, but at that party therewas just Did you ever mention
me to all these new people?
I try not to as much aspossible.
Just making sure they're like,oh, you do the podcast and I'll
be like, yeah, I do the podcastand they'll go, just you and
I'll go.
Yeah, I can't think of anybodyelse that's like regular.
And then I'll go like sometimesI'll go oh, you know what?
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Steve actually shows upoccasionally, I think.
Ryan (18:18):
Uh, chris has been on two or three, but yeah, other than
that it's, it's pretty much justme, you know um you know it's
gonna have one day I'm gonnasomehow make some type of event
and somehow, some way, I'm gonnabe like a legend among people.
You think, oh yeah, like thatguy was fucking amazing, he did
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remember that he did.
Myke (18:39):
I just don't see that happening in a social setting.
In a social setting, I justdon't see that happening If you
get them sequestered off bythemselves maybe.
Ryan (18:50):
Bringing them in for questioning or something.
Myke (18:52):
Yeah, pretty much.
That's what it would feel likeFucking interrogate these people
.
I'd be like, if you want tomeet ryan, he's actually over in
the corner over there under thespotlight, so if you'll just go
, he's under the heating lampsright now hey, quickly, let me
hit you with the price andpopularity.
Ryan (19:07):
On this price, 275 euros for 50 ml.
Oh shit, a little pricey, thatis pricey.
However, you can find some graymarket areas fragrance net, I
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think they're around 120something.
120?
I think so.
Myke (19:31):
126 or something.
Wow, man, now we would neverencourage somebody to do that,
but that does sound moreaffordable.
But that does sound moreaffordable.
Ryan (19:41):
It does sound more affordable and the popularity is
a 4.25 out of 5.
Myke (19:47):
Of course I would agree with that.
As much as I don't likechampagne, this champagne
fragrance is really tumbling myrocks.
Ryan (19:55):
I'll say this and then I need you to tell me who you
think's wearing this, butprobably since.
Was it Renaissance that wesmelled back in the day?
Okay, yeah, what's the one wesmelled in the back room over
there?
It was either Renaissance orNeo, one of the two or maybe
both, but pretty much sincethose two, this is the only
Zerjoff that's really stood outlike.
Blown my mind for real, really.
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Yeah, I'm not making a a big todo about this episode, because
I've just been listening to yourambling on about I feel bad and
hate fucking wine.
Myke (20:24):
No, I said champagne.
Ryan (20:25):
There's a difference he was masticating, but uh franks
and beans but this has been asurprisingly really good
fragrance.
Myke (20:39):
Man, I have to say I typically really enjoy Zerjoff
fragrances.
I can't think of one thatreally put me off.
You know what I?
Ryan (20:48):
actually stumbled back.
I don't know if it was a mainepisode or a patron episode.
We did an episode on Hiyot orwhatever.
That is Not Giyot, don't get it.
Don't get it, uh, confused, buthe ought.
Or hi-yot, whatever the fuck.
Myke (21:03):
Uh-huh, that fragrance, yeah, mind-blowing good, yes,
that was a main episode, so youcould you're able to find that
man.
That was after year one, sothat's three years ago.
Ryan (21:17):
That was no way that's three years ago, yeah it was
after the first year of assanceI'm literally going to look on
spotify and prove that you're agoddamn liar.
There's no way three years.
You think that's been threeyears since we've smelled at
least two I can believe two,maybe.
Myke (21:35):
Yeah, it'd have to be two if it was close to yeah, because
the first first year was aroundapril, so it would have been
two years ago this month, yeahit was actually april 10th.
Yeah, there you go of 2023 sothat must have been one of, if
not the first episode we didafter I came back.
Ryan (21:57):
Good lord, yeah and it came that little bitty like yeah
, it was just plain oil.
Myke (22:02):
It was not like an atomized thing.
So, saying all of that, as faras zirjoff goes, now there are
some fragrances that I go.
This is not for me, likeherbapura, yeah, but I do enjoy
it on other people.
One thing that zirjoff doesthere's power behind the
fragrances.
I've never once been like man.
A Zerjoff doesn't really lastlong.
Ryan (22:23):
Yeah, it does.
This one's doing that kind oflike.
I always say this but like Pier1, like wicker furniture, kind
of vintage smell thing to me, Ilove it.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I love it.
Myke (22:33):
I wonder why your nose goes there.
I don't really pick that upthere.
Ryan (22:40):
I don't really pick that up, I don't know.
I just I just think about allthe wicker furniture that I
would like walk by when I was akid, at pure one.
But who is wearing this though?
Who, in your mind, would youcalculate, might possibly be
wearing this while theymasticate?
Myke (22:51):
well, they have to be into fragrances, because this is
pretty niche okay.
You think this is yes.
You don't think this is prettyniche Okay?
Ryan (22:58):
You think this is yes, you don't think this is a pretty, I
guess, mass appealing, no, no,no.
Myke (23:03):
I think it's mass appealing as a fragrance, but I
mean as far as the actualfragrance goes.
To know about Zerjoff, you gotto be at least getting into
fragrances quite a bit.
You're going to have to go toNeiman's instead of Dillard's,
yeah.
You're going to have to besearching around for something
special, yeah.
So you got to get past yourcreeds and past your MFKs.
(23:25):
You're not hanging out in DrugEmporium, nope.
So then, once you get intoZerjoff's, then you've also got
to get into specialty fragrancesbased on champagne.
That's a very specific person.
Ryan (23:38):
That is pretty specific.
So I think you really have tobe into fragrances that being
said, yeah, do you feel likethis is unisex?
Do you feel like masculineleaning?
Myke (23:50):
I do feel like there's more masculine, but that would
not scare me away from smellingon a beautiful lady yeah, I'm
saying I mean it is listed asunisex of course.
Ryan (23:59):
Yeah, but I do agree it is kind of leaning more masculine.
But you would not be offendedif a woman was wearing this.
No, I'd probably be like hey,yeah, want to watch me masticate
.
Myke (24:10):
Yeah, that's ryan's favorite word today.
He said it more times than me.
It does smell.
I mean, this is a badassfragrance.
I think it's a little more onthe mature side.
I think it's gonna be 25 and up.
At least it's been a freshthing since you said that, I
don't think it's gonna besomething that the youngins I
(24:32):
just don't see many tiktokinfluencers wearing this thing,
but I could see somebody likesteve wearing it.
Oh, but I could see somebodylike Steve wearing it, oh, yeah.
Ryan (24:42):
Yeah, I could see Steve.
God damn dude, I don't know.
This opening is fucking gnarly.
It is good.
Myke (24:48):
Yeah, it's really, really nice.
This has to be one of myfavorite Zerjoffs I've ever
smelled.
Ryan (24:54):
That's what I'm saying.
I haven't been making a bigdeal about it, but maybe it's
like when you have a good, youknow, when you have a good meal,
you just kind of shut up.
Myke (25:02):
Nobody's not talking, yeah , nobody's talking right.
Ryan (25:05):
That's kind of how I feel about this.
Myke (25:06):
Nobody's not talking Whatever.
No, I said that that's a doublenegative.
What a fucking idiot, what agoddamn moron.
Ryan (25:15):
Good Lord, what is wrong with my brain?
You didn't have your nicotineyet, have you?
Myke (25:18):
No, I have had it.
You did.
When did you chew it?
I threw it in on the way backfrom lunch.
Ryan (25:26):
Really.
Oh yeah, he got wings, just soyou guys know.
Myke (25:31):
You feel like champagnes and chicken wings go together.
Really?
No, not at all.
Ryan (25:37):
But you know I'm serious.
This is seriously prettyelevated and nice.
It's very elegant, very pretty.
Myke (25:43):
Speaking of vodka and tonic, by the way, and hot wings
, we go to this restaurant.
The other day have I told thisstory?
Yet I always get a carbonatedwater with lime, club soda,
whatever you want to call it,mm-hmm.
And then a person who's not ourserver comes over and says you
(26:04):
got the carbonated water right,oh, you did not tell this story.
Ryan (26:07):
Yes, sorry, Go on.
Myke (26:09):
And so I was like, yeah, and he goes here's a refill for
you.
And he looked at you real weird, like that Kind of weird.
And he hands me a glass thatdoesn't have any ice in it, it's
just it's full to the brim andit's like what would you say?
It's like a 32 ounce cup, yeah.
And so I'm like, okay, and Ihave my pretty much all the way
(26:30):
drunk carbonated water in my cup.
So then I just dump the rest ofit on there and I start
drinking it.
And the first thing I say is,oh shit, he gave me sprite by
accident, which has happened inthe past.
I'll drink a little bit more.
And I'm like huh.
So I hand ryan the, the fill-upglass that he gave me, that
(26:52):
still had, you know, like a tinybit left, and I go taste this.
This tastes like it has alcoholin it.
And you drink and you go, thathas alcohol in it.
And I've already, and you go,that has alcohol in it and I've
already been like slurping downon this thing.
Oh yeah, yeah, you know I do.
I already told you I'm like,you know, I pound them back.
So I'm like, huh, well, okay,yeah, when in Rome?
(27:16):
So I was like whatever, so Idrink it.
Yeah, when in Rome, right?
So I was like whatever, so Idrink it.
And then our normal servercomes over at the end of the
thing and she's giving us thetickets and she goes did
somebody happen to give you aglass full of vodka earlier?
And I was like yeah, prettysure.
She's.
Like I'm so sorry, that was notmeant to go to this table and I
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was like thank you.
Ryan (27:40):
Do you think it was something nefarious that we were
kind of actually pulled into,or do you think just somebody
ordered like, yeah, give me adouble shot of vodka and you
know?
Myke (27:44):
that?
Yeah, I don't know, because itwas in like a styrofoam to go
cup full.
Yeah, nothing in it, no ice oranything.
Normally if you get like one ofthose type of drinks, it's
gonna have like some ice in it.
It's got got a little garnishor something, maybe like a lime
wedge or something I think theywere doing something a little
under.
(28:05):
Maybe they were trying to hookup one of the people that comes
in regularly and the guy whobrought it to me is kind of new,
yeah, and you know there's alot of bald guys.
So she was probably like, hey,you know, go give this bald guy
the yeah, like it's.
Like it's a goddamn epidemic Imean, nearly 50 of men will
(28:26):
experience some balding.
Really, oh yeah, damn, it's ahard world out there.
But yeah, afterwards I was likeriding back with you after
lunch.
I was like man, I may startdrinking at lunch.
I feel pretty great.
Ryan (28:43):
Hey, random question Is there anything linked to having,
I guess, either testosterone atan early age or so much
testosterone at an early age towhere it does lead to be
involved?
Oh for sure, yeah, because Ifeel like I'm not trying to take
shots, but I feel like when Iwas growing up, I remember a
couple of guys in high schoolwe're talking full-on grown man,
(29:04):
40-year-old beards, yeah andeven then they were kind of
getting a little pepper hair andI was like God damn it, you're
in high school, getting likethat.
And then the ball.
Myke (29:11):
Oh yeah, I've seen guys that are like, seriously, I
still have more hair than theyhad.
Crazy, and it's like, yeah,from what I understand as being
a bald man, the moretestosterone.
This is one cause of it.
There are many, but the mainone is either your testosterone
(29:32):
is too high, your body convertstestosterone or the estrogen
production of it to DHT.
Dht is what causes balding.
So the higher you have of thecorrelating to the more DHT you
have which makes you go bald.
There's either that, but thenthere's also head shape, because
blood flow and circulation hasan effect too.
(29:53):
So certain people with certainshaped heads will experience
balding more than others.
It's part of the reason whyladies have less balding than
men is because you notice likethe shape of their head is quite
a bit different.
Ryan (30:06):
so I hear I'm not an expert, obviously, as one who
just has a bald head doesn'tmean that I know everything
about balding you know, I knowthis is gonna be random and then
I'll get into the skibbets,whatever, but you know we should
really talk about that thing,okay, in a future episode that
you had me record.
(30:27):
I know that sounds really bad,but no oh, yes, yes, yes, that.
Thing yeah, because that wasoriginally.
You were like we should talkabout this on the podcast.
I do agree.
Yes, we shall.
So I think we will.
Myke (30:40):
That is right, we will, we'll talk about a thing that I
recorded yeah skip it, sample itor buy it.
What are you gonna do, ryan?
Ryan (30:55):
it is really good.
Guys.
I've been saying this a lotlately polite skip, it's like.
This is my way of saying, likeI really love this, but I
wouldn't buy it because Iseriously just thinking about
Hyatt, whatever the fuck Ireally think that, to me, is the
(31:15):
best Zerjoff fragrance I'veever smelled.
Okay, and if I was going to buya Zerjoff, that would have to
be my first one, so that's why.
But, that being said, if I hadthat, this would probably be.
I mean, this is definitely ahard sample, but this could be a
buy, but for right now, politeskip, it is seriously good.
Myke (31:32):
You're not even going to sample.
Huh, Polite skip.
Ryan (31:34):
I think it's because I honestly want to buy it, but I
wouldn't make it my first buy.
Myke (31:38):
Hmm, I would just say, you know, if Serge off having a
listen to this or anything, heyJersey, I love a bottle of this.
Ryan (31:47):
You're not going to get a bottle no, no, I'm not.
Myke (31:49):
I'm not, although I do wish that.
And if we had received thisinstead of purple agento, I
would have had a very hard timegiving it to a patreon yeah, I'm
with you on that, for sure,because I would want to keep it.
I think to me, if you eithersee a sudden influx of monetary
(32:10):
endowment yeah, I could seedoing it that way or if you were
to now, I would never recommendgoing to one of these dirty,
scheming gray markets and buyingit for a lower price.
I would not do that.
Ryan (32:30):
That's not right.
Myke (32:32):
But if you're like me, that might be the only way you
could afford it, but I wouldnever, ever, never, do something
like that or encourage you todo something like that if you
put a springfield hellcat prouh-huh to my freaking head and
you look down that, you fuckingsites.
Ryan (32:51):
Yeah, the Tritium U site yeah.
And you asked me if I'd buy, Iwould seriously buy this.
I would too.
It is really good.
It's a polite skip.
Myke (33:01):
I want the other stuff Just based on price right,
Because you're pushing nearly300 bones for a 50 mil.
Ryan (33:06):
No, honestly, my reasoning is seriously going my first Zer
jersey off would have to be theother one, the high.
Oh yeah, yeah, but if I hadthat, it's this man.
I'm grabbing this.
This smells so good and, by theway, I feel like this is.
We never mentioned this in anepisode, but this is right up
your freaking alley yeah, I'mobsessed with it it's kind of
subtle, you know it's not toocrazy.
Myke (33:26):
Yeah, I'm trying to say I fucking love this thing.
Yeah, and mean, again, we don'thave the pool.
I know there are someinfluencers out there that
somehow get their hands on bigjuicy bottles and, who knows,
they probably bought it withtheir own money.
So it's an unbiased review.
Yeah, it could be.
You know how that works.
(33:47):
You buy something and if youbuy it with your own money, then
you can't be biased.
How that works.
You buy something and if youbuy it with your own money, then
you can't be biased.
But if there was a way to get afree bottle of this, I'd be
begging for it.
You'd be on your hands andknees.
I'd go.
What do we got to do?
What do I need to say?
Tell me what you want me to say.
Zerjoff, I'll say it.
Could I trade my integrity fora bottle of this?
(34:10):
I might do it.
Ryan (34:12):
We were talking about integrity trading this morning
over coffee.
It's true Mike was having his.
I guess I would call it hisannual, I don't know.
Looking at the fragrance, worldmeltdown.
Myke (34:28):
Yeah, I felt like I was staring down the barrel of a
Springfield Hellcat Pro RyanWith the tritium sights.
Ryan (34:35):
Are you trying to insinuate anything?
Let's keep bringing this up.
Myke (34:39):
No, no, no, which actually it made us think about doing a
Fragrance Philosophy episodewith our Fireside Chat friends.
Ryan (34:48):
Yeah, on the struggle of loving fragrances but not loving
the fragrance industry yeah,and the and that kind of sounds
ominous, like the fragranceindustry as a whole is bad.
That's not correct.
No, there's.
Myke (35:04):
So there's a lot of good in there I think to the vast
majority of just everyday peopleit's not as big of a concern,
but I think it.
Once you get deep enough intofragrances that you're listening
to a fucking podcast about it,you're probably in the same boat
as we are, yeah.
And then you do have to startfiguring out what you're going
to do with your money and who,what brands you're going to
(35:26):
align with and what contentcreators are going to align with
and what avenues you're goingto take.
That sort of a thing Do you getto where you go?
I just those dirty gray marketpeople start to feel a little
weird about it.
Ryan (35:46):
Well, guys, we're not holding a Springfield Hellcat
pro to your head, but I willtell you you should absolutely
check out the patreon.
I'm going to pitch it one lasttime because I'm proud of it and
I'm proud of the people in itand I absolutely stand by that
statement.
Yeah, we have some fuckingincredible people in there.
So much so I mean, there's beenpeople that I've seriously have
(36:07):
.
I'm gonna say this it's bad onus.
Okay, look, there's a millionthings going on.
We have our own lives outsideof this.
We also try to I mean, they'renot much, but they're ours but
we try to do good by the patronover everything.
And there's still some thatslip through the cracks and then
we notice it.
We'll see them.
(36:27):
I'm not going to say a specificname, but it's like, or
specific names in this case, butwe've had two recently One we
never reached out to when theybecame a patron.
We always try to go hey, thankyou for joining the patron, and
how'd you find us?
And try to have some small chatto one where it's like we had
good conversation but we hadn'ttalked to them in a year and yet
they're still here, they'restill supportive and they're
contributing to our community,to our Fireside Chats, and I
(36:49):
just have to seriously commendeverybody, everybody, and I mean
that wholeheartedly.
You got to come in there checkit out.
It's fucking badass man.
Myke (37:00):
Yeah, I actually had one guy who followed me on my
personal Instagram and Ifollowed him back and then he
was like whoa, I didn't expectyou to follow me back.
And I was like you're a patron,you're basically my family.
Yeah, of course I got to knowwhat you're up to, you know?
Yeah, we keep them updated onall of our bills.
Ryan (37:19):
They know if mom and dad are not going to be able to keep
this thing together or not?
Myke (37:21):
Yeah, for sure.
Ryan (37:22):
Hey, we love you guys.
Thank you for coming on theshow and until next time, spray
it.
hello everybody, welcome to the glowing podcast I'm mike,
I'm ryan.
Myke (00:06):
We're two best friends.
We're going on a fragrancejourney across the world and
giving you uneducated opinionstoday we're gonna be tipping
back a glass.
Ryan (00:19):
No, not really.
We're to be smelling afragrance that is in
collaboration with some type ofchampagne made in some other
place, baby, it's Zerjoff, it'sLouis XV 1722.
Hoorah, you remember that's agood year on champagne, right oh
?
Myke (00:36):
that's the best year.
From what I hear, it's afantastic year.
Oh, philwillie12579 onFragrantico was saying it was a
great year.
Okay, no, not really.
He does have something to sayabout this fragrance.
It smells like outright boozein my experience.
Awesome, I kind of like that,like if you poured a bottle of
(00:58):
vodka on yourself and then triedto add some fruity notes to it.
Honestly, very disappointingscent.
Maybe it does differ per skin,but I would not suggest applying
by it.
Hmm, oh, filly Willy.
Ryan (01:11):
Oh, chili Willy.
But before we get into that, Ikind of got to give you a
haphazard one night stand reviewof a Patreon episode.
We just set our dumb asses downin here, we grab this tester
strip and we go.
Oh God.
Myke (01:26):
Oh, this is like a triple one night stand review.
Let's do it.
Okay, is that fine?
You want to talk about aPatreon episode one night stand
review and then talk aboutJean-Paul Gaultier?
Ryan (01:37):
I'll just say this it's kind of a one night stand review
, it's.
I mean, obviously you can tellby the tone of what I was
putting down, yeah, that I wasgetting ready to lubricate some
things oh well, I'm sorry, thiswas uh unplanned very unplanned,
but I just want to say, uh,check out the patreon.
we cover a fragrance by clivechristian that I think has
(02:02):
turned into something quitepleasant Molto bene.
Also, while you're there,there's a great community there.
It has grown exponentiallybigger than we'd ever thought.
Everybody in there is fuckingamazing.
Hit the music, todd yeah.
One Night Stand Review.
(02:25):
I never told them what we wereOne Night Stand reviewing, but
we're One Night Stand reviewingJohn Paul.
Godier's Uh-huh Elixir,absolute yeah, the double the
double word use the mail.
We were both pleasantlysurprised.
Yeah, I mean, it's not bad,mm-hmm.
It's not groundbreaking thougheither.
Myke (02:45):
No, but it was a departure from what I expected out of Le
Mans Correct and felt a littlebit more in line with the Dior
vibes these days.
100% Shocked on that, but allin all pretty good, enjoyed it.
Ryan (02:59):
It was really good, but would you if I held a gun to
your head, Mike, just like?
Myke (03:05):
this Like a Springfield Hellcat Pro like to my freaking
noggin.
Ryan (03:08):
Yeah, and I'm looking down the sights and there's a
U-shape in the front and thatdot down the middle.
To help me just line it up withyour freaking temporal bone
Illuminated by tritium.
Yeah, if I had that, I don'treally have that pointed, but if
I did have that point right atyour fucking dome, yeah, would
you buy that over the dior homeline or intense?
Myke (03:29):
whatever.
Oh, that is a good question,especially with a gun in my face
yeah, what's the fucking answer.
Get that, okay, todd jesus, uh,hmm pop quiz hot shot yeah, I
don't know.
Is saying it that way?
Yeah, comparing it to dior, Idon't know.
(03:50):
On that, yeah, the price wasdecent for an elixir at 100 mil.
It's where it should be.
Ryan (03:56):
On price it was like 120 something that felt right to me,
that, well, that should bewhere the price should be.
Myke (04:02):
Yes, yeah, because the other elixirs for like four
ounces too, right, yeah theother elixirs, god, they're
going 50 mil.
They want 160 170 bucks.
That's way too much.
So I think jpg is right on theprice if that's something you're
into, for me I'm just not gonnawear it.
So I'm not gonna buy it.
I don't think it's bad.
I'd wear it occasionally.
Ryan (04:23):
You know, let me just put some blasphemy out there.
Man ADG can straight go offright now.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Myke (04:30):
Well, we've gone through that already.
Ryan (04:31):
I'm sorry.
Myke (04:32):
He's still burnt.
I'm burnt, man, don't fuck melike that.
We've been talking about ithere recently.
We even went back to D Again,just thinking maybe our noses
were on some crack cocaine thatday or something.
Nope, didn't get any better forus, and I would not put it on
my skin ever again.
Ryan (04:52):
Oh, so now we can do the quadruple fucking.
Myke (04:56):
You brought it up, okay, this is your fault.
You got us in this mess.
I'm trying to get us out.
Well, let me get us out of here.
Ryan (05:03):
I'll tell you what.
You got us in this mess.
I'm trying to get us out.
Well, let me, I'll get us outof here.
I'll tell you what.
On this Jean-Paul Gaultier, leMans, elixir Absolute, which is
just the longest convoluted nameever.
If somebody ever asked me whatI was wearing, I'd feel ashamed
to tell them.
Would you just say Le Mail.
Then you lie to them, becausethen they go.
I'm going to get that for myhusband.
Myke (05:25):
They're like this doesn't smell like that guy.
Yeah, I think it's actuallypronounced LaMail, LaMail,
whatever.
I saw somebody else had FrancisCourchon on oh, and he
pronounced it that way.
They were just talking abouthow far it's kind of come.
Ryan (05:35):
Well, this is what I'll say about it.
It was everything we just saida minute ago.
My only thing is and I don'tthink it's that much more
expensive being pure.
Myke (05:44):
This isn't Francis Kirkjohn, by the way.
I think it was Quentin Bishright who perfumed.
Yes.
Ryan (05:48):
The John Paul.
But I am saying like Justclarifying as far as my skip it,
sample it, buy it, yes, I wouldsay I would lean towards.
If I was going to get that kindof smell, I would go the Dior
home intents.
I think it just does everythingthat that does perfectly.
But I think it's that the JohnPaul's trying to do something
different and for their brand.
(06:09):
But it is kind of similar toDior, right, but for that price
it's good.
I just feel like Dior kind ofdoes edge it out.
So if I was going to get one,it'd be that.
So for me it's a polite skip iswhat I was trying to say All
that to skip.
Myke (06:25):
I'd recommend it as a sample.
For sure, I'd occasionallyspray it on, but it's nothing
that I would ever spend money on.
If I, like you know, didn'thave anything that day and for
whatever reason was in dillard'sand for whatever reason was
drawn to the specific shape ofthat bottle, I might spray it on
that day maybe all right, let'sget out of this segment, okay,
(06:46):
before something else pops up,and let's smell this brand new
zirjoff louis 15, 17, 22 okay,ryan, here it is thank you now
admitted, this is Mike's episode, by the way.
Ryan (07:06):
He was like I really want to smell that new Zergy.
Myke (07:09):
Yeah, I was.
Like you know.
We haven't done a Zergy off inI don't know three weeks.
Yeah, might as well do anotherone, right.
Ryan (07:17):
And you know I was like going with the flow.
But then when I was doing alittle research you know my
in-depth two and a half minuteresearch before the show, I was
looking at the notes for thisand one of the top notes is
champagne.
So my question to you and tomyself do we think this is going
to be a little bubbly, a littlepop in the top open?
Myke (07:36):
Oh, a little cork soaker yeah.
Ryan (07:41):
Is this going to be a cork soaker?
I don't know.
All right, let's see.
Myke (07:46):
I mean, I have smelled this before.
Ryan (07:48):
Never mind, I have soaked a cork before.
Myke (07:58):
Oh my, oh my, come on come on, I gotta give it to old
zirgy what are you whiffing?
Ryan (08:19):
well, first off, I do not get vodka and a little bit of
berry, something that wouldsound like it would kind of
imply it's a little harsh burn,right, wouldn't you think that?
Myke (08:29):
Well, I could see like a vodka tonic vibe that I can get
Gin and tonic, that's sort ofbright, effervescent alcoholic.
Ryan (08:39):
It smells really good, real good.
Myke (08:43):
I was a whiny little bitch in Italy.
Oh, in Italy, yeah, yeah.
Ryan (08:49):
Over what?
What were you, a whiny littlebitch about?
Myke (08:52):
Well, I'm going to say, on average, joe called me out on
this.
I got to make sure he listensto this episode so he knows I'm
with the guys and we've had acouple of parties up until this
one, and the Surge Off was byfar the wildest, most
entertaining party.
Yeah, and we're drinkingchampagne.
Up until a certain time.
(09:13):
They don't have the mixedcocktails, and what Zerjoff
would do at their parties whichis really cool is that they
would do drinks inspired byfragrances that they were
releasing.
It's really fun.
They're very well thought outand it is like a very immersive
experience.
But for the first I don't knowhour and a half, two hours, it's
just a champagne bar and I wastelling the guys we had been to
(09:35):
a couple of parties where it wasstrictly champagne and I'm not
a guy who can just drinkchampagne after champagne, after
champagne.
Yeah, like, give me one or twoglasses and then I'm kind of
done with it.
Yeah, champagne, like give meone or two glasses and then I'm
kind of done with it.
Yeah, you know.
And so the joke was I would justgo like guys, I'm just so bored
of drinking champagne, you know, like this is bougie, like oh,
couldn't be bothered to drinkanother champagne guys.
(09:57):
Oh, you know we're all jokingabout it because like when in
your life are you ever thatspoiled?
So I literally told the guys Iwas like I've had two or three
glasses of champagne.
I was just like I got to bedone until the other drinks come
out.
I just can't drink a lot of it.
And we're waiting around andthen I walk over and I see on
(10:19):
average Joe and I go hey man,how you doing?
He goes, I'm doing amazing.
I'm at this badass Zerjoffparty.
I'm surrounded by amazingpeople.
I'm drinking Zerjoff Rose,which they only bring out for
very special occasions.
This is very special champagnethat they make.
And he's going on and on and inthat moment I felt a twinge of
(10:43):
guilt of going.
Why can't I just appreciatethis moment?
Ryan (10:48):
Were you doing the Larry David 15-minute window view?
Myke (10:51):
I think so, you think so.
Yeah, just on the alcoholicbeverages yeah, okay, because
it's like I don't sip anything.
I don't slowly, you know,masticate anything.
I'm like I put it down.
Yeah, you masticate veryvigorously.
I have very vigorouslymastication, and the same with
(11:14):
hydration.
I can't help it If I havesomething in my hand, it's like
I need to it's got to go in yourmouth, yeah, for sure.
Something like and at one pointI've got both hands full.
I'm like I got to make sureboth these go in my mouth very
quickly, you know, yeah um.
One you gotta masticate, one yougotta swallow yeah, exactly
yeah, there's just a lot goingon.
(11:34):
Yeah, you know how theseparties get.
Yeah, so I drink the drinksreally fast, just because, again
, like I'll, if I have it in myhand I'm gonna drink it.
I can't, for whatever reason, Ilack the throttle to like just
be slowly.
You know, that's why I can'treally get into wine.
I'm just like I can't go likeappreciate it, opening up and
(11:56):
whatever.
You know I'm like done so.
I went through a couple, but Ididn't take the time to really
appreciate it.
And then, whenever I talked tojoe, I was like you know, this
guy is like he's savoring it,he's taking it in, he's really
enjoying it.
Yeah, and I'm just going, ifI'm gonna pound drinks, they
gotta be like not champagne.
You know, I'm the same way withbeer, though I can't just sit
(12:20):
there and pound beers all night.
Yeah, like, give me somethingharder, really, yeah.
Ryan (12:25):
Yeah, I guess I kind of get that.
It's weird that me and you arejust not big drinkers really, or
smokers, tokers Right.
Myke (12:33):
Midnight jokers, Jokers yeah.
Ryan (12:36):
Yeah, we're just.
You put a fucking cake in frontof us though.
Yeah, pounding it.
Yeah, we are taking it to poundtown.
Myke (12:47):
We're all caked up.
Now going back to thisfragrance here yeah let it to
you know, do its own masticationthere's something I really like
about this.
Ryan (12:56):
I'm going to describe kind of some notes that I feel like
I I'm going to try somethinghere.
Okay, swear to god, the onlynote, the first note that I saw
what too I like champagne andplum was the top note, and the
first note that I saw, too I'lllie, champagne and plum was the
top note and I didn't look atany of the other notes, because
when I saw champagne I go, ohman, this might be a little
bubbly, right, right, which Idon't really get that bubbly
fizzy champagne, Really yeah.
(13:18):
I do Really Okay.
On the skin you don't Notreally, but it's not a bad thing
.
I'm just like what I'm smellingdoes smell good, but I kind of
get like this almost citrusy Iwould almost say lime, maybe
some rosemary type thing.
But also with what do you callit?
I do kind of get boozy.
I wouldn't say like rum, butlike an alcoholic base type
(13:38):
thing, kind of like the gin andtonic thing I was about to say
I'm getting very gin and tonicon it.
But it's so smooth, Like it'sreally smooth.
It's like so smooth that that'swhy I can't buy into my brain
of it being like fizzy kind of.
Myke (13:51):
Oh okay, it's so blended well, yeah, this just has that.
You're right, it does have acitrus sort of quality to it.
To me it does kind of have thatbubbly sort of thing.
That's why I really feel likeit does have like a gin and
tonic sort of vibe and I do lovethose dude.
It's been a minute since I'vehad a gin and tonic dude.
I feel like if I bumped intojoe and I'd been drinking gin
(14:12):
and tonics all night, I've beenlike I'm great I'm surrounded by
great people.
Ryan (14:17):
I'm drinking gin and tonics all night let me do read
the notes really quick, let'ssee if I got anywhere close.
There's champagne, grapefruit,plum, saffron, that's all.
Top Middle notes are hazelnut,coffee, rose, lavender and cocoa
or cocoa.
Base notes are sandalwood,white musk, cashmere, incense
and leather.
I honestly, other than prettymuch the grapefruit and
(14:40):
champagne, I don't get anythingelse.
Myke (14:45):
And to me it's like champagne, lime, rosemary.
I can get some of thesavoriness that kind of reminds
me of the saffron.
Really, I can kind of get thata little bit.
Yeah, man, it is so good,though I'm going to be real with
you.
So at this party, the firstthing they did, they announced
that they were doing twocollaborative fragrances with
Duran Duran, which is cool.
A couple of guys came out forthat Before that.
(15:11):
They were talking about 2024releases and they went around
and sprayed them and passed outtesters and everybody kind of
smelled them.
One was Purple, lachinto, onewas this one.
There were a few more that's inthis discovery set, and I think
it's because I was drinkingchampagne at the time.
Why am I like so sour when itcomes to champagne?
But I was drinking champagne atthe time.
That one went around that Ijust quickly sniffed it and was
kind of turned off by it Really,but now I'm really, really
(15:34):
enjoying it.
Ryan (15:35):
So this one, you did get a sneak peek.
Myke (15:37):
Yes, yeah, at their release party, gotcha, which
again was so fun, we had a greattime.
I am being kind of whiny aboutthe whole champagne thing.
It really is a fantasticonce-in-a-lifetime thing.
I think we just were kind of inthis mode of like.
We were just having fun beinggoofy, luscious, you know, and I
(16:00):
felt bad because I was kind ofin this mode of like, we were
just having fun being goofy,luscious, you know, and I felt
bad because I was walking aroundand I just would not have a
drink in my hand because I'mlike I don't want to drink a
shitload of champagne.
Yeah, I feel like thisepisode's quickly becoming
Mike's hatred to champagneepisode, which is just so weird
and boring.
Isn't that weird?
That's a weird, boring episodewe don't want that.
(16:21):
But for whatever reason, I meanwe can talk about your
mastication skills.
Well, they did have someinteresting food there as well.
They had little sliders, butthen they also had spoons with
weird seafood things on them andstuff.
Ryan (16:36):
Okay, let me ask this because I kind of this vibe with
, like some weddings we'veworked in the past or some type
of big event.
I'm always leery of big eventfood because I always feel like
it always comes out in smallproportions one, two.
It's always like never hot.
It's always like, you know, thecatering company has been there
all day and they've got, likeyou know, little bunsen burners
(16:59):
underneath fucking aluminumthings and yeah, like the little
alcohol type cans that yeah,and it's like barely like warm
food.
Myke (17:07):
It's always gross to me yeah, and they have like the
tartar type stuff which is likeyou don't know if you're gonna
be able to trust that or not.
Yeah, I mean, was the food likethat?
There was just like it was nice.
Everything about this party wastop notch.
It was really a great time.
There were a few really funones.
I would say the most funspectacle type night was
(17:31):
Zerjoff's party, gotcha.
They really put on quite a show.
There was a lot of stuff to see.
The mixed drinks based on thefragrances were badass.
This year they were so good.
Yeah, that's where I really gotto hang out with Anthony Curly
Scents guy, yeah, and we got tochatting and then we all went
over to the Nishane party andthen it was like we became BFFs
(17:52):
all of us.
Oh man, but at that party therewas just Did you ever mention
me to all these new people?
I try not to as much aspossible.
Just making sure they're like,oh, you do the podcast and I'll
be like, yeah, I do the podcastand they'll go, just you and
I'll go.
Yeah, I can't think of anybodyelse that's like regular.
And then I'll go like sometimesI'll go oh, you know what?
(18:16):
Steve actually shows upoccasionally, I think.
Ryan (18:18):
Uh, chris has been on two or three, but yeah, other than
that it's, it's pretty much justme, you know um you know it's
gonna have one day I'm gonnasomehow make some type of event
and somehow, some way, I'm gonnabe like a legend among people.
You think, oh yeah, like thatguy was fucking amazing, he did
(18:38):
remember that he did.
Myke (18:39):
I just don't see that happening in a social setting.
In a social setting, I justdon't see that happening If you
get them sequestered off bythemselves maybe.
Ryan (18:50):
Bringing them in for questioning or something.
Myke (18:52):
Yeah, pretty much.
That's what it would feel likeFucking interrogate these people
.
I'd be like, if you want tomeet ryan, he's actually over in
the corner over there under thespotlight, so if you'll just go
, he's under the heating lampsright now hey, quickly, let me
hit you with the price andpopularity.
Ryan (19:07):
On this price, 275 euros for 50 ml.
Oh shit, a little pricey, thatis pricey.
However, you can find some graymarket areas fragrance net, I
(19:28):
think they're around 120something.
120?
I think so.
Myke (19:31):
126 or something.
Wow, man, now we would neverencourage somebody to do that,
but that does sound moreaffordable.
But that does sound moreaffordable.
Ryan (19:41):
It does sound more affordable and the popularity is
a 4.25 out of 5.
Myke (19:47):
Of course I would agree with that.
As much as I don't likechampagne, this champagne
fragrance is really tumbling myrocks.
Ryan (19:55):
I'll say this and then I need you to tell me who you
think's wearing this, butprobably since.
Was it Renaissance that wesmelled back in the day?
Okay, yeah, what's the one wesmelled in the back room over
there?
It was either Renaissance orNeo, one of the two or maybe
both, but pretty much sincethose two, this is the only
Zerjoff that's really stood outlike.
Blown my mind for real, really.
(20:17):
Yeah, I'm not making a a big todo about this episode, because
I've just been listening to yourambling on about I feel bad and
hate fucking wine.
Myke (20:24):
No, I said champagne.
Ryan (20:25):
There's a difference he was masticating, but uh franks
and beans but this has been asurprisingly really good
fragrance.
Myke (20:39):
Man, I have to say I typically really enjoy Zerjoff
fragrances.
I can't think of one thatreally put me off.
You know what I?
Ryan (20:48):
actually stumbled back.
I don't know if it was a mainepisode or a patron episode.
We did an episode on Hiyot orwhatever.
That is Not Giyot, don't get it.
Don't get it, uh, confused, buthe ought.
Or hi-yot, whatever the fuck.
Myke (21:03):
Uh-huh, that fragrance, yeah, mind-blowing good, yes,
that was a main episode, so youcould you're able to find that
man.
That was after year one, sothat's three years ago.
Ryan (21:17):
That was no way that's three years ago, yeah it was
after the first year of assanceI'm literally going to look on
spotify and prove that you're agoddamn liar.
There's no way three years.
You think that's been threeyears since we've smelled at
least two I can believe two,maybe.
Myke (21:35):
Yeah, it'd have to be two if it was close to yeah, because
the first first year was aroundapril, so it would have been
two years ago this month, yeahit was actually april 10th.
Yeah, there you go of 2023 sothat must have been one of, if
not the first episode we didafter I came back.
Ryan (21:57):
Good lord, yeah and it came that little bitty like yeah
, it was just plain oil.
Myke (22:02):
It was not like an atomized thing.
So, saying all of that, as faras zirjoff goes, now there are
some fragrances that I go.
This is not for me, likeherbapura, yeah, but I do enjoy
it on other people.
One thing that zirjoff doesthere's power behind the
fragrances.
I've never once been like man.
A Zerjoff doesn't really lastlong.
Ryan (22:23):
Yeah, it does.
This one's doing that kind oflike.
I always say this but like Pier1, like wicker furniture, kind
of vintage smell thing to me, Ilove it.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I love it.
Myke (22:33):
I wonder why your nose goes there.
I don't really pick that upthere.
Ryan (22:40):
I don't really pick that up, I don't know.
I just I just think about allthe wicker furniture that I
would like walk by when I was akid, at pure one.
But who is wearing this though?
Who, in your mind, would youcalculate, might possibly be
wearing this while theymasticate?
Myke (22:51):
well, they have to be into fragrances, because this is
pretty niche okay.
You think this is yes.
You don't think this is prettyniche Okay?
Ryan (22:58):
You think this is yes, you don't think this is a pretty, I
guess, mass appealing, no, no,no.
Myke (23:03):
I think it's mass appealing as a fragrance, but I
mean as far as the actualfragrance goes.
To know about Zerjoff, you gotto be at least getting into
fragrances quite a bit.
You're going to have to go toNeiman's instead of Dillard's,
yeah.
You're going to have to besearching around for something
special, yeah.
So you got to get past yourcreeds and past your MFKs.
(23:25):
You're not hanging out in DrugEmporium, nope.
So then, once you get intoZerjoff's, then you've also got
to get into specialty fragrancesbased on champagne.
That's a very specific person.
Ryan (23:38):
That is pretty specific.
So I think you really have tobe into fragrances that being
said, yeah, do you feel likethis is unisex?
Do you feel like masculineleaning?
Myke (23:50):
I do feel like there's more masculine, but that would
not scare me away from smellingon a beautiful lady yeah, I'm
saying I mean it is listed asunisex of course.
Ryan (23:59):
Yeah, but I do agree it is kind of leaning more masculine.
But you would not be offendedif a woman was wearing this.
No, I'd probably be like hey,yeah, want to watch me masticate
.
Myke (24:10):
Yeah, that's ryan's favorite word today.
He said it more times than me.
It does smell.
I mean, this is a badassfragrance.
I think it's a little more onthe mature side.
I think it's gonna be 25 and up.
At least it's been a freshthing since you said that, I
don't think it's gonna besomething that the youngins I
(24:32):
just don't see many tiktokinfluencers wearing this thing,
but I could see somebody likesteve wearing it.
Oh, but I could see somebodylike Steve wearing it, oh, yeah.
Ryan (24:42):
Yeah, I could see Steve.
God damn dude, I don't know.
This opening is fucking gnarly.
It is good.
Myke (24:48):
Yeah, it's really, really nice.
This has to be one of myfavorite Zerjoffs I've ever
smelled.
Ryan (24:54):
That's what I'm saying.
I haven't been making a bigdeal about it, but maybe it's
like when you have a good, youknow, when you have a good meal,
you just kind of shut up.
Myke (25:02):
Nobody's not talking, yeah , nobody's talking right.
Ryan (25:05):
That's kind of how I feel about this.
Myke (25:06):
Nobody's not talking Whatever.
No, I said that that's a doublenegative.
What a fucking idiot, what agoddamn moron.
Ryan (25:15):
Good Lord, what is wrong with my brain?
You didn't have your nicotineyet, have you?
Myke (25:18):
No, I have had it.
You did.
When did you chew it?
I threw it in on the way backfrom lunch.
Ryan (25:26):
Really.
Oh yeah, he got wings, just soyou guys know.
Myke (25:31):
You feel like champagnes and chicken wings go together.
Really?
No, not at all.
Ryan (25:37):
But you know I'm serious.
This is seriously prettyelevated and nice.
It's very elegant, very pretty.
Myke (25:43):
Speaking of vodka and tonic, by the way, and hot wings
, we go to this restaurant.
The other day have I told thisstory?
Yet I always get a carbonatedwater with lime, club soda,
whatever you want to call it,mm-hmm.
And then a person who's not ourserver comes over and says you
(26:04):
got the carbonated water right,oh, you did not tell this story.
Ryan (26:07):
Yes, sorry, Go on.
Myke (26:09):
And so I was like, yeah, and he goes here's a refill for
you.
And he looked at you real weird, like that Kind of weird.
And he hands me a glass thatdoesn't have any ice in it, it's
just it's full to the brim andit's like what would you say?
It's like a 32 ounce cup, yeah.
And so I'm like, okay, and Ihave my pretty much all the way
(26:30):
drunk carbonated water in my cup.
So then I just dump the rest ofit on there and I start
drinking it.
And the first thing I say is,oh shit, he gave me sprite by
accident, which has happened inthe past.
I'll drink a little bit more.
And I'm like huh.
So I hand ryan the, the fill-upglass that he gave me, that
(26:52):
still had, you know, like a tinybit left, and I go taste this.
This tastes like it has alcoholin it.
And you drink and you go, thathas alcohol in it.
And I've already, and you go,that has alcohol in it and I've
already been like slurping downon this thing.
Oh yeah, yeah, you know I do.
I already told you I'm like,you know, I pound them back.
So I'm like, huh, well, okay,yeah, when in Rome?
(27:16):
So I was like whatever, so Idrink it.
Yeah, when in Rome, right?
So I was like whatever, so Idrink it.
And then our normal servercomes over at the end of the
thing and she's giving us thetickets and she goes did
somebody happen to give you aglass full of vodka earlier?
And I was like yeah, prettysure.
She's.
Like I'm so sorry, that was notmeant to go to this table and I
(27:36):
was like thank you.
Ryan (27:40):
Do you think it was something nefarious that we were
kind of actually pulled into,or do you think just somebody
ordered like, yeah, give me adouble shot of vodka and you
know?
Myke (27:44):
that?
Yeah, I don't know, because itwas in like a styrofoam to go
cup full.
Yeah, nothing in it, no ice oranything.
Normally if you get like one ofthose type of drinks, it's
gonna have like some ice in it.
It's got got a little garnishor something, maybe like a lime
wedge or something I think theywere doing something a little
under.
(28:05):
Maybe they were trying to hookup one of the people that comes
in regularly and the guy whobrought it to me is kind of new,
yeah, and you know there's alot of bald guys.
So she was probably like, hey,you know, go give this bald guy
the yeah, like it's.
Like it's a goddamn epidemic Imean, nearly 50 of men will
(28:26):
experience some balding.
Really, oh yeah, damn, it's ahard world out there.
But yeah, afterwards I was likeriding back with you after
lunch.
I was like man, I may startdrinking at lunch.
I feel pretty great.
Ryan (28:43):
Hey, random question Is there anything linked to having,
I guess, either testosterone atan early age or so much
testosterone at an early age towhere it does lead to be
involved?
Oh for sure, yeah, because Ifeel like I'm not trying to take
shots, but I feel like when Iwas growing up, I remember a
couple of guys in high schoolwe're talking full-on grown man,
(29:04):
40-year-old beards, yeah andeven then they were kind of
getting a little pepper hair andI was like God damn it, you're
in high school, getting likethat.
And then the ball.
Myke (29:11):
Oh yeah, I've seen guys that are like, seriously, I
still have more hair than theyhad.
Crazy, and it's like, yeah,from what I understand as being
a bald man, the moretestosterone.
This is one cause of it.
There are many, but the mainone is either your testosterone
(29:32):
is too high, your body convertstestosterone or the estrogen
production of it to DHT.
Dht is what causes balding.
So the higher you have of thecorrelating to the more DHT you
have which makes you go bald.
There's either that, but thenthere's also head shape, because
blood flow and circulation hasan effect too.
(29:53):
So certain people with certainshaped heads will experience
balding more than others.
It's part of the reason whyladies have less balding than
men is because you notice likethe shape of their head is quite
a bit different.
Ryan (30:06):
so I hear I'm not an expert, obviously, as one who
just has a bald head doesn'tmean that I know everything
about balding you know, I knowthis is gonna be random and then
I'll get into the skibbets,whatever, but you know we should
really talk about that thing,okay, in a future episode that
you had me record.
(30:27):
I know that sounds really bad,but no oh, yes, yes, yes, that.
Thing yeah, because that wasoriginally.
You were like we should talkabout this on the podcast.
I do agree.
Yes, we shall.
So I think we will.
Myke (30:40):
That is right, we will, we'll talk about a thing that I
recorded yeah skip it, sample itor buy it.
What are you gonna do, ryan?
Ryan (30:55):
it is really good.
Guys.
I've been saying this a lotlately polite skip, it's like.
This is my way of saying, likeI really love this, but I
wouldn't buy it because Iseriously just thinking about
Hyatt, whatever the fuck Ireally think that, to me, is the
(31:15):
best Zerjoff fragrance I'veever smelled.
Okay, and if I was going to buya Zerjoff, that would have to
be my first one, so that's why.
But, that being said, if I hadthat, this would probably be.
I mean, this is definitely ahard sample, but this could be a
buy, but for right now, politeskip, it is seriously good.
Myke (31:32):
You're not even going to sample.
Huh, Polite skip.
Ryan (31:34):
I think it's because I honestly want to buy it, but I
wouldn't make it my first buy.
Myke (31:38):
Hmm, I would just say, you know, if Serge off having a
listen to this or anything, heyJersey, I love a bottle of this.
Ryan (31:47):
You're not going to get a bottle no, no, I'm not.
Myke (31:49):
I'm not, although I do wish that.
And if we had received thisinstead of purple agento, I
would have had a very hard timegiving it to a patreon yeah, I'm
with you on that, for sure,because I would want to keep it.
I think to me, if you eithersee a sudden influx of monetary
(32:10):
endowment yeah, I could seedoing it that way or if you were
to now, I would never recommendgoing to one of these dirty,
scheming gray markets and buyingit for a lower price.
I would not do that.
Ryan (32:30):
That's not right.
Myke (32:32):
But if you're like me, that might be the only way you
could afford it, but I wouldnever, ever, never, do something
like that or encourage you todo something like that if you
put a springfield hellcat prouh-huh to my freaking head and
you look down that, you fuckingsites.
Ryan (32:51):
Yeah, the Tritium U site yeah.
And you asked me if I'd buy, Iwould seriously buy this.
I would too.
It is really good.
It's a polite skip.
Myke (33:01):
I want the other stuff Just based on price right,
Because you're pushing nearly300 bones for a 50 mil.
Ryan (33:06):
No, honestly, my reasoning is seriously going my first Zer
jersey off would have to be theother one, the high.
Oh yeah, yeah, but if I hadthat, it's this man.
I'm grabbing this.
This smells so good and, by theway, I feel like this is.
We never mentioned this in anepisode, but this is right up
your freaking alley yeah, I'mobsessed with it it's kind of
subtle, you know it's not toocrazy.
Myke (33:26):
Yeah, I'm trying to say I fucking love this thing.
Yeah, and mean, again, we don'thave the pool.
I know there are someinfluencers out there that
somehow get their hands on bigjuicy bottles and, who knows,
they probably bought it withtheir own money.
So it's an unbiased review.
Yeah, it could be.
You know how that works.
(33:47):
You buy something and if youbuy it with your own money, then
you can't be biased.
How that works.
You buy something and if youbuy it with your own money, then
you can't be biased.
But if there was a way to get afree bottle of this, I'd be
begging for it.
You'd be on your hands andknees.
I'd go.
What do we got to do?
What do I need to say?
Tell me what you want me to say.
Zerjoff, I'll say it.
Could I trade my integrity fora bottle of this?
(34:10):
I might do it.
Ryan (34:12):
We were talking about integrity trading this morning
over coffee.
It's true Mike was having his.
I guess I would call it hisannual, I don't know.
Looking at the fragrance, worldmeltdown.
Myke (34:28):
Yeah, I felt like I was staring down the barrel of a
Springfield Hellcat Pro RyanWith the tritium sights.
Ryan (34:35):
Are you trying to insinuate anything?
Let's keep bringing this up.
Myke (34:39):
No, no, no, which actually it made us think about doing a
Fragrance Philosophy episodewith our Fireside Chat friends.
Ryan (34:48):
Yeah, on the struggle of loving fragrances but not loving
the fragrance industry yeah,and the and that kind of sounds
ominous, like the fragranceindustry as a whole is bad.
That's not correct.
No, there's.
Myke (35:04):
So there's a lot of good in there I think to the vast
majority of just everyday peopleit's not as big of a concern,
but I think it.
Once you get deep enough intofragrances that you're listening
to a fucking podcast about it,you're probably in the same boat
as we are, yeah.
And then you do have to startfiguring out what you're going
to do with your money and who,what brands you're going to
(35:26):
align with and what contentcreators are going to align with
and what avenues you're goingto take.
That sort of a thing Do you getto where you go?
I just those dirty gray marketpeople start to feel a little
weird about it.
Ryan (35:46):
Well, guys, we're not holding a Springfield Hellcat
pro to your head, but I willtell you you should absolutely
check out the patreon.
I'm going to pitch it one lasttime because I'm proud of it and
I'm proud of the people in itand I absolutely stand by that
statement.
Yeah, we have some fuckingincredible people in there.
So much so I mean, there's beenpeople that I've seriously have
(36:07):
.
I'm gonna say this it's bad onus.
Okay, look, there's a millionthings going on.
We have our own lives outsideof this.
We also try to I mean, they'renot much, but they're ours but
we try to do good by the patronover everything.
And there's still some thatslip through the cracks and then
we notice it.
We'll see them.
(36:27):
I'm not going to say a specificname, but it's like, or
specific names in this case, butwe've had two recently One we
never reached out to when theybecame a patron.
We always try to go hey, thankyou for joining the patron, and
how'd you find us?
And try to have some small chatto one where it's like we had
good conversation but we hadn'ttalked to them in a year and yet
they're still here, they'restill supportive and they're
contributing to our community,to our Fireside Chats, and I
(36:49):
just have to seriously commendeverybody, everybody, and I mean
that wholeheartedly.
You got to come in there checkit out.
It's fucking badass man.
Myke (37:00):
Yeah, I actually had one guy who followed me on my
personal Instagram and Ifollowed him back and then he
was like whoa, I didn't expectyou to follow me back.
And I was like you're a patron,you're basically my family.
Yeah, of course I got to knowwhat you're up to, you know?
Yeah, we keep them updated onall of our bills.
Ryan (37:19):
They know if mom and dad are not going to be able to keep
this thing together or not?
Myke (37:21):
Yeah, for sure.
Ryan (37:22):
Hey, we love you guys.
Thank you for coming on theshow and until next time, spray
it.
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