Have you ever wondered what it's like to connect on a deeper level with someone who's miles away, just through a shared love for fragrances? As your hosts, we got to live this experience when we chatted with Dan, a fellow scent enthusiast from across the pond. Our candid conversation, a delightful mix of humor and nostalgia, took a surprising turn as we found ourselves reminiscing about Tom Ford's discontinued Plum Japonais and speculating on the nuances of Axiom by Soma Parfums, thanks to Tony (@Fragdicted)'s intriguing Instagram recommendation.
If you've been on the hunt for that perfect signature scent, somewhere in your 30s or older, Axiom might just be the fragrance you've been waiting for. This week, we plunge into a fascinating debate on Axiom's price point, its current standing in the fragrance world, and why it could make an excellent gift for those who love their scents with a punch. As we journey back in time, reflecting on how our lives have metamorphosed since 2016, we invite you to join us, sharing our passion for the captivating world of fragrances. Spoiler Alert: Expect lots of laughter, a few revelations, and an aroma-infused conversation you won't forget anytime soon!
Have you ever wondered what it's like to connect on a deeper level with someone who's miles away, just through a shared love for fragrances? As your hosts, we got to live this experience when we chatted with Dan, a fellow scent enthusiast from across the pond. Our candid conversation, a delightful mix of humor and nostalgia, took a surprising turn as we found ourselves reminiscing about Tom Ford's discontinued Plum Japonais and speculating on the nuances of Axiom by Soma Parfums, thanks to Tony (@Fragdicted)'s intriguing Instagram recommendation.
If you've been on the hunt for that perfect signature scent, somewhere in your 30s or older, Axiom might just be the fragrance you've been waiting for. This week, we plunge into a fascinating debate on Axiom's price point, its current standing in the fragrance world, and why it could make an excellent gift for those who love their scents with a punch. As we journey back in time, reflecting on how our lives have metamorphosed since 2016, we invite you to join us, sharing our passion for the captivating world of fragrances. Spoiler Alert: Expect lots of laughter, a few revelations, and an aroma-infused conversation you won't forget anytime soon!
What's up everybody? Welcome to a brand new episode of the Colonial Podcast. My name's Mike.
Myke:
And my name's Ryan. We're two best friends. We're going on a fragrance journey. We're smelling fragrances from people we called assholes and giving you our uneducated opinion.
Ryan:
Yeah, we're going to be smelling Axiom by Summer Parfums.
Myke:
If you just listened to the episode, we had Dan on the podcast, how?
Ryan:
strange of a world. Is it where you can go? Hey, somebody's an asshole from thousands of miles away here in America, yeah, and some British bloke calls you up and says, hey, I'm that guy.
Myke:
Yeah, and then he comes on the podcast and totally redeems himself.
Ryan:
To be fair, he had nothing to redeem. He proved to be an actually very amazing person. That's probably one of the funnest interviews, personally, I've had.
Myke:
Yeah, it was a lot of fun, great episode. If you haven't listened to it, go and listen to it. We had such a blast. What a cool guy. And I'm expecting this fragrance to be pretty cool because it was recommended by another cool guy from the UK. That's right, tony. Tony Fragdick did on Instagram.
Ryan:
We've been talking about this backstage or behind the scene, I should say in the green room. Yeah, we're like. I was like dude. Why is it that we always gel With like British people so well? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what it is, but we just do. Why don't they just live here in Texas, where it's really fucking hot and you guys can actually get a suntan?
Myke:
Yeah, come on, you guys would look good with a little bit of shade on you. Here's another person I think we might connect with. Horlicks before bed on Fragdantica. Yeah Says this is a fantastic fragrance from Soma. It has totally blown me away. It reminds me a bit of a nineties fragrance, like DNG by man slash Gucci in V, but Axiom has its own thing going on. Very long lasting and beautiful presentation, 10 out of 10. Horlicks before bed Horlicks like W H O R E, no H O R, l, I, c, k, s, b, the number four and then bed. How do people come up with their fucking handles dude.
Myke:
I have a feeling there's a meaning behind that somewhere. I mean, it's like one of these. You're going to have to dig really deep to really search for the meaning, but I think it's there.
Ryan:
Good God, dude. Okay, well, before we get into this juicy yeah, juicy supposedly good fragrance, let's do our one night stand review of Wow, don't worry, Mike, I'll do all the work. Please, dude.
Myke:
You've got years and years and years to make up for.
Ryan:
I'll never hear the end of this. Why'd you have to do that? Why'd you have to make me?
Myke:
look like a fool out there. Oh, it's the Tom Ford plum Japanese.
Ryan:
Okay, tom Ford's Plum Japanese.
Myke:
Hit the music, Todd yeah.
Ryan:
One night stand review. Well, mike, after spending the night once again with your best pal, tom Ford and his other friend, estee Lauder yeah, what do you have to say about the discontinued Plum Japanese? He lets you just get in the sheets and just experience it for a little bit, just to show you that he's burning it all up in the trash can after he dumps alcohol in it.
Myke:
Well, after having those beautiful plums in my mouth, the juice is running down my chin. Yeah, just slurping on a delicious plum, I got to say. It is a fantastic fragrance.
Ryan:
It really is, and we sprayed it again the other day. It keeps getting better. That thing smells good. I'm shocked it does not exist really anymore. I mean, there's obviously old formulations out there in circulation which windling every minute of the day.
Myke:
I can see why some people are paying upwards of $1,000 on eBay for a sweet bottle of that juice. It's good.
Ryan:
If it was still available.
Myke:
would you buy it Like at a regular, normal, every man sort of price? Yeah, I totally would. I think I would too. That was pretty juicy. Yeah, as we learned from Dan can't pay retail. Yeah.
Ryan:
I have a few sites up my sleeve, like all the other plebians.
Myke:
I think if we could get a good deal on it, yeah I would, and I would wear it because the dry down's amazing as well, yeah it was really good.
Ryan:
Probably one of the better Tom Ford fragrances and probably one of the few Tom Ford fragrances that actually last a good while.
Myke:
I was just about to say what. Did it not give you quite a bit of performance?
Ryan:
That's probably why the motherfucker discontinued it. He's like we can't afford to have performance on this shit.
Myke:
Yeah we can't keep squirting these plums and dripping the juices.
Ryan:
All right, so I feel like that's a buy from both of us, if it still existed.
Myke:
Yeah, you can tell we're ready to get into those fragrances, like did you like it? I liked it. I liked it, you liked it, great, ok, now on to the fragrance we've been waiting to smell since we talked with Tony Axiom, by Soma Parfons.
Ryan:
Now, before we spray this, my recollection. I'm trying to bring back the conversation. Todd's really dragon ass on edit, so it's been a minute since we've talked to Tony. Yeah, but from my recollection he kind of said it was like did he say this? Or I'd imagine this, Something about it being kind of like a dream sickle kind of thing. He did say that. Yeah, Full disclosure. I hate dream sickles.
Myke:
You do. Yeah, I love the smell of them. Your brother loves them. God he loves those, I love them. Let me tell you what Ryan's brother hiped me to and I freaking love it. One time I saw him scoop himself out a bowl of homemade vanilla ice cream Bluebell, if you can get your hands on it and then he poured orange juice over it and I was like what in the hell? And he was like it's like a dream sickle in a bowl. And I did it and I was in love God.
Ryan:
You're really making me and my family sound like some redneck.
Myke:
I don't know dingleberries From the deep south of Mississippi. Yeah.
Ryan:
Hey, you just put a little bit of some of that sweet cream, ice cream in there and a little bit of orange juice.
Myke:
No sweet cream, that's too elevated. That means you're going to like Marvel slab or something.
Ryan:
Well, let's see if it smells like a dream sickle, because I do love that smell. I just hate tasting it. Slurp it down, baby, and the odds are I probably won't drink this. So that's a good, your dad would.
Myke:
Oh God, he has a little saying about fragrances.
Ryan:
Yeah, every time I say, hey, smell good. Well, I'd drink the sucker. It's a clown. Ok, love him.
Myke:
First initial impression. It's not as sweet as I thought it was going to be, which is actually a good thing. Give me a second.
Ryan:
I'm not trying to build suspense here. It does smell really good. Let me just yeah Off the rip. I'm just going to tell you guys that full disclosure, no bullshit, no tape backies. Like it smells pretty damn good, man. It is actually kind of hard to describe. I hate to do it like this though, and I know Mike's going to fucking kill me. The skin smells great. It kind of reminds me I don't want to say like a neroli type fragrance, not really, but there is like this orange, but it's like real subtle, but there's like this. It doesn't smell like LeMol, but you know how the original LeMol that we love now LeMol has this tingly around the fragrance. That's the best way I can kind of describe it. Okay, a little bit of that like if you put your hand up against an old TV and it had that little, you know the, you could fill the fuzz of the electrons or whatever happened. I don't know what the fuck radiation. Something's happening For sure. Yeah.
Myke:
Just got radiation in this.
Ryan:
No, but it has that like aura to me. That's the only way I can describe it. In my head it has like a little fizzy kind of aura. I don't think carbonated soda or something like that. It just kind of has that little thing that LeMol does. But it's like a sub dude orange. It's really kind of smooth, but I really like it. It's not a dream sickle so far to me at all.
Myke:
Yeah, two things. One, I'm shocked at how masculine this is. This is well beyond what I thought it was going to be. As far as that goes, very strong masculine. Two, I'm shocked at how old school this has Like.
Ryan:
The vibe is very old school and very cool, yeah, dan said he was like 50, blah, blah, something like that I think 40, ryan Jesus, don't give the man a decade. Just kidding. I can kind of see why he leaned into this. He's kind of from that era. I I kind of get that. I mean him. Both are kind of from the from the old to new. We fell right in the middle of that.
Myke:
Yeah, after we got done with the episode, we went back and had to write down all the fragrances he said and look them up, because we were like what he was like naming, like these, you know, like people who actually care about fragrances would know, yeah, and we're like oh, yeah, totally bro.
Ryan:
Dude, no offense, dan Didn't have a fucking clue, I swear to God. Not one fucking fragrance he mentioned. I was like, oh, yeah, that one. Yeah, I was just trying to like jerk God, like if he could see the sweat beads.
Myke:
I was just trying to get through it, yeah, it was like Tom Ford's and I'm like going like just say ombre leather, please, for my sake. Yes, I totally know that one. The leather smells great at that.
Ryan:
It really is. He says he's been doing it for like five plus years now. It really is a testament to the time that he has been obsessed with this kind of shit.
Myke:
Yeah, but it traces all the way back to even whenever he was like just became a 13-year-old in the world, you know. So he's loved it for 27 to 30 years.
Ryan:
I'm spraying it again. I want to get the opening, mmm.
Myke:
You know what? You made a mistake, because now I'm kind of getting more of that citrus vibe out of it. Really. Yeah, it should have calmed down. That intro is very nice, though. It is a very just strong masculine. It's got an old school vibe, doesn't smell dated, but it's got like some vintage cool to it. It's like bell bottoms, you know.
Ryan:
Yeah, it's kind of chill, but that's okay. I like where it's with. I really do it's very. It is really smooth for me. This is really smooth.
Myke:
I get where Tony was saying. It has like this creamy texture to it. Maybe that's where I'm trying to get at. It's like now, kind of that. It's starting to chill a little bit and of course we're burying our nose in it, but just smelling it on the card and on the skin it does lean into like the sweeter citrus now, which is nice.
Ryan:
Let's talk a little bit about the bottle. We usually don't, but they sent us a full bottle, not of this particular one, but we have a full presentation. Yeah, which one is that one?
Myke:
This one is serene and I got to say I really like it. I like the presentation, there's no frills about it, it's exactly what it needs to be, and I would expect that from somebody who's kind of like starting this from the ground up. You know, yeah, but the box looks cool.
Ryan:
It's feels very high quality it does.
Myke:
The texture of the box is great and a little magnetic top to the box Bottles look cool yeah.
Ryan:
I think it looks good.
Myke:
Well, let's hit them with the price and trend. Ryan, that's what you do best here on the show.
Ryan:
Well, if you were smelling this card and smelling how delicious this thing smells, this thing is pretty intimate. By the way, I thought this is an intimate scent Really Not date night. I just feel like it's somebody's laying their hand on your chest. They're going to smell this and they'll go, something like that. Oh okay, that was like supposed to be drooling, by the way.
Myke:
Oh, I was going somewhere else with that, but the I was like wow, they quickly moved from your chest to your navel, yeah, so, the price and trend. I disagree with you. First, by the way, I don't think this is as close of a fragrance as you think.
Ryan:
I think this is louder than you think, maybe, but the price and trend anyways, go ahead, yeah yeah, just had to stop and make sure I was wrong, yeah, so anyway, the price and trend Trend is actually pretty good. Yeah, they launched in May of this year, so it's relatively new guys. It really is Price for, I think, a 75 mil American dollars like 185 bucks. Not bad, not too bad. Like I said, get your nose on it Smells pretty good.
Myke:
Really anything under that $200 range, I feel like is an affordable way to get a good fragrance. You love a fragrance. If it's under 200 bucks, I feel like that's a fair buy.
Ryan:
I agree with that, Especially if you're trying to. I mean this qualifies as niche, I would think.
Myke:
Yeah for sure, if not indie, but at least niche. Although this doesn't strike me as like a challenging no, you know barely reach for it, I feel like you could really make this a signature scent, especially if you are kind of ours and Dan's age. It makes sense, it does. It also makes sense why Rajah does fragrances all feel like pretty mature, because I feel like he's kind of doing that. He's 100% doing that. He's like I'm just making fragrances for me and my buddies. He sounds just like that old Roger Bird.
Ryan:
The dry down of this smells great. I feel like it gets more masculine as it's drying down.
Myke:
See, I think it softens up, it gives more of that like orangey type. Now I'm kind of getting to that point where Tony was kind of talking about that sort of dream sickle. It's creamy, that orange is popping out. Now it's just a nice smooth citrus. It is a sharp fragrance. This is good. Yeah, I agree, I'm serious. It has a vibe of something I can't remember Like I can't remember what it was to put my finger on it, but it reminds me of a fragrance. It has this like sort of nostalgia to it. I'm vibing the fuck out of this. Yeah, this feels like you, so I'm going to open it up to you first. Ryan, okay, who is wearing Axiom?
Ryan:
I don't want to date it too much, even though I'm about to. I definitely think this is like a probably 30 to 35 and up.
Myke:
I'd say 35 and up Now that I just turned 35, 35 and up for sure.
Ryan:
I think it's 35 and up. I think it's something. You've experienced fragrances before you kind of want something masculine, yet kind of smooth, a little different. I think this is your cup of tea. This is for somebody that's I feel like it's somebody that's kind of I don't want to say, got their shit together, but I do want to say a person that is driven and they have a goal that they're trying to achieve, so they're just very focused, a focused individual. This feels like that.
Myke:
Yeah, it also feels like something you could really amaze somebody as a gift, somebody who likes to smell good in your life, that because you love fragrances and you're out there and you're smelling a bunch of different ones and you have such a roll of decks of beautiful scented things in your mind, I feel like for a friend or relative, someone who's masculine, that wears the sort of strong sense and you want to get them something really nice as a fragrance, this would be a nice gift to give somebody. I agree with that man, I really do.
Ryan:
I mean, we're getting close to Christmas, God man, why does time go by so fucking fast?
Myke:
I don't know, isn't that what Einstein said the faster you go, the less you experience time.
Ryan:
It must be, man. I just feel like goddamn. I feel like just for Americans, guys like 2016 era, like ever since then, on every spectrum of the imagination, everything has flown by like crazy. I'm like looking at a dog at my house now, that's like he's got a couple of years left. I'm like what the fuck happened, man?
Myke:
Yeah, even the dog has gray hair now.
Ryan:
I'm like fuck, I don't know man. But yeah, a lot of time has gone by, but yeah, this, this smells really good and I guess the good news, Dan, is you get to come back on the show.
Myke:
Yeah, yeah. I think he said at one point if you guys don't like it, I'll probably never do the podcast again, but if you do, I will, yeah, he was kidding.
Ryan:
He was like yeah, you can shit on it, I'll come back.
Myke:
Yeah, but that's the thing too, like, keep in mind. He did tell us we could be honest guys, we're not like jerking this dude's chain around. No, like for real. If we didn't like it, we could say so. So don't fucking accuse me of saying I like this if I don't, because I do like it, okay, skip it, sample it or buy it. What are you going to do, ryan? Well, mike, I think I want to go to the show.
Ryan:
Well, mike, I think I want to sample it more, but I also am saying it because we got other samples of stuff and a full bottle of something. I kind of want to know what the other stuff smells like before I do a full commitment on anything. I know I'm copping out right now.
Myke:
God that's such a cop out, yeah.
Ryan:
I would sample this. I don't think it's loud enough for me, but it smells really good. I like how it smells.
Myke:
I think you're wrong. I really think this is louder than you think.
Ryan:
It may be, but for me, right now, it's not. It's a good, intimate scent, like I would wear the fuck out of this. It smells great. The opening is gorgeous, seriously love the card star For the listener.
Myke:
You guys sample it. For me, I would consider buying this for one of two ways. One, if this would be a I'm dressed up. To me this feels like a more mature not in age, but in situation type fragrance. So I feel like for me, I would wear this to actually give a damn. Okay, you know, it isn't just like, uh, I got to smell good. This is like I want to smell good, but I also want to smell like sophisticated Okay, so I'd buy it for that. Or I would buy it for a gift because I'm I really feel like this is you. I'm shocked that you aren't just losing your shit on this.
Ryan:
I mean the smell. It smells incredible. I really do like the smell and just to kind of back up his statement, seriously, this would be a bad ass gift. Yeah, it's so funny. I mean these fragrance houses hopefully people can understand what I'm about to say. But all these fragrance houses let's just take the club day and the week one that you got not too long ago. We're like, wow, the presentation is crazy. It's cause it's like covering up for a lot of issues. Yeah, for sure it's. Uh, the fragrance is not endowed. Okay, it's compensating in many ways. But I really do love the texture of this box that comes in. Yeah, it's perfectly the shape, like that. You, it's like you know, it's like you know, you can see that. You, it's like holding a baseball size item. So because of that and the fragrance in it, it's like this box has a great heaviness to it and so it feels like a really good, solid gift.
Myke:
Yeah, the box is nicely proportionate to the bottle, exactly.
Ryan:
That's actually smart, instead of going through all the dumb bullshit of wrapping it and freaking well-skinned shit, and it's like sitting on a pillow of you know sheep tears or something. It's like. It's just there. It's good. I do like it. It's got some gold. What's this on the inside, by the way? Was it just like kind of a write up about it?
Myke:
Yeah, it's a write up about Soma, awesome. It's like kind of the um story behind the brand and I think we should give the bottle away on Patreon, absolutely, I think we're going to do that. So on Patreon, we're going to give you guys a 30 mil bottle of serene and a sample of axiom. We've got a second sample, ryan and I have used one for the show, so you'll get to smell axiom and you'll get a 30 mil full presentation bottle of serene parfum.
Ryan:
Can we do an episode on that, though, for the Patreon, before we give it out?
Myke:
Yes, yes. So we will do a special Patreon episode for this fragrance I got to listen to what this shit smells like for a give it away.
Myke:
Well, we're probably about to smell it right now after we press stop and we just go to sniffing everything in this box that Dan sent. But this is as a first Soma fragrance to smell. This is incredible and everything that I thought it was going to be it surpassed. It does have this nice creamy oranginess to it that Tony was talking about, but there's also this masculinity. There's some personality in there. It could have gone a hundred ways looking at the notes of this thing. But man, this thing is nice and it's kind of scary to know that. It's just like he just kind of started this thing up. It's his own thing. Now. I know that they work with perfumers and stuff like that, but if I was a brand out there I'd be worried about guys like this that come out that really come swinging. I can only assume the other fragrances are going to be of this quality.
Ryan:
And it smells incredible Good job, dan, for kudos and I'm not kidding guys. I love this card. The card stock on this smells incredible. Both of them smell good. The skin smells more masculine to me, card stock smells incredible.
Myke:
And, tony, you were right man, what a great suggestion.
Ryan:
We love you guys. You guys just want to come here and move to Texas. Please replace Mike, and I can. You can replace me, or?
Myke:
something. You know. They have a New England in America already. But if we could have a new New England, yeah, could be Northern East Texas. Yeah, I like the sound of that. Y'all come on down, you hear.
Ryan:
Hey guys, make sure, check us out on a Patreon. We're giving a lot of cool shit away and cool episodes. We don't give a fuck up in there. Yeah, well said. Also, make sure to go to your Apple podcast If you're listening there. Or Spotify. Give us some reviews, say some nice things. Apple, god damn, why is it? We have so many listeners on Apple but you guys are just like, no, I'm not going to give you no review. God, yeah.
Myke:
Shame on you. No, I'm kidding. Apple's a tough one to deal with. It is that's a weird one. They're like sexy and they know it. That's the problem. And until next time.