The Cologne Podcast

#271 - Vintage Drakkar Noir

May 06, 2024 Myke & Ryan Season 5 Episode 271
#271 - Vintage Drakkar Noir
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The Cologne Podcast
#271 - Vintage Drakkar Noir
May 06, 2024 Season 5 Episode 271
Myke & Ryan

Uncover the mysteries of this bold vintage scent given to us by our loving patreon Jonathan Bleep, and see how it stacks up against the sweet expectations and nostalgic memories it conjures. We're not just sniffing around the past; we're also giving you our unfiltered opinions on Prada Luna Rossa Ocean Le Parfum in our one-night stand review. Hear our discussion on the trade-offs between price and uniqueness in today's fragrance landscape, and get a whiff of innovation—or lack thereof—through a listener's insightful commentary.

Fasten your seatbelts for a trip through scent and cinema as we examine the notes of Drakkar Noir, from the refreshing top notes down to the musky depths, and ponder if 'evil shaving cream' is an apt descriptor. Along the way, indulge in our musings on noir film tropes that parallel our aromatic escapades, and chuckle with us as we reminisce about past podcasting ventures such as 'Amateur Dicks,' where we fancied ourselves as sleuths. We're also weighing the pros and cons of splurging on full bottles versus sampling, navigating the value of fragrances. This episode is not just about scents; it's about the stories they tell and the impressions they leave.

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Uncover the mysteries of this bold vintage scent given to us by our loving patreon Jonathan Bleep, and see how it stacks up against the sweet expectations and nostalgic memories it conjures. We're not just sniffing around the past; we're also giving you our unfiltered opinions on Prada Luna Rossa Ocean Le Parfum in our one-night stand review. Hear our discussion on the trade-offs between price and uniqueness in today's fragrance landscape, and get a whiff of innovation—or lack thereof—through a listener's insightful commentary.

Fasten your seatbelts for a trip through scent and cinema as we examine the notes of Drakkar Noir, from the refreshing top notes down to the musky depths, and ponder if 'evil shaving cream' is an apt descriptor. Along the way, indulge in our musings on noir film tropes that parallel our aromatic escapades, and chuckle with us as we reminisce about past podcasting ventures such as 'Amateur Dicks,' where we fancied ourselves as sleuths. We're also weighing the pros and cons of splurging on full bottles versus sampling, navigating the value of fragrances. This episode is not just about scents; it's about the stories they tell and the impressions they leave.

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Ryan:

You want to introduce the show. It's been a minute. Okay, bring some fucking heat Fucking.

Myke:

Bring the fuck town. You want me to bring the fuck town to them.

Ryan:

Bring the fuck town to them, Myke.

Myke:

Hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Cologne Podcast. I'm Mike and I'm Ryan, and we're two best friends.

Ryan:

We're surveying the land of fragrances and giving you our uneducated opinion on it.

Myke:

Yeah, today we are sniffing a vintage Drakkar Noir sent to us from our friend Jonathan over at Mazin Meaty Clackers.

Ryan:

Thanks, jonathan, for sending that along with the other goodies. We have a vintage Tom Ford I think in there as well.

Myke:

Yeah, there's a few different discontinued Tom Fords and he also, you know he did mention Elysium, what he just experienced with it, right. He thought that we talked it too whored.

Ryan:

Yeah, but we did, we sure didn't. You know, actually I wore the Parfum just yesterday actually, really yes, and Was it a special occasion or no?

Myke:

I just wore it Just to feel sexy. Mm-hmm, yeah, 500 buckaroonies.

Ryan:

Just oh dude, how many sprays, dude, I probably seriously did about 15, 20 sprays.

Myke:

Fuck, dude, took a good old din in that one. Wow man, you're living like a millionaire over there, yeah well.

Ryan:

I didn't buy it.

Myke:

You bought it, let's feel good. Okay, well, we are going to get into that Drakkar Noir, but first I got to get into a Fragrantica review by M Dunford and for those that don't know what Fragrantica is, should we talk about that?

Ryan:

Yeah, sure, why not? For those of you that don't know about Fragrantica it yeah sure, why not? For those of you that don't know about Fragrantica, it's a website. It's kind of like an encyclopedia.

Myke:

It's like a Wikipedia for fragrances. Yeah, there you go. That's a better description Because it's user updated right.

Ryan:

Yeah, and people are allowed to vote on certain things about a fragrance, likes, don't likes, all that bullshit and do comments. And that's where we pull these from. We lurk around finding who's got the most smart-ass-y comment and then we're like we're going to do something with that.

Myke:

And M Dunford sure has one here. He says I like this if I spray the air and sniff around, but on my skin it smells like evil shaving cream Shaving cream for an arms dealer with a bad attitude. It's like a fougere for executioners instead of actual barbers.

Ryan:

That is probably the coolest description review we've ever read on this show. I don't know what to think about that. Like what would evil shaving cream smell? Like it is so out there.

Myke:

You know what we're going to find out, because we got it in a bottle.

Ryan:

I can't believe it. 1990, by the way, think of that shit. How old is that motherfucker?

Myke:

Almost as old as me it's 33.

Ryan:

Fuck. So we're going to smell something that's 33 years old.

Myke:

Well, it depends on its birthday. It could be 34 this year.

Ryan:

That 33 years old well depends on its birthday could be 34 this year. That's true too. Neither here or there. It's still old as shit, and it's been bottled and sent to us by jonathan bleep. I thought we had a beep button. I forgot we do. We had it sent to us from jonathan that's right. You heard it here, jonathan but before we get into that, got to get into our one night stand review of that fragrance you all didn't really like, and that would be the La Parfum of.

Myke:

Luna Rosa Ocean. Hit the music, Todd yeah.

Ryan:

One night stand, review, stand, review. Well, mike, after going on a maiden voyage with one jake gyllenhaal and the prada luna rosa, pirelli sailboat racing, space age technology yeah uh what do you think about this 175 dollar contraption?

Myke:

hey, you know, it didn't just like really impress me. It smelled about what I imagined it would smell like, which was good, but at that price range you've got to do something to really just horny me up, and it didn't do it.

Ryan:

No, it didn't, mike. And for all you listeners out there, we really didn't mind the fragrance. Right, it was decent, yeah, but we smelled it four or five different ways through other fragrances, including the Lunarosa Ocean EDP.

Myke:

Right, which was so far in my approximation, the best of the three.

Ryan:

Yeah, I think so too as well, and probably the better bang for the buck, if I'm being honest. Yeah, but I do have to say one thing, because we had somebody named Dav underscore Ski One. So Dav Ski One commented on that episode on Spotify. He said I think people are over having to pay that much for a scent when you can get a new scent for the same price. That's what I'm falling into right now, and I think even in the episode we said dude, got a fucking uh whatever 100 ml of wool on chopper, 120 dollars from my some gray market site, right, yeah.

Myke:

And then we went on to smell straight to heaven, which again we got 50 under the price tag for lunarosa ocean Ocean Le Parfum. So you know, when it comes to that, why spend that much more for something that isn't going to really give you that special, unique smell that you're looking for? It's just a little played out in the scent profile.

Ryan:

Yeah, it's not being really innovative. It kind of pisses me off, man. That's why we're kind of. You know, it's like it's good but it's not innovative and it's not special. You're not wowing anybody with it and it really wasn't that loud, by the way, was yours loud on your skin or anything?

Myke:

No, it didn't really do anything special. In fact, I went ham on it because I left later and I had a job that I did and then I was meeting a friend up for some food. Nobody mentioned anything about it I wouldn't doubt it.

Ryan:

They probably said some bad things behind your back?

Myke:

they probably did. I was passing out hugs. Nobody said you smell good, anything like that yeah, so it's a certifiable skip.

Ryan:

I mean, for real, it's uh, it's all right. Yeah, that's the worst part, it's I. It's like it could have been bad. Well, I could have felt better about saying, hey, it smelled like piss. Yeah, at least bad. Well, I could have felt better about saying, hey, it smelled like piss. Yeah, at least that was challenging right, that would have been exciting.

Myke:

Wow, they really tried something new here. They tried that piss smell, but it wasn't. There you go. That's a skip from both of us. I think so, at least at this price point. If they get it down lower in price, what price?

Ryan:

tag let's play a game, okay? You just say yes or no every time. I ask you this, okay, uh-huh, 150 no 125, no 115, no 100 no 85, I'm gonna go with like 65, 70 bucks, fuck.

Myke:

So see, see what I'm saying. Yeah, so it's double the price that it well nearly triple the price that it should be at. Yeah, for someone like us, now, the everyday muggles out there. Still a little thing from our UK friends. Maybe they'll do that, maybe they'll buy into the hype. It's new, oh, it's more concentrated. You know it's new, oh, it's more concentrated. But then it's just kind of sales tactics for the people who aren't really enthusiasts but they want to spend their money and smell good. And this is a Prada, this is a name brand.

Ryan:

And we're not just taking a shit on them here, by the way, because, as we alluded last time, if we ever have a top five or a top 10 list, sure, prada Lunarosa Carbon will somehow probably always make that list For sure. Yeah, in fact, we let Todd smell Prada Lunarosa Carbon a while back and he lost his fucking mind. Yeah, Because he likes Sauvage. Yeah, I mean, he literally lost his and he said Sauvage was played out to him. Yeah, and when he smells like, wow, this is so much, it's done so much better, yeah, and the dry down is just incredible, right, so we're not taking a shit on them, but we are going to be real up in here and that one is just not that great. And yeah, bloody chanel, any one of those, I think, blows us out of the water yeah, the more I wore it because I bought the parfum.

Myke:

You really like the edp. Now I'm an edt guy for the bleh chanel okay, enough's enough, we're.

Ryan:

We're getting the hell out of this, this segment, this funk, this murky ass water that Prada's got us fucking bathing in.

Myke:

Okay yes, and let's get into our scent of the day that vintage Drakkar Noir from Guy LaRoche and our pal Jonathan over at Within the black there is a power. Drakonois, immense fragrance by Guilherme Paris. Feel the power. Win one of 12 Nissan 240SX sports cars.

Ryan:

Register now at the Bon Marche. Okay, yeah, that Drakkar Noir commercial back then. You know that was hip. Yeah, it was radical dude man. It sounded like one of those after-school PSA, like overly confident rap songs, you know, oh yeah like this one. Hey, mike, what? You ready to hit him with that new shit? Yeah, what's that smell? You're in the zone. Oh, you're talking about the new cologne. The big juicy bottle really goes to a throttle. I'm so sexy. Only date the model. It's fresh and clean.

Ryan:

It's a new exactly like that one, mike. Yeah, for sure, let's smell this motherfucker. Okay, hey, you first. I should stop saying mf all the time, dude I know people gotta get pissed off.

Myke:

If you got to, then use this, okay, yeah.

Ryan:

Okay, here we go. I have not sprayed anything on my body, anything on my person, today. Ooh, I am squeaky clean and pores are ready to absorb.

Myke:

Accept this fragrance. Yeah, I've never smelled this before.

Ryan:

I haven't either. That's what's crazy. I've never smelled this before. I've seen a million times my entire life, but I've never smelled this before. I haven't either. That's what's crazy. I've never smelled this before.

Myke:

I've seen a million times my entire life, but I've never smelled it. Oh man, and this one's supposed to be like a classic. I'm fucking ready, let's do it. Okay, do it Before you.

Ryan:

No, I'm just kidding.

Myke:

You know I ain't scared. Dude, I'm holding my breath so I don't smell it till I get it up light. I love this, I fucking love this. I fucking love this already. Oh, I get that shaving cream vibe for sure. I do love the shaving cream smell, holy shit, that old school like barbasol type shaving cream.

Ryan:

That's the best shaving cream there is and it's like the cheapest. Yeah, I get the one with aloe. I mean, I don't really ever shave anymore. I like to just beard trim, because if I shave I look like a fucking 10-year-old over here. Yeah, this is badass. I freaking love it.

Myke:

Boy, it's got some hair on it, though it does man on my skin.

Ryan:

I think I'm going to be really depressed to buy a modern formulation of this.

Myke:

Oh man, it's got this sweetness to it. I wasn't expecting she is stanky. I was expecting it to have a lot of that burn, like Brute did. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but this is surprisingly smooth.

Ryan:

It's not what I thought it was going to be at all. I thought it was going to be kind of obnoxious or something Animalistic. For some reason, I don't know.

Myke:

Yeah, it's doing a lot on the skin right now, but on the card, where it's, like you know, less popping, there's a sweetness to it. Man, it's round, it's beautiful, voluptuous. The card is incredible. Yeah, it's beautiful, voluptuous. The card is incredible. Yeah, it is phenomenal. Wow, dude, when I smell my skin, it's got like this bite like pickled onions kind of. I don't know about that. Yeah, I'm kind of getting that I don't know.

Ryan:

This was released, by the way, in the most glorious year that's ever created any man of this earth 1982. So this thing's fucking old. 42 years old. That's the year you were born, wasn't it? It is, I'm an old fuck. So the perfumer for this? God, I want to say the name, but I'm just going to butcher it to hell. Just give it a shot. They deserve respect, don't?

Myke:

you think yeah, considering they're past hit makers.

Ryan:

Sorry, I don't know why that took me out. Fragrantica, hold on. I should have been more prepared. Wow, we've literally spent half a day preparing, here we go. Guy LaRoche was the brand, and the perfumer was Pierre Wargini. Wargini, it's like W-A-R-G-N-Y-E, hmm, wargin, maybe Wargin. Pierre Wargin Probably like that, right? Sure, yeah, I think I just figured it out, guys. Wow, good job. This guy, though, has actually made another favorite of ours, and that would be Yves Saint Laurent, la Nuit d'Alon. Perfectly done, that's one of our favorite fragrances this guy made it.

Ryan:

He's since passed in 2020. But this guy is the one that created that fragrance. He also created a Victor and Roth fragrance, a Hugo Boss, I mean. He's created a victor and ralph fragrance.

Myke:

Uh, hugo boss, I mean he's creating some shit, dude man. I've got 90 mil of that vintage 2021 lanois delon, dude that shit goes hard, doesn't it?

Ryan:

it is juicy.

Myke:

There's something really fucking badass about this smell it's like to me it's got this shaving cream but there's a citrus to it. It's almost like there's like orange in there the tester strip is unbelievably good.

Ryan:

Yeah, it smells delicious. If I I don't know if I'm gonna buy it yet. We'll wait till the end here. But if I really like this and then my decision goes to wanting to get one of these and it does not have and it's like some reformulated bullshit, I'm going to be really pissed off because it smells so good.

Myke:

Yeah, it also has that bite on your skin, like the polo had. Oh yeah, it has something else to it, god what are fragrance companies doing, man?

Ryan:

Why can't they be like this? This is what I love. It's unabashed. Ladies, gentlemen, it doesn't give one single what the fuck there you go.

Myke:

What was it? It doesn't give one single.

Ryan:

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, it's fresh out, it could give a good and less.

Myke:

You know what I'm saying? I think so, but you're censoring yourself, so I'm not quite sure. I'm trying to fill in the blanks by myself god, the tester strip is incredible.

Ryan:

It's like one of the better smells I've smelled in a long time on this show. I'm shocked.

Myke:

I see why people hyped it up. I get it.

Ryan:

I get it now. Let me give you a little bit of the pros and cons real quick, okay. Pros affordable price point. Reminiscent of barber shops in old-fashioned masculinity Absolutely that should be just at the fucking top. Classic and well-known scent Cons may not appeal to all age groups. I can see that Reformulation has weakened the scent's quality and concentration. I hate that. May come across as too overpowering or dated. I don't think it's dated. I could definitely see it being a little overpowering, but when you don't give a, you just don't give a. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, you'll wear it and tell them to off. By the way, we got this new machine. I'm going to hit that button a lot. Please don't.

Myke:

It's closer to me too. Wow, that is really fucking good. Hmm, yeah, I'm kind of speechless here. It's fucking great. Well, as I sit here dumbfounded trying to understand what is all going on in this fragrance, ryan, why don't you hit them with that price and trend?

Ryan:

Well, ladies and gentlemen, the price super, fucking cheap right now. If you buy the reformulation you're looking at like I don't know, 19 to 20 something bucks. What size? I think that's 100 ml, oh okay. But let me tell you, if you're really wanting to dabble into this territory, where you know it's going to be gnarly and vintage, you can find some upwards brand new sealed 450 dollars, 450 buckaroonies wow, would you pay 450 for that?

Myke:

no, I'm sorry, really 450 for this. It's pretty, pretty nasty, I mean it is but 450 bucks god the tester strip.

Ryan:

Though man the tester strip check that shit.

Myke:

It's um, yeah, but I am a human, not a tester strip. Ryan, as much as I love, this, is how they fool us every time you go into a department store with these fucking tester strips.

Ryan:

Dude. Okay, the trend, though let's get to the trend Trend. It peaked, I guess, when Fragrantica first started in early 2010 or something, I don't know and it slowly but surely kind of kept its pace like hanging in there. But it's kind of like been dipping down over time and I just think that's just with time. I do think if something like this came out today, it feels kind of timeless. I feel like it would be yo-ing up, you know.

Myke:

Yeah, but it is mature, right, you feel like it's mature?

Ryan:

I don't think it's as mature as people are thinking. I'm thinking 30, 35 and up.

Myke:

I can see why you love this for a couple of reasons. One you really love the Cartier fragrance that we did for the Patreons. Absolutely, this has that kind of vibe to it.

Ryan:

There's something in there that reminds me of that Cartier the tester strip to me, though I can tell you what it really kind of paints for me. Mentally it makes me think I don't know why we played a little sample earlier, introducing this, of just different things. Talking about it, family Guy seems to always refer to Armenian men or gangsters and shit.

Ryan:

Oh yeah, yeah, I don't really get that vibe when I'm smelling this. I actually get hot pink and pastel blues and looking like they just walked off the set of, like miami vice or something. Oh, a little bit of don johnson, you know, a little five o'clock shadow. Yeah, it's real fucking good with that dark skin. You know what I'm saying? You remember that, don't you shook up, but yeah, it just. It just kind of reminds me of more like that than anything else. I don't know why, but I get that in my head. Hmm, let me give it another go. That than anything else. I don't know why, but I get that in my head.

Myke:

Hmm, Let me give it another go and I'll play some I don't know Duran, Duran or something in my mind.

Ryan:

I don't know, I'm not saying like Miami Vice, like beaches and suns and aquatics, I'm just saying like the color profile, the 80s outfits, the kind of like over, like shoulder pads.

Myke:

That's immediately what I thought. Yeah, that's kind of what I'm pitching white blazer shoulder pads exactly. Yeah, some sort of pastel color shirt underneath it, hell yeah yeah, and you're really tan, like too tan.

Ryan:

Yeah, really too tan. Yeah, really too tan Leathery, but I do feel like 30s and up or something.

Myke:

Maybe 35 and up At least that. I mean you can't be younger than the fragrance. Fragrance is at least 33. So you have to be at least that old to ride, that's right yeah, it smells really good.

Ryan:

guys, I'm shocked If you can ever get your sniffers on like a vintage one. This is pretty mind-blowing. And now I want to smell a reformulation, because I have a feeling we're going to be really disappointed.

Myke:

Maybe, so Maybe that's how we should handle. Some of those episodes too is like get our hands on the reformulation, but then it becomes like a comparison episode and not really.

Ryan:

I don't know, maybe I'm overthinking it no, I don't think so, because it's like we can actually kind of appreciate this. So if we smell the reformulation, it's garbage, we can, we can make a really shitty episode. How much it sucks, man, I don't know about, but my skin is actually getting really good. It is something to be said.

Myke:

It doesn't have fennel in it, does it? I have?

Ryan:

no fucking idea. You know what? Why don't you read all the notes on it? Okay, yeah, this is a short list.

Myke:

Yeah, this is a short, quick list. Okay, just quickly. You've got lavender, lemon, bergamot, rosemary, mint, lemon, verbena, basil and artemisia. That's your top notes. Okay, middle notes are just a couple here juniper, coriander, carnation, cinnamon, wormwood, angelica, jasmine, and then base notes oak, moss, leather, pine, tree needles, fur, sandalwood, vetiver, patchouli, cedar, amber and resins. Not that many notes, not not one single fennel in there, though do you pick up any after reading that, though?

Ryan:

do you pick up any of those notes in this? No, it's just a unique concoction, right? Just smells like it does smell like shaving cream. I don't know if it smells like evil shaving cream. Does it smell like evil shaving cream? Yeah, really. So you think you think the bad guy in the movie's wearing this shit? Does family guy have this right? Are the stereotypes real with this one?

Myke:

well, the name noir, hence that there's this darker side okay, okay, I don't like the skin anymore.

Ryan:

Let's do this, doing something but go ahead.

Myke:

Sorry. The thing about noirs is the perpetrator of the bad thing is typically a good guy, really in a noir film, I don't know that oh yeah, it's typical noir film. Is you know femme fatale, this woman who needs you know her husband off or you know whatever? Oh, he beats me. I, I'm so helpless, please help. And she talks in some rube. Okay, who comes in, does the dirty work and then realize he's been bamboozled?

Ryan:

That's really all how noir movies are, a lot of noir movies. Yeah, I really did not know that. I was just like. It was like, oh please, I need to talk to a private detective and they got to find something out for me.

Myke:

But then he realizes she's the killer type thing. Yeah, I mean, there's some of that, but most of the time it's like they talk to the private eye, the private eye kind of falls in love and then before they know it you know he's done some nefarious thing to help out the old lady and then he was double crossed.

Ryan:

Oh, god, it just makes me think of that time we came up with that idea to do uh, yeah, what do you call it? Like a serial killer type podcast? Oh, yeah, yeah what we're gonna call it, though, because we're gonna try to solve the murders. Remember the name we came up for it? Oh, amateur dicks, did you buy the domain for that?

Myke:

yeah, I did. I've since gotten rid of it. You hated that name yeah I was like this is great amateur dicks, yeah well you still. You still own it, though, right? No, I think it's been too long.

Ryan:

Damn, you might have to re-up on that before this goes live, because that shit was hilarious, yeah, so we were going to do.

Myke:

If you guys don't know. Actually, if you're a Patreon, you do know, because we post multiple types of podcasts, not just fragrance podcasts, but we have a couple of other podcasts that go live into the Patreon.

Ryan:

Yeah, one of them being Eat the Menu. That's where we actually literally take this podcast, set it with this. We go in the car, we mic ourselves up in the drive-thru window and we go and order a certain food and give a review of it.

Myke:

Yeah, yeah. So we've got that one. And then we have another one called Weird Stories from the Web. But we tried another podcast and some of you guys probably remember, but it eventually became Snuffed. But then before that it was called Amateur Dicks and it was going to be us, uh, trying to be detectives. One presents the story, the other one tries to solve the crime.

Ryan:

Basically, uh, and we had really big aspirations for this we were like, hey, we'll take this room over here and you know what, let's put a whole background behind it, like we're in a detective's office. We'll have a phone here and this here. We just had the whole thing laid out. We were going to make it look like we were really solving a case in a detective's office, even the first couple of episodes.

Myke:

we only did two episodes, but the first couple of episodes Mine was terrible. That I did Mine was just great. Yeah, you just didn't put forth the effort I was expecting from you, but I presented you an evidence folder. I like an evidence stamp and like, made case files and everything just to create the you know uh, feeling of really being on the case and being amateur dicks. That's right, we would have been those guys in the noir films that got bamboozled okay, are you gonna skip it, sample, sample it or buy it?

Myke:

What are you going to do, Ryan?

Ryan:

Man. I don't know if it's worth $450, but I am curious to see if I can find a Well first. You know what? Actually it is a sample of a new one. I got a sample of the new one Because I really don't think I can just say I can spend 400 something dollars on some old fragrance if it's close, you would buy.

Myke:

Well, yeah, I mean at 20 bucks.

Ryan:

At 20 bucks, I'm considering that sampling, right. Yeah, for sure. I mean, I know I'm buying a full bottle, but it's sampling to see if it's good. If it's good, cool. It was only 20 something bucks, not a big deal, and I'll be happy with that. But man, man, I hope it's close. If it's not, I'm going to be really disappointed because this does. The tester strip smells fucking good.

Myke:

So, since you're so obsessed with the tester strip, are you going to make sure to only spray it on your clothes?

Ryan:

or what. Yeah, because I'm not vibing on my hand. There was a moment there when it was really good and I liking what I was doing, but now it just kind of remains kind of stanky. I don't know how that is, but the tester strip total, polar, polar opposite promise you this is gonna be like the polo and the cartier.

Myke:

Okay, in that, two hours from now, when this loud ass fragrance dries down, you're gonna be like, oh my god, on the skin.

Ryan:

You think so I really do, god it is. It's tough on the skin right now, but, man, the tester strip is absolutely gorgeous.

Myke:

You and I are starting to I'm starting to pull away from your skin tester strip thing, okay, because I feel like it's the same fragrance. We're not. I mean on the clothes it's similar, but we're the tester. On the clothes it's similar, but we're the tester strip doesn't matter, you don't think so. I think to a certain degree it doesn't. I think it helps you break down the fragrance quickly because it doesn't smell like it does on your skin, but you get a lot of different things throughout the wearing of it on your skin versus on a tester strip.

Myke:

It's almost like, you know, if you had different colored m&ms, you pour them out on a plate and you spread it out and it's easy to like take it all in really quickly. As to what's in the bag, yeah, whereas if you're eating it you're just going to pull one out of time and eat it and eventually, by the time you get to the end of the bag, like I had 14 greens, two blues, seven redss. Is that how you eat your fucking M&M's? I eat them a handful at a time, but still, I mean you know we've shared multiple bags of peanut M&M's, which are phenomenal Either way. What I'm trying to say is I don't want us to get too caught up in. Oh, the card's great, but the skin is, you know? Because then that's what happens when you go into a store you smell on the card, you're like. You're like, holy, that's delicious. Sure, I'll pay 175 for that.

Ryan:

Luna rosa ocean, le parfum uh, the salesperson's like have a nice day, this bud will never get old I'm disabling it right now. Uh, I feel like that's a good day for this episode. I'm glad you guys came on this journey with us and experienced this vintage dracoir noir sent to us by fellow friend of the podcast and patreon jonathan I told you I was gonna disable it.

Myke:

that's amazing. I one thing I gotta hammer on we are incredibly lucky to have friends of podcasts like jonathan and others that have sent us, especially these vintage fragrances that we just couldn't get our hands on. There's no possible way that for an episode I mean God we'd have to have crazy downloads before we could afford to drop, you know, 500 bucks to do an episode like this. Yeah, exactly so having you guys send this type of stuff in and kind of help us along the way, dude, it means so much and we're so thankful and I can't help but just feel like we're incredibly lucky and blessed.

Ryan:

Absolutely. I agree with all that Concur 100%. Well, great.

Myke:

And until next time, spray it up y'all.

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