The Cologne Podcast
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The Cologne Podcast
#295 - Tom Ford for Men by Tom Ford
Imagine being transported back to 2007, a time when the air was filled with excitement and anticipation around the launch of Tom Ford for Men. Join us as we recollect the robust, citrusy journey of this iconic fragrance, which was sent to us by none other than our friend and fragrance connoisseur, Jonathan Bleep. With a touch of humor, we share the story behind its discontinuation in 2016, our editing escapades, and how this scent became a noteworthy chapter in our fragrance explorations. Put your nose on the nostalgia as we spray and savor the timeless blend of masculine and ginger notes, reminiscing about the dossier clones that first led us to this olfactory masterpiece.
Hello everybody, welcome to the.
Myke:Cologne Podcast. I'm Mike, I'm Ryan. We're two best friends. We're going on a fragrantical adventure through the world of fragrances, smelling vintage Tom Fords and giving you uneducated opinions.
Ryan:Today sent to us by Jonathan. Do we bleep his name? Usually? Is he the Jonathan Bleep? He's the Bleepy. Okay, this is the Mr Bleepy himself. Jonathan Bleep has sent us many a decants, along with some other friends of the podcast. We just made a deal behind closed doors here.
Myke:You made a deal yeah, I did, and you brought me in as collateral.
Ryan:Yeah, he's like I found your dad's. Well, not my dad's actual fragrance, but the scent he wore. I found this vintage bottle. I got it for super cheap. Guy didn't know what he had. I'll sell it to you for what I'm in.
Myke:My only stipulation is you guys got to do the Tom Ford's I sent you he sent these a while back and, as you guys know, the wheels of progress turn very slowly.
Ryan:Here at the Cologne Podcast, we're just like Congress very slowly here at the cologne podcast. We're just like congress, yeah, but uh, yeah. So we're gonna do original tom ford for men. Was this the first fragrance ever by tom ford? I?
Myke:don't know, but it was released in 2007, so that has been a good long while, and I just just getting the show together here.
Ryan:Guys, seeing the notes of this thing, I'm already like I was telling my calls like this is gonna be a bad boy I have a feeling.
Myke:Let me tell you a little background with this rhyme, because I remember this fragrance really. Now I don't know what year the bottle that jonathan bleep juiced to give us this juice tongue twister, I know. But whenever we first started this fragrance podcast, ryan yes, when it was called Cologneversations forever ago, I had smelled this and I think they were discontinuing it the same year, really, and I kind of fell in love with this. And the last time I saw it it was a brand new box at Drug Emporium and they just wanted too much. I just was unwilling to pay what they wanted, which was over a hundred bucks, and I can't wait to hear what price tag you have on it now.
Ryan:Oh, we'll get to that here a little bit and really quick. This was the second ever fragrance. The first one was tom ford black orchid.
Myke:Okay, yeah, I remember both released the same year. Okay, 2007, yep, yeah, I wonder. Can you just check really quick, jamie, pull it up what year was discontinued, because I want to bet it was either 21 or 22.
Ryan:2016.
Myke:Wow, so there were bottles floating around for a minute.
Ryan:Yeah.
Myke:Well, let's see if this is held up and is super juicy like I remember it being we can't do a one-night stand review.
Ryan:can we Look, guys? We're going to peel the curtain back really quick and then we'll get into the episode. We're not doing a one-night stand review. Let me tell you why it's going to be really quick. We recorded two video episodes One's with TLTG. That one's going to go out, hopefully this week sometime. We Record a video episode for the Patreon, only exclusive. That as well. Allow us to get used to editing two videos here.
Myke:Yes, yeah, we are behind.
Ryan:To just put it briefly so we're doing this as a Hail Mary to get this episode out Monday for the main podcast. We love you all. We know you'll be accepting of this issue. And now let's get into our sense of the day. Vintage Tom Ford for men by Tom Ford. Spray it up, bro and man, man. I have I feel like I'm about to get really sad about this episode. I just got this feeling. Oh, okay, hopefully I'm wrong.
Myke:Hopefully it's not super generic and basic. I don't think that's gonna be the problem like armchair sailor says on fragrantgrantica, when he says it smells like the Sunday perfume for the average guy. Not daring, not original, not interesting. Who?
Ryan:the hell said that Armchair Sailor. I'm here to tell you something there, Sailor. It's the problem.
Myke:I thought we were going to have. Oh, this is what I remember. It smelling like Smells pretty fucking good, god damn it.
Ryan:yeah, this is what I knew the problem was gonna be it.
Myke:It's masculine, it's kind of old school, but not like way over the top. This would be like the vintage old school type vibe that I would want. It's not not like going to choke you out, it's not crazy, but it does smell smooth and masculine.
Ryan:This thing is badass. It's got like a very citrus vibe yeah, almost neroli, a little bit maybe, yes, but it's not the typical like kind of soapy in a way. You know, is that making sense? Absolutely, it's just straight up like really good citrus.
Myke:You know why? Why it's got ginger in it, really, yes. Hmm, the reason why I looked up this fragrance was after our well, actually it was before our very first episode. Remember I went fucking bananas on ordering dossier clones.
Ryan:Oh God, yeah, he went through a really bad. That was a. He was down and out those days. Yeah, it's not a good time he was watching cuba, no dossier ads like hey or no?
Myke:scent bird. Yeah, I do remember that. Um, and one of the fragrances I got was called, like ginger deliciousness or whatever they call it. You know they have dumb names for them, anyways, and I just like took a swing and bought like three or four and their clone of this was in there. How did it match up? The dossier version Smelled pretty good, but not as good.
Ryan:I'm going to tell you this is pretty fucking baller.
Myke:But because it smelled good and I liked the vibe of it, I was like I got to smell the real deal, the tester strip is fucking orgasmic.
Ryan:It is fucking good the ginger and fucking like lemony citrus kind of thing going on. I don't want to say too much lemony, but it's close, it's a sharp citrus yeah.
Myke:Ryan makes a juice. He's got a juicer at the house. Let me tell you, this guy can juice.
Ryan:He's seen me juice things with a machine and he's seen me juice them with my hands.
Myke:Yeah, just wringing out all different kinds of stuff Cucumbers, bananas, eggplants, what other things? What other phallic things can you think of, mike? That's the ones he does manually, but the machine that he has you do oranges. Yeah, ginger, tell me what's in the breakdown of that drink uh, one of the ones that I've done.
Ryan:I need to get back to doing that, because they really were delicious. Yeah, so I would get a couple of oranges fresh, you know that. Right, I would get one, uh, granny smith apple. I would get a thing of ginger root, yeah, and I would do, I think half a lemon and I think a pair, maybe a pair at most, but I would just juice all that together, but that ginger and the lemon, really it's more of an orange juice, but those two things really it kicks it up right. Yeah, baby, and that's what I'm getting right here, and god damn, it's fucking good, it's so good. Can I read the notes, though, real quick?
Myke:please go for it, because I only got a hundred of them.
Ryan:Yeah, it's only got a hundred, but it's also. It's kind of shocking once you hear all the note because I'm not getting everything and there's two particular ones you would think you'd get. At least I don't. Top notes are lemon leaf oil, ginger, mandarin, orange, bergamot, basil and violet leaf. Um. Middle notes here's where it gets interesting Tunisian orange blossom, grapefruit blossom and here's the two main ones Pepper, pepper and tobacco leaf. I don't get that. You would think you would kind of get. Those are pretty strong, right.
Myke:Yeah, I think so, but maybe it's just the little the tiniest little drop.
Ryan:He looked right into my eyes when he did that. Then the base notes are amber cedar which I can kind of see, cedar, vetiver kind of get that too Virginia patchouli, don't know Oak moss, leather, cypress oil, those kind of notes. But for me I really feel like I just get kind of the I'm guessing it's the bergamot and the lemon oil Right, but it does have this nice old school, almost aldehydic kind of vibe. But there's none of that in there. It's pretty juicy dude.
Myke:You know, when you throw your name on something and go this is me, yeah, as a fragrance. Yeah as a fragrance. Yeah, Not just the brand Tom Ford, but it's like this is Tom Ford. Yeah, he walked around wearing it. Do you feel like they kind of captured him as a man in this fragrance? I mean?
Ryan:he's very, from what we can see, very sophisticated, well put together, very sharp. Yeah, in looks he's a sharp looking cat, and how he dresses right also, he's very like his own individual and he talks like old hollywood yeah, love that, by the way, right and so, yeah, this is very defining. I thought this is a very defined fragrance.
Myke:Yeah, I'm with you on that this is like old school without that, like the strong, aggressive burn on top.
Ryan:Yeah, it's not off-putting, it's not going to fumigate a fucking room. Yeah, it's not crazy loud. It's loud, but it's not crazy like the other. What you're talking about I would say this is probably like you're going to smell a good three feet off, but it's not going to fucking drown the whole room. Yeah, gonna fucking drown the whole room. Yeah, god, it smells really good. It makes you miss shit like this, because modern fragrances, at least designer world. Yeah, they've gone a different route. Yeah, it's all super safe office stuff to where we're all bored to fucking death.
Myke:To now, all we do is just see tiktok shops fucking selling everything, apparently yeah, we had a long discussion about that and that may be like a video episode or something we do, yeah, but we see so many people getting called out for being shills. Yet when you go now that I mean and again, maybe these guys that are throwing the big fits out there yeah, maybe they're not on TikTok, but any fragrance content I really see on TikTok other than the people we already know. Yeah, it's all very much like. You want, want to be sexy. You got to buy this fragrance. You click the link down right now. It's 10 off. You better get it. Hurry up while supplies last.
Ryan:It's all like infomercials for fragrances it makes you really evaluate the word shill and what it represents and who it represents for sure.
Ryan:Yeah, I definitely have been shocked by that. But yeah, this is, this is like an in-between. You know what this is actually. This is the bridge between vintage and modern. Really well, it's like for the people that miss that you can enjoy this, but it's not 100% the vintage that we're used to. And then if you're tired of like the new school stuff that's super safe and always sweet and gummy like, this is not that.
Myke:Yeah, this is almost like giving a mature fragrance to a younger audience absolute wow, I'm hitting with the price and please do.
Ryan:I'm dying to know what it costs for a bottle of this bad boy well, if you go on ebay because that's where you can only find it now you are going to be for 100 ml of this paying 549 dollars, dude, I think they wanted 130 at drug and poor drug emporium and I was like oh, god, if only you would have known. Dude, dude. And I will say is that bottom fucking juice not gorgeous?
Myke:I love it. I absolutely love it.
Ryan:It's like piss yellow lemon color over here.
Myke:It looks cool, man. There are better pictures taken by other product photographers, where it looks a little bit more amber in color.
Ryan:Oh, let me hit you with. I said trim, but I meant popularity. Forgive me, fragrantica, fucked us, not me. Yeah, yeah, hit you with. I said trim, but I meant popularity. Forgive me, fragrantica fucked us, not, not me. Yeah, yeah, you're right, not them. Perfume rating for this is a 4.04 out of 5, with 2346 votes. I consider that a pretty popular fragrance. Yeah, this is pretty baller dude, pretty fucking baller. Pros and con. Masculine scent agreed. Subtle, not overpowering. Agreed. Great for the office wear Agree, cons. Expensive, agree, yeah. Especially now. I don't agree with this Weak projection. I think this is like a. This is no medium. You know what I'm saying. It's not beast mode, but it's not weak, yeah.
Myke:And then doesn't long. That may be true because it is very citrus forward. I do remember that being the issue, really. Yeah, with at least the latter formulated bottles, I guess, again, we don't know what year this juice is from we're gonna have to get with jonathan bleep on that but it is pretty, pretty damn good it is. So, by the way, we teased this and just because we love this dude, we might as well talk about it. Jonathan doesn't have JonathanBleepcom for decanting, but he's in quite a few of the fragrance groups and he sells bottles Most of the time at a great deal, and so search him out, jonathan. You may have to officially change your name to Jonathan Bleep for these people, but search him out. If you see a guy named Jonathan with a great selection of fragrances out there in the fragrance community, more than likely it's this guy, and he is top notch.
Ryan:So, top notch. I'll tell you this the people on our Patreon are seriously lucky because you can literally ask this guy anything. Ask him something about this fragrance I was talking about from my dad's old fragrance. Yeah, he found it in literally 30 seconds. Here it is. He goes you want to get that? I was like I can't get it. He went ahead and bought it. He was like I got you. He hooked it up. I was like dude, this guy knows his shit. You can get anything verified to this guy. So what an set to have him as a friend of the podcast and the patron. Yeah, you may not be able to find him by searching jonathan bleep, but if you're a patreon, you'll find them that way. Absolutely okay, who's wearing besides you spraying it again on you? I can't get enough. That was probably five bucks what you just put on yourself?
Myke:probably was. I'm mad about it. That's jonathan's five bucks. I'm doing it. Fuck yeah, that's good. Plus, I want to make sure I got plenty on. I'm about to go donate some blood because I'm saving lives, people. Yeah, would you say your blood was.
Ryan:It's one of those negative.
Myke:oh, it's one of those oh blood types. But I got a call yesterday that said you know, our local donation center is sending, sending a bunch of blood off for, like uh, relief victims and stuff like that and and they're just like, hey, we're running out, we need your blood type.
Ryan:And I said say no more, I'll be there and then you were like, hey, you want to go run? I was like sorry, bro, have a hereditary blood disease, you can't do it.
Myke:Yeah, I was like I guess, yeah, who's wearing this man? Well, other than me and Tom Ford, I think it's a gentleman over 30. Yeah for sure, I think he's got to have a shit together, absolutely. He's got a body fat percentage has got to be under 20. Probably so, and he's one of those guys that, like, wears loafers without socks. Is that good? I think so.
Ryan:It's more fashionable. Yeah, I mean definitely well put together. Hmm, Is that good? I think so it's more fashionable. Yeah, I mean definitely well put together the guys like in Boiler Room or something going Rico.
Myke:I think he's got to have a good head of hair. Oh yeah, for sure. And it's styled real nice, which neither I nor Tom Ford do.
Ryan:Is Tom Ford bald.
Myke:He's not bald, but he's kind of swooping it forward.
Ryan:Tom Ford, if you hear this, that's Mike that said that, not me.
Myke:I'm sorry. I look, dude, I think you're sexy as hell. I got nothing against you. I mean he talks about it openly. He was a model and one of the hairdressers. He said one time whatever, yeah, one of the hairdresser goes you know you're gonna lose your hair, right?
Myke:god damn hairdressers really love cracking people's fucking lives dude already, god damn. But uh yeah, and he was like that's. I was too vain to hear that, so I decided to step behind the camera, god damn, and I've got a couple of that. He made some like tom for coffee table books and he, he does photograph you do pretty good, yeah. Yeah, he's got a really cool self-portrait of him and his late spouse. He shot himself. You can see the little remote in his hand I think that's really cool by the way, really quick.
Ryan:Does this kind of have a little floral thing going on the tester strip?
Myke:I can kind of feel that, but it's not like crazy, no, it's very light.
Ryan:It's still leaning more citrus, but you can kind of pick up that floral it's a good balance, man.
Myke:I guarantee you these early fragrances he was really involved with. Wow, that is so good. I mean I know I would be if we were gonna do. You know, mike for men by mike, I'd be in every single meeting, oh he definitely would, and yeah it's just like the meeting is literally just me and a mirror no, it doesn't smell like me.
Ryan:Yeah, get back to work. Are you fired?
Myke:this is gonna be good, fucking steve jobs exactly yeah, you going to skip it, sample it or buy it. What are you going to do, ryan?
Ryan:God damn, if it wasn't so much and rare, this would be an easy buy for me. Yeah, I feel that. But because of that, this will just be relocated to just a sample, unfortunately. Yeah, and probably just this sample. But I will say that is a gorgeous fragrance. Would you wear it if you had?
Myke:oh yeah, you know, 20, 30 mil of it would you wear it.
Ryan:I would absolutely wear this shit and I'd feel good wearing it too. When what scenario are you wearing it? I'm gonna be real man, even though it's like the office friendly thing for me. Yeah, it would be with any job we went and did. Yeah, we're meeting clients, professional environment, for sure, but I would also not be ashamed to be like I'm in the mall grabbing some stuff. When I interact with anybody, they're gonna be like damn, that guy smells fucking good it's a classic type of smell.
Myke:It is so classic I'd almost call it timeless. I agree, I love it, man, I really do. Yeah, it's great. I agree with you. If it was more readily available and it was this formulation, it would be a very tempting buy. Is it crazy, extraordinary, super? You know um original smell or unidentifiable type thing? Probably not. I wouldn't call it generic, though.
Ryan:No it's not, but it is like I said, it's hearkening back to it's some of the vintage, some of the modern. It did a really good job of probably bridging that gap during that time. You know right. I mean, if I think about 2007, where was I even at? I think I was in colorado. Then I drove a really shitty car that my brother gave me that barely made it to the fucking mountains, because I drove it from here in Texas to Grand Junction, by the way, great, great area.
Myke:Yeah, that's what you're saying.
Ryan:It's like vacation land, Dude every day of my life that I worked and I worked. I delivered roofing material for corporations Dude, not going to lie, every day felt like a vacation, always in the mountains, was always in the mountains, was always in glenwood springs and and, uh, aspen, where the. But in saying that, I kind of remember what my fragrance type was back then. It was just still kind of just regular aqua dejo edt. That was still kind of a thing. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. And maybe periel is 360 black. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, some simple stuff, some Aramis Life, some you know, the Lacoste Red, whatever. Yeah, that got you smelling preferent. We got to do an episode on that, I know right, but I think about this. If I would have smelled this at that time, this probably would have blown my mind, probably like when you first smelled Ombre Leather for the first, because you're used to just like this kind of regular stuff that we got. The fuck is this.
Myke:Even smelling the clone of this, I was blown away, really yeah, and that's what got me interested in it real, so you smelled that first before you yeah, and then I looked it up, I'm like what is this trying to be?
Myke:and it was just tom ford for men and I was like I gotta go smell that. I couldn't find it anywhere because at that time it'd been discontinued already. So and then you ran into it in a couple different places and you're like god damn, that's expensive. And that was 130 bucks. Yeah, god, if you would have invested in it now. Huh, dude, that'd be game stonks up in this moment. It's really good. So it's hard samples for both of us, just because of the availability and the affordability of it, absolutely. But other than that, it's a fantastic fragrance. I agree with you, professional running around. It's not super date night because it's not super sweet, but it is a classic masculine scent and, dude, I can't recommend it more highly. If you haven't got your nose on it, give it a try.
Ryan:Yeah, and for you freaking lucky bastards and gals that can throw down enough on something like this.
Myke:My God, I'm envious because it does smell good, I mean, but if you had $500 to drop on a fragrance, would you still get this though.
Ryan:If I had it to actually waste? Yes, really I think so. Wow, okay, it's pretty. I was actually going to disagree with you with just saying it's office and all that, even though I said the same thing. I started smelling. I was like no, I'd feel pretty good day and night on something like this. I'd feel good wearing this.
Myke:I feel like if Tom Ford created this to be a signature scent, where it's like this is what people remember when they smelled them as he went to anything. Yeah, I don't think it's a bad design of fragrance. It is not. It's good. There you go, jonathan. Thank you, man, what an honor. And guys, we have the extreme version of this as well. Good carded sample. He sent that as well, so we're gonna do an episode on that here soon, because that was part of the stipulation that I agree to, and not mike yeah but with that I will say I am benefiting from getting to smell these.
Myke:So even if I'm not getting a giant juicy bottle of something, it is still so great to smell some original tom ford's dude, it's seriously sick.
Ryan:Hi, you know a lot of you guys have been sending this stuff lately, a lot more than usual. Bob just sent us some fucking uh, each of us a brand new like body wash thing to try out. Supposed to smell similar or something. Thank you uh, bob.
Myke:Yeah, it's like a cremo or something that's supposed to smell like ombre leather.
Ryan:It's a body wash and we're gonna try that. I mean not together, but we're gonna try it.
Myke:Oh, yeah, yeah, it's set independently.
Ryan:That's what we planned on doing but uh, yeah, we've had that, we've had, uh, we had I'm just gonna say the names perfume hub. They're a uh, mom and pop. I'm gonna say not as a disrespect, but they're a mom and pop, uh, perfume, uh shop. I want to say new mexico yep, they sent us some. Uh, I want to say, was it Hawas? Yeah, the new Hawas Black? Yeah. So we got a lot sent to us and I know I'm leaving out a bunch of stuff. We've had a shit ton of stuff sent to us. So we're trying to get through these, we're going to and we're also trying to include video, except for this episode, but we're just. I feel like our fucking ears are panned.
Myke:Yeah, we took on a lot, but we're trying. We're really trying to give you guys more. We are, and if you're not a Patreon yet, if you're wanting this video content, go sign up. It's really cheap Six bucks a month and you're going to get bonus episodes Plus. Now you're going to get video content of these episodes. We get to see how dumb we really look.
Ryan:Yeah.
Myke:And that sounds sexy. Yeah, don't. You want dumb people in your eyeballs.
Ryan:Okay, guys, we love you. Thank you for stopping by. We are so appreciative of everybody, and until next time, spray it up, y'all.