#300 - Triumph of Bacchus by Argos: A Female's Perspective

Ever smelled something that reminds you of food leftovers? We sure have, and on our 300th episode of the Cologne Podcast, returning guest Nikki joins us to revisit a fragrance that's as nostalgic as it is controversial. We find ourselves laughing over a review comparing it to Thanksgiving leftovers and fondly remember Nikki's kitchen skills. As we move on to our one-night stand review of M. Micallef's Red Colorado, we agree it's decent yet not a standout in their lineup, with Nikki taking us on a nostalgic journey to Estes Park, Colorado, adding a personal touch to the episode.

We then explore "Triumph of Bacchus," a scent that dances between sweet white peach, boozy rum, and creamy vanilla, and debate its daring bottle design. A fragrance that seems to have split opinions on its appeal, we liken it to a peach Jolly Rancher. Our conversation takes a fun turn discussing similar scents like Carlisle and Red Tobacco, and our evolving candy preferences. This exploration of "Triumphal Bacchus" wraps up with a hint of green apple and saffron, painting the full picture of this unique olfactory experience.

Transcript

Intro

Ryan 0:03

Hello everybody, welcome to the Cologne Podcast. I'm Mike, I'm Ryan.

Nikki 0:07

I'm Nikki.

Ryan 0:08

Yeah, back for a second time and we're all best friends going on a fragrance journey, smelling things and giving you our uneducated opinion on it, episode 300. Three hundo, that's so exciting.

Myke 0:22

It's a big milestone.

Ryan 0:23

Honestly, I mean to kind of butt Nikki out for a second here. Yeah, Would you have ever thought that we would do 300 fucking episodes of this stupid ass show?

Myke 0:35

Yeah, I don't know. I never thought it. You never thought it, huh? Originally we said let's just do 30. If we can get to 30, we can prove we're not a bum. It's 10 times that now. Isn't that crazy. We've done 30, 10 times Fucking nuts.

Ryan 0:51

It's been a wild journey, obviously. Thank everybody for going along with us on this and we're still pushing forward. Today we have a very special one. Yeah, me and you have smelled this before. Yes, we have Early on in this podcast career and I don't know why we've never done an episode on it, because we both have loved it and I don't know if that's still going to ring true, because we haven't smelled it for a minute, but we loved it.

Myke 1:13

Maybe we were waiting for 300 because of the tie-in that this has.

Ryan 1:18

Oh yeah, I'm interested to see what you think about that.

Nikki 1:26

Oh, I can't wait to hear. I don't believe you. I'm excited for y'all. I get more excited than y'all do. I'm thrilled. I'm so excited to be here.

Myke 1:31

You probably can't wait to hear what Sketch1998 has to say on Free Grantica about it either. He says smells like food leftovers in the fridge. Don't know if I'll keep this. It doesn't sit well on my skin, Totally overrated by influencers who get free bottles. Please try before you buy this.

Nikki 1:53

Food leftovers? Yeah, now I'm concerned. What kind of food Like Thanksgiving?

Ryan 1:57

leftovers we all just got done Thanksgiving. That would be god awful smelling.

Myke 2:02

Yeah, that is the worst. Actually, you brought me chicken and dressing and we met for coffee, so I had it in the truck. Then, when I got in the truck, I was immediately like why does my truck smell so weird? Oh yeah, I've got all this food in the passenger seat. How was it? It was amazing. I love that chicken and dressing. I was bragging to a listener about your ability to make a pumpkin pie.

Ryan 2:24

I fucked it up though how I told you, I made two batches in one, so when I poured it a lot of the spices are at the bottom, but I like to have my pumpkin pies. I put extra clove.

Myke 2:34

That's my trick. I want a little kick. Well, it was incredible. Hold on.

Ryan 2:44

Why are you coming at me so goddamn hostile today? What did I fucking do to you? You know why?

Myke 2:48

You know, why, Well, if anybody she's fucking piercing me over here. What the fuck? If anybody can say Whether or not somebody's Doing a good job in the kitchen, it is Nikki. Yeah, you are very talented. Thanks guys. Baking Cooking.

Nikki 3:03

Thanks. Yeah, it's not about me, it's about this fragrance. It smells like leftovers. I can't take a compliment, we all know. Okay, thank you, moving on okay yeah.

One Night Stand Review: Red Colorado

Ryan 3:14

So before we get into this, we do need to get into our one night stand review of red colorado by m mickleff. Hit the music, todd. Yeah, one night stand review. Well, mike, after spending the night with m mickleff and wearing red colorado, what do you have to say about it? You know, after a thorough investigation of wearing it.

Myke 3:40

It's good, I like it. I think it is right down the middle as far as unisex goes. Yeah, it's good, man, I dig it. It's not my favorite in mickle.

Ryan 3:50

If that we've smelled, I agree but it is good we smelled three so far. I think it's my third on that, okay give me the list then well, I mean, I think the first one is the one we smelled before, that the desire toxic yeah, I can't pronounce it that one incredible fucking badass fragrance.

Myke 4:06

And then the gin and tonic one would be my second yeah, I might have to agree yeah, I think that's the list it is good, though by comparing it to the other ones, we're kind of doing a disservice, because it was a really nice fragrance it was good.

Ryan 4:17

I think the opening was really badass. I do think after a while the dry down did kind of get a little bit. I don don't want to say nauseating, but it was just like I don't think I can wear this. So for me, I don't, it's a sample. I don't, I can't remember if I said sample or skip. It's been, you know, since before Thanksgiving, right, but for me it's a sample now probably a skip. I'm not that big on it right now.

Myke 4:37

Oh, okay, I'm still solid and I think on a beautiful lady it would look amazing, okay.

Ryan 4:44

Have you ever experienced anything with Colorado Nikki?

Nikki 4:48

I have Really. I went to Estes Park.

Ryan 4:51

Oh really, how was that it was?

Nikki 4:52

fabulous. I want to go back.

Ryan 4:54

Y'all. Both you've been to Estes Park as well. Yes, I worked out there one time after a tornado hit in Loveland, Colorado. I delivered roofing material during that time?

Nikki 5:02

Oh, okay yeah.

Ryan 5:04

But so I didn't get to like, enjoy that area. You know, gotcha, it's beautiful.

Nikki 5:08

Did you go?

Myke 5:08

out to the park, or what did you do?

Nikki 5:10

Okay, yeah, we went in the summer, so the highs were like 74 and then the lows were like 50s. It wasn't bad. We went hiking. It was so beautiful.

Ryan 5:19

It was like hardly any humidity there. Oh my God.

Nikki 5:21

It was. My hair looked great the entire time. I would move there in a heartbeat.

Ryan 5:28

It's a beautiful place. I miss Colorado.

Myke 5:30

I went. It was like a movie because we were shooting an elopement out there, yeah, and I was doing video and we're kind of finishing up and we're doing basically just like the portrait session. This is after the ceremony. Yeah, we're out in the middle of this beautiful area, two people madly in love. They're kissing. It starts raining. It felt like a rom-com or something. Yeah, I'm like doing all these little swooshy. You know video shots. You know spinning around, the rain's coming down. They're making out. This is a good time, cool. So you shot a porn. You know if we'd stay there any longer, maybe that's how you know.

Nikki 6:13

They're truly in love.

Ryan 6:14

That's right. So, mike, this is also. Mike always has these like weird ass sayings that he drops every once in a while, and one of our first weddings we ever filmed together, this young couple are like it's the last dance. You know when everybody leaves and the couple has that last dance before they do the exit. Yeah, it's like their private dance, yeah, and of course we're filming it, doing wraparound shots and all this shit, and then as soon as they're like, we're like breaking away. Mike's got a fucking huge ass gimlet in his hand.

Myke 6:53

He's like god damn, you couldn't fit a sheet of paper between them. He was so happy about this. Yeah, because I'm like, I like to see people in love. I like it. I'm a, I'm a romantic. Okay, I want to see happy people, you know, especially if they're like it's when you I don't work in the wedding industry anymore, but don't work in the wedding industry anymore but when you work in the wedding industry, nine out of 10 times you're going to get it's the whole spin, a bunch of money, make a big scene of it. But when you go to like, especially on video, you go to interview them about their you know their spouse. It's like, ooh, you know.

Nikki 7:21

No, no, I mean you know, oh, no, no, I mean a grand majority of the people that we show weddings for a split.

Ryan 7:30

Unfortunately, you're bad luck. Yeah, we're bad luck. Chucks for sure. Weddings, yes, yes. So when?

Myke 7:34

you do a wedding and you see a couple that just is really. They're into each other, they love each other. You can tell they're passionate about each other. It kind of gives you a little bit of hope, yeah, and then we've had that hope.

Ryan 7:45

And then afterwards we're like, wow, that happened after the wedding, yeah, we can't say anything, but we were like yeah, I remember telling the bride I was like you were my one hope of like real love existed out there.

Ryan 7:59

The bride was fun. Well, the groom too. They were both phenomenal human beings, yeah, and I would say that was probably the largest wedding as far as, like the amount of people that were at this thing. Yeah, it was. It was a really gorgeous catholic wedding. It was it was crazy, and then it was like then at the end of the wedding.

Myke 8:19

No, this was like a couple years later oh, oh yeah, but we'll tell you off air I can't wait to hear.

Nikki 8:24

Give me the.

Ryan 8:25

DL, it's juicy.

Myke 8:28

Ooh, and just such a bummer? Yeah, because when you walk into any. By the way, my cousin just got married on Saturday. Congrats, yeah. Good job, nick. I'm proud of you bud.

Ryan 8:38

Yeah.

Myke 8:45

Hopefully it lasts longer than this one we were just talking about it. Will it definitely will Shut up. So I got to go to his wedding and I mean I remember giving him my PlayStation 2 with like a guitar hero and stuff. He's just a little kid. Oh, now he's all grown up, I feel like an old man. But anyways, anytime you go to a wedding you're really hoping every wedding you go to a wedding you're really hoping every wedding you go to you're hoping they make it and off subject, but on the same subject of this said wedding, they had the best dessert thing.

Myke 9:13

Oh, my God.

Nikki 9:13

What was that fucking thing called?

Ryan 9:14

Chocolate cobbler, chocolate cobbler. Have you ever heard of chocolate fucking cobbler? I have not.

Nikki 9:20

Yeah.

Ryan 9:21

I didn't either tonight. Did you tonight, either you didn, yeah, I didn't either.

Nikki 9:23

Tonight did you talk about that? Either you didn't know, either your excitement makes me want to make it immediately, please, legit. It was fucking nuts.

Ryan 9:30

We'd never heard of it. I'm like what the fuck is chocolate? And I'm thinking, like you know, cobbler right. I'm telling you, I'm here to tell you that shit.

Myke 9:36

I don't know if it was a spanish dish, I don't know what the fuck it was, it's good as fuck I just remember going like, okay, it's rude to go back immediately, but like I was like trying to time it out to go get another.

Nikki 9:46

You know helping. You didn't want it to all be gone. By the time you got back it was like that hands down.

Myke 9:52

You're right, that is the best thing we've had. There's that. And then there was a champagne cake that I never got to try at a wedding and I was like, ooh, I still think about it today. Oh, because they were hyping it up and I was like, oh boy, but here's me working really hard and not sneaking me a piece of cake.

Ryan 10:11

Buttercream icing fondant or fondant with icing Buttercream, Buttercream always All day long. Really, Nobody likes fondant.

Nikki 10:18

No, really no, got to go.

Myke 10:21

That's like icing flavored bubble gum is what fondant was. Yeah, it's just too tough. I like peel it off.

Ryan 10:27

I kind of love the texture of it if it's done right you like the texture?

Nikki 10:31

No sir.

Myke 10:33

No, sir, that's bad.

Ryan 10:34

Alright, well, that's Red. Colorado by M Nicholas.

Myke 10:39

How did we even get?

Ryan 10:40

here.

Scent of the Day: Triumph of Bacchus

Myke 10:45

Let's get back into what this whole podcast is about which is not marriages not lasting, and uh, it's triumph of bachas by argos I think, yeah, there you go first yeah, Okay this is the leftovers right.

Ryan 11:01

Yeah, okay, oh no, no, no, put a spray or two more on there More. Yeah, get real with this.

Nikki 11:06

Use me.

Myke 11:07

Then give you one little on the hand.

Nikki 11:09

Put one on my hand.

Ryan 11:10

Somewhere that you haven't put anything on, there you go. That might be too much.

Nikki 11:14

Okay, all right, I'm doing the best I can.

Ryan 11:19

Oh, she just made a face like. It smells like leftovers.

Nikki 11:22

I don't know, I don't, I don't smell that, I don't hate it.

Myke 11:27

What does it remind you of I?

Nikki 11:28

don't know, it smells very light and fresh, you don't? Oh, I'm like, is my nose broken?

Ryan 11:34

No, it's very.

Myke 11:35

God damn it. No, I picked that review because that guy's an idiot.

Nikki 11:39

Okay, I'm like it smells so good. It smells so fucking good Like I. Is it unisex?

Ryan 11:45

Yes.

Nikki 11:46

Okay, this is like the first one that y'all have shown me that I'm like. Okay, I could really see it going both ways, like it smells, like you're walking through like a field, like there's some.

Myke 11:57

Oh, I could almost get like a hay type smell. I didn't think about that before.

Nikki 12:01

Yeah, I like that Interesting.

Myke 12:04

It's like to me.

Ryan 12:06

She's laughing at me because I'm like I got stuck, like I'm glitched out Like everybody's, like oh no, the beach ball spinning on your forehead yeah. It's amazing. It still smells amazing to me.

Nikki 12:16

I don't understand. This smells really good. I don't understand.

Ryan 12:19

This smells really good. What are you smelling, ryan? I smell because I know this note's in there. It's like it's got a white peach kind of thing going on and it is kind of boozy, which I know. It has rum in it, like a rum smell, yeah. But one thing I am picking up more this time, which is kind of like fucking with me in a bad way, is that it has a vanilla thing kind of going on. Oh, oh, hmm. But all to say, this still smells pretty fucking incredible.

Nikki 12:46

It smells really good.

Ryan 12:47

Yeah, Fuck On the skin. It smells amazing.

Nikki 12:49

I want to see the front of the bottle.

Ryan 12:51

Yeah, the bottle designs are great.

Nikki 12:53

You think this is great.

Ryan 12:54

Yeah, you don't like that Be honest. No, I don't. I think it's too much.

Myke 12:58

Too gaudy.

Nikki 12:58

Yeah, it's very gaudy, which I think would make people not want to even smell it. I think if you're not as gaudy, I think people would be more interested in it.

Ryan 13:09

Yeah, so what she's If Mr Argos is hearing this that's her opinion.

Nikki 13:12

I'm so sorry, that's not mine. Yeah, I'm so sorry.

Myke 13:24

What she's looking at is. It's a? A. I love the glass bottle, but what it has is like a silver and gold plate that has the name triumphal bacchus on it and it has, like some I don't know, some greek looking.

Nikki 13:30

Yeah, scene it's got like. It just seems over the top embedded uh you do cubic zirconium or something like that.

Ryan 13:38

Yeah, it's got the ira or whatever on top of it all cmi, whatever the fuck that is.

Nikki 13:42

But oh, my bracelet. I haven't all seen it do you?

Ryan 13:44

okay? There you go see, maybe you're as gaudy as this hey, I am as gaudy as that I will say this really quick on my hand right now it smells like a peach jolly rancher it smells amazing.

Myke 13:56

Oh man, I would eat a peach jolly rancher. Do those exist?

Ryan 13:59

I think so, god, hopefully I didn't make that Let me make sure.

Nikki 14:01

I think you just made that up. I didn't fucking make that up. I've never heard that.

Myke 14:03

If they don't exist, they better exist.

Nikki 14:05

They will after this, because you guys are so important, they're going to hear this.

Myke 14:11

Do you like the peach rings Like the gummy to go.

Ryan 14:17

Both, huh, both of you guys, do you like them?

Myke 14:19

I like them Really.

Ryan 14:20

I'm not much of a. You hate fondant, but you like that shit. Yeah what the fuck.

Myke 14:26

I'm slowly getting into, like gummy candies. I haven't liked them for a long time. If I eat candy, typically it's like give me a piece of chocolate. But I'm slowly kind of getting into some of those sweet sour, sour reeses all day long oh that's all I want. There are a piece of jolly ranchers get out of here, he's jolly okay you have to go to like japan to get them. I don't fucking know, but that's what it smells like on my hand it smells really fucking good.

Myke 14:53

But I will say, on my hand it actually smells more feminine because of that I agree I'd wear that really okay, I've always thought of this more as a masculine scent, because I always think of carlisle and red tobacco yeah, it's way sweeter than both those, I think yeah there isn't like the dry tobacco type vibe that I get in those two people always say this is a clone of those. I don't necessarily agree. It's very similar, but to me it's the best of the three.

Ryan 15:27

I think red tobacco is the best of that group. But I mean, that's an opinion, yeah, that's your opinion. Yeah, it means nothing. Typically, typically, you guys are really going to regret coming for me one day.

Nikki 15:43

No, I don't think so.

Myke 15:45

He's been really rubbing that type of shit in my face.

Ryan 15:49

Well, let me go over the notes really quick and I want to see if you guys can pick up any of them. How's that sound? Perfect, Going by the perfume pyramid on Fragrantica.

Nikki 15:58

Why.

Ryan 15:59

Hey, I'm smelling this one. Okay, first off, rum. Yeah, white peach, told you that Saffron. Do you get saffron in this? This is on the top. Do you get saffron? I don't really think I get saffron. Yeah, here we go, green apple.

Nikki 16:13

I can see that. I can see that.

Ryan 16:17

Middle notes Tonka, mm-hmm. Middle notes tonka bean, patchouli, jasmine, vetiver. Ooh, are you?

Myke 16:21

smelling the green apple now or something. No, I've been smelling my hand the whole time and I went to the card and it's like my brain just lit up on fire. Really Good, yeah, just like all the different things going on in it. Mm-hmm, it's a little more like single note on my hand yeah, but on. Like single note on my hand, yeah, but on this card.

Ryan 16:41

It smells fantastic do you get any of this on the bottom though?

Myke 16:44

more green apple on the card yeah, you get that.

Ryan 16:46

Maybe you just said that. And then what about tobacco, vanilla, amber, sandalwood and musk? I think the musk, I feel that like a soft musky I almost smell like, uh, like green banana on the car.

Nikki 17:04

Don't tell me that no, no, no one wants to smell like a banana all right, I can't, I won't be able to unsmell it.

Myke 17:14

Oh so you don't like bananas either? That's right. Neither one of you guys like bananas, and I'm and I'm a banana-holic. Ugh, I love them, I'll eat crunchy, peanut butter and banana sandwich.

Ryan 17:24

Nasty, I will eat banana pudding, uh-uh, you know. That's as far as it goes.

Nikki 17:29

Now, I'm hard now.

Ryan 17:30

I take that back, I put it in my oatmeal, yeah, but that's it. Those are three things.

Nikki 17:36

You make it even worse by making it even slimier, by putting it in oatmeal. That makes literally zero sense.

Ryan 17:42

The fuck. It mixes in with the oats no, it gets so slimy Okay first off oatmeal is slimy to begin with.

Nikki 17:49

Yeah, so it just mixes. It's not like you feel like there's extra texture. So then you're taking something that's already gross and then you're making it more gross.

Ryan 17:54

Okay, oatmeal is not gross. It's delicious when it's made right with banana and blueberry. You cook those in, so then you get that, yeah, you get that natural sweetener, but then you got the blueberry that gives you that tart punch up, you know you know I love me some blueberries, but banana, I'll pick one off a tree and eat it. I'm like give it to me.

Price and Popularity

Myke 18:12

Give it to me raw baby, I don't get the green banana thing on the card I do and I actually really like it well, before we get any further here, let me hit you guys really quickly with the price and popularity of this fragrance.

Ryan 18:34

The price You're looking about 200 and something, bucks 207, I think, 250, 275 for 100. So for this right here, yeah, that sounds about right popularity with 1069 votes on for grantica. Thank you for grantica. Please don't take the popularity away like you took the other thing which you're in. Yeah, perfume rating is a 4.42. Wow, five, yeah wow with all those votes. Yeah, high, high rating. I believe it too. Yeah, I will stick behind this rating.

Myke 19:03

It is so good. We didn't even talk about why this is the episode 300.

Ryan 19:09

Yeah, I thought, do we need to verify that, though? We?

Myke 19:13

could say the allegations of it. So the allegation is that the guy who started slash owns this brand, was in the movie 300. Yeah.

Nikki 19:25

Really.

Myke 19:25

As one of the soldiers Spartan soldiers.

Ryan 19:29

Sharp looking guy. Let me try to find this guy, that's neat.

Myke 19:32

And pretty ripped, ripped to shreds.

Nikki 19:36

You would have to be to be in 300.

Ryan 19:38

For sure.

Nikki 19:39

Yeah.

Ryan 19:42

Let's see if we can get a picture of homie. I don't know and if you're listening, sorry that I referred to you as homie. I may not know you like that. What's this fucking name?

Myke 19:52

Man. The skin and the card could not be more different. I agree. Which one do you like the most? I like them both for different reasons. On the skin, it's reminding me of everything I already know about it.

Ryan 20:03

I mean, y'all can still talk without me while I'm looking at this up, or whatever. Don't mean to make this awkward. How's your day going, nikki?

Nikki 20:09

Great, so happy to be here.

Myke 20:11

Yeah, you brought us muffins. I did. That's the real reason why we keep inviting you back.

Nikki 20:17

Thank God, I'll keep begging for you all the time.

Ryan 20:19

Here we go. Here's his name, and I'm sorry if I butcher it Not his first, but his last Christian Petrovich Petrovich, petrovich, is that how you?

Myke 20:28

think it's done.

Ryan 20:29

That's how in my head that's what it sounds like. Let's see here yeah, he's a sharp cat, he's the. I mean, look at that, yeah, that.

Nikki 20:38

Yeah yeah, he's a sharp looking man. That's a man right there. That is a fucking man.

Myke 20:43

That's a man. Everybody get in line, kiss this good looking guy yeah, it's a badass fragrance.

Who's Wearing This

Ryan 20:52

So I have to ask you like, what do you? Who do you think is wearing this? Who's pulling this off?

Nikki 20:59

I would say pretty much anybody, because I could really see it being unisex going both ways. Yeah, but it's very light and fresh, Like I feel like you could get that and I know I said last time like you get right in a vehicle and go.

Ryan 21:11

Yeah.

Nikki 21:12

Like it's not going to give you a headache, which is important.

Myke 21:16

Yes.

Nikki 21:16

And it smells like you're freshly clean, like you just got out of the shower. It's just like a nice Clean scent that either, like unisex, could wear that.

Ryan 21:24

Age. What do you think? Oh, is this a young person, middle age.

Nikki 21:30

Older, young To middle.

Myke 21:32

Young to middle. Okay, give us numbers here.

Nikki 21:36

Give us numbers. You're 18 To 18. I don't know that's young, or is that not right? 21, they're getting replaced by ai.

Ryan 21:46

They don't have a fucking job to buy this shit maybe their parents have a lot of money.

Nikki 21:51

I know we didn't.

Myke 21:52

We didn't live that life, but maybe that's a thing, it's true um well to like 48. Okay, 18 to 48. That's a nightly 30-year range. 30-year range, you're welcome, that's good.

Nikki 22:04

You're welcome. I had to make sure I covered all my bases.

Myke 22:08

I'll go a little older. I'll say 25 and up, depending on your vibe what you go for. I feel like the younger of it is probably female, I agree, or somebody who wears feminine fragrances. And then, yeah, I think you need to be. What do you think, ryan? 30s and up for boys? Yeah, for a man, for boys.

Ryan 22:30

This is a man. Yeah, this is a real man. Really, this is a real man to you huh White peach.

Nikki 22:35

Okay, but I will say like it's a certain type of man, like you know, it's not like a rough yeah lion's mane of fucking hair that's fucking combed.

Myke 22:47

Wearing nice clothing.

Ryan 22:48

All tailored to him yeah, yeah, italian suit, you don't look like a bum. Yeah, maybe you've been in a movie, right?

Myke 22:55

Oh yeah, maybe, Maybe you got a six pack Of oh yeah, maybe, maybe you got a six pack Of abs, not Michelob Ultra.

Ryan 23:04

All right, are you going to skip it? Sample it.

Nikki 23:07

Buy it.

Ryan 23:08

Or buy it.

Nikki 23:09

Or buy it.

Ryan 23:10

I mean you can go or buy it yeah, not like. Or buy it, question mark Okay, or buy it.

Nikki 23:18

Or buy it. Wow, that's all you get Fuck off, we're done, we're done, I'm done. Okay, I'm more nervous this time than I was the first time, what the hell. It just all went to shit. Okay, you did fine.

Skip it, Sample it, Buy it

Myke 23:31

We can work with that.

Ryan 23:34

Well, nikki, if you're asking me, I would say this is a buy. For me it's still a buy. This smells really good. It does smell a little different than I remember, but I can't deny it. It smells so good I fucking love it. It's a hard, very hard sample to a buy, nikki.

Nikki 23:56

I would buy it. I wish it was in a lotion form so I could rub it all over my body A little body butter. I wish it was in a lotion form so I could like rub it all over my body A little body butter. I want some body butter. Okay, absolutely.

Myke 24:05

Yeah, yeah, I could see that. I bet he might have that. Honestly. Yeah, because they make a lot of different stuff. They make home diffusers and stuff for this. Oh yeah.

Nikki 24:12

Okay, I may actually look into that, because I to smell like that.

Myke 24:16

Well, and for me it's already a buy.

Ryan 24:19

This is my bottle that we're spraying, so I'm shocked that you've had it for almost three years now and there's still a little bit over half left. For sure this would be gone in my house after like two every month.

Myke 24:30

To me it's too rich to wear constantly. I mean, this is clearly a cold weather fragrance, I agree with that. But, it's like it's just too overpowering, you know.

Ryan 24:40

Yeah, by the way, do you think the price is fair, $200?

Myke 24:43

Yeah, I do. I think it's like $250 or $275. Yeah, the whole presentation of this thing, by the way, the box and everything is very beautiful. I do agree it's kind of overdone. Look incredible.

Nikki 24:56

Yeah.

Myke 24:56

This one does feel a little on the gaudy side, but some of the other things really do feel like little pieces of artwork.

Nikki 25:02

Yeah, it's beautiful.

Ryan 25:04

It is sharp, alright. Well, there you go, there's our take on it. It's a very hard sample to a buy for me. It's a buy for Nikki. Absolutely yeah, and it's obviously a buy for you.

Myke 25:16

Yeah, you know, maybe next time around I'd buy for you. Yeah, you know, maybe next time around I'd probably buy the 30 mil. As you can see, I've got this is the 100 and I've used about 50 mil of it, so I probably wouldn't go too deep into it next time, but it's nice to have spray on the occasion.

Ryan 25:33

It's a badass fragrance. I'm glad we finally were able to episode on it and you know I'm ashamed of us. Why are we so bad about this? Why can't we ever talk about the Patreon at the front of the fucking episode? Oh, we always wait till dead. Goddamn last, Every time.

Nikki 25:48

Yeah, they need to be first.

Ryan 25:49

Don't you think?

Nikki 25:50

They need to be. First Put a sign up, we'll get you a sign.

Ryan 25:53

See, Even the person who doesn't even know what a podcast is is saying why are you guys not talking about your? That's not true, by the way, guys we have a Patreon.

Myke 26:06

It's amazing. Yeah, if you love this podcast and you want to keep it going, hey, hit us up. We've got some great things going on in there.

Ryan 26:11

We obviously have had the holidays hit us here and there We've got Christmas coming up, but we do have some special giveaways planned, so stay tuned for that. But other than that, I mean it's got a great community. That's something I gotta pitch. I just gotta say it. The community is amazing there. It's a must really. It's a shame that some people just don't join the I don't know how to do that.

Myke 26:34

That is something I don't know how to do yeah, so technology is not my friend the other ickies are already patreon, isn't that weird?

Nikki 26:42

yeah, the ricky and licky, they're both patreons I feel like whoever licky is probably not thrilled about that, but she loves having the name licky.

Ryan 26:55

If you're listening to this, you know me and mike love you and.

Myke 26:59

And she loves this fragrance, by the way, does she? Well, she would, because she loved red tobacco on you. She went on and on about you wearing red tobacco and this is the same genre of fragrance. So I do believe Licky would slurp all over this one, absolutely.

Ryan 27:17

I can't wait till we have them all three on an episode. She has to go by that I will never. You'll respect her, I will respect her All right guys. We love you so much.

Nikki 27:28

Nikki, thank you for coming on the episode again, thank you so much for having me, yeah, as always for sure, and until next time, spray it up, y'.