The Cologne Podcast
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The Cologne Podcast
#303 - Final Episode of Season 5: Eau Rihla by Diptyque
Picture this: you're standing in Neiman Marcus, entranced by the allure of a bold leather fragrance that whispers promises of untold olfactory adventures. That's exactly where Myke found himself, sparking an aromatic journey that marks the finale of our fifth season. We explore this potent scent, drawing comparisons to ombre leather, and share insights from Fragrantica reviewer Joan of Arc, who had some thoughts of her own. From berry notes to florals that emerge long after the leather subdues, each whiff tells a story, sparking debates about its place in our personal collections.
hello everybody, welcome to the cologne podcast. I'm mike.
Myke:I'm ryan, we're two best friends. We're going on a fragrance journey.
Ryan:We're smelling fragrances and giving you uneducated opinions, and today we have a special one. Dug it out of I don't know, just a bunch of random decants, but we have in our hands we've done one before, the le papier episode, le papier diptychs. And how do we pronounce it? Orilla, orilla, oh, oh, oh, orilla it's some obscure uh auto parts, uh jokes wow, yeah, if you're listening to this, this is the day before the New Year's Eve is upon you.
Myke:That's right. We are headed into a new year, a new season of the Cologne Podcast.
Ryan:Season six will be starting the next year. That's right, isn't that crazy this is the final episode of season five.
Myke:Enjoy it while it lasts. This fragrance actually has a bit of a story, ryan, you may not know it. What's the story? I've smelled this before, of course. Yes, that's a short story the end.
Ryan:No, here I got a story for you too oh, baby, yeah, them baby blueberries sipping on.
Myke:I was in neiman marcus and, you know, occasionally I'll just go let me smell something that you really love. You know I'll be talking to one of the guys there. Show me something you really love that I probably haven't smelled before. Okay, and my boy, sebastian, took me over to this and he's like do you like ombre leather? And I was like you're goddamn right, I like ombre leather. He said well then, you may need to smell this, because this is a stronger, more lasting type ombre leather fragrance. It's fruity, it's leathery, and he's like it's going to kick your ass for hours.
Myke:And ombre leather is not really a slouch. No, it's not, it's really good. But he let me smell this and I was impressed. I wore it around the back of my hand for a little while just smelling it. I've been tempted to pull the trigger to buy it, but I know you can't trust your skin even when you're out there smelling a thousand fragrances in the department store. The only way, ladies and gentlemen, that I'd ever recommend just off a spray buying something would be, if you come to the cologne podcast studios, get in here, where we've done a great job of just making sure to isolate a specific fragrance. There's no other way to do it.
Ryan:There's literally zero science behind what you're claiming.
Myke:No, no, no. There's been hundreds of fragrances treated this way. It's the only way I know I can trust this. Don't trust your noses unless you're sitting right here in these foldable chairs.
Myke:Every fragrance is well-sealed and insulated within the lead paint of this yeah, you don't have to trust what I'm saying about it, but you might want to trust jonah vark on fragrantica. What a badass name to have. Just a couple of months ago wrote this review. A little too leathery for my taste. When I smell this, spraying the leather is so overpowering it feels like I'm always just one more second away from smelling the sweet berry and floral notes. It's only after the leather wears off, five hours later, that you get those floral notes. But I don't see the point in waiting five hours to smell like you really want to. I can agree with that. My brain understands that there's more than just leather in this fragrance fragrance but my nose can't comprehend it. It's jonah vark. Okay, five hours of leather.
Ryan:I mean, if it smells some ombre leather, I'd probably love it. I was reading the notes and I will go into it later about the notes but when I was reading it I was just like I felt like I told you, I was like I'm either gonna really love this or really hate it. I don't think there's going to be in between.
Myke:Well, I'm hoping you really love it and I'm hoping I do too. But first we got to give you that one night stand review, that delicious fragrance Ryan's looking it up because we both forgot oh shit, tom Ford for men.
Ryan:It's stream Vintage.
Myke:Hit the music Todd yeah. One night stand review. Fuck, is that the rain? Yeah, and the bottom fell out on that one, jesus, I love.
Ryan:every time we're like God damn, these guys are going to hear. Every bit of this Sounds like fucking Noah's Arch crashing against us out here and you won't hear none of it.
Myke:Well, this fragrance was delicious to me, but you didn't love it.
Ryan:I didn't. I felt bad that I didn't like it. It was okay, but I just didn't vibe any of it. I opened it, closed, I just did not vibe it. I was kind of let down why I just didn't vibe any of it. Open to close, I just did not vibe it. I was kind of let down why, I don't know. It just had a weird smell to me. I know it didn't go bad, I just didn't like the makeup of it. That's the best way I can put it. I know that's not in depth and it's also been almost a week and a half or two. Christmas has happened. Oh, it's been a few weeks now since that one, but it just just nothing stood out to me about. I can understand why. To me I understand why it's discontinued.
Myke:Yeah, I think it's because they changed the formulation a little bit and call it something different. I think they just called it tom ford noir. Personally, that's speculation. I'm making this story up, you don't have to trust me in in the episode. Yeah, you said something. I don't like the profile of this type of fragrance, but you said it smells good.
Ryan:Yeah, it's not something I would wear, didn't? I feel like it was feminine.
Myke:I don't know. To me it smelled a little bit on the more mature vintage side.
Ryan:Dude, look at the fucking water coming off of that. I don't know if you can see it. It looks like we're at a fucking water coming off of that. I don't know if you can see it.
Myke:Looks like we're at a fucking water park oh great, it's just gonna be six more weeks of my uh moon roof leaking or whatever.
Ryan:Yeah it was okay, it was a skip. For me it's still a skip okay.
Myke:Well, I thought it was nice it being discontinued. I can't really recommend you go out and buy it, but if there's a way for you to get your hands on a sample of it, maybe you'll start a fragrance podcast. Maybe you'll have badass listeners that then send you in fragrances that you can smell. If you could do that, I'd recommend doing it because it's fun. It is fun.
Ryan:That part, I will say, is fun, that was fun. Okay, it's a skip, it's a sample for you. Yeah, let's get into this baby. All right, now we're going to smell diptychs. Orilla, you go ahead, okay, since you've got the box in your hands and everything.
Myke:Yeah, Damn, what is this? Is this like a five mil Dude that?
Ryan:is, I guess, so Good atomizer. Let's see what we're working here with.
Myke:It is leathery and very like motor oil vibes Leathery and very like motor oil vibes.
Ryan:This is very to me on the nose, of ombre leather, less sweet though I was thinking it was going to be something sweeter, less fruitier, it's just leather, it is just leather Very realistic leather, but not harsh, not off-putting, very relaxed.
Myke:On the verge of being like a Fahrenheit type of you know, On the skin, absolutely yeah, what a great combo too.
Ryan:By the way, it's that manly, manly type vibe. Okay, yeah, On the skin. Hell yeah, it's like imagine ombre leather with that sweet part dialed down. It's like imagine ombre leather with that sweet part dialed down and then imagine just a hair of that beautiful mechanic. Diesel gasolina, smell of Dior Fahrenheit it's a little bit undertone on the skin, that is pretty sharp Hmm.
Ryan:I think it's going to be challenging, though, as we get into this episode. Okay, like it smells good, I just feel like it might go through. Some things have this feeling yeah, you're kind of getting.
Myke:There's a twinge of something on there. Yeah, do you enjoy that twinge or no? I don't I don't know this is what I'm talking about, though I'm not saying you have to have a cheaply thrown together studio that you smell things in, but you do need to get away from other fragrances to really wrap your nose around everything. You miss the subtle nuances when you're kind of smelling things back to back.
Ryan:I'll say one thing I don't think this is as loud as ombre leather. Hmm, I don't think this is as loud as ombre leather, hmm. So now I'm kind of puzzled by the review you read, because I can't see this lasting five hours of leather.
Myke:I may be wrong, but I just don't see it. I think it is as loud, but it doesn't have the same bite as ombre leather does. So it's like ombre leather feels louder because of the way it's architectured together louder because of the way it's architectured together.
Ryan:I don't know why. That's funny. I'm just like this guy.
Myke:You're gonna be working a booth somewhere, yeah oh shit, I always find it so interesting whenever I talk to people who are so wrapped up in fragrances that they can't just be normal.
Ryan:Yeah, I'm with you.
Myke:Every once in a while you run into that. Our gang is not like that. You know the Chris and the Steve and the Tony out there they're not like that. They use certain terminology to let you know exactly what they're smelling, yeah, but they're not like they don't take it too seriously. No, no, when Bill Burr does an interview on a podcast, if the person's taking themselves too seriously, he just starts taking the piss out of them because he's like no fucking way. Yeah, it just reminds me when he was with Bill Maher. Yeah, I forget what they were arguing about, but it was some like I remember all his club, whatever Club, random or whatever it is, and you know, and bill maher's like lecturing bill burr about, you know, doing some sort of charitable type social thing, and he's just like what the hell are you doing? Yeah, you, you fucking grilled his fucking ass. Yeah, just when somebody gets so caught up in themselves, they just think they're just so important.
Ryan:Well, you know, funny enough, Cynthia, one of our patrons and friends of the podcast, had sent a thing where I guess it's from Lucky Scents, instagram and this person's reading off these different fragrances, like recommending them for some reason. You know, like whatever they may be, like top vetiver fragrances, whatever Literally first went out the chamber says some name. I couldn't have pronounced even half of it with a gun to my fucking head, right, I'm just like I don't know if I'll ever be that. It's funny that we have this podcast now that is, on this season six, coming up right over 300 episodes, and I'm still like you know, oh rala is that what this is a hundred percent that.
Myke:So yesterday I was cooking a prime rib on Christmas, so we're recording this the day after Christmas and I'm watching different YouTube videos of people how to make sure I don't screw up this very expensive cut of meat. And there's one guy I like and he's like a French dude but he's speaking English but because he's French, when he says the French thing it's perfectly pronounced, perfect, yeah. And there's another italian guy watch too that does that as well, and it's just like I'll never be that. I'll just never be able to perfectly hit the, the and shit.
Ryan:You know what I mean that they have yeah, we're like looking up how to pronounce this word. Yeah, and the guy's like in arabic, it's like yeah it's like, I'm like how the hell do I?
Myke:pronounce this because it's there's so much like more to it. You know, but I have watched.
Ryan:There's a lady who she's like this is also proof that we're we're so american.
Myke:Yes, absolutely, we can't be bothered to learn anything. Oh well, here's the thing, though and this made a good point, because there's a lady that I was watching. She teaches french, she says french people, all they just get so irritated when you're like talking about something and then you don't go. You know, you just say a croissant or something and she's like, but it'd be the same way if they're like you know mcdon's, you know, and they know you have to say McDonald's in the middle of you know your French accent.
Myke:You have to stop and say you know chicken nuggets instead of chicken nuggets, you know, or whatever. So I think that's a good point. It's just like guys, can we stop? It wraps back around to this. Can we stop being so fucking serious all the time? I agree, like don't get offended if I say croissant, you know which. By the way, my 14 hours in the French airport I was kind of like I get why people say these French people can be jerks. Maybe it's just the American people irritate everyone.
Ryan:I'm sure we sound great. You literally just used.
Myke:McDonald's. That was her example of it, because she'll be talking to somebody and they'll say McDonald's. She'll be like McDonald's. You got to say it right. You got to say it like you're overweight and irritated.
Ryan:Which, by the way, I had to get McDonald's. On Christmas Day there was one actually open in the townhouse. Wow, really.
Myke:Yeah.
Ryan:Okay, and man there was, I think like an Uber Eats guy picking up something and they were slammed, but I felt sorry for everybody and he was giving them some shit. The.
Myke:Uber Eats guy was giving them some shit.
Ryan:Yeah, I kind of got a halfway tell this story and this, you know, the manager's like like, hey, look, I'm not gonna let you talk to my kid. She called him, her kids, my kids, like the, you know, right. And finally, so random, this uh big old black dude stands up. He's wearing a fucking bright ass green christmas onesie, I love that. And he didn't say anything. Ugly, he was super nice, but like he was just like hey, man, I understand that you maybe you put off, but you know, hey, look, you can obviously see they're busy. It doesn't make the situation better, so grab your food and get the hell out of here dude, it's christmas day.
Myke:For god's sake, can we have a little bit of patience and grace?
Ryan:absolutely. I mean I and I did, I, I didn't, I wouldn't bother about taking so long. There was other people waiting in front of me. You know it is what it is, but uh, and I mean I'm that. I was like immediately, I'm like god who. I'm like God who. I'm like fuck McDonald's making these people work on fucking Christmas and I'm like I'll take a double cheeseburger no pickles.
Myke:Exactly. You're like what type of bullshit is this? Two number threes, yeah exactly. Yeah, man, I don't know, dude, I just wonder. Sometimes I'm like, look, I know life is hard, oh God, life it loves. I mean it just loves to freaking kick you in the groin, mm-hmm. But there's no reason to just go around being an asshole to everybody.
Ryan:No, there's not God, it was I felt. So I don't want to say I pity people working there. I'm not saying it like that. I mean they're doing their job, they want to be there. We've done it in the past.
Myke:The right job comes along, you go. Oh, I'm getting holiday pay. One year we did Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve shoots. Was that the same year? Same year, Wow.
Ryan:Both of them were forever away.
Myke:The first the christmas eve. One was in austin, yes, and we literally got finished and drove back to get home at 5 am so we could still do christmas with the kids. God, I mean, you do, you do what you got to do. I get it. Look, you know, if you're getting holiday pay and you need that money, I'm not gonna judge you for it. You gotta do what you gotta do, which, by the way that was the bride.
Ryan:Yeah, they were like. Hey, your food's in that back alley over there outside of this warm tent with the propane heaters. Get your cold ass chicken and cold ass white cauliflower.
Myke:You fucking losers yeah, I was like after going, because we were talking with the bride and she said, oh yeah, we're gonna have chicken and waffles, and I was like fuck yeah they hyped us up.
Ryan:I know I was like we had the biggest case of blue balls in texas dude, I was.
Myke:I love me some chicken and waffles. I was like, oh, my god, she's like, oh, it's gonna be so good, I can't wait. Wait, I'm like me either. So I go to get in line. And then the coordinator is like oh no, you fucking moron your food's over here behind the dumpster.
Ryan:And there's nothing better than a bridesmaid coming up to you while you're busy. Yeah, filming for the bride. And I'm like the bride would request that you guys film this right now. Yeah, and it was them dancing Mambo number five. I'm like, yeah, this will definitely be in your highlight reel, trust me.
Myke:Yeah for sure, make sure to get this Now to that wedding. Ryan, would you have worn a?
Ryan:Rila Beautiful segue back, because we really got lost there for a minute. Um, it still smells like the open. This is kind of wild. It is kind of like it hasn't changed. I kind of like this. I think I would wear this, let me smell it on the card.
Myke:God, the card is fucking incredible it's's really good, it's surprisingly good.
Ryan:Let me give you the price and popularity of this. Hit me Price $275 for 2.5 ml. Fuck, I think like 75 ml or something like that. Yeah, that sounds about right. $275.'s too much. Thank you much, okay. The popularity 4.26 out of five. Only 425 votes.
Myke:so released in 2021 by the way, well liked by a small majority of people. Exactly, I could see if you only hit your clothes with this and not your skin.
Ryan:I don't know. I kind of like that little bit of it's. The hombre leather meets your Fahrenheit. It's got a little bite to it though it's doing something, but it's not that harsh. Fahrenheit vibe Fahrenheit's a little bit more harsher.
Myke:The fruitiness is definitely on the card. Yeah, that's where you're getting. It's like more rounded and beautiful.
Ryan:Quickly I'll just go over the pros and cons. Realistic leather scent with a hint of raspberry, beautifully blended leather fragrance, complex and refined blend. I kind of agree with all that. On the pros yeah, the raspberry is so faint, like when it says hint, I feel like it's very faint, if nothing at all. Cons maybe too strong for some. Disagree, hard disagree. This is not too strong. Linear fragrance that stays with the leather smell. So far, absolutely agree with that. But I kind of feel like that's a pro more than a con. For sure, yeah, some people would love that and we'll know this is true. Not suitable for rainy weather or cooler climates, because we've got both right now.
Myke:Oh, that's right, it's cold and rainy. You know great holiday weather.
Ryan:I don't dislike this. I'm kind of me like you, but who do you think is wearing such a fragrance as this?
Myke:I'm really going to have to try to think about this.
Ryan:He's got nothing.
Myke:Hmm, I would almost say you want a strong leather fragrance, but you don't want something that's overly masculine, so you're looking for something right down the middle, unisex. So I don't know if that maybe you're a guy, maybe you're a gal, but it is a Strong leather fragrance. It isn't super masculine.
Ryan:I can agree with that. I think this is pretty down the center. Unisex, unisex leather, I really do. I would think, though, I think a woman could edge this out and wear it better.
Myke:You know what I mean, I know exactly what you mean and I agree with you. Okay, good, what you mean and I agree with you. Okay. Good, our patreon and friend, licky really likes leather fragrances. Okay, and I do feel like this would be something she should look into yeah, I agree, it is really really nice man.
Ryan:Okay, are you gonna skip it, sample or buy it? What are you going to do?
Myke:Ryan.
Ryan:Well, mike, times are tough. Yes, christmas just happened yesterday.
Myke:And this is expensive. Yeah, yeah.
Ryan:I feel you, I will absolutely sample the hell out of this that we have right now, because that is probably like 5 ml. It's a good little yeah, a couple of wearings in there each yeah. So I'm like I will definitely sample this, but this could be a buy. I could see this being a buy. I don't know if it's 100% for me, although I do love what I'm smelling. I just think it is a perfect linear unisex fragrance. Perfect linear unisex fragrance. But I really do think on a woman, I think that this would. It would go up a couple of notches. I feel like it'd fit their profile.
Myke:Just a little bit better. I agree this is more of a daring wear for a lady than for a man. Absolutely. I think this is a little bit more subtle. My take on it. It's a skip for me, but it's a sample for those out there. I think if you're a listener, you love leather fragrances. You want something After smelling this. I do believe it's lighter than ombre leather. Yeah, I agree. So it's softer, it's lighter. The card smells so good and it does have this floral fruity God that's hard to say element to it Floral fruity.
Ryan:Yeah, that's kind of hard to think about. When I did it, I thought I was going to be a badass and be like you, fucking idiot floral fruity.
Myke:I'm fucking up right now. See, I saw the arrogance like immediately leave your face as soon as you said it. I'm a fucking loser you're gonna show me up on some linguistics over here. You're killing me, oh man, yeah, I do think smelling it a lady, spray it on your clothes. It's gonna be amazing and like it's a gonna be a darker, more intriguing scent on a woman. It's a little lighter.
Ryan:I would still just recommend ombre leather edp for the guys over this yeah, but I will say this one thing about I really think a majority, a good majority of people would put their nose to this and everybody would pretty much like it, they'd like it. Like it to smell absolutely. It almost doesn't. I'm gonna say it. They'd like it. Like it to smell absolutely, it almost doesn't. I'm gonna say it smells cheap, because it doesn't smell cheap but almost feels very designer, because it's like very wearable.
Myke:Very wearable, not challenging. Yes, exactly exactly. Did you get anything for christmas that you wanted? I? Got more debt?
Ryan:yes, that that was fun with it.
Myke:That was fun other than that. No, I didn't get anything really that my kids got me a canoodle extreme canoodle, extreme, yes, hell is that it's like pocket tetris, okay, so I've had the canoodle for a while and it's a game. Where is this digital, or no? No, no, it's like a puzzle. Okay, I'm looking at it while you're telling me this yeah, and it's different shapes, very much like Tetris K or C K, okay, and you basically have a box that has like a long rectangle.
Ryan:Okay, and they all have to fit together.
Myke:You have to figure out the puzzle to make it fit together and you put a piece in, you shake it where it lands. That's your starting point and then from there you have to put the other pieces in. I've enjoyed that on long flights and, as you know, I'll be going to italy again next year, and so they were like here you go, pops canoodle extreme. It's taking it up a notch that looks like a fun little game. It is a fun game. Recently this year, I helped a photographer shoot something in Arizona and we flew together and that was the thing we played back and forth. We played this Canoodle. It's cheap, it's fun. I don't really encourage the kids to get me gifts right now, and I do that as reverse psychology, because then I get pumped on giving gifts and they're always very thoughtful, I take it back.
Ryan:I did get something you gave me. Oh yeah, that bar. Is it whiskey or is it? It's an old?
Myke:fashioned mix, old fashioned mix. So really, you just pour it over ice, get your little orange rind Okay, put that in there. Orange peel Is that something you squeeze, or just let it sit in there? No, you twist it, drop it in there, okay. Speaking of Italy, that's one of Chris's jams. We had some old-fashions for his birthday, had my first old-fashioned with him, okay. So I, Okay, you know. So I just thought you know, since you're a big old wuss and won't be enjoying old fashions with us, maybe you could have some old fashion yourself.
Ryan:Well then, I'll save it for the day that y'all link up.
Myke:Oh no, there's plenty of it. But there's a distillery close to the place in Dallas where I work and they make their own spirits and whiskeys and stuff like that, and so they make like a rustic bottle full of it and, yeah, it's a little some, some from a bro. Yeah, I appreciate it, man, encouraging you to be an alcoholic thanks, bro.
Ryan:Well guys, uh, this is our sign off for the year, but it won't be a long sign off. As we said, we're coming right back, but this, this is the last episode.
Myke:With a new season though.
Ryan:Yeah, season six is upon you. Oh baby, the sixth season has dropped upon you. Yeah, and with that the end of time.
Myke:If you want to have a say in what episodes we're doing season six, be sure to get into our Patreon. Get in our community community chat, let us know what you're wanting to listen to and we will make some episodes and until next time, spray it up y'all.