The Cologne Podcast
EVERY MONDAY: Join best friends Myke and Ryan as they take on the world of fragrances with unfiltered humor and uneducated opinions. Each episode, they'll sniff out a new scent and give their honest, foul-mouthed review. From high-end colognes to drugstore bargains, no fragrance is off-limits. Brace yourself for an irreverent, no-holds-barred approach to fragrance reviews.
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#313 - Purple Accento by Xerjoff: An Italian Exclusive
Ready for a $800 fragrance giveaway? Grab your favorite beverage and settle in as we unbox and review Xerjoff's luxurious Purple Accento – a limited edition fragrance with a hefty price tag that's about to find its way to one very lucky Patreon supporter.
This dreamsicle-like scent opens with notes of pineapple, mandarin, and orange before transitioning to loganberry, pink pepper, and jasmine, finally settling into a comfortable base of vanilla, musk, amber, sandalwood, and a hint of agarwood. While frequently compared to Erba Pura, Purple Accento stands apart with its fresher profile and distinctive citrusy bite. Though it leans slightly feminine, its versatility might surprise you – as we discovered when a male friend confidently rocked this fragrance throughout a fragrance expo with stellar results.
hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the cologne podcast.
Myke:I'm mike and I'm ryan and we're not gonna keep doing that. We're two best friends on a fragrance journey, smelling big juicy bottles and giving you uneducated opinions today and, by god, listen up closely.
Ryan:If you're a patreon, today you really like to hear this. We're gonna be smelling a brand new big juicy bottle of zherjoff purple achinto. Oh yeah, and at the end of this episode we are going to announce the winner of said full 100 ml bottle of this.
Myke:Oh god, actually I think it's more than 100 mil. What?
Ryan:just kidding, it's 100 mil, okay, this so, uh, yeah, stay tuned to that if you're. If you're not a patron, go be a patron, because this is what happens. They get bonus episodes every week and then they also get stuff like this. When we get full bottles like this, we are raining the juiciest of bottles down.
Myke:Dude. This makes what. How many now? This is five in one week, in two weeks, jesus. Five in two weeks, that is a lot. It is a lot. We've got to slow down. How can we afford to do this? Because they were given to us for free.
Ryan:Mike, that's right. We pass the savings on to you guys, yeah.
Myke:There may be youtubers out there that are saying this is what happened at assance and you know the free bottle brigade, and but the reality of the situation is you go there, you meet some nice people. If they do give you a big juicy bottle, guess what?
Ryan:it's passed on to a patreon and the beauty of us is, if this is garbage, we will let you know yeah, and still pass it on.
Myke:So that's right, we're gonna force this bottle upon you. Speaking of forcing bottles, I've got an opinion from frey grantica. I'm gonna force spawn you guys from skite, who says it's not just herbapura. But yes, it's very close, it's herbapura with more pineapple and added oud. Personally, I prefer herbapura and I don't know why this has a chinto in the name doesn't make any sense why are you making him sound so pretentious, or she why? Are you?
Ryan:making them sound so pretentious when they're actually kind of taking up for it.
Myke:Oh, I don't know I think I just think of a negative review. I just have to get a little like I don't know why this is called me, you know uh, throwing a little shade right there, it seems I'm throwing a lot of shade.
Myke:I mean mean, because here's the thing Go ahead, you know certain YouTubers out there are creating videos, and it's fine, until you actually personally know some of these people that they're kind of throwing shade at, and you've got to meet them, you've got to be around them, and then you just go categorically this is false. Yeah, I'm with you on that. It's just irritating at this point.
Ryan:Yeah, you know this is false. Yeah, I'm with you on that. It's just irritating at this point. Yeah, I wasn't like bought into it, but you told me to go take a look at it and I did and I was like, yeah, that doesn't line up.
Myke:I tried to watch the whole thing and the whole time I was just like so wait, there's a guy who said he almost went but decided not to go. But he's going to make a video on exactly how things go down at said event. That he's never been to Seems weird.
Ryan:It is kind of weird.
Myke:I'm not upset about it. Let's go to our one night stand review, Ryan.
Ryan:Of 403 Mer Shadow by Bon Perfumer.
Myke:Hit the music, Todd yeah.
Ryan:One night stand review well, mike, after lying in bed, staying up at night stressing about how good or bad this fragrance was yes, what do you have to say?
Myke:about it. Uh, love it, absolutely love it.
Ryan:I'm sad to see it go yes, I am in the same camp, okay we a little caveat to the people. We did another episode that day for our patreon members, for oud tonic yeah, from the gate, gave away a big juicy bottle of that.
Myke:Yes, and you obsessed over that, by the way, in that episode we did. Yeah, you were loving it and you were conflicted. I was of the two. That day you couldn't decide which one you liked more and I was literally stressed, texting mike going.
Ryan:Yeah, I thought I love this new tonic but I'm loving this mer shadow. And then it kind of went this back and forth route. But I'm here to tell you after a long, lengthy battle yeah, that mer shadow edged it out. It was the dry down of that thing.
Myke:Yeah, it be thingin you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I mean, we live in a world, ryan, where it doesn't have to be one or the other. You know, it just so happened that we did those two episodes at the same day, otherwise I don't think you'd ever have compared the two. They're vastly different. That's true too. You know, you'd never really put those up head to head. Hey idea. Should we do episodes like that head to head? Which fragrance is better? Hmm, huh.
Ryan:It had to be positioned by like a vote of like which fragrances? I think. Yeah, of course, that would be cool. I'd be down with that.
Myke:It'd be fun hey, let us know. Yeah, so back to mer shadow, though. I loved it, you loved it, loved it. Steve was a man. Steve steve's crazy yeah he is.
Ryan:He's liking some weird shit lately and then telling us that all of our shit sucks. Oh, that's true. Yeah, he's kind of a wild card, that guy. I'm not vibing it, steve, I know you listen to this.
Myke:He's got great taste in fragrances though.
Ryan:He does, and of the ones he's shown us, we've always kind of loved them. He turned us on to Byron Parfums yeah, the Chronic God and another 13 by Le Labo was another great one.
Myke:Yes, and he hit me to Liquid Braun. Yeah, that was good. The Altair clone, that smells really good. I mean there's really a lot.
Ryan:He's been a valuable resource for this podcast, but it's just unfortunate he's wrong on this one.
Myke:Well, that's kind of the thing is every time we love something, it doesn't necessarily mean that he will Every time that he does love something I typically do like it.
Ryan:Yeah, you think he's just disagreeing with us to disagree.
Myke:Hmm, is that?
Ryan:what you're doing, Steve? Is that what you're trying to fucking do?
Myke:Come clean you, son of a bitch okay, well, until he comes clean, that's all I have to say about it. I loved it, you loved it.
Ryan:It's big juicy bottle worthy it is very much a big juicy sample worthy, but I would say there's a good portion of people will smell that and go. I, I need to borrow this. It smells amazing.
Myke:Yeah, the thing I really like about it is that it does smell so unique. It does that if you do fall in love with it and you have that fragrance, not many people are going to be walking around smelling like that, so it could be easy to make that your kind of signature scent. It is so gorgeous.
Ryan:Just trust us. Okay, there you go kind of signature scent.
Myke:It is so gorgeous. Just trust us. Okay, there you go. Yeah, try to get a sample if you can. If not, you know one of you patreons gonna be wearing it all day long, every day okay, now we're gonna get into today's episode.
Ryan:I've been staring at this big purple fucking box for over a week now, since you've been back from milan. I'm ready to freaking smell this. And I'm about to freaking smell this. I'm about to give you the ASMR treatment because it is in a full bottle and it's fully wrapped. Here we go.
Myke:Do it.
Ryan:it's like I'm deconstructing yeah, you're tearing the studio down, god damn okay. So rock the bet. I do have questions about this, do you as well?
Myke:Yeah, so this is a new bottle type, apparently? Yeah, the old one. Now I do know that Zerjoff changed their bottles, looks like, a couple times now.
Ryan:The bottle's gorgeous, the packaging is fucking insane.
Myke:Yeah, zerjoff always kills it. With the presentation. We did a giveaway of Naxos, that thing like laid in a satin bed and had a little blankie that covered it and everything. What's this on the bottle?
Ryan:It says tap to connect. What the hell what? They got freaking QR codes or some shit.
Myke:Oh, it's like an NFC type thing. Interesting. There's something special about this one. I can't remember, so this was given to me when we went to the zirjoff launch party for the new duran duran fragrances. They're doing okay and they're coming out this month actually, but he said something. There's something special about this one. I can't remember what he said. It's a very limited thing, huh, and because of that, whoever we give this to, it's going to be very lucky, because I have a feeling that you're not going to be able to get this same thing, even if you can get the same fragrance. Yeah, there's something special about this one that he said that this was a gift to us that you weren't going to be able to get your hands on, and I can't remember what it was.
Ryan:Maybe we'll have Todd reach out to George off and ask him yeah, that'd be good. No, you go first. You go first. No, you Dude, I literally do love this bottle. I love the Zerjoff bottles.
Myke:I'm so glad they stopped doing the furry ones they used to have, like the felt bottles. Yeah, I'm not a fan of that.
Ryan:Here we go.
Myke:This bottle is like a frosted see-through glass so you can see the juice in it.
Ryan:It's got beautiful gold hardware. I mean, this smells really pretty, this is really pretty for real. I don't know if I get extra pineapple, though. I don't even know if I get pineapple at all I kind of get what they're saying.
Myke:Herbapura, the one that everyone keeps comparing this to it does smell similar. This is fresher. It has a more kind of citrusy bite. I do get kind of the pineapple in there. Really I'm shocked. So a friend and patreon member that I've been around quite a bit wears tons of herbapura. Yeah, I'm very familiar with that fragrance. This is different. I see where they're related, though. Really, yeah, that's like a tree or something and that one's a very powdery yeah, like fruity this is fresher, god.
Ryan:I haven't looked at the notes yet, but am I crazy? Does it smell kind of like a dream sickle on the tester?
Myke:I was gonna say it reminds me of summer sunscreen, fresh, almost almost. Has like a banana type vibe to it possibly. Hmm, this is really nice man I'm. It's really beautiful though.
Ryan:Right, yeah, I prefer this over a rapura here. I'm gonna go ahead and just hit the notes, because I am curious what's in here and what we're kind of smelling here. Before I read it, though, would you say this is maybe a little bit effeminate. It's very soft. It's really beautiful smelling.
Myke:Well, I'm going to have to hold you up here because I'm about to tell a story. Go ahead. No, that's fine. And I said this on the Ruby one night stand. We got this early on.
Myke:This was like the first big party night and chris's friend, ben, was gifted a bottle of this as well, okay. And then he wore it the next couple of nights, this fragrance okay. And when I smelled it on him I was like, oh, that kind of works, I enjoy it. But smelling it on the card, because they went around and part of the expo type thing they put on there, their little speech thing, they let us smell these. They sprayed them and passed them around and my initial thought whenever I smelled it was, yes, oh, this does smell feminine. But Ben wore this a couple of nights and it did kind of work with what he was wearing. It did smell good and I didn't feel like it was out of place at all. So it made me question how I handle fragrances, because originally I would have been like I can't really wear this. This does smell pretty feminine.
Ryan:But you feel like it fit for you. It smelled good. Yeah, it worked. Kind of off subject, but on the subject of you being an essence, while you were there, I never thought to ever ask this.
Myke:But you're smelling a million things throughout the day. Does it all just start blurring together as far as scents go? Kind of truthfully, I got a funny story though. Okay, yeah, so we're all wearing the loud shit me less so than the rest of the guys. Yeah, and we're on like the little trolley, which is like the little train car, that kind of takes you around the streets. Yeah, so we're on there and everybody's smelling really loud, and then just a regular person off the street gets on the cart at the end and once we get to his stop, he walks through the middle of us and on the way out and as he does, everybody just looks at each other like this motherfucker, and they're like god damn, he smells so good. And he was wearing sauvage, but we were like it's undeniable, god damn, it smelled good on this guy.
Ryan:It's sauvage, like the metallica fragrances, like I think so. It's like they're so loved and hated right, yeah, for sure.
Myke:Yeah, it's kind of that when it becomes mainstream, yeah, yeah, it's like, oh, it's cool till everyone likes it. Now it's uncool, yeah, and I think that's what's kind of happening. And to go back to my little tirade at the beginning of this podcast, that's where I think some of the fragrance community is happening too. I was hinting at Robes08,. Mark made this video about basically ignore all of the content that's being made post-Essence. But he kept saying now there's some of these guys. They don't really have a channel, they're hobbyists. I'm not putting them in the boat because you can trust them the small guys, and it's almost like we do this thing where once the channel gets big, then you're like, no, fuck them. But when they're little, you're like, no, fuck them. But when they're little, you're like, yeah, they're good. I trust they're saying, you know, so it's a weird thing.
Ryan:You think we'll ever get big enough that people would just fucking hate us? Yeah, we already have that Really.
Myke:Yeah, we had TLTG on and somebody before we just announced that we were having him on. The episode didn't even go live yet and we already had people that were like I'm unsubscribing, I'll never listen to you guys again. How could I fucking trust you after you get in the bed with him? And it's like the episode didn't even hit the airways yet. It was just that we did an episode with him that the people were just like, just because we did the podcast, there were people that were like no, I'm out, can never trust y'all again.
Ryan:I think the irony of that. I guess it qualifies irony as like full disclosure. Tltg is really nice to us, we're nice to him.
Myke:Yeah, we handle each other on a very professional basis. But as far as the Steves, the Chris's, the Tony's, those guys we're interacting with semi-regularly, yeah, and so we've kind of have like an actual relationship with them. But I think people, as you grow and you become more mainstream and accepted, then it's like oh, we can't like them anymore.
Ryan:That sucks Well. If it happens more and more, I'm sorry. We're not assholes, I don't think.
Myke:I think it is the way you conduct yourself, but then also, too, I don't know that we've committed to the type of content that will allow us to be hella mainstream.
Ryan:Yeah, I do wonder about that, tom. It does kind of keep me up at night, if I'm being real.
Myke:Well, if that's the case, then Robes 08 definitely isn't. You know, he's one of your dad's friends. One of the old guys is just complaining about how life used to be.
Ryan:I remember back in my day. A quarter get you to the movies in a candy bar.
Myke:Dude, that's exactly how it went. Yeah, it's just the back in my day, sort of shit. And then the complaints about how it's not that way any longer. Too many kids came in, like what they're doing now with their skateboards and their hula hoops and all that shit.
Ryan:Like what they're doing now with their skateboards and their hula hoops and all that shit. You know, mine would be. I know I've been mentioning games a lot lately, but mine would be like if I was going to bitch about something would be games, because when I played I played competitively for uh, soul caliber tech and back in my day and that was before youtube was big we would upload our highlights from, like our motorola razors. It's like a ftp shared folder people can download and watch stuff and it's like we made no money. Like we would try travel to louisiana and mop the floor with people and it's like I got like I don't know 100 bucks for the whole travel, talking, stay the night and everything else. It's like now kids are like I don't know playing millions oh yeah, fucking drinking, energy drinks and fucking vibrators.
Ryan:Sit on the table with them and shit Making fucking money. Dude, it's fucking nuts, dude. Yeah, but is that a bad thing? It's absolutely not a bad thing.
Myke:Okay, I mean.
Ryan:I'm happy for the community. I think it's badass.
Myke:I think it's, I mean in retrospect, for that it's like now seems kind of cool, right, so it's kind of neat. Yeah, see, that's how I feel, like he should feel about it. The community grows and there are going to be people within the community that you don't align with. Yeah, I get that, but you kind of want to go hey look, this thing that used to be on the very outskirts, the very fringes, is now a semi mainstream thing. That's kind of cool. People are interested. And then there are going to be people that are gaming it to make their money, and then there are going to be people that are genuinely enjoying it, and you can't really have one without the other.
Ryan:I don't want to make this whole episode about him or that dumb shit, but I will say one thing that I said to you off air was the odd thing about all this is that a lot of the things that he's saying about certain people were the same people that, when we first started off, always talked him up as being like the granddaddy of all this shit. Yeah, they were like giving him his due fucking respect, right, right, yeah. So I feel like that's that sucks, you know, daddy of all this shit. Yeah, they were like giving him his due fucking respect, right, right, yeah.
Ryan:So I feel like that's, uh, that sucks, you know and maybe he may not know that, but that does suck, you know, like your people that are coming up or somewhere, hey, this is the guy that kind of started all this.
Myke:You know right, at least to at least what we've heard yeah, I look this is a long story short on this, but basically he feels like the guy that liked a band. Then it got popular and now he's pissed off that other people like this niche thing that he used to only enjoy with a small handful of his friends. Yeah, and now it's like you know, oh yeah, too many people are doing this and that, and he's like trying to kind of tear it down.
Ryan:Sorry, buddy, you can't sit in your room and smoke weed all day and listen to the record. Everybody else is jamming it. Now, that's right. Freaking high school girls are wearing the t-shirts to the freaking school.
Myke:Can't name three songs just hey, name three songs. You know they do that shit. You'd wear a band t-shirt and then they'd always be like we'd name three songs of them, you know hey, remember we were going to talk about the notes on this thing.
Ryan:Oh yeah, go for that. Well, the top notes have pineapple, mandarin, orange and I don't even know what the fuck that word is hyacinth, hyacinth, hyacinth, I don't know. The middle notes are logan berry I don't know if there's any relation to the balls pink pepper, jasmine, and then base notes are vanilla, musk, amber, sandalwood and argawood. Oud, ooh, so kind of like oud tonic. I don't get this oud vibe going on. Yeah, I don't. Maybe this is like for the masses. They didn't want it to be crazy, so they dialed it back a little bit. It's not very, as they would call, fecal smelling. It's not really loud and stenchy.
Myke:It's honestly pretty soft and beautiful.
Ryan:It's really the only way we can handle that sort of thing maybe so, but I will say, since that long fucking rant that we just did of fucking nothingness, yeah, I will say it'll cut down the tester strip. I'm not liking it right now. Hmm, it's like honestly kind of doing the opening of Love and Black by Creed. Remember I had that like kind of. I think back then I compared it to the, remember the toy rubber shark. Oh yeah, kind of has that smell. You think it has like a synthetic smell to it. I don't know if that's synthetic, it just has like I don't know.
Myke:Not to me. It smells like banana flavoredflavored wonka candy. What were those things called? They were the shapes of the fruit.
Ryan:Runts. Maybe I know that Runts is that one. Yeah, that's what it reminds me of. Yeah, somebody I know hates that. They can never find the chewy versions of that all the time.
Ryan:Oh, those were good, let me hit you with a little price and popularity on this bad boy, okay. Uh, let me get you a little price and popularity on this bad boy, okay. Well, mike, if you want a big juicy bottle like this and again, this is why it shows to pay to be a fucking patreon oh god, for 100 ml you going to have to pull out of your fucking socks 700 euros. So this is like a 750 to 800 dollar fragrance.
Myke:Yeah, that's massive.
Ryan:Shit is expensive, yeah yeah. Now are we thinking that's worthy of this right now? Is this a little too spicy on the pricey?
Myke:I need to smell like original Acinto. So I'm wondering why there's an Acinto and then a purple Acinto and also Zerjoff. Are they just buying smaller companies and then doing re-releases Because they did the same thing with that you were saying?
Ryan:that before the episode. Is this something they bought?
Myke:well, it was like I kept seeing maybe they're related, maybe they're not, maybe it was. We should really do a better job of no research. No, that's the spiro brand or something like that. Okay, they have like a similar felt bottle and like they had a very zirjoff looking vibe to them, interesting. But then a couple of essences ago, zirjoff did uh re-release with that. What was that brand name? It was like kimmy magic or something like that. And then they did the hyatt, that hyatt one was fucking great.
Ryan:Yeah, whatever they got from that, I don't know where that came from.
Myke:That shit was good but either way, I'd love to smell the original. But, dude, I fucking love this. I think this smells great this is your vibe 100 well, not like to wear, but to smell.
Ryan:On a lady, yes, or on ben, apparently by the way, popularity, and then we'll get into who's wearing it. Yeah, popularity, it's a 4.05 out of 5. How many Less than 200 votes? Oh, really, in which case it's been out since 2021. Uh-huh, not a lot of.
Myke:Again, I think this is kind of a limited thing. Hmm, I think it's harder to get your hands on.
Ryan:Interesting. Well, who would be the prototypical male or female or both, that would wear this in American dollars here, about $800. Fragrance, first of all, that is just too high for any fragrance.
Myke:It's fucking nuts. I just look.
Ryan:Hey, you hear that, robes, are we in this off?
Myke:No, I mean the fragrance. I will not deny, deny, I'm really liking the way it smells. I really do. I just, for me, call me closed-minded, call me limited by my socio-economical status here, which would be a poor man.
Ryan:Okay, this one, clara, don't worry, I'm there with you.
Myke:I just can't see spending that type of money on a fragrance. I can't Look. Not denying the art behind it. I'm not denying that this is a fantastic presentation.
Ryan:Yeah.
Myke:Still, that's a lot of fucking money.
Ryan:Dude, I just think there's people that own like 50 of these in their own personal home collection.
Myke:Yeah, what the hell. But it makes me feel good that we're going to pass this along. Somebody's going to have a really nice bottle to add to the collection. They're going to have a damn good time with this.
Ryan:It does smell good. I do feel like this is more feminine leaning. Yeah, I do think. What are we thinking Like? Maybe 30s and up, maybe, 25 and up.
Myke:No, I was about to say I think this is a little bit, a little bit youthful really. Yeah, maybe it's the kind of banana vibe that I'm getting.
Ryan:You know, I don't banana's not in there, but I get that sort of like banana flavoring the initial opening of kind of like the dreamsicle vibe I fucking as much as much as I don't like dreamsicles I felt like this was really well done. Yeah, it still smells good, but it's not what I was thinking towards the beginning.
Myke:But I think that any of the ickies could wear this. You think so, I do, and that kind of spans the range, because I think it goes 28. 28. You're really going to say all the ages right. He's 39. He did it, I'm in trouble here.
Ryan:Ladies, direct all your hate to him out of the lickies there. I didn't say who it was.
Myke:Lickies and look, there is beauty at all ages.
Ryan:Look one thing I know about women they can be 25 and 125. They never want to talk about their age.
Myke:Yeah, it's weird, even if you're like look how beautiful this person is.
Ryan:Yeah, you can be Margo fucking Robbie, and they're just like I'd rather not say my age Like what the hell.
Myke:We're just a bunch of old men. Last night I was walking to bed and I just go, I'm talking to my kids, I go, girls, I'm an old man. Without missing a beat, they go yep, you are old. Oh God, I feel it Some days. I fucking feel it.
Ryan:I'm feeling it more mentally than physically, really. Yeah, you just feel like I mean, I'm fat and out of shape, but I don't feel like crazy, feel it some days, I fucking feel it. I'm feeling it more mentally than physically really, yeah. Yeah, you just feel like I mean I'm fat and out of shape, but I don't feel like crazy, like I still feel like body wise, I still feel like my strength of, like you know, late 20s, early 30s, wow I feel like it's the opposite for me.
Myke:I don't know if it was just the gratuitous amount of drinking that happened over in milan, but most mornings I would wake up and as soon as I went to stand out of bed I was like my whole fucking body is on fire. Really, yes, huh. I don't know if it's because we're walking all day, we're drinking and dehydrating our bodies all night.
Ryan:Yeah, but you kind of like you've abused your body, not in alcohol or drugs, but work-wise you're. You're a workhorse. Yeah, I've always been like the. Hey, can we work? A little smarter, and by smarter, not that much. You're a workhorse, yeah, and I've always been like, hey, can we work a little smarter and by smarter, not that much. You're the armchair quarterback, yeah, yeah. So maybe I didn't put a lot of wear and tear on my body. I don't know. You definitely aren't.
Myke:If somebody's posted up chillaxing, that's you, ryan. Doctor's like goddamn he's got the joints of an 18-year-old man. He's like he never uses them. Skip it, sample it or buy it. What are you going to?
Ryan:do Ryan Sadly, it's a skip.
Myke:Yeah.
Ryan:It smells good. There's a couple of things, though. It's not my vibe. It's more effeminate leaning and it's just too goddamn much for me, yeah.
Myke:So here's my thoughts on it. I won't call it a skip. I mean it's a skip for me. I'm not gonna wear it. I don't think it's a skip. As a fragrance, though, okay, I think it smells good. I think the presentation's amazing. I think on the right male or female, if you want feminine leaning, I'm gonna say woman, just because that's my preferences. I'd love to smell this on a woman is amazing. I think. On the right male or female, if you want feminine leaning, I'm going to say woman, just because that's my preferences. I'd love to smell this on a woman. I think it's amazing. I just yes, the only kicker here is the price tag. The price tag for me unfortunately disqualifies it, because other than that, fragrance is pretty baller. I really like it. I think this is a summer jam for quite a few ladies out there. Maybe you're just rich, though. You got to be a rich lady, because who's dropping that kind of money?
Ryan:I'll tell you who won't have to drop any coin on this, who. That is our very loyal supportive Patreon Jill. That's right, jill, you just won this bad boy.
Myke:And this might be the most high-dollar fragrance we've given away to date it absolutely, is without question. I mean, look, I hope that we're able to start doing more like this. You hear that fragrance brands yeah, don't listen to robes, keep giving us bottles that's right.
Ryan:If you're listening to the show, make sure to write all the brands out there and let them know about this show and to send us stuff and we'll pass along to you guys.
Myke:You know how we roll yeah, you know how we do.
Ryan:We're just climbing up that corporate ladder I have a feeling that we'll just, we'll be kind of like the jan silent bob of this industry. They'll just think like no, not those guys, we can't work with those guys.
Myke:You'd think that, but we've mentioned how rough some of the people are out there, especially these new TikTokers. Oh yeah, there's some out there that you're like what brand would work with that person? And then they're working with tons of brands.
Ryan:Interesting. Well, yeah, maybe we just got to get the word out, maybe we're terrible about that.
Myke:Well, my argument was look, there are companies that are putting ads on the back of park benches where homeless people are freaking, jerking off and laying down. They'll put their ads anywhere, bro.
Ryan:Oh Lord, you know I I'm gonna say this in the game have you noticed that there's also been like a few ads where they'll like basically remix somebody's like real or tiktok, but they'll be kind of negative to that person? It's like this reverse pc culture happening right, really, yeah, like really. Like you know, I'm just saying the word but just like fat shaming people and stuff For an ad.
Myke:Huh, no, I haven't heard that Really wild dude. I've seen there's been some kick up closerly related to the music industry before this thing. So I've seen some of my friends that are still in the music industry is still in the music industry and I've seen some people getting upset over content that people are making quote, unquote, fat shaming people Really. Yeah, I don't know. Look, I used to be pretty hefty. I'll have to post a picture of Fat Mike in our community chat.
Ryan:You're a brave man, not because you look bad. I'm never putting an unflattering thing of me out mean, but that's the thing is.
Myke:Never once in my life did I ever get upset about somebody calling something saying the word fat or overweight.
Ryan:Like you know, I just, I think me and you kind of grew up in different era, though we were taught to have kind of like thick skin about stuff that's how guys just kind of, even when you're kids, that's just kind of how you play with each other. No, you know, you're just kind of like all right, fat ass you know, I think about all the times I've been called that growing up and I look at my high school picture. I'm like what the fuck?
Myke:man, oh man, I'd pay so much goddamn money to be that skinny right now so here's something that backfired on me and I I was kind of being a douche and I got called out pretty quickly.
Ryan:I love these stories. Go ahead.
Myke:I went to a conference with a friend. This has been, god, a decade now and I was gaining weight and there was a guy who was a speaker that got up and he was giving like a 45-minute talk. Halfway through the talk, the guy he's just a really big guy, really big guy. Halfway through the talk he had to ask for a chair to sit down because his knees were hurting him. So he's so big and I just look over at my friend and I know this is going to color me very unflattering. You were a kid, I go, you think I'll ever get that big.
Ryan:And he said like literally off the top of his head as soon as I said that he goes keep going the way you're going. You're like leaning over like two hot dogs in your head. Hey, they ever be that big Fuck.
Myke:Yeah, and he was like, yeah, just keep on, bud, you're on your way. That, like that, actually kind of hit me in a hard way and I was like like damn, this motherfucker's right I'm like gaining weight hey, we're out of here.
Ryan:But let me just tell you why he was telling that story of him getting reverse fat shamed. Uh, I sprayed this again and I really do love this opening. I genuinely don't like dream sickles. I think they're disgusting, but the way this is kind of done is really gorgeous.
Myke:It's fresh and fruity. It's really good. Beautiful how did we this episode Look? It is what it is. I just think we've gone all over the place, but people love it. I think it was more my fault. I keep bringing stuff in. I'm in a weird mood right now.
Ryan:You've been in a weird mood all day actually. Yeah, huh, sometimes I don't. I get this vibe like you're not, like you don't like me right now or something what. Yeah, like earlier today I was like I feel like this guy was like fucking pissed being around me.
Myke:No, I swear to god huh, yeah, today you got that the whole time before we went to lunch. Yeah, weird. No, it wasn't like that at all. Now there are some days when I come in and you're like trying to overly be positive to where it comes across, kind of like you're really trying. I'm like why am I so annoyed by this?
Myke:you're just trying to have a good mood and then be in good spirits and yeah, but me going all out is like you're level three yeah, it's true, no, no, look, I'm arguably the more annoying of the two, but I think it's because normally when I see you in the morning, nearly every morning, you're like mid first coffee, oh yeah, and you're kind of like, hey, man drinking this coffee. So when I come in, you're like, hey, how we doing today, partner, I'm like shut the fuck up, give me 10 minutes of like boring ryan you know, good lord, you make me sound like my.
Myke:My average temperature is like a deadbeat salesman or something dude, I mean most, yeah, most mornings you're just like hey man, hey, what's up? You know, most of the time it's me going. Hey partner, all right, you know, oh shit until next time, spray it up.
Ryan:This was random shit, just like an hour long fucking podcast terrible.