The Cologne Podcast
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The Cologne Podcast
#318 - Louis XV 1722 by Xerjoff
A single sip of champagne can conjure memories of celebration, luxury, and effervescence - but can a fragrance truly capture that same bubbly essence? Xerjoff certainly attempts this ambitious feat with their Louis XV 1722, a perfume collaboration inspired by the world's finest champagne.
hello everybody, welcome to the glowing podcast I'm mike, I'm ryan.
Myke:We're two best friends. We're going on a fragrance journey across the world and giving you uneducated opinions today we're gonna be tipping back a glass.
Ryan:No, not really. We're to be smelling a fragrance that is in collaboration with some type of champagne made in some other place, baby, it's Zerjoff, it's Louis XV 1722. Hoorah, you remember that's a good year on champagne, right oh?
Myke:that's the best year. From what I hear, it's a fantastic year. Oh, philwillie12579 on Fragrantico was saying it was a great year. Okay, no, not really. He does have something to say about this fragrance. It smells like outright booze in my experience. Awesome, I kind of like that, like if you poured a bottle of vodka on yourself and then tried to add some fruity notes to it. Honestly, very disappointing scent. Maybe it does differ per skin, but I would not suggest applying by it. Hmm, oh, filly Willy.
Ryan:Oh, chili Willy. But before we get into that, I kind of got to give you a haphazard one night stand review of a Patreon episode. We just set our dumb asses down in here, we grab this tester strip and we go. Oh God.
Myke:Oh, this is like a triple one night stand review. Let's do it. Okay, is that fine? You want to talk about a Patreon episode one night stand review and then talk about Jean-Paul Gaultier?
Ryan:I'll just say this it's kind of a one night stand review, it's. I mean, obviously you can tell by the tone of what I was putting down, yeah, that I was getting ready to lubricate some things oh well, I'm sorry, this was uh unplanned very unplanned, but I just want to say, uh, check out the patreon.
Ryan:we cover a fragrance by clive christian that I think has turned into something quite pleasant Molto bene. Also, while you're there, there's a great community there. It has grown exponentially bigger than we'd ever thought. Everybody in there is fucking amazing. Hit the music, todd yeah. One Night Stand Review. I never told them what we were One Night Stand reviewing, but we're One Night Stand reviewing John Paul. Godier's Uh-huh Elixir, absolute yeah, the double the double word use the mail. We were both pleasantly surprised. Yeah, I mean, it's not bad, mm-hmm. It's not groundbreaking though either.
Myke:No, but it was a departure from what I expected out of Le Mans Correct and felt a little bit more in line with the Dior vibes these days. 100% Shocked on that, but all in all pretty good, enjoyed it.
Ryan:It was really good, but would you if I held a gun to your head, Mike, just like?
Myke:this Like a Springfield Hellcat Pro like to my freaking noggin.
Ryan:Yeah, and I'm looking down the sights and there's a U-shape in the front and that dot down the middle. To help me just line it up with your freaking temporal bone Illuminated by tritium. Yeah, if I had that, I don't really have that pointed, but if I did have that point right at your fucking dome, yeah, would you buy that over the dior home line or intense?
Myke:whatever. Oh, that is a good question, especially with a gun in my face yeah, what's the fucking answer. Get that, okay, todd jesus, uh, hmm pop quiz hot shot yeah, I don't know. Is saying it that way? Yeah, comparing it to dior, I don't know. On that, yeah, the price was decent for an elixir at 100 mil. It's where it should be.
Ryan:On price it was like 120 something that felt right to me, that, well, that should be where the price should be.
Myke:Yes, yeah, because the other elixirs for like four ounces too, right, yeah the other elixirs, god, they're going 50 mil. They want 160 170 bucks. That's way too much. So I think jpg is right on the price if that's something you're into, for me I'm just not gonna wear it. So I'm not gonna buy it. I don't think it's bad. I'd wear it occasionally.
Ryan:You know, let me just put some blasphemy out there. Man ADG can straight go off right now. Oh yeah, yeah.
Myke:Well, we've gone through that already.
Ryan:I'm sorry.
Myke:He's still burnt. I'm burnt, man, don't fuck me like that. We've been talking about it here recently. We even went back to D Again, just thinking maybe our noses were on some crack cocaine that day or something. Nope, didn't get any better for us, and I would not put it on my skin ever again.
Ryan:Oh, so now we can do the quadruple fucking.
Myke:You brought it up, okay, this is your fault. You got us in this mess. I'm trying to get us out. Well, let me get us out of here.
Ryan:I'll tell you what. You got us in this mess. I'm trying to get us out. Well, let me, I'll get us out of here. I'll tell you what. On this Jean-Paul Gaultier, le Mans, elixir Absolute, which is just the longest convoluted name ever. If somebody ever asked me what I was wearing, I'd feel ashamed to tell them. Would you just say Le Mail. Then you lie to them, because then they go. I'm going to get that for my husband.
Myke:They're like this doesn't smell like that guy. Yeah, I think it's actually pronounced LaMail, LaMail, whatever. I saw somebody else had Francis Courchon on oh, and he pronounced it that way. They were just talking about how far it's kind of come.
Ryan:Well, this is what I'll say about it. It was everything we just said a minute ago. My only thing is and I don't think it's that much more expensive being pure.
Myke:This isn't Francis Kirkjohn, by the way. I think it was Quentin Bish right who perfumed. Yes.
Ryan:The John Paul. But I am saying like Just clarifying as far as my skip it, sample it, buy it, yes, I would say I would lean towards. If I was going to get that kind of smell, I would go the Dior home intents.
Ryan:I think it just does everything that that does perfectly. But I think it's that the John Paul's trying to do something different and for their brand. But it is kind of similar to Dior, right, but for that price it's good. I just feel like Dior kind of does edge it out. So if I was going to get one, it'd be that. So for me it's a polite skip is what I was trying to say All that to skip.
Myke:I'd recommend it as a sample. For sure, I'd occasionally spray it on, but it's nothing that I would ever spend money on. If I, like you know, didn't have anything that day and for whatever reason was in dillard's and for whatever reason was drawn to the specific shape of that bottle, I might spray it on that day maybe all right, let's get out of this segment, okay, before something else pops up, and let's smell this brand new zirjoff louis 15, 17, 22 okay, ryan, here it is thank you now admitted, this is Mike's episode, by the way.
Ryan:He was like I really want to smell that new Zergy.
Myke:Yeah, I was. Like you know. We haven't done a Zergy off in I don't know three weeks. Yeah, might as well do another one, right.
Ryan:And you know I was like going with the flow. But then when I was doing a little research you know my in-depth two and a half minute research before the show, I was looking at the notes for this and one of the top notes is champagne. So my question to you and to myself do we think this is going to be a little bubbly, a little pop in the top open?
Myke:Oh, a little cork soaker yeah.
Ryan:Is this going to be a cork soaker? I don't know. All right, let's see.
Myke:I mean, I have smelled this before.
Ryan:Never mind, I have soaked a cork before.
Myke:Oh my, oh my, come on come on, I gotta give it to old zirgy what are you whiffing?
Ryan:well, first off, I do not get vodka and a little bit of berry, something that would sound like it would kind of imply it's a little harsh burn, right, wouldn't you think that?
Myke:Well, I could see like a vodka tonic vibe that I can get Gin and tonic, that's sort of bright, effervescent alcoholic.
Ryan:It smells really good, real good.
Myke:I was a whiny little bitch in Italy. Oh, in Italy, yeah, yeah.
Ryan:Over what? What were you, a whiny little bitch about?
Myke:Well, I'm going to say, on average, joe called me out on this. I got to make sure he listens to this episode so he knows I'm with the guys and we've had a couple of parties up until this one, and the Surge Off was by far the wildest, most entertaining party. Yeah, and we're drinking champagne. Up until a certain time. They don't have the mixed cocktails, and what Zerjoff would do at their parties which is really cool is that they would do drinks inspired by fragrances that they were releasing. It's really fun. They're very well thought out and it is like a very immersive experience. But for the first I don't know hour and a half, two hours, it's just a champagne bar and I was telling the guys we had been to a couple of parties where it was strictly champagne and I'm not a guy who can just drink champagne after champagne, after champagne. Yeah, like, give me one or two glasses and then I'm kind of done with it. Yeah, champagne, like give me one or two glasses and then I'm kind of done with it. Yeah, you know.
Myke:And so the joke was I would just go like guys, I'm just so bored of drinking champagne, you know, like this is bougie, like oh, couldn't be bothered to drink another champagne guys. Oh, you know we're all joking about it because like when in your life are you ever that spoiled? So I literally told the guys I was like I've had two or three glasses of champagne. I was just like I got to be done until the other drinks come out. I just can't drink a lot of it. And we're waiting around and then I walk over and I see on average Joe and I go hey man, how you doing? He goes, I'm doing amazing. I'm at this badass Zerjoff party. I'm surrounded by amazing people. I'm drinking Zerjoff Rose, which they only bring out for very special occasions. This is very special champagne that they make. And he's going on and on and in that moment I felt a twinge of guilt of going. Why can't I just appreciate this moment?
Ryan:Were you doing the Larry David 15-minute window view?
Myke:I think so, you think so. Yeah, just on the alcoholic beverages yeah, okay, because it's like I don't sip anything. I don't slowly, you know, masticate anything. I'm like I put it down. Yeah, you masticate very vigorously. I have very vigorously mastication, and the same with hydration. I can't help it If I have something in my hand, it's like I need to it's got to go in your mouth, yeah, for sure.
Myke:Something like and at one point I've got both hands full. I'm like I got to make sure both these go in my mouth very quickly, you know, yeah um.
Myke:One you gotta masticate, one you gotta swallow yeah, exactly yeah, there's just a lot going on. Yeah, you know how these parties get. Yeah, so I drink the drinks really fast, just because, again, like I'll, if I have it in my hand I'm gonna drink it. I can't, for whatever reason, I lack the throttle to like just be slowly. You know, that's why I can't really get into wine. I'm just like I can't go like appreciate it, opening up and whatever. You know I'm like done so. I went through a couple, but I didn't take the time to really appreciate it. And then, whenever I talked to joe, I was like you know, this guy is like he's savoring it, he's taking it in, he's really enjoying it. Yeah, and I'm just going, if I'm gonna pound drinks, they gotta be like not champagne. You know, I'm the same way with beer, though I can't just sit there and pound beers all night. Yeah, like, give me something harder, really, yeah.
Ryan:Yeah, I guess I kind of get that. It's weird that me and you are just not big drinkers really, or smokers, tokers Right.
Myke:Midnight jokers, Jokers yeah.
Ryan:Yeah, we're just. You put a fucking cake in front of us though. Yeah, pounding it. Yeah, we are taking it to pound town.
Myke:We're all caked up. Now going back to this fragrance here yeah let it to you know, do its own mastication there's something I really like about this.
Ryan:I'm going to describe kind of some notes that I feel like I I'm going to try something here. Okay, swear to god, the only note, the first note that I saw what too I like champagne and plum was the top note, and the first note that I saw, too I'll lie, champagne and plum was the top note and I didn't look at any of the other notes, because when I saw champagne I go, oh man, this might be a little bubbly, right, right, which I don't really get that bubbly fizzy champagne, Really yeah.
Ryan:I do Really Okay. On the skin you don't Not really, but it's not a bad thing. I'm just like what I'm smelling does smell good, but I kind of get like this almost citrusy I would almost say lime, maybe some rosemary type thing. But also with what do you call it? I do kind of get boozy. I wouldn't say like rum, but like an alcoholic base type thing, kind of like the gin and tonic thing I was about to say I'm getting very gin and tonic on it.
Ryan:But it's so smooth, Like it's really smooth. It's like so smooth that that's why I can't buy into my brain of it being like fizzy kind of.
Myke:Oh okay, it's so blended well, yeah, this just has that. You're right, it does have a citrus sort of quality to it. To me it does kind of have that bubbly sort of thing. That's why I really feel like it does have like a gin and tonic sort of vibe and I do love those dude. It's been a minute since I've had a gin and tonic dude. I feel like if I bumped into joe and I'd been drinking gin and tonics all night, I've been like I'm great I'm surrounded by great people.
Ryan:I'm drinking gin and tonics all night let me do read the notes really quick, let's see if I got anywhere close. There's champagne, grapefruit, plum, saffron, that's all. Top Middle notes are hazelnut, coffee, rose, lavender and cocoa or cocoa. Base notes are sandalwood, white musk, cashmere, incense and leather. I honestly, other than pretty much the grapefruit and champagne, I don't get anything else.
Myke:And to me it's like champagne, lime, rosemary. I can get some of the savoriness that kind of reminds me of the saffron. Really, I can kind of get that a little bit. Yeah, man, it is so good, though I'm going to be real with you. So at this party, the first thing they did, they announced that they were doing two collaborative fragrances with Duran Duran, which is cool. A couple of guys came out for that Before that. They were talking about 2024 releases and they went around and sprayed them and passed out testers and everybody kind of smelled them. One was Purple, lachinto, one was this one. There were a few more that's in this discovery set, and I think it's because I was drinking champagne at the time. Why am I like so sour when it comes to champagne? But I was drinking champagne at the time. That one went around that I just quickly sniffed it and was kind of turned off by it Really, but now I'm really, really enjoying it.
Ryan:So this one, you did get a sneak peek.
Myke:Yes, yeah, at their release party, gotcha, which again was so fun, we had a great time. I am being kind of whiny about the whole champagne thing. It really is a fantastic once-in-a-lifetime thing. I think we just were kind of in this mode of like. We were just having fun being goofy, luscious, you know, and I felt bad because I was kind of in this mode of like, we were just having fun being goofy, luscious, you know, and I felt bad because I was walking around and I just would not have a drink in my hand because I'm like I don't want to drink a shitload of champagne. Yeah, I feel like this episode's quickly becoming Mike's hatred to champagne episode, which is just so weird and boring. Isn't that weird? That's a weird, boring episode we don't want that.
Myke:But for whatever reason, I mean we can talk about your mastication skills. Well, they did have some interesting food there as well. They had little sliders, but then they also had spoons with weird seafood things on them and stuff.
Ryan:Okay, let me ask this because I kind of this vibe with, like some weddings we've worked in the past or some type of big event. I'm always leery of big event food because I always feel like it always comes out in small proportions one, two. It's always like never hot. It's always like, you know, the catering company has been there all day and they've got, like you know, little bunsen burners underneath fucking aluminum things and yeah, like the little alcohol type cans that yeah, and it's like barely like warm food.
Myke:It's always gross to me yeah, and they have like the tartar type stuff which is like you don't know if you're gonna be able to trust that or not. Yeah, I mean, was the food like that? There was just like it was nice. Everything about this party was top notch. It was really a great time. There were a few really fun ones. I would say the most fun spectacle type night was Zerjoff's party, gotcha. They really put on quite a show. There was a lot of stuff to see. The mixed drinks based on the fragrances were badass. This year they were so good. Yeah, that's where I really got to hang out with Anthony Curly Scents guy, yeah, and we got to chatting and then we all went over to the Nishane party and then it was like we became BFFs all of us. Oh man, but at that party there was just Did you ever mention me to all these new people? I try not to as much as possible.
Myke:Just making sure they're like, oh, you do the podcast and I'll be like, yeah, I do the podcast and they'll go, just you and I'll go. Yeah, I can't think of anybody else that's like regular. And then I'll go like sometimes I'll go oh, you know what? Steve actually shows up occasionally, I think.
Ryan:Uh, chris has been on two or three, but yeah, other than that it's, it's pretty much just me, you know um you know it's gonna have one day I'm gonna somehow make some type of event and somehow, some way, I'm gonna be like a legend among people. You think, oh yeah, like that guy was fucking amazing, he did remember that he did.
Myke:I just don't see that happening in a social setting. In a social setting, I just don't see that happening If you get them sequestered off by themselves maybe.
Ryan:Bringing them in for questioning or something.
Myke:Yeah, pretty much. That's what it would feel like Fucking interrogate these people. I'd be like, if you want to meet ryan, he's actually over in the corner over there under the spotlight, so if you'll just go, he's under the heating lamps right now hey, quickly, let me hit you with the price and popularity.
Ryan:On this price, 275 euros for 50 ml. Oh shit, a little pricey, that is pricey. However, you can find some gray market areas fragrance net, I think they're around 120 something. 120? I think so.
Myke:126 or something. Wow, man, now we would never encourage somebody to do that, but that does sound more affordable. But that does sound more affordable.
Ryan:It does sound more affordable and the popularity is a 4.25 out of 5.
Myke:Of course I would agree with that. As much as I don't like champagne, this champagne fragrance is really tumbling my rocks.
Ryan:I'll say this and then I need you to tell me who you think's wearing this, but probably since. Was it Renaissance that we smelled back in the day? Okay, yeah, what's the one we smelled in the back room over there? It was either Renaissance or Neo, one of the two or maybe both, but pretty much since those two, this is the only Zerjoff that's really stood out like. Blown my mind for real, really. Yeah, I'm not making a a big to do about this episode, because I've just been listening to you rambling on about I feel bad and hate fucking wine.
Myke:No, I said champagne.
Ryan:There's a difference he was masticating, but uh franks and beans but this has been a surprisingly really good fragrance.
Myke:Man, I have to say I typically really enjoy Zerjoff fragrances. I can't think of one that really put me off. You know what I?
Ryan:actually stumbled back. I don't know if it was a main episode or a patron episode. We did an episode on Hiyot or whatever. That is Not Giyot, don't get it. Don't get it, uh, confused, but he ought. Or hi-yot, whatever the fuck.
Myke:Uh-huh, that fragrance, yeah, mind-blowing good, yes, that was a main episode, so you could you're able to find that man. That was after year one, so that's three years ago.
Ryan:That was no way that's three years ago, yeah it was after the first year of assance I'm literally going to look on spotify and prove that you're a goddamn liar. There's no way three years. You think that's been three years since we've smelled at least two I can believe two, maybe.
Myke:Yeah, it'd have to be two if it was close to yeah, because the first first year was around april, so it would have been two years ago this month, yeah it was actually april 10th. Yeah, there you go of 2023 so that must have been one of, if not the first episode we did after I came back.
Ryan:Good lord, yeah and it came that little bitty like yeah, it was just plain oil.
Myke:It was not like an atomized thing. So, saying all of that, as far as zirjoff goes, now there are some fragrances that I go. This is not for me, like herbapura, yeah, but I do enjoy it on other people. One thing that zirjoff does there's power behind the fragrances. I've never once been like man. A Zerjoff doesn't really last long.
Ryan:Yeah, it does. This one's doing that kind of like. I always say this but like Pier 1, like wicker furniture, kind of vintage smell thing to me, I love it. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I love it.
Myke:I wonder why your nose goes there. I don't really pick that up there.
Ryan:I don't really pick that up, I don't know. I just I just think about all the wicker furniture that I would like walk by when I was a kid, at pure one. But who is wearing this though? Who, in your mind, would you calculate, might possibly be wearing this while they masticate?
Myke:well, they have to be into fragrances, because this is pretty niche okay. You think this is yes. You don't think this is pretty niche Okay?
Ryan:You think this is yes, you don't think this is a pretty, I guess, mass appealing, no, no, no.
Myke:I think it's mass appealing as a fragrance, but I mean as far as the actual fragrance goes. To know about Zerjoff, you got to be at least getting into fragrances quite a bit. You're going to have to go to Neiman's instead of Dillard's, yeah. You're going to have to be searching around for something special, yeah. So you got to get past your creeds and past your MFKs. You're not hanging out in Drug Emporium, nope. So then, once you get into Zerjoff's, then you've also got to get into specialty fragrances based on champagne. That's a very specific person.
Ryan:That is pretty specific. So I think you really have to be into fragrances that being said, yeah, do you feel like this is unisex? Do you feel like masculine leaning?
Myke:I do feel like there's more masculine, but that would not scare me away from smelling on a beautiful lady yeah, I'm saying I mean it is listed as unisex of course.
Ryan:Yeah, but I do agree it is kind of leaning more masculine. But you would not be offended if a woman was wearing this. No, I'd probably be like hey, yeah, want to watch me masticate.
Myke:Yeah, that's ryan's favorite word today. He said it more times than me. It does smell. I mean, this is a badass fragrance. I think it's a little more on the mature side. I think it's gonna be 25 and up. At least it's been a fresh thing since you said that, I don't think it's gonna be something that the youngins I just don't see many tiktok influencers wearing this thing, but I could see somebody like steve wearing it. Oh, but I could see somebody like Steve wearing it, oh, yeah.
Ryan:Yeah, I could see Steve. God damn dude, I don't know. This opening is fucking gnarly. It is good.
Myke:Yeah, it's really, really nice. This has to be one of my favorite Zerjoffs I've ever smelled.
Ryan:That's what I'm saying. I haven't been making a big deal about it, but maybe it's like when you have a good, you know, when you have a good meal, you just kind of shut up.
Myke:Nobody's not talking, yeah, nobody's talking right.
Ryan:That's kind of how I feel about this.
Myke:Nobody's not talking Whatever. No, I said that that's a double negative. What a fucking idiot, what a goddamn moron.
Ryan:Good Lord, what is wrong with my brain? You didn't have your nicotine yet, have you?
Myke:No, I have had it. You did. When did you chew it? I threw it in on the way back from lunch.
Ryan:Really. Oh yeah, he got wings, just so you guys know.
Myke:You feel like champagnes and chicken wings go together. Really? No, not at all.
Ryan:But you know I'm serious. This is seriously pretty elevated and nice. It's very elegant, very pretty.
Myke:Speaking of vodka and tonic, by the way, and hot wings, we go to this restaurant. The other day have I told this story? Yet I always get a carbonated water with lime, club soda, whatever you want to call it, mm-hmm. And then a person who's not our server comes over and says you got the carbonated water right, oh, you did not tell this story.
Ryan:Yes, sorry, Go on.
Myke:And so I was like, yeah, and he goes here's a refill for you. And he looked at you real weird, like that Kind of weird. And he hands me a glass that doesn't have any ice in it, it's just it's full to the brim and it's like what would you say? It's like a 32 ounce cup, yeah. And so I'm like, okay, and I have my pretty much all the way drunk carbonated water in my cup. So then I just dump the rest of it on there and I start drinking it. And the first thing I say is, oh shit, he gave me sprite by accident, which has happened in the past. I'll drink a little bit more. And I'm like huh.
Myke:So I hand ryan the, the fill-up glass that he gave me, that still had, you know, like a tiny bit left, and I go taste this. This tastes like it has alcohol in it. And you drink and you go, that has alcohol in it. And I've already, and you go, that has alcohol in it and I've already been like slurping down on this thing. Oh yeah, yeah, you know I do. I already told you I'm like, you know, I pound them back. So I'm like, huh, well, okay, yeah, when in Rome? So I was like whatever, so I drink it. Yeah, when in Rome, right? So I was like whatever, so I drink it. And then our normal server comes over at the end of the thing and she's giving us the tickets and she goes did somebody happen to give you a glass full of vodka earlier? And I was like yeah, pretty sure. She's. Like I'm so sorry, that was not meant to go to this table and I was like thank you.
Ryan:Do you think it was something nefarious that we were kind of actually pulled into, or do you think just somebody ordered like, yeah, give me a double shot of vodka and you know?
Myke:that? Yeah, I don't know, because it was in like a styrofoam to go cup full. Yeah, nothing in it, no ice or anything. Normally if you get like one of those type of drinks, it's gonna have like some ice in it. It's got got a little garnish or something, maybe like a lime wedge or something I think they were doing something a little under.
Myke:Maybe they were trying to hook up one of the people that comes in regularly and the guy who brought it to me is kind of new, yeah, and you know there's a lot of bald guys. So she was probably like, hey, you know, go give this bald guy the yeah, like it's.
Myke:Like it's a goddamn epidemic I mean, nearly 50 of men will experience some balding. Really, oh yeah, damn, it's a hard world out there. But yeah, afterwards I was like riding back with you after lunch. I was like man, I may start drinking at lunch. I feel pretty great.
Ryan:Hey, random question Is there anything linked to having, I guess, either testosterone at an early age or so much testosterone at an early age to where it does lead to be involved? Oh for sure, yeah, because I feel like I'm not trying to take shots, but I feel like when I was growing up, I remember a couple of guys in high school we're talking full-on grown man, 40-year-old beards, yeah and even then they were kind of getting a little pepper hair and I was like God damn it, you're in high school, getting like that. And then the ball.
Myke:Oh yeah, I've seen guys that are like, seriously, I still have more hair than they had. Crazy, and it's like, yeah, from what I understand as being a bald man, the more testosterone. This is one cause of it. There are many, but the main one is either your testosterone is too high, your body converts testosterone or the estrogen production of it to DHT. Dht is what causes balding. So the higher you have of the correlating to the more DHT you have which makes you go bald. There's either that, but then there's also head shape, because blood flow and circulation has an effect too. So certain people with certain shaped heads will experience balding more than others. It's part of the reason why ladies have less balding than men is because you notice like the shape of their head is quite a bit different.
Ryan:so I hear I'm not an expert, obviously, as one who just has a bald head doesn't mean that I know everything about balding you know, I know this is gonna be random and then I'll get into the skibbets, whatever, but you know we should really talk about that thing, okay, in a future episode that you had me record. I know that sounds really bad, but no oh, yes, yes, yes, that.
Ryan:Thing yeah, because that was originally. You were like we should talk about this on the podcast. I do agree. Yes, we shall. So I think we will.
Myke:That is right, we will, we'll talk about a thing that I recorded yeah skip it, sample it or buy it. What are you gonna do, ryan?
Ryan:it is really good. Guys. I've been saying this a lot lately polite skip, it's like. This is my way of saying, like I really love this, but I wouldn't buy it because I seriously just thinking about Hyatt, whatever the fuck I really think that, to me, is the best Zerjoff fragrance I've ever smelled. Okay, and if I was going to buy a Zerjoff, that would have to be my first one, so that's why. But, that being said, if I had that, this would probably be. I mean, this is definitely a hard sample, but this could be a buy, but for right now, polite skip, it is seriously good.
Myke:You're not even going to sample. Huh, Polite skip.
Ryan:I think it's because I honestly want to buy it, but I wouldn't make it my first buy.
Myke:Hmm, I would just say, you know, if Serge off having a listen to this or anything, hey Jersey, I love a bottle of this.
Ryan:You're not going to get a bottle no, no, I'm not.
Myke:I'm not, although I do wish that. And if we had received this instead of purple agento, I would have had a very hard time giving it to a patreon yeah, I'm with you on that, for sure, because I would want to keep it. I think to me, if you either see a sudden influx of monetary endowment yeah, I could see doing it that way or if you were to now, I would never recommend going to one of these dirty, scheming gray markets and buying it for a lower price. I would not do that.
Ryan:That's not right.
Myke:But if you're like me, that might be the only way you could afford it, but I would never, ever, never, do something like that or encourage you to do something like that if you put a springfield hellcat pro uh-huh to my freaking head and you look down that, you fucking sites.
Ryan:Yeah, the Tritium U site yeah. And you asked me if I'd buy, I would seriously buy this. I would too. It is really good. It's a polite skip.
Myke:I want the other stuff Just based on price right, Because you're pushing nearly 300 bones for a 50 mil.
Ryan:No, honestly, my reasoning is seriously going my first Zer jersey off would have to be the other one, the high. Oh yeah, yeah, but if I had that, it's this man. I'm grabbing this. This smells so good and, by the way, I feel like this is. We never mentioned this in an episode, but this is right up your freaking alley yeah, I'm obsessed with it it's kind of subtle, you know it's not too crazy.
Myke:Yeah, I'm trying to say I fucking love this thing. Yeah, and mean, again, we don't have the pool. I know there are some influencers out there that somehow get their hands on big juicy bottles and, who knows, they probably bought it with their own money. So it's an unbiased review. Yeah, it could be. You know how that works. You buy something and if you buy it with your own money, then you can't be biased. How that works. You buy something and if you buy it with your own money, then you can't be biased. But if there was a way to get a free bottle of this, I'd be begging for it. You'd be on your hands and knees. I'd go. What do we got to do? What do I need to say? Tell me what you want me to say. Zerjoff, I'll say it. Could I trade my integrity for a bottle of this? I might do it.
Ryan:We were talking about integrity trading this morning over coffee. It's true Mike was having his. I guess I would call it his annual, I don't know. Looking at the fragrance, world meltdown.
Myke:Yeah, I felt like I was staring down the barrel of a Springfield Hellcat Pro Ryan With the tritium sights.
Ryan:Are you trying to insinuate anything? Let's keep bringing this up.
Myke:No, no, no, which actually it made us think about doing a Fragrance Philosophy episode with our Fireside Chat friends.
Ryan:Yeah, on the struggle of loving fragrances but not loving the fragrance industry yeah, and the and that kind of sounds ominous, like the fragrance industry as a whole is bad. That's not correct. No, there's.
Myke:So there's a lot of good in there I think to the vast majority of just everyday people it's not as big of a concern, but I think it. Once you get deep enough into fragrances that you're listening to a fucking podcast about it, you're probably in the same boat as we are, yeah. And then you do have to start figuring out what you're going to do with your money and who, what brands you're going to align with and what content creators are going to align with and what avenues you're going to take. That sort of a thing Do you get to where you go? I just those dirty gray market people start to feel a little weird about it.
Ryan:Well, guys, we're not holding a Springfield Hellcat pro to your head, but I will tell you you should absolutely check out the patreon.
Ryan:I'm going to pitch it one last time because I'm proud of it and I'm proud of the people in it and I absolutely stand by that statement. Yeah, we have some fucking incredible people in there. So much so I mean, there's been people that I've seriously have. I'm gonna say this it's bad on us. Okay, look, there's a million things going on. We have our own lives outside of this.
Ryan:We also try to I mean, they're not much, but they're ours but we try to do good by the patron over everything. And there's still some that slip through the cracks and then we notice it. We'll see them. I'm not going to say a specific name, but it's like, or specific names in this case, but we've had two recently One we never reached out to when they became a patron. We always try to go hey, thank you for joining the patron, and how'd you find us? And try to have some small chat to one where it's like we had good conversation but we hadn't talked to them in a year and yet they're still here, they're still supportive and they're contributing to our community, to our Fireside Chats, and I just have to seriously commend everybody, everybody, and I mean that wholeheartedly. You got to come in there check it out. It's fucking badass man.
Myke:Yeah, I actually had one guy who followed me on my personal Instagram and I followed him back and then he was like whoa, I didn't expect you to follow me back. And I was like you're a patron, you're basically my family. Yeah, of course I got to know what you're up to, you know? Yeah, we keep them updated on all of our bills.
Ryan:They know if mom and dad are not going to be able to keep this thing together or not?
Myke:Yeah, for sure.
Ryan:Hey, we love you guys. Thank you for coming on the show and until next time, spray it.