EP01: Creed's Aventus: First Time Smelling - The Cologne Sessions

Ryan is trying Creed's Aventus for the first time.. The Cologne Sessions are side quests with Myke and his new work friend, Ryan. Confusing we know... but, we hope to keep the legacy alive with taking a new friend on a journey that has given us so many ups, downs, and all around great memories.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:01

Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Cologne Session Podcast or Cologne Session if we don't know yet. I'm Mike and I'm Ryan. And we're two work friends just hanging out, smelling fragrances, giving uneducated opinions. And if you're a Patreon, then you'll know that this isn't the normal Ryan you're used to, but a Ryan all the same.

SPEAKER_00 0:23

Might be new and improved, you know. We'll tackle we'll cross the bridge when you get there.

SPEAKER_01 0:28

Do you want to tell the people a little bit about yourself? You want to give a brief introduction?

SPEAKER_00 0:32

Yeah, uh, my name's Ryan. Work for Fabrication Solutions and Technologies. I am a scent or cologne version. Uh, don't know uh a whole lot at all, very little. So I'm looking forward to starting this journey uh and giving my completely unbiased opinion on, you know, these different scents and sensations uh that my body is going to be put through. So yeah, just looking forward to getting down this long road.

SPEAKER_01 0:58

Yeah, so we worked together, we became kind of fast friends, and I was telling them about the podcast stuff that we were doing. You're kind of starting where I started when we first started the Cologne podcast. This ironically was the first episode of the Cologne podcast as well, with smelling this fragrance.

SPEAKER_00 1:18

A little different, but same action. Exactly. I like it.

SPEAKER_01 1:21

So I don't know if I'm spoiling you by starting you off with the king of niche fragrances.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

I think it's it's only fitting. We got to start at the top. Give the honest opinions.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

Well, I've got a couple of opinions from a website called Fragrantica, which is this is where all the nerds go. Sounds exotic. To leave reviews and complain and all that. And we'll be kind of referencing this website throughout because it's where we kind of track the trend of it. I've gone to Neiman's for the price. We'll get into that as well. But I told you on the past episodes, we would just read like a review that just absolutely destroyed whatever fragrance we were smelling. And you're like, that's not fair.

SPEAKER_00 2:02

Yeah, you know, I think while it is nice to read some of the harsh and very thoughtful uh messages that someone puts out, I think you need to have both sides of the spectrum. Yeah. Give it a fair fight and then see where we fall in between the two.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

So I have prepared a disliking review and a positive review. Okay, and I'll read them back to back and then we'll see where you match up with it. This first one is from Houston Houston, who said, I do not understand the hype, does not smell nice to me. I do not want it for free. Guess I'm the only one on the planet. LOL.

SPEAKER_00 2:36

For a second there, I thought that was Dr. Seuss writing that review. I do not want it in the car, I do not want it in the plane.

SPEAKER_01 2:45

Well, to the opposite of that, Des Wizard had said, This will get you compliments from everybody. Random strangers will compliment you, animals will compliment you, insects will chirp as you pass by, you'll turn heads, your compliments will get compliments.

SPEAKER_00 3:03

He seems like a paid actor.

SPEAKER_01 3:05

Well, in the fragrance community, uh, compliments are the obsession. Okay. People that make sense. If they're spending money like they're spending on this bad boy right here, yeah, they want people to notice, they want people to walk up to him and go, Oh my God, you smell so good.

SPEAKER_00 3:22

That does make sense. Okay, sorry. All right, how do you get that out?

SPEAKER_01 3:28

I think we go ahead and spray it, and then as we're kind of smelling it and processing it, then I can go into some of the other stuff. All right. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 3:40

Let's see here. There we go. Ooh, nice, well-built, heavy cap. Yeah, like that's that's craftsmanship. And for all you listeners abroad, here's uh little cologne spritz ASMR. There you go. Good volume on this.

SPEAKER_01 3:56

And go ahead and get the back of your hand as well, so you can kind of go between skin and the card there.

SPEAKER_00 4:03

That that puts out quite the volume of liquid. It's not bad. It's almost got like a sharp little burn at the end, like a almost like gin. Oh, okay. Like a bombay sapphire.

SPEAKER_01 4:16

Do you smell any fruit in there?

SPEAKER_00 4:18

Definitely some citrus. I'm getting I get a heavy citrus. It's like my grandmother used to have this old bathroom spray, and I don't know if you can find it anymore. But it was like, I guess they only sold it at like the store old folks shop at because she always had the same brand, and it was very heavy citrus. It smelled like somebody just cut up like a whole bag of oranges in the bathroom. And that's that's what I'm it's it's instantly flashing back.

SPEAKER_01 4:42

I've got a friend who works, she's changed jobs now, but she used to be a charge nurse, and they would have air freshener, they'd spray when shit went down, and they would call it shitress. That was poopery before it was cool. That's right. 100%. So the the claim to fame of this one is pineapple.

SPEAKER_00 5:06

See, on the stick, I get a little bit of that pineapple, and I can kind of it's it's interesting because and for everyone, Mike just explained to me this is how much I don't know about scents and things and how they react and everything like that. But there's a difference between spraying on your clothes versus spraying on your skin. Right. And so that was really interesting for me to learn. And now that I'm experiencing it and having been told that, yeah, it is very different. Like when I smell my hand, I get the heavy orange citrusy, but then when I smell the stick, it's a little bit more subtle and I get like a little more sweet, and that pineapple kind of comes through.

SPEAKER_01 5:42

Yeah. So that's interesting. People will talk about skin chemistry and things like that, and how and me and Ryan number one would notice we had vastly different skin. We would get completely different experiences out of some fragrances.

SPEAKER_00 5:58

Yeah, like some women might be, oh, my pH is off today. I can't wear this scent.

SPEAKER_01 6:02

Right. Exactly. So you may see, especially if you're like me and you tend to like get sweaty and oily, like your skin may do something wildly different. You know, as your body heats up, it also will do something different with the fragrance. So this is like the control, you know, on the card here.

SPEAKER_00 6:21

It seems like when I smell the tester, it's almost more of like a perfume. But when I smell my hand, it's like a it's a citrus spray. I'm kind of divided. Does it feel at all like something you would wear? It feels like something I would wear if I was the type of person to like go clubbing. Like if I was gonna put on a Gucci shirt and let a button down, let a gold chain tussle with my chest hair, you know. Yeah, I know. I could see myself spraying a little dab of this.

SPEAKER_01 6:50

Something on here. There's other notes in here, and I'm not like huge on the notes because I kind of just want to know what I'm smelling personally, but birch is also a big note.

SPEAKER_00 7:02

Maybe I need to get refamiliarized with my my wood scents. Yeah, for sure. You need to walk outside. You know, because my apartment smells of rich mahogany, of course.

SPEAKER_01 7:12

Yeah, and so as the does this uh podcast studio as well.

SPEAKER_00 7:16

This is beautiful. I don't know what that is. Cedar. They gotta Home Depot, I think. I do love the scent of some fresh cut cedar. Oh, yeah. We could do a whole episode on that, just bring a slab of cedar in.

SPEAKER_01 7:29

There is some that smell like kind of cedar shavings and things like that. And uh get you horned up. Get me acting up. Well, does this fragrance smell like five hundred and ten dollars?

SPEAKER_00 7:42

Absolutely not. I'll be 100% honest with you. No. Maybe I'm just not at that level. Well, no, that's I'm not a cent Somalier, so you know, some people might might hate me for that, but hey, if it's working for them, more power to them.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

Yeah, are you the type of guy who says, I feel like the more I spend, the more quality I get. No.

SPEAKER_00 8:05

You're more of a frugal you can find you can find value in anything in life, and that's the type of person that I am. But I will say the craftsmanship is is there. Like I said, nice heavy top, well-built metal. You know, you're not gonna drop that on the bathroom floor and break. You're probably gonna end up breaking a tile before anything else. No doubt. Or a toe. But a nice shaped glass bottle, it has all the markings of a $510 bottle.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

But yeah. When you first picked it up, were you like, ooh, that feels expensive?

SPEAKER_00 8:34

Or you're like, eh, it's just a there's a lot of ways to present something that's trash. Make it not seem as trash, but I mean, I like it, but it's not something that I would actively seek out and be like, I need to spend half a grand on that. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

Do you right now do you wear any fragrances?

SPEAKER_00 8:53

Not on a day-to-day basis. If I'm like stepping out, I've got a couple like body sprays. Okay. But see, that that's why another reason why I wanted to, you know, jump into an endeavor like this. Yeah, of course. And, you know, add some tools to the old tool belt. Right.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

Ooh, he's heating it up.

SPEAKER_00 9:13

See how it reacts, you know, if things get you know spicy.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

There's some people out there that would crucify you for that. For rubbing, yeah. Yeah. People get wild and crazy about that stuff because apparently you bruise the fragrance. So as you heat it up. Oh.

SPEAKER_00 9:31

It's quite a pretentious hobby out there. I know everyone can't hear this, but this is me playing the world's smallest violin just for those people. They'll be able to see it though.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

When we first started, I think because of all the hype behind it and everybody talking about how great it is, you'll find people out there that are making content that are like, this made me a millionaire wearing this thing. Like they're obsessed with this fragrance.

SPEAKER_00 9:56

Like I said again, if they can sell it for that much and people are really enjoying it to that level, more power to them. I wish them nothing but the best. But for me, where I'm at in life, maybe it's because I'm not a British aristocrat or you know, somebody of high social stature and status. She doesn't get my jimmies rustling. That's good. I mean, currently, that's good.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

They call this one a boxer dropper because more guys will be interested in how you smell than gals.

SPEAKER_00 10:26

Oh, okay. That's actually not what I'm aiming for, but to each other. There you go.

SPEAKER_01 10:33

As far as colognes go for me, I really like this profile. This is not my favorite of the category, but it's up there and it is highly regarded. Apparently, back in the day, it came out in like 2010 or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 10:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 10:50

Don't quote me on that exactly. No, hold on to it. Then you get into what people call batch hose, which are batches of, you know, oh, this 2010 batch is better than the 2025.

SPEAKER_00 11:06

Like they're going in and making small, small tweaks or edits. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 11:10

Yeah. Which we actually had a cool experience not too long ago. We went to Garrison Brothers, which is a bourbon distillery. And it's funny how wildly different the batches of the same bourbon tasted because we got to taste different barrels. And apparently it was the same batch, but the barrel we picked a couple out, and one of them was like real earthy and like smoky, and the other one was sweet and kind of smelled a little bit like hay, and it was calmer.

SPEAKER_00 11:47

Depending on wood type and you know where it's placed in the Rick House, and and there's just so many different factors that attribute it. But it is crazy how one batch can go into slightly different barrels and it's the same distilling process. Right. But you get such a wildly different profile, not only in the taste, but also in the smell.

SPEAKER_01 12:04

Early on, you guys may remember an episode with Sean that we did where I can't even remember the type of bourbon that we drank, but he kind of talked about that a little bit. And going through this whole experience of smelling all these different things, I was at a good place when we went there to really appreciate that, to like smell it and really look for the different notes and then you know, taste it and try to find the differences. But I mean, some of them were like a high contrast difference, but it was it was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 12:34

Or whether it was one of the ones where they had, you know, taken out of a regular bourbon barrel and then put into a cognac barrel or cognac. Right. Sorry. Sorry. Apologies everyone for my Texas lingo or like a red wine barrel.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

Yeah. Something that has you see that with Scotch a lot. They'll use wine barrels. I somewhere I read that they couldn't do that. There's something special about bourbon that they're not allowed to not allowed to do that. But I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 13:01

Any any bourbon snobs listening, it's still bourbon, even though it's made in the Texas Hill Country. That's right. And so again, this is Creed by Aventus or Aventus by Creed. Aventus by Creed. By Creed. So this would this might in fact take you higher to a place with golden streets.

SPEAKER_01 13:23

Here are the most popular voted pros and cons of this fragrance. Okay. We've got three pros, three cons. The pros are it is highly popular and a bestseller. I don't know that that's a pro specifically, unless you're like, I love how popular and best selling this fragrance is. I don't know. It's distinctive and realistic pineapple lead opening, which you don't agree though.

SPEAKER_00 13:50

I don't now that it's it's the more it's sat on my hand, the the skin smell, I'm getting more of that that kind of woody, yeah, woody earthiness. But still, when I smell the strip, is where I get there's like a sweet and savory. It's kind of growing on me. The more I smell my hand and the the skin, it's like it's musking up.

SPEAKER_01 14:11

I think there's a harshness at the beginning, like you kind of said, that's almost like a screechy, yeah, bathroom citrusy type vibe. But once it calms down and it gets a little more woody and it feels a little more balanced, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

It makes me feel a couple inches taller, more manly.

SPEAKER_01 14:27

There you go. Yeah, make you feel like a millionaire. So you'd have to be that to buy it. I bought this at a heavy discount. This was not $510 whenever I bought it. This is listed as a pro, but it says batch variations can offer slight differences in scent. I don't have a talented enough nose to really smell the difference.

SPEAKER_00 14:47

Yeah, Lord knows I don't. But I will say there is definitely a difference between the skin and testing the card.

SPEAKER_01 14:53

Yeah. Here are the cons overpriced, which I think we both agree that it is ridiculously priced. The perceived value may rely on branding, which again, I think you saw when you look at the bottle, you go, oh, this feels yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:09

Does this company also are they like besides this brand or this specific scent that you say is highly touted, is the company itself, are they widely known for having like a lot of banger scents? They have a few. Okay. But this is like upper end of the state.

SPEAKER_01 15:25

This is like the number one of theirs. Yeah. And there's a couple like right below it, but this is like if you say creed, people are gonna go Aventus. Aventus. No, is that how you say it? No, I don't know. And then the last con is performance concerns with modern formulation. So that's one thing we hadn't really talked about, but longevity, especially on a more expensive fragrance, can be kind of the deal breaker that you have. If you spend a bunch of money and then you feel like it's gone in a couple of hours. I want to smell good tomorrow. Yeah, a hundred percent. There are some colognes that you can buy that, I mean, you can't even wash them off hardly.

SPEAKER_00 16:06

Hey, well, we're talking about longevity. Remember, a good date ends with dessert. A great date ends with breakfast. And you can take that to the bank. Exactly.

unknown 16:14

Cash.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

If you don't feel like you're wearing this except for when you get the Versace shirt and you're going out clubbing, who do you think would wear this? Who do you think of when you smoke?

SPEAKER_00 16:26

People with disposable income. Like if uh, you know, some people buy miniature figurines to show off to their buddies, and some people buy cards. And yeah, you know, I'm sure there's a group of buddies out there where they're like, hey, check out this bottle I got. And then, you know, they get rock hard and in someone's closet smelling up with some scents. So to each their own, you know. Yeah. I I think it's a very specific niche of people that would really grab this and and you know, put it on a pedestal. They're out there. I'm sure they are, and I hope they're listening.

SPEAKER_01 17:01

To me, I feel like it's the guy who the preppy kind of guy.

SPEAKER_00 17:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:06

You know, he's wearing the boat shoes and the crisp whatever button-up shirt and the khaki shorts and yeah, and he and he looks good.

SPEAKER_00 17:13

And it smells good too.

SPEAKER_01 17:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:16

But it's just uh it's a different type of living.

SPEAKER_01 17:19

In this industry, clones that you can buy or dupes or inspired by fragrances that you can get that smell either pretty damn close or sometimes even better. I have one that smells better than this that is basically a clone of it, and I prefer to wear that one. How do people feel about that in the scent world? It is a polarizing conversation piece. Yeah, some people are purists, some people are about you know the value for the purchase, sort of a thing. And I'm more in that category, and I've gone back and forth.

SPEAKER_00 17:57

I think if something really like knocked my socks off and I was like, wow, that smells delicious, I think the people around me would love that. Yeah, I don't have problems, you know, splurging on things. You know me. I splurge on things for time, you know. But uh it would have to be something that really you know put me on jaw on the floor. Right. Um I have if it's not, I'm gonna be about a bang for buck type of guy.

SPEAKER_01 18:23

Yeah. I have seen you sporadically spend over a thousand dollars on a random lunch break.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

Uh yeah. It it happens. It shouldn't happen as often, but as it does, but it does happen.

SPEAKER_01 18:37

Then I saw him uh eating folded pieces of bread for lunch for like the next three months.

SPEAKER_00 18:43

It was just ice cubes in a bowl of water. Oh, ice cube cereal. I've been there. Yeah, I used to have uh loser's lunch, and it was literally we call it baloney on hand. That's all it is. You're just eating baloney straight out of your hand. Yeah. Well, you're a spam man. I am a spam man. That's a scent I could get behind.

SPEAKER_01 19:04

There you want to smell like uh canned meat. I'm sure there's a couple out there.

SPEAKER_00 19:10

I don't know about walking around smelling like it, but yeah, if I I actually bottle up the scent of fried spam. That's what we're not raw spam, fried spam, and a cast iron skillet. A little bit of butter, not much, because there's some natural fats that are gonna be rendering out of the spam. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 19:27

Yeah. Yeah. You come downstairs and somebody's uh rustling up some of that, and that's a happy smell.

SPEAKER_00 19:34

Somebody could get it. I will say it's growing on me, but mainly the skin smell. It still smells really sweet and like perfumey on the test trip.

SPEAKER_01 19:45

On the skin, you feel it's highly masculine, but on the card you feel it's a little more feminine. Is that what you mean by perfumey? Yeah, kinda. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 19:54

And this is a this is a straight cologne.

SPEAKER_01 19:56

Like this is it's yeah, so I would argue that it is. Now, some people would probably say it's unisex, but this specific company has an eventus for her that is more floral. It's a beautiful fragrance. I love it.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

Yeah. But yeah, to me, the skin smell comes across as a little bit more masculine than feminine.

SPEAKER_01 20:15

Yeah. If you smell this on somebody else, would you be like, damn, he smells pretty good?

SPEAKER_00 20:18

I would internalize it.

SPEAKER_01 20:21

It wouldn't be something where I'd be like, damn, you smell good. You wouldn't offer a compliment. Oh, come on, you can't keep those to yourself.

SPEAKER_00 20:28

We're out here spending 510 bucks to get these. If it's just passing by somebody on the street, I'd probably be like, hey, this guy smelled good. If I was in a social setting, yeah and like I was sitting beside someone at a bar or restaurant and not just passing by, yeah, I'd probably throw one that way. But yeah, I'm not gonna stop some random dude on the street and be like, dude, you smell good.

SPEAKER_01 20:48

The other day, I maybe I'm more generous with my compliments because specifically this.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

Well, and see, you know, who knows? Maybe this could change me. And maybe we start going down this adventure, yeah. We start doing some episodes and I'm getting some I'm getting seasoned, uh, and I'm more prone to just, you know, being a little bit more happy-go-lucky with my compliments. You could be.

SPEAKER_01 21:10

I think that's what happened to me because normally if I'm out at like Sam's Club or something walking around, if somebody walks by me, typically before this whole endeavor has gone through a few years ago, I wouldn't have said anything. But now I'm more apt to go. Somebody smells good.

SPEAKER_00 21:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:27

Kind of throw it in their direction. Hey, somebody smells good.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

I didn't I didn't think about it this way, but if and maybe it's because I don't have a lot of sense in the arsenal and I'm not walking around touting these, you know, yeah, knock down, drag out scents. But thinking about it, if I were to be walking around somewhere and somebody was throwing those at me, that's got to feel pretty good. So yeah. Yeah, maybe I would be, maybe I would be inclined to be like, hey, what is that? Let me come over here.

SPEAKER_01 21:53

So if somebody bumped into you at Cavendars and was like, nice body spray, what is that axe? Would that boost your morale a little bit? Yeah. I mean it'd appreciate it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:07

What is the body spray? You got Bodman with the bigger. I couldn't even tell you. It's not. Yeah. It's uh some generic out of like a two or three pack different blue, red, black scent. Okay. Just something to just real quick. Just in case I gotta hug a loved one. I don't smell like a complete barbarian.

SPEAKER_01 22:24

You'll smell like hydraulic fluid or something. Well, we've come to the part in our episode where we have to decide is this a skip it, a sample it, or a buy it? What would you do, Ryan?

SPEAKER_00 22:43

I'd probably have to sample it. Yeah. I'd have to sample it. Wear it a little bit more. Yeah. I I would want to put it out in the world on me. Yeah. You know, it's it's out there a lot. There's a lot of, you know, opinions out there already on it. Yeah. So I would need to see how it works for me in my personal life around the people that I'm around most. You know, if I continue, I'm sure it would grow on me. But if my woman likes it, you know, and the people around me like it, yeah. That's a bunch of bonus points in my book.

SPEAKER_01 23:08

So there you go.

SPEAKER_00 23:10

If the woman likes it, I feel like it's sold at that point. But yeah, like if she really liked it, I mean that's $510 gone. Well, I'll direct you to proper places to get it for more.

SPEAKER_01 23:22

I mean, I'm fine with a I'm fine with a used bottle. It can be half 50. There we go. Well, I will tell you this. I'll let you take this for the weekend, try it out and see what your old lady says.

SPEAKER_00 23:31

Yeah, they'll wear it out. We'll have a segment next episode, just a quick follow-up on uh yes, on the next episode.

SPEAKER_01 23:38

We'll take just a few moments to talk about how did it wear down to you?

SPEAKER_00 23:43

Well, yeah, we'll we'll have to come up with criteria, like a full, full criteria list. A rating list, longevity, yeah, 100%. Cortisol spikes.

SPEAKER_01 23:52

We're measuring EKGs. What was your sleep number? For me, it's not a buy at that price. If you can find a good deal on it, yeah, go for it. You know, but uh it's just overpriced. There's to me, there's better options out there. If this is the first episode you've ever heard of a podcast like this, we can get into those next episode and talk about some of the options that are out there. But for me, I'm like, I do like the profile. If you can find a decent deal on it, I enjoy wearing fragrances like this. The more I've gotten into this, the less like hard and fast my decisions are on a fragrance. Yeah. Because typically you can find something out there, but something's gonna spark your interest where you're like, oh my god, I gotta get that. Yeah. I've done an episode where I've literally bought it in the middle of the episode. It was like, I gotta have this right now. No, they're not this expensive, but if I found something for 75 bucks that I absolutely love, yeah, I'd pull the trigger on something like that.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

So I think it's for a very specific type of people. Like, of course, everybody has different tastes. So there are gonna be some people who smell this and are at that point. Like, I have to have this. Price isn't gonna matter to them. Yeah, they're gonna buy it on the spot. And then there's other type of people that are gonna buy this and it's just the snobs. Yeah. And the people who have the money and they're like, I have to have this because I'm a collector. Right. Or it's a status symbol, like, oh, I'm wearing a Ventus.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

Yeah, and that's part of it. Yeah. Like I've actually had people that have said, Hey, are you wearing a Ventus? I'm like, How'd you know?

SPEAKER_00 25:23

They know ball. As the kids say. They are ball knowers. Yeah, absolutely. I can agree with the skip too, because I was almost there. Yeah. But I want to give it a chance. Because like I said, if if the people around me love it, I would definitely splurge. Just because I like I'm a people pleaser.

SPEAKER_01 25:41

Here's what you gotta do. Get in your truck and a couple minutes down the road, just lace up on it. Go ham and let it kind of calm down a little bit. You get home, see what the old lady says, give her a big hug, and be like, kind of get her to nestle in there. And then be like, how do I smell, baby?

SPEAKER_00 26:01

Might be a baby making scent. It could be. Old Callahan.

SPEAKER_01 26:07

There's an ongoing joke that uh your firstborn has to be named that girl or a boy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:13

Just because I'm Irish.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

Well, ladies and gentlemen, this has been our first episode. How do you feel about it?

SPEAKER_00 26:23

It was awesome. I really enjoyed it. Yeah. I've uh like I learned a little bit, you know. Started at the top, so there's so many different avenues that we can go from here and and kind of have that cornerstone of knowing kind of how everyone in the industry, you know, kind of feels about this one. So it's a really good uh stepping stone for myself.

SPEAKER_01 26:42

I may on the next episode, I may have to show you a really cheap but good one.

SPEAKER_00 26:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:48

We'll see. Maybe I don't need to disclose this type of thing and yeah, and maybe have you guess. Is this a really expensive fragrance we're smelling? Blindfold, blind taste or blind blind scent test. Yeah, for sure. So then scratch that. I won't do that for the next one. I've from now on, until you get real personalies, we can have fun with uh yeah just trying out different fragrances. And along the way, I'm excited for you guys to get to know a little bit more about Ryan and just how great of a person he is. Because, like I said, since I've been working here, I think you and I have fast become friends. Absolutely. We've had a good time. We've drove to Missouri and back together. We've gone to Colorado and back together.

SPEAKER_00 27:30

It's been an adventure. Yeah. But uh, yeah, I love Mike to death. He's a great guy and couldn't ask for a better friend and and in uh colleague. So just hoping that we can keep this going and see how many more little ventures we can get into. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 27:43

So we've got to figure out a tag because we used to end these episodes with like, until next time, spray it up, y'all. We got to come up with something. Not on the fly. We'll have to chew on this. We'll be texting back and forth.

SPEAKER_00 27:56

But uh here's one, you know. We can say, uh, you know, thanks for listening and uh stay sensual. Let us know in the comments. Yeah. Uh recommendations are always great too. Let us know your thoughts.

SPEAKER_01 28:06

Yeah, yeah. Of course, uh, no royalties for if we decide to go with it.

SPEAKER_00 28:12

Hit them with the hit them with the classic anchor man.

SPEAKER_01 28:15

And remember, you stay sensual, San Diego. Maybe we pick out a different listener each episode and where they're from, and then we can give a shout out.

SPEAKER_00 28:25

Shout out and then use their their line. That's what I want us to say.

SPEAKER_01 28:28

Oh, yeah, that would be good. Kind of like I don't know if did you you listen to Mr. Balling?

SPEAKER_00 28:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:33

You know how he does the different thing with the like button every time? That's it. Okay, that's what we'll do. You guys will get to decide what the closing tag is every episode.

SPEAKER_00 28:44

Yeah, that's a good idea. I like that. Very interactive. Watch your profanity.

SPEAKER_01 28:49

I mean, this one is it's after dark, baby. This is fragrances after dark. You can say whatever you want to say. Raw and uncut.