¶ Intro
hello , everybody . Welcome to the cologne podcast .
I'm mike , I'm ryan . We're two best friends . We're going on a fragrance journey . We're smelling new fragrances by creed , giving you uneducated opinions . What's up ? Yeah , we're smelling centaurus .
Yeah , baby , I don't like the name already seems kind of whack well , you may like the fragrance , okay , but you know who didn't .
Who ? Ben Zing , on Fragrantica who says sickly sweet 50% Herod , 50% cough syrup . I was so , so disappointed because , based off the notes , you'd expect something warm and cozy smelling , and it's anything . But Even after the dry down I had to scrub this fragrance off . Thumbs down .
Oh benzine , letting us know you know , before we get into our one-night stand review , I just got to go ahead and get a couple things off our chest , one being if you're not a patron , become a patron . You know why you want to be a patron is because we give away free bottles .
We uh new unreleased episodes , we have a community chat that's fucking banging with like-minded people .
Yeah it's a good place to be . It's probably the most friendly , enjoyable corner of the internet for fragrance lovers .
I swear to god , it's fucking amazing , and I'm not even kidding . Uh , even if they formed a board and kicked us all out , we still love them . And what's the other thing ? The other thing is that we just got back from town it's actually in the afternoon for us and we smelled some new fragrances . We got decants of new fragrances .
Yeah , I'll give you a hint we're about to do the new issey , miyake , solar Lavender , oh okay . And we also got some intel on some new stuff about to drop , but we're going to save that for a different episode , okay .
And actually , the last thing is that we just ate straight up some badass chicken , yeah , and the hottest fucking rolls on the fucking planet .
Yeah , it was like straight out of the oven and right into my mouth .
I swear to the god above or whatever you guys believe in out there . Yeah , I watched the lady take this fucking industrial muffin pan out , yeah , with softball size rolls , and she pulls it out , which is what I have as well and she dumps it into a basket . The place is called spring creek barbecue . Yeah , it's nothing amazing , but it is amazing .
It is amazing . It's something amazing . And the walk from there to mike was seriously three steps and she just took three steps and he couldn't even hold on to the roll . It was so fucking hot , yeah . And how was it delicious ? Seriously unlike of rolls you've had in your life . What would you think about it ?
it was a 10 out of 10 roll . It's insane for sure . Yeah , the only thing that would trump it , which would be an 11 out of 10 roll , would be when I lived in boston , we had a bunch of brazilian friends and they would make that brazilian cheese bread , that shit his next level .
And it's why anybody who hates other cultures and you know people from fuck you guys . Okay , because this is what makes life so great enjoying everybody's food . Yes , yeah , which is like it's a the . It's the heart and culture of the people . Yeah , for real , you can . You can tell a lot about that I'm with you .
I'm not . I'm not even complaining one bit , yeah . So stop being like that , guys , and start listening to our one night stand review which before we jump into it I .
I honestly think we don't have a single listener . That's a rude asshole . I'm telling you . We really got good people . We lost a few of them that were , and every time they like send us a rude email like I'll never listen to you again .
We're like bye and then we sob because we lost one person and then we say hit the music , todd yeah one night stand review .
¶ One Night Stand Review: Eau D'Ombre Leather
Well , mike , after staying the night , spending it with tom ford and estee lauder yeah , do they own that ? Yeah , what do you think about the new odombre ?
leather . I think it's a wonderful fragrance for beautiful women . Yeah , this is a .
I liked it on the episode , but the more I chilled with it after the show , which , I will say this , one of the longest lasting Tom Fords I have ever smelled , it's true . Seriously , that thing hung on even when I didn't want it to anymore .
Yeah , it was like a high school girlfriend .
Or boyfriend ? Yeah , but I will say it does smell good . I have to agree . After lengthy testing and showing Mike my patented Sea-Og test , where I hold my hand in front of my car vent and let it blow air past my body , I will say it smells good , great Sea-Og Last a good long time . But it is heavily feminine and it honestly is for the men out there .
It is such an out-of-place fragrance in the ombre , leather kind of line .
Yeah , it doesn't make any sense . Yeah , they , I don't know , it was a swing and a miss for that line . Is it a good fragrance ? I kind of like it . I think it was done well . You're right . It was a swing and a miss for that line . Is it a good fragrance ? I kind of like it . I think it was done well . You're right . It does have the longevity .
It does smell good . I just think it should be at a different counter and I just don't think it should be named anything close to ombre leather .
Yeah , and nobody's wrote us yet . But if anybody knows what the D adds to that and you know , makes it something else I really do want to know , because I'm just thinking dom cool , yeah , but uh , now it's a skip interesting .
I think it's a sample for the lean beans out there , or men , or whoever . If you want a fragrance that leans feminine , definitely check it out . If you're a dude that's freaking honed up for some ombre leather , then you may be disappointed , as were we yeah , now let's get on to the real shiznit . Oh god , a brand new creed ?
What , oh my god , how are we breaking all these like new releases , decanting ? Suck it , rxl , that's right . Samples y'all broke . People be getting samples y'all and smelling good , here you go pal
¶ Scent of the Day: Centaurus By Creed
oh , thanks the old creed centaurus .
I I despise the name , I hate , hate the name .
This is part of their Amber Collection , which is kind of a departure for Creed , really , yeah .
Out the gate can't lie . Smells pretty good . Yes , sir , huh , okay , I do not like the name . I will not ever like the name .
Hmm , I do get that cough syrup , vibe Benzene , you got some on there . I don't like it now . No , sir , I don't like it . What I do , like it .
What is this ? What the fuck .
It's got some man in the air . It's spicy , kind of sweet . It does have like this menthol type of thing . I think that's what's creating the cough syrup vibe Old Pappy's cough syrup .
vibe old pappy's cough syrup oh my god , this is fucking terrible .
Wow , you went , you went fast into that that bright .
it had a pretty good opening , but oh my god . Well , maybe the name does make sense because let me tell you , it smells like a horse's ass . Dude , I swear to God , on my skin this smells very a little musky . You know what I'm saying . Like I don't know . I don't know . It's just it's kind of weird . I kind of like it .
Does my hand smell weird with it ? It smells kind of like my hand . Does it smell kind of off-putting ? No , wow , I do not like this . I'm telling you certifiably I fucking hate this .
Wow , I picked this out of the two because there's another one called Delphinus or something like that . We're going to fuck these names up . They're just trash . They are trash-ass names , but trash , they are trash ass names . But I picked this out of the two because I thought you'd like it more , but I like the other one more .
I was seriously obsessed with it um , this is like I don't know . Take this information as you will , guys . On the card it is kind of pleasant , it is kind of medicinal and I kind of see that vibe .
It smells pretty good , but on my skin it is really musky and I mean it definitely do be gotten some clackers on it yeah , I feel like it's a if you can get a bag of like menthol tobacco and smoke it in a pipe .
It's kind of giving me that like okay , you know what ?
let me , let me try to step back outside of my box , in my comfort zone . You just said that you reminded me I have to bring this up . When you go to Fragrantica , they have a thing called the .
Fragrance Pyramid or something like that , I think .
I'm just locked up .
I'm fucking out of stroke we're totally not like those YouTubers that lean on Fragrantica for notes . Am I right ?
You're totally right , but Fragrantica has a thing called the Perfume Pyramid and it lists the notes that are accompanying each fragrance . And the reason why I thought this was interesting is because I don't remember ever seeing a fragrance with this as a top note . But this does make sense considering what I'm smelling in my hand Top note tobacco .
Do you know of another fragrance where the top note is the tobacco ?
I've always seen it as the base . Yeah , I do remember you making the top note . Is the tobacco ? I've always seen it as the base . Hmm , yeah , I do remember you making some top note , bottom note , yeah . References , yeah , remarks earlier .
Hmm , yeah it , I don't know . Yeah . So top notes tobacco , cinnamon , cardamom , black pepper . I feel like everything lists cardamom because they went about saying do you smell the cardamom in there ? It's a fun word to say . I'm not going to lie , oh God , yeah . And then the middle notes are sandalwood patchouli .
It's like Cardi B's mom , is that what her name is ?
No , I was just saying .
Sounds like Cardi mom Bottom notes Benzanoin Tolobosum I don't even know what that word is Tonkabean , bourbon , vanilla and Ambroxan . I don't really get any of that .
You know what I kind of get out of this ? That maybe our friend has like a lawsuit he can lean on . There are hints of 2,6-Elixir in this to me .
I don't think Cam's got a lawsuit on his hair .
No , I mean , it's not that close , but the things I mean . Two , six does it better , but it's brighter and sweeter too .
Yeah , I'm just gonna be real , and this is crazy coming from your boy right here . Uh-huh , this one is not for the faint of heart yeah , it's got some to it .
I bet , if you like the how did they say it ? It's not homage . I think we were calling it homage and they were like it's ammowage oh , yeah , something like that something like that . Yeah , if you like the tobacco I think it's royal tobacco or something like that I bet you like this as well guys , this is why we do this show .
As quickly as I said , I feel like I'm smelling some fucking ball sacks being dragged across my face . I'm quickly going . There might be something under here . Yeah , you know , you may I don't know , but I'm gonna tell you that , opening , and you know me guys , I like them loud and proud . So it's like I don't know , dude , I'm doing off .
I'm doing the patented tester strip wafting here . Some people call them blotters , we call them cards , and then some people call them tester scripts .
Yeah , the card actually smells good . To me it actually kind of smells like medicinal slash . If you had that big giant bubble wand you like dip it into like the tray of like oh yeah , Soap . It kind of smells a little bit like that or bubble juice , whatever you want to call it .
You know what this makes me think of . If Nishane made a tobacco fragrance , that's what this kind of feels like to me which , by the way , if you're in the US , you're getting fucked out of Nishane . Hit them with the truth .
Tell them what just just happened . You don't know this yet , do you guys ? Well , so I'm in neiman's and he's in neiman's place .
Drop , I recommended . Funny enough , I worked with a gal , very briefly , and she had posted on instagram asking people for recommendations for a perfume . And then she messaged me and she's like I , I just made this post . I totally forgot You're the king of fragrances .
And I was like , well , I wouldn't call me the king , but maybe president elect , compliment drop . So I recommended because she was looking for a vanilla , like strong vanilla , sweet fragrance . I said you should go to Neiman's and check out uh ani by nishane .
So when I was in neiman's I was like I just want to go smell some of that stuff and I go over there and there's like two or three bottles of nishane left and I was like what happened ? And the guy walks up , no lie , and this is exactly how he said it .
I promise you I'm not over exaggerating this , because we've had people complain that we cuss a lot on the show and I'm like , yeah , but I don't feel like it's super grating against your ears , maybe occasionally to the right person .
But when this guy was talking to me I was like maybe this is what they mean because he goes yeah , those fucking dickheads , they pulled nishane . Those fucking assholes , they're putting all their money behind mind games , their own brand , and they're fucking nishane and I was like whoa really . And he's like oh yeah , fucking dickheads . I can't fucking believe it .
I'm so fucking pissed about it essentially you were talking to quinn tarantino .
Yeah , pretty much all right , okay , what the fuck are you doing ? What's this ? So I was like wow , but honestly I felt . I felt the anger too . I was like this is one of my favorite fragrance houses that we've come in contact with . There hasn't been a real release from them that I've ever been like ugh , I've always really appreciated it .
I feel like they really leaned into quality . A lot of them were just signature , unique releases . Wu Long Cha is incredible guys .
Amazing , one of the best fragrances we've ever smelled on the show .
It's absolutely nuclear for like a fresh citrus . Blow my mind , yeah , but um , yeah . Anyways , I was blown away that they're losing us distribution . Allegedly allegedly , yeah , but asked around , went to another neman's yeah , like across town they were saying the same thing now that mike's uh did his tarantino impression , I'll get back to this fragrance .
Yeah , sorry , he had to get that off his chest , but I do feel like if nishane did a tobacco fragrance , this kind of feels like that .
It's got like some of that almost middle eastern type vibe , definitely middle eastern , but there's something I just feel like it's not executed right on this . But I will say the tester strip has gotten a lot better , my skin has gotten better , but there's just something with it that I'm just not liking .
What they be laying down , you know , I just this might be the first creed fragrance I've been this disappointed you know it has that skankiness .
That strong tobacco for me gets that almost like I don't want to be an asshole here urine type vibe , but not like this is more of like a menthol urine and not like a salty tonka 25 urine much better , of course .
The menthol really kicks it up a notch let me get you a little bit of price and popularity , really quick
¶ Price and Popularity
price 100 ml 545 . Yeah , buddy , rolling like a big shot , whatever that fucking lyrics are . I haven't listened to the song forever . Um , the hold on the popularity 3.69 out of 5 . It's kind of mid oh mid mid release , but I'm gonna jump right into it . I can tell you exactly who is wearing
¶ Who's Wearing This
this . Oh , baby , the year 1991 , I don't know . I want you to be in the moment . How ?
do you respond to that ? You're looking at your phone .
I was trying to get you to like get back with me .
I'm sorry , I got lost in a meme .
God damn it . Okay , todd , hit the fucking music again . The year is 1991 . Oh my God , you just rode your little bike up to your best friend's house . He lives with his grandparents . In the yard is an industrial sized satellite dish . You go inside their house because you just rolled up with your walmart sack . It has your super nintendo controllers in it .
You're about to go inside and you're about to play Street Fighter 2 . Damn , you , walk in His grandmother . She's smoking a cigarette . His grandfather is bald , gold-rimmed glasses sitting in a recliner with a cigar in his mouth . Okay , both of them are watching the Price is Right on channel 573 , because that's how satellites used to be .
But yeah , I remember , and the whole house is just filled with tobacco . You know why ? Because the grandfather has boxes and boxes of fucking cigars next to his slot machine that sits on top of his counter . It's something , something I experienced , and it smells like that .
It's like that atmosphere . There's no smoke in this .
It's like that part , like their house , whatever they cook that day , plus the cigar , the boxes of them , it's like all that I could Look , my grandfather would buy boxes and boxes of chewing tobacco .
He did chewing tobacco , which , by the way , is the fucking grossest thing you could ever do , because we would have old coffee cans , big coffee cans I'm not judging people like mike is right now .
I don't . I don't find that disgusting if , if you do it .
You're disgusting . I'm just letting you know right now if there are rusted out you know gallon coffee cans where you've stuffed a bunch of paper towels in the bottom of them . You're spitting all this shit all day long god , tuberculosis just hanging out yeah , that is disgusting .
but I do remember when I was a little kid like kind of breaking into one of those bags and kind of like trying to get you on some . Yeah , this was a little sweeter . I could say it would smell like that , you know freshly opened bag of syrupy tobacco . This is a little bit of menthol in there .
That's just gross dude .
Yeah , Now you are judging , aren't you Right ?
I am . Why can't y'all be normal and do anal suppository nicotine patches like mike does ?
yeah , you get the pump of the nicotine and a little bit of uh you know butt stuff . Uh , skip it , sample it or buy it . What are you gonna do , ryan
¶ Skip it, Sample it, Buy it
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this . I can't even believe they named it this . Well , you know what it actually makes sense , because it's like Centaurus . It's like you're just under a Centaurus freaking ball sack . Meaty .
Clackers Dude . I just , is it not like named after some faraway star or some constellation or something that just feels like more of you know it could be Proxima Centaurus or some shit like that , dude ?
it could be , but it's just weird . The card smells like the tester strip smells like literally like when you get those big ass things of bubbles you can make with the big ass fucking wand and you pour a big bucket of that shit in the pan . Uh-huh , that's what the tester strip kind of smells like with a little musk .
That's what the tester strip kind of smells like with a little musk . And then on the hand it's like musky , your grandma's kitchen cabinet spices , while Will of Fortune is going on in the background on the Bangladesh channel or something , because they get a thousand channels , I don't get all that it's weird To me .
it's not super musty , it's really that hyper syrupy tobacco with that sort of menthol , you know , just like those two things , and it's not super sweet . I thought you were going to fucking love this dude . This is terrible .
I can't , I can't do it .
I immediately cause . I've smelled both of these . By the way , I immediately was like they made one for Mike and one for Ryan .
Unless this does something so crazy once we hit stop on this button . This is a cologne podcast , ryan's side of it . Lock of the century skip . I can't do it . I cannot do it . Not this scent and God damn it , not that name , not this scent and not that Taurus . It's really mid man . I don't know . I don't want to be the asshole , but you know .
I don't know that I'm living there and I'll go ahead and toss my hat into the ring . I think it's a sample . Okay , you know , for Creed it's a departure , but I don't think it was a swing and a miss completely Really . Yeah , I kind of dig it . I believe that if you were to wear this out , I think you'd get compliments .
I think people would smell it and they'd go wow you smell pretty good .
No way Somebody's giving me a compliment with this .
No way . Speaking of Creed compliments , got gotta throw this out of here again . Another compliment I received today uh , before lunch we stopped by the bank , yeah , and I ran in there and I'm wearing insidious well , I'm , I'm wearing a layer of sorts because I have straight to heaven by killian , layered with insidious by Insider Parfums .
You smelled amazing today and I walked in there and I'm doing my banking business and the lady's like ooh , you smell good . He was stealing suckers . I didn't steal . I said may I have two suckers please ? But she was like what's that called ? And I said you know , it's called it . It feels weird to like throw the name out .
So you just you like make up some shit half the time . I didn't want to be like it's insidious by insider par form , so I just said it's called creed and lady was like I like that .
I was like I like you what is it that this industry is ? Billions of dollars , by the way , a year . Yeah , industry , yeah , we're all like I gotta feel weird if I say you know it's , it's creed , millennium , falcon , imprison or whatever yeah , because it's just more than what the person bargained for you think so ? I think so . They were just like dude .
I just wanted you to tell me what's like . It's fucking abercrombie or something . Yeah , I don't know , you think , do you think they're going overboard with all these names out there , like centaurus ?
yeah , no way , I'd ever go it's called centaurus by the house of creed you see what I'm saying . Yeah , the name sucks yeah , sucks , I mean , but honestly , if it was like it's called Phantom , you'd sound like a badass .
There are some words out there , you know , but then you get into trouble with like the Aaron Terrence Hughes type shit where it's like it's called slut . Imagine that some poor old lady at the bank and I'm like She'd think you're doing some weird ass yeah . Yeah , oh , that's nice , I like that . What's that called ? It's called slut baby .
I do have to say look , I do not like the name inspired by one of the largest constellations , Centaurus . Oh , there we go so yeah , so I'm assuming that's it . Maybe next time we'll get Quadrant IV .
Planet B as a fucking name .
For sure . Yeah , I'm just not a fan of this name because I just think people just think Centaur , you hear Centaurus . I just think they just think it's some weird , some new weird Ford car or something .
Oh yeah , the Ford Centaurus .
This thing is weird . It's a skip . Fuck it , oh , okay .
It's a sample for me , and until next time , spray it up y'all .