#295 - Tom Ford for Men by Tom Ford

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Today sent to us by Jonathan . Do we bleep his name ? Usually ? Is he the Jonathan Bleep ? He's the Bleepy . Okay , this is the Mr Bleepy himself . Jonathan Bleep has sent us many a decants , along with some other friends of the podcast . We just made a deal behind closed doors here .

You made a deal yeah , I did , and you brought me in as collateral .

Yeah , he's like I found your dad's . Well , not my dad's actual fragrance , but the scent he wore . I found this vintage bottle . I got it for super cheap . Guy didn't know what he had . I'll sell it to you for what I'm in .

My only stipulation is you guys got to do the Tom Ford's I sent you he sent these a while back and , as you guys know , the wheels of progress turn very slowly .

Here at the Cologne Podcast , we're just like Congress very slowly here at the cologne podcast . We're just like congress , yeah , but uh , yeah . So we're gonna do original tom ford for men . Was this the first fragrance ever by tom ford ? I ?

don't know , but it was released in 2007 , so that has been a good long while , and I just just getting the show together here .

Guys , seeing the notes of this thing , I'm already like I was telling my calls like this is gonna be a bad boy I have a feeling .

Let me tell you a little background with this rhyme , because I remember this fragrance really . Now I don't know what year the bottle that jonathan bleep juiced to give us this juice tongue twister , I know .

Oh , we'll get to that here a little bit and really quick . This was the second ever fragrance . The first one was tom ford black orchid .

Okay , yeah , I remember both released the same year . Okay , 2007 , yep , yeah , I wonder . Can you just check really quick , jamie , pull it up what year was discontinued , because I want to bet it was either 21 or 22 .

2016 .

Wow , so there were bottles floating around for a minute .

Yeah .

Well , let's see if this is held up and is super juicy like I remember it being we can't do a one-night stand review .

can we Look , guys ? We're going to peel the curtain back really quick and then we'll get into the episode . We're not doing a one-night stand review . Let me tell you why it's going to be really quick . We recorded two video episodes One's with TLTG . That one's going to go out , hopefully this week sometime .

Yes , yeah , we are behind .

To just put it briefly so we're doing this as a Hail Mary to get this episode out Monday for the main podcast . We love you all . We know you'll be accepting of this issue . And now let's get into our sense of the day . Vintage Tom Ford for men by Tom Ford .

Hopefully it's not super generic and basic . I don't think that's gonna be the problem like armchair sailor says on fragrantgrantica , when he says it smells like the Sunday perfume for the average guy . Not daring , not original , not interesting . Who ?

the hell said that Armchair Sailor . I'm here to tell you something there , Sailor . It's the problem .

I thought we were going to have . Oh , this is what I remember . It smelling like Smells pretty fucking good , god damn it .

yeah , this is what I knew the problem was gonna be it .

It's masculine , it's kind of old school , but not like way over the top . This would be like the vintage old school type vibe that I would want . It's not not like going to choke you out , it's not crazy , but it does smell smooth and masculine .

This thing is badass . It's got like a very citrus vibe yeah , almost neroli , a little bit maybe , yes , but it's not the typical like kind of soapy in a way . You know , is that making sense ? Absolutely , it's just straight up like really good citrus .

You know why ? Why it's got ginger in it , really , yes . Hmm , the reason why I looked up this fragrance was after our well , actually it was before our very first episode . Remember I went fucking bananas on ordering dossier clones .

Oh God , yeah , he went through a really bad . That was a . He was down and out those days . Yeah , it's not a good time he was watching cuba , no dossier ads like hey or no ?

scent bird . Yeah , I do remember that . Um , and one of the fragrances I got was called , like ginger deliciousness or whatever they call it . You know they have dumb names for them , anyways , and I just like took a swing and bought like three or four and their clone of this was in there . How did it match up ?

I'm going to tell you this is pretty fucking baller .

But because it smelled good and I liked the vibe of it , I was like I got to smell the real deal , the tester strip is fucking orgasmic .

It is fucking good the ginger and fucking like lemony citrus kind of thing going on . I don't want to say too much lemony , but it's close , it's a sharp citrus yeah .

Ryan makes a juice . He's got a juicer at the house . Let me tell you , this guy can juice .

He's seen me juice things with a machine and he's seen me juice them with my hands .

Yeah , just wringing out all different kinds of stuff Cucumbers , bananas , eggplants , what other things ? What other phallic things can you think of , mike ? That's the ones he does manually , but the machine that he has you do oranges . Yeah , ginger , tell me what's in the breakdown of that drink uh , one of the ones that I've done .

I need to get back to doing that , because they really were delicious . Yeah , so I would get a couple of oranges fresh , you know that . Right , I would get one , uh , granny smith apple .

please go for it , because I only got a hundred of them .

Yeah , it's only got a hundred , but it's also . It's kind of shocking once you hear all the note because I'm not getting everything and there's two particular ones you would think you'd get . At least I don't . Top notes are lemon leaf oil , ginger , mandarin , orange , bergamot , basil and violet leaf . Um .

Yeah , I think so , but maybe it's just the little the tiniest little drop .

He looked right into my eyes when he did that . Then the base notes are amber cedar which I can kind of see , cedar , vetiver kind of get that too Virginia patchouli , don't know Oak moss , leather , cypress oil , those kind of notes .

You know , when you throw your name on something and go this is me , yeah , as a fragrance . Yeah as a fragrance . Yeah , Not just the brand Tom Ford , but it's like this is Tom Ford . Yeah , he walked around wearing it . Do you feel like they kind of captured him as a man in this fragrance ? I mean ?

he's very , from what we can see , very sophisticated , well put together , very sharp . Yeah , in looks he's a sharp looking cat , and how he dresses right also , he's very like his own individual and he talks like old hollywood yeah , love that , by the way , right and so , yeah , this is very defining . I thought this is a very defined fragrance .

Yeah , I'm with you on that this is like old school without that , like the strong , aggressive burn on top .

Yeah , it's not off-putting , it's not going to fumigate a fucking room . Yeah , it's not crazy loud . It's loud , but it's not crazy like the other . What you're talking about I would say this is probably like you're going to smell a good three feet off , but it's not going to fucking drown the whole room . Yeah , gonna fucking drown the whole room .

To now , all we do is just see tiktok shops fucking selling everything , apparently yeah , we had a long discussion about that and that may be like a video episode or something we do , yeah , but we see so many people getting called out for being shills .

It's all like infomercials for fragrances it makes you really evaluate the word shill and what it represents and who it represents for sure . Yeah , I definitely have been shocked by that . But yeah , this is , this is like an in-between . You know what this is actually . This is the bridge between vintage and modern .

Yeah , this is almost like giving a mature fragrance to a younger audience absolute wow , I'm hitting with the price and please do .

I'm dying to know what it costs for a bottle of this

I love it . I absolutely love it .

It's like piss yellow lemon color over here .

It looks cool , man . There are better pictures taken by other product photographers , where it looks a little bit more amber in color .

Oh , let me hit you with . I said trim , but I meant popularity . Forgive me , fragrantica , fucked us , not me . Yeah , yeah , hit you with . I said trim , but I meant popularity . Forgive me , fragrantica fucked us , not , not me . Yeah , yeah , you're right , not them . Perfume rating for this is a 4.04 out of 5 , with 2346 votes .

And then doesn't long . That may be true because it is very citrus forward . I do remember that being the issue , really . Yeah , with at least the latter formulated bottles , I guess , again , we don't know what year this juice is from we're gonna have to get with jonathan bleep on that but it is pretty , pretty damn good it is .

So , top notch . I'll tell you this the people on our Patreon are seriously lucky because you can literally ask this guy anything . Ask him something about this fragrance I was talking about from my dad's old fragrance . Yeah , he found it in literally 30 seconds . Here it is . He goes you want to get that ? I was like I can't get it .

probably was . I'm mad about it . That's jonathan's five bucks . I'm doing it . Fuck yeah , that's good . Plus , I want to make sure I got plenty on . I'm about to go donate some blood because I'm saving lives , people . Yeah , would you say your blood was .

It's one of those negative .

oh , it's one of those oh blood types . But I got a call yesterday that said you know , our local donation center is sending , sending a bunch of blood off for , like uh , relief victims and stuff like that and and they're just like , hey , we're running out , we need your blood type .

And I said say no more , I'll be there and then you were like , hey , you want to go run ? I was like sorry , bro , have a hereditary blood disease , you can't do it .

Yeah , I was like I guess , yeah , who's wearing this man ? Well , other than me and Tom Ford , I think it's a gentleman over 30 . Yeah for sure , I think he's got to have a shit together , absolutely . He's got a body fat percentage has got to be under 20 . Probably so , and he's one of those guys that , like , wears loafers without socks . Is that good ?

It's more fashionable . Yeah , I mean definitely well put together . Hmm , Is that good ? I think so it's more fashionable . Yeah , I mean definitely well put together the guys like in Boiler Room or something going Rico .

I think he's got to have a good head of hair . Oh yeah , for sure . And it's styled real nice , which neither I nor Tom Ford do .

Is Tom Ford bald .

He's not bald , but he's kind of swooping it forward .

Tom Ford , if you hear this , that's Mike that said that , not me .

I'm sorry . I look , dude , I think you're sexy as hell . I got nothing against you . I mean he talks about it openly . He was a model and one of the hairdressers . He said one time whatever , yeah , one of the hairdresser goes you know you're gonna lose your hair , right ? god damn hairdressers really love cracking people's fucking lives dude already , god damn .

Does this kind of have a little floral thing going on the tester strip ?

I can kind of feel that , but it's not like crazy , no , it's very light .

It's still leaning more citrus , but you can kind of pick up that floral it's a good balance , man .

I guarantee you these early fragrances he was really involved with . Wow , that is so good . I mean I know I would be if we were gonna do . You know , mike for men by mike , I'd be in every single meeting , oh he definitely would , and yeah it's just like the meeting is literally just me and a mirror no , it doesn't smell like me .

Yeah , get back to work . Are you fired ?

this is gonna be good , fucking steve jobs exactly yeah , you going to skip it , sample it or buy it . What are you going to do , ryan ?

God damn , if it wasn't so much and rare , this would be an easy buy for me . Yeah , I feel that . But because of that , this will just be relocated to just a sample , unfortunately . Yeah , and probably just this sample . But I will say that is a gorgeous fragrance . Would you wear it if you had ?

oh yeah , you know , 20 , 30 mil of it would you wear it .

I would absolutely wear this shit and I'd feel good wearing it too . When what scenario are you wearing it ? I'm gonna be real man , even though it's like the office friendly thing for me . Yeah , it would be with any job we went and did .

It is so classic I'd almost call it timeless . I agree , I love it , man , I really do . Yeah , it's great . I agree with you . If it was more readily available and it was this formulation , it would be a very tempting buy . Is it crazy , extraordinary , super ? You know um original smell or unidentifiable type thing ? Probably not .

No it's not , but it is like I said , it's hearkening back to it's some of the vintage , some of the modern . It did a really good job of probably bridging that gap during that time . You know right . I mean , if I think about 2007 , where was I even at ? I think I was in colorado .

Yeah , that's what you're saying .

It's like vacation land , Dude every day of my life that I worked and I worked . I delivered roofing material for corporations Dude , not going to lie , every day felt like a vacation , always in the mountains , was always in the mountains , was always in glenwood springs and and , uh , aspen , where the .

Even smelling the clone of this , I was blown away , really yeah , and that's what got me interested in it real , so you smelled that first before you yeah , and then I looked it up , I'm like what is this trying to be ? and it was just tom ford for men and I was like I gotta go smell that .

Yeah , and for you freaking lucky bastards and gals that can throw down enough on something like this .

My God , I'm envious because it does smell good , I mean , but if you had $500 to drop on a fragrance , would you still get this though .

If I had it to actually waste ? Yes , really I think so . Wow , okay , it's pretty . I was actually going to disagree with you with just saying it's office and all that , even though I said the same thing . I started smelling . I was like no , I'd feel pretty good day and night on something like this . I'd feel good wearing this .

I feel like if Tom Ford created this to be a signature scent , where it's like this is what people remember when they smelled them as he went to anything . Yeah , I don't think it's a bad design of fragrance . It is not . It's good . There you go , jonathan . Thank you , man , what an honor . And guys , we have the extreme version of this as well .

Hi , you know a lot of you guys have been sending this stuff lately , a lot more than usual . Bob just sent us some fucking uh , each of us a brand new like body wash thing to try out . Supposed to smell similar or something . Thank you uh , bob .

Yeah , it's like a cremo or something that's supposed to smell like ombre leather .

It's a body wash and we're gonna try that . I mean not together , but we're gonna try it .

Oh , yeah , yeah , it's set independently .

That's what we planned on doing but uh , yeah , we've had that , we've had , uh , we had I'm just gonna say the names perfume hub . They're a uh , mom and pop . I'm gonna say not as a disrespect , but they're a mom and pop , uh , perfume , uh shop . I want to say new mexico yep , they sent us some . Uh , I want to say , was it Hawas ?

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Yeah .

And that sounds sexy . Yeah , don't . You want dumb people in your eyeballs .

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