¶ 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 flankers from nishane and giving you uneducated opinions .
We're smelling one of mike's favorites and also mine as well , but he's the one that's bought in it and I just like smelling it on him .
I'm on my third bottle of Wu Long Cha . Fuck Now . Granted , the first two are 50s and this time's a hundo Damn I mean I'm actually shocked you went through two 50s .
Really .
I mean yeah , because you don't really spray heavy , no , but I was wearing it almost every single day Really , and in Texas every day is like the summer , yeah , which is perfect for it , perfect fragrance for that . So yeah , I just wore the hell out of it .
Well , they made a flanker , guys , and it's called Wu Lan Cha , Professor X . Oh God , Actually it's just called X .
Well , we'll see how it works on this bald professor over here .
Yeah , that's what was making me think of that . Marvel Rivals been playing that . Yeah , yeah , you are obsessed with that game . I've been trying to convince you to come to the dark side and play it with me and Snazzy , you , snazzy and does Mark O'Quee ? play with you guys ? He doesn't .
But I see you're trying to transition quickly to not have to talk video game spook . So go ahead . And , by the way , I apologize for my voice . I'm not really sick , I'm just kind of congested . Okay , scoot over . Yeah , get away from me . I can hear it .
He has the black death , all right . Marco Cui on Fragrantica has to say Definitely cleaning product . Vibe or bathroom air freshener Obviously better quality smelling than that Chilled vibe . All the same , happy enough with life , oh okay .
Is he meaning like he just can't be let down by this because he's just too high on life ? Maybe so , or maybe he's like I'm happy enough , let down by this because he's just too ?
high on life ? Yeah , maybe so . Or maybe he's like I'm happy enough that I don't need this in my life , okay , Well , there you go , marco Cui .
Well , before we get into today's episode , we got to go into our one night stand and talk about how that went . Uh-huh , with a fragrance sent to us by a listener , david . He sent it for us to give away to one of our patrons . And we do it on the episode . I'm going to tell mom that's right , that's why you should join our patron .
We do stuff like that . Anyway , mephisto by Zerjoff Hit the music Todd
¶ One Night Stand Review: Mefisto by Xerjoff
yeah . One Night Stand Review . He just sounded like . What's his name ? Hoggle from the Labyrinth . Remember the little troll guy that helped Sarah ? Oh , yeah , you don't remember , do you ?
I mean there are a couple of things that I remember about the Labyrinth , jennifer Connelly that , and those tight ass gray sweatpants that Bowie was walking around in the whole time .
My entire life . Everybody's talked about that .
He might have started it all . Man Gray sweatpants season Started with the Bowie Love that song Dance magic dance .
Oh yeah , the voodoo , the judoo Hoodoo . Power of the babe . The power of the voodoo . The ju-doo Who-doo . Power of the babe . The power of the babe . Great movie Shit scent . I did not like Mephisto Guys . If you listened to that episode , I was complaining of a headache , literally rubbing my temples , and Mike can tell you I can .
When I got done with that episode the headache was like Mike played a prank on me and you know that went too far . He swung a fucking axe through the middle of my fucking scalp and thought it was hilarious . The pain it was unbearable .
You just got racked upside the head with a Mephisto . Yeah yeah , a couple of freaking haymakers .
The scent didn't smell bad , by the way , but there's something in there . I haven't figured it out yet . There's a couple other fragrances I mentioned . They have done that to me as well , but for me nothing personal Just cannot deal with a headache like that . It is getting skipped , buddy .
Oh , it's the exact opposite for me . I loved it . I continued to love it . The dry down was nice . It got a little more floral on the dry down , which was a pleasant surprise . Interesting , just nice , clean . I didn't feel like it was too crazy loud either , but you were acting like it was igniting synapses in your brain . It was doing something dude .
So it's more of a , more of a sample , or you can see yourself buying something like that yeah , I'd like to continue to sample it .
I don't know right off the bat if I buy it or if I'm waiting to buy wu long cha x .
Well , let's just get into the episode , because I fucking hate it . Mephisto andisto .
And I liked it . So guys out there , be sure to give it a sample , because , who knows , you could be Team Mike or Team Cryin' .
You think that's why that guy made his name Cryin' Ryan in the Patreon , I think so because you're always whining about it , fucking whining about shit .
Yeah , you're just like . You gave me a headache , oh the price is too bad . Hey , what me a headache ? Oh the price is too bad . Hey , what's the deal with all these fragrance influencers starting their own brands ?
crying . Ryan , if you're listening to this , I need you to comment on this episode and let me know is that why you made your name ? It had to be . That has to be the case , because you are pretty whiny god , I want to make a fucking alt mike hate account or something . Okay , let's get in today's episode . I actually am psyched on this .
Spray it up , y'all . I want to make a fucking alt Mike hate account or something . Okay , let's get in today's episode . I actually am psyched on this .
¶ Scent of the Day: Wulong Cha X
Spray it up , y'all . I'm going to let you go first , because this has been your bread and butter for the longest time . Don't mind if I do Quickly , though before you stop . I got it . He was right there about to hit the button . Oh my God , two things . Yes , it says from Nishane that they got rid of the sharp edges of Wulan Cha .
Okay , kind of knowing that and knowing what the original Wulan Cha smells like , what do you think you're expecting with ?
this . Huh , I think it's going to be lighter then . I mean , we both agreed that fragrance is loud , nuclear For a citrus fragrance that has one of the longest staying powers of any citruses that I've smelled . So I wonder if it might be a tad bit sweeter or a tad bit lighter , something that does take the bite out of that citrus .
Well , as much as you love the original , is it that ? Or is there something else ? If you could pick it apart , you'd want them to improve on .
I would be afraid that if they dialed back the citrus that it would become too feminine for me Interesting . Okay , Well , let's find out .
What do you think ? I'm thinking it's going to be probably no citrus and very soft and sweet , which I probably won't like . Or more floral Could be . Yes , let's check it out . Hmm , is that a good hmm ?
or a bad hmm . Initially in the air I was like , ah , I'm smelling Wu Long Cha . I do smell that off the rip , but as soon as I put it up to my face , definitely more floral , really Okay .
Test your strip or hand or both .
Just hit it up Whichever one strikes your fancy , it does kind of suck that I'm not fully like . My nasal passage isn't open , but I can smell it . Citrus is definitely dialed back Very , but it's not gone , which is good . Good , I kind of like it , yeah , I mean it's pleasant .
It is reminiscent of wu long cha , yeah , but it's missing some things that made me love it .
It's like what you love about wu long cha . But then they , like , graduated high school , went to college and they came back , you know , and they're a little bit not as acting a class clown and being loud and shit like that . Oh really , yeah , they're a little bit more sophisticated now . Oh , in a whole different way than that , really .
Yeah , I was kind of thinking it was kind of like that girl in school that was always kind of cute but kind of tomboyish Okay . And then again , again , she does go off to college and when she comes back she's like prim and proper and , yeah , full-blown woman so by me , you think this is like it's elevated , it's like mature to something a little bit more .
It's grown up and it's a little bit more professional . It's more elegant , it's more feminine gotcha definitely more feminine , for sure . So is that a letdown then ?
It's a letdown in that it could have been something that I liked better . Yeah , you know the Flinker could be better , kind of like Lunarosa Carbon . Lunarosa is good , yeah , lunarosa Carbon is better . God damn it . Is this not so much For me ? Yeah , I'm not saying it's not a great fragrance .
So a friend of mine named Audrey she was the gal I was talking about that was really looking for like a hotel made these wall plug-ins , oh yeah , and she loved it . She was like it's a tea scent . Yeah , I would love to have a fragrance that smelled like this . And I smelled it and I was like , oh , that reminds me a lot of Wu Long Cha .
So I gave her , like , the last little bit of my previous 50 mil and she loved it . So it's like for me . I'm thinking about like her and smelling this fragrance and I'm like this might be even better for her . Yeah , but not for me , you know it kind of has .
I can't trust myself 100% today , but there's something a little bubbly to this , but not in what you're thinking . It's like wool on shaw , that tea part okay , but then on the outer edge of that it's like if you dipped a bubble wand in some soap . You know what I mean . It's giving you another 13 vibes .
Is that what that one does too ? God for me . Another 13 smells like bubbles , yeah like you're gonna blow .
You know when I was .
You're dipping the tray you open up , you get the , the big old container , right , yeah , and then it's got the one , but the one's drowning and you've got to save it , you know everybody who has kids knows .
And you get the bubble solution all over your hands and then to me that's what another 13 smells like interesting yeah , I kind of get wool on char with that .
You just open up a thing of bubbles I get like if somebody wore a very flowery powdery fragrance and then I was next to him and I put wu long cha on and maybe just the tiniest little mist kind of just wow , he put his hands all fucking over me . That was a mistake , because you're sick . Next episode , hey guys .
Yeah , now I'm going to be putting my hand up to my face all the time You're patient zero , aren't you ?
Well , let me get into the price and popularity . Good idea .
What is that , Ryan ?
I was searching my pockets for my phone , like I was searching for my wallet . Whenever Mike's ready to buy something , I'm like what you got lunch today , right , bro ? Too many times it's happened , but honestly it's on accident , but so many times it does make you wonder , even me .
Yeah , especially when we sit down and you go I'm going to have the filet and you guys want an appetizer we're getting dessert on here too , right , exactly , yeah and after you scrape the crumbs of your cheesecake off the plate , you go oh man , wouldn't you know it ?
I'll paypal it to you , yeah .
Never does .
¶ Price and Popularity
If you want 100 ml of this , Nishane's website List it for $385 . Jesus .
Kind of pricey 400 bucks for 100 ml For less of a fragrance . Yeah , kind of . You know Inflation , nishani , what ?
the hell . You can , though , get it on places like FragranceNet . We're not sponsored , we're just like you guys . We try to find the gray market here . $192 for 100ml , that's way better . You think that's better ? Mm-hmm , better . I mean , we'll find out later if it's really worth that price , but to the right person it could be . It could be .
It does smell good . I have to clarify that does smell good .
It's not a bad smell , hyper feminine right now on my skin , so floral very like , I agree , powdery white flowers just dancing in the spring breeze I agree 4.33 out of 5 not shutting down the internet , but enough people are liking it by the way , I said this before the episode we actually had a friend I think he goes by brady frags on instagram .
I think he has a fragrance thing he's doing . Go check him out but he sent us a voice thing asking us about something about season four . Me and Mike are doing some digging . I'm like does it seem like we released this episode in May of 2023 ? Closing in on two years ? Well , the reason why I bring it up is because this was released in 2023 .
And I thought this was released this last year , in 2024 .
Oh no , I remember first essence , they were releasing them .
God damn . By the way , this was sent to us by Cynthia . She's also a patron . Thank you , miss Cynthia , for sending this . Yeah , since a bunch of different ones from Scent Split , great taste in fragrances , great taste in music , absolutely . You know to touch back really quickly .
You said something a second ago about like if some lady was standing next to you wearing something a little bit more floral Right , and you're like like a little bit got on her , yeah , this is kind of what they said . You know , I kind of mentioned this earlier .
They said they designed this to mute the sharp edges of the original formula and enhance it with the addition of florals , namely magnolia . Do you know what a magnolia flower is ?
Magnolia tree , I guess .
Do you know what that smells like ? Yes , is it similar ? I guess I don't know , because I don't know what that smells like .
I don't know . I mean , I know the magnolia tree is . They're big trees that have waxy green leaves and then they have the big white flowers that bloom .
Yeah , and green leaves , and then they have the big white flowers that bloom , yeah and it's a pretty big , big size tree .
Yeah , okay , yeah , but I can't recall one of my family members had a big tree like that in their yard . I'm remember as a kid , yeah , but I don't remember the smell . I didn't really love that person . So I don't have like I'm not , like my mind , isn't , you know , trying to create fond memories ? Of their Magnolia tree , like I fucking hated their guts .
I didn't hate their guts , I was just kind of weird , really . Yeah , it was just a .
Well , if they're like clown parties or something , yeah , kind of with drugs . Sorry , so you can drink in my coffee . Didn't expect in that , okay , yeah she liked pills .
Guys , don't get into that too many weird childhood memories , okay any other trauma you want to dump on us today there was a guy who used to keep her yard . Okay , I'm just gonna .
I thought you're about to really air this shit out . Is this true what you were about to ?
say I was about to say some things . Yeah , well , I don't know , that's for a different podcast , it's for , like , a mental health podcast . Okay , okay , yeah .
Guys , should we start Selfish Health back again ?
It's just like a therapy session for me . He had sex with my mama . Believe it or not , he's not quoted .
I am quoted , you know what ?
todd ?
give her it all keep it all in todd worst nazi you ever , you know , is this .
Come on , you guys , gotta know old green eyes uh , I'll go over the notes really quick .
I don't feel like I get a lot of this , but Bergamot , yuzu , maybe , yuzu , maybe that's what we're kind of smelling . How do you pronounce that shit ? What the fuck is that ? Your facial expression said it all . Go look it up .
On Fragrance , it starts with an L and looks like I don't know Like litsea , caboba or some shit , and we got mandarin orange middle notes , green tea I could kind of get that magnolia , don't know . Thumb bass notes , musk , fig , a lot of fig notes and some stuff we've been smelling recently . What the fuck's up with that ?
dude , we've been freaking out on some fig .
It's kind of weird huh well , you've kind of already halfway
¶ Who's Wearing This?
alluded to it , but who would wear this fragrance ?
it's not a bad fragrance , it smells good yeah , it does smell good , it smells very , very feminine it smells a little on the mature side . I'm thinking 35 and up , okay , maybe even older . It is beautiful , it is very pretty , I will admit that . But it lacks a lot of what makes Wu Long Chao what I really like and what I think adds masculinity to it .
It is a very sharp citrus . This doesn't really have that . I mean , it has the tiniest little taste up front .
So I think , yeah , a beautiful , mature lady , I've got nothing because that's about right down the road what this is . Yeah , could not be any closer .
There's something on it that and maybe that's the magnolia there's something on it that I just don't like . Something's happening . It's subtle , but it's there .
I don't know yet . Maybe my silences are actually helping me out with this episode . Maybe I'd be getting a raging headache if I was on another day .
Yeah , it smells beautiful on the car , but I just keep smelling my skin and I don't like what it's doing . It's not quite aquatic but it's kind of doing a little bit of that weird metallic wet dog .
For you it's not so much wet dog as it is just like it smells like I'm sucking on a quarter or something , just deep down at the base , just a subtle little of it .
It smells like you're sucking on a quarter . Yeah , okay , I'm gonna put that in my rolodex of random things that have been said on this fucking podcast , but I guess some weird morbid way it makes sense what you're telling me I mean , you've never seen like ?
uh , I saw a meme the other day . It said something like nipple piercings taste like car keys oh god , that would be weird .
I remember because you were showing me yeah , there was a lot of people that concurred that , yeah , I hate them , I'm not like for or against them , but I've never interacted with it in that way , so I don't know . That would not be good to me . It will not be as fun .
Yeah , so I'm smelling a little bit of nipple piercing on this , wow .
This is an episode this one's wild Trauma figs , nipple piercings . Okay , episode this this one's wild trauma figs , nipple piercings . Uh , okay , it's too bad we didn't do a video of this . We could have like showed some b-roll of nipple piercings .
Oh yeah , yep , could have . What a shame .
A lot of 80s rockers would have appeared on god , I have to say , like women I feel like can get away with it more , and it's still not like something I'm like whatever honked up on , but it's like it's always weird when to me that men do it , you know , because it looks .
I told you , I got a friend who pierced his ding-a-ling . Oh God Hell . No , he was about it-a-ling .
Oh God , hell , no , he was about it , dude . You know my luck , dude . They might pierce something . Either it never works or it's always fucking on . You know what I'm saying .
I'm not taking the gamble They'd accidentally hit the wiring . Yeah , yeah , I get you .
Have to like beat on it weird , or something to like get things to work Literally beating on it weird , okay , well , you know why I'm thinking about that . We have a pool hall here . It's free for us to access .
Oh , now I get where you're talking about .
I got to have the small room and he's with me on this . It's just a little pool hall's like very personal . There's two tables , there's a nine foot and what like a seven foot .
Yeah , and they were working lights above both of them and we kind of live in an area where some older people we have like an hoa , yeah , somebody we come in one day and they installed this new light system over the nine foot table . That's the one me and Mike like to play on Right .
And if you play pool and you go to a really nice pool hall , they'll have a semi-sophisticated light above that will evenly light the table for you .
The game feels completely different when it's well lit Right , and so we went from a dim light to this really beautiful bright light that covered everything , yeah , and that part didn't change , by the way . But we come in one day and mike's like dude , look at this fucking dumb shit and they've got it on a relay button timer system .
Yeah , so like it'll only be on for two hours and it'll go off . You gotta hit this button above this fucking light every two hours .
So the subtext of this is they're like we can't trust these adults to turn the lights off .
Yeah , so we're gonna put it on a timer , so , no matter what , it will turn off which they would come behind us every time we left , where we never left the lights on , but even if we did , there was somebody there to turn it off . Right , it was kind of foolproof , yes . And then that thing got shoddy , right ?
Yeah , because it was done in somebody's garage . Yeah , you know , some dude moonlighting as an electrician or something , and so the wiring got weird and sometimes it would work and sometimes it didn't work . And then you know , we finally talked to the administration building . We're like , hey , this light is fucking off on us mike was literally taking it apart .
He's like look at this fucking relay in here like the light comes on everybody .
Look , I'm not a genius , but I've done a bit of wiring so I can tell if a connection is not loose a shade tree , electrician put it together .
Well , I've built quite a few electric guitars so yeah , and we did something kind of wild with a built-in effect at one time , all analog , so yeah , like I've messed around with it and even touching with capacitors and potentiometers and stuff like that .
So I know a little bit , you know , and I opened that thing up and I was just like jesus christ , look like a crime scene , dude . It just looked like a bowl of spaghetti in there , like I can't tell . I mean , it's like things are , it's just weird .
He's like unplugging stuff .
Lights are going out in china and shit , so I was just like I'm not touching this , let's just screw this back on and and the best part about it is it's all hooked up to the switch on the wall so , as you walk out , if you flip the off switch , like your , you know light switch , if you flip it to off , it cuts everything off anyways , which , by the way
, you have to hit this light switch to turn the other lights on , so you can see where you're at in the building . It all doesn't make sense . It's the reason why we got upset is because we're adults . Yeah , we enjoy having this amenity . We take care of it take care of it .
Proud to take care of it , so why it also goes back to . I think I said it probably 10 plus episodes ago but look , just because you have seniority in life , that you lived and didn't get hit by a car or jaywalking the street , doesn't mean you're smart okay , yeah , there's dumb people of all ages .
Exactly , when it comes down to it , they may or may not be wearing Wu Long Cha X .
Are you going to skip ?
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¶ Skip it, Sample it, or Buy it?
. They may or may not be wearing wu long jaw x . Are you gonna skip ?
it , sample it or buy it . What are you gonna do , ryan ? Um , this is a skip , but I feel like we've been doing this a lot lately . It's a skip , but not because it smells bad . It's a skip because it smells good , but it's very for you . Yeah , it's not for me .
It's very leaning , feminine yes , I agree , I'm with you on this . Yeah , it smells really nice for someone who wants a mature feminine fragrance . Yeah , not for me whatsoever , and I mean it could not be polar opposite , absolutely , even though they really are in the same vein . I could see why this is the flanker of wu long cha .
I get it , yeah , but for me it's just so far removed from what I love about the original that I just it's a no for me , but it is something you should sample if this sounds like a fragrance you're into because it smells like a good fragrance . Yeah , I mean , we trust nish . Their stuff has always been top tier . Yeah .
I wonder . You actually may know the answer to this , but what does the X represent for this ? Hasevat X , ani X , wulan Cha X , because we did an episode on Ani for the Patreons , if you want to check out that episode .
But now I'm kind of thinking , because it did something too similar to this , I feel like it's X-ing out something important , so I wonder if that's kind of what it was for Everything .
I've heard people say I don't know the correlation of the X , what it represents , but everything that I've heard say about this line , the X or whatever it's a lighter , fresher version of its predecessor , gotcha , gotcha , and I got to smell hasavod x and I think in milan no , uh , I got to smell over at carson's place , really , because he has a decant of it .
I mean , what did you think about it ? We have it right . Yeah , we do have it . Let's save it for an episode . I'll tell you what we'll do a patreon episode on it , okay , but I will hint that there's something to it really yeah , like you're cheeky with it right now , like it's maybe so good could be pretty good , it's probably good .
He's baiting me , he's wanting me to smell that shit .
I guess we'll find out .
And until next time , Spray it up y'all .