I imagine after Columbine your dad storms into your room, randomly picks up a CD, shoves it in your face says, "This trash is why this tragedy happened!" Before he throws it to the ground and stomps on it, you catch a glimpse of the album cover... Ricky Martin's Greatest Hits
Adore Chamade. And this series is brilliant. I respectfully (somewhat) disagree though, that the best years of perfume ended in the nineties. While the nineties themselves were, imo, not fantastic for perfumery with the dawn of the aquatics, the emblem of which to me is the horror of CK One, and the dawn of the gourmands with Angel, they still brought us the mad hatter avant garde juice of Lutens (cuir mauresque, tubereuse criminelle, iris silver mist, ambre sultan) who kept going at a steady pace in the early oughties with fragrances like fumerie turque, borneo 1834, and vetiver oriental. The early oughties also saw the blossoming of houses like L'Artisan with Duchaufour as well as the rise of Andy Tauer, Frederic Malle and Tom Ford. The latter was perhaps the first - certainly the most notable - to launch a range of designer exclusives (I still weep for Japon Noir). Just a few years later Jacques Polge for Chanel followed suit. But only then, late in that decade, did things go really awry, with launches skyrocketing and prices surging, and the big corporations buying up houses. (And that's when my interest in perfumery started to wane, just a tad lol) In the early oughties, fragcom was relatively small, with the men mostly at Basenotes and the women mostly at Perfume of Life/PoL (the owner pulled the plug in the mid oughties, and most of the community moved to Facebook where the late Carlos Powell was one of the first to run a very successful group). Anyhow, I join you with Guerlain, today - Mitsouko. Cheers.
This historic trajectory and its context is priceless, interesting how perfume and our olfactory sense is set in time and evolving, maybe like music and other things not always for the better. Continue this great work! There is more to this than meets the eye!
Loving the list man and the CD story typified our parents horror and distain for all the shit going on in the world,and in theirs minds eye goofing with our little closed world and possessions will somehow put things to right,and the sad thing Rams, I’ve done it back in the day with my daughter hahaha 😂great stuff have a good one 🙏✌️👍
I love Ferragamo pour Homme. My older bottle is even better than my newer. Btw i think the name of the Ted Lapidus fragrance is just "Ted" by Ted Lapidus. i have it too. And of course i love Oscar for men. Great video Ram.
Good morning Ram 🐏 🙏 back when I was in 10th grade I had borrowed a Stryper album from a friend at church and came home one day and Mom had been in my room going thru it to see what I had or may have a hidden. Well I borrowed Stryper Soldiers under command with the band on he cove with a A Team type Van on the cover in Stryper colors Yellow & Black. We'll it was on my bed but totally destroyed and the album shattered and all my posters were tore down and on the bed and come in and said It's Christian!! And I borrowed it from a friend at church. Still love the album 😅 have a great day bud !!
I'm so glad that I found constant reviews on your channel describing Pontaccio 21. Koudos! I recently came into possession of a Diana de Silva bottle, probably from the 2000s, and it seems different to what is reviewed online from those who have this perfume . On my skin, this masterpiece smells like champagne, frost, leather gloves and something green and bitter. The top notes remind me of acetone or something like it - dry aldehydes. Could you explain more metaphorically what Pontaccio 21 smells like to you? I think that the accords and notes on fragrantica have nothing to do with what this perfume wants to be, or my bottle could be altered ?!?!?. Thank you
I have really enjoyed this series of videos. One fragrance from 1999 which I really like but never really gets much mention is Carolina Herrera 212 for men. The scent of Earl Grey tea combined with fresh cut grass. I’ve got a 2003 bottle when it was far superior. I believe there was a major reformulation in 2012. The dry down in the original formulation was magical. The current dry down is almost generic sadly.
I remember my brother's best friend rocking Pi that year and it made a big impact on my bro. At the time, we were well into the citrus floral freshie craze so something that sweet was sort of out of left field. But I had a generous decant of the vintage stuff and I'm not sure I would even classify it as a gourmand. The green notes like Morillas' favourite sage and rosemary were in complete harmony with the benzoin and almond; so much so that it was almost in a class of its own. Like a green aromatic vanilla if such a thing existed. Also remember my mother loving it, alongside D&G PH and Le Male. Bet she still does. How that nostalgia tickles our preference bone eh? 😄
Just got a Pontaccio 21 , damn what a juice ! Masterpiece indeed, smells like an hommage to Antaeus or Van Cleef and Arpels pour Homme, with suede instead of leather
People forget that Y2K was a legitimate serious concern in 1999. there were TONS of very old computer systems that WOULD have had catastrophic failures over something as simple as rolling back over to 0 on the calendar. Hospitals, accounting, etc. there were massive efforts to correct and update these systems prior to 2000. It's not like they could just roll out a patch in 1999 for computers from the 70s
@@RamseytheRam after the fact, my dad DID let me use the 50 gallon barrel of gas he bought just in case to fill my car for a month or so. So that was cool. Lol
I was in AP History when Columbine broke. All I remember was Mr Black breaking down in tears and falling to his chair as he told us. With that sadness out of the way: 1999 was a great year for flix. Matrix, Fight Club, Green Mile, Office Space, Sixth Sense, Boondocks Saints. Also Jar Jar Binks. And he basically embodies how I feel about 99 for frags. I have vintage Rochas Man, Pi, Bulgari Homme Extreme, Allure Homme in the collection but I never reach for them. When you get to 2003, you need some New Haarlem. I still reach for that. A better Rochas Man! Also Adidas Moves lives in my nostalgia as it was my scent of high school and early college.
These videos are so fun! Ah yes Y2K. How could I have forgotten. My brother and I had an IBM and when the Y2K scare came along, i had to make sure to pack my Barbie doll in a book bag with her extra clothes. Obviously all important stuff 😅
I'm not a fan of iris, as simple as that lol In fact it's one of the most unpleasant smells to me. I chewed an iris flower when I was at 4th grade or so, don't ask why, but that traumatized me, I still remember how disgusting it was. Thanks for the compilation, I'm curious to smell "Pontaccio 21" and "Dzing!" one day
Hi Ramsey. I searched Initio Side Effect and saw you bashed it. I got the full bottle and also Oud for Greatness and High Frequency. I rarely put on the Oud.. and HF. I hate for the big $ miss. Side Effect I wear because I cant find similar scent. Insane # of youtube reviewers said is was best ever and sexiest. Some hot women drooled over it. Im going to put some sprays on me for 3 or 4 wears. I hate throwing this $400 bottle in trash
@@RamseytheRam Youza. I can salvage SE because it comes to me as slight spice wood. I tried Spicebomb and SE beats it to me. By the way I got Royal Tobacco and that is my #1 spice. I will play around and keep open mind. What is a top spice slight sweet cologne?
Having a sample of Side Effect, and owning a bottle of Dolce and Gabbana's The One Luminous Night, I've compared them side-by-side on skin, and the D&G has some strong similarities to the Initio. Totally different notes, but surprisingly close scent profiles. Luminous Night is notoriously hard to find, though. I got mine purely through luck and fast fingers, so I wish you luck if you're interested in that one. Still a lot cheaper than Side Effect. It also has some clones.
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I imagine after Columbine your dad storms into your room, randomly picks up a CD, shoves it in your face says, "This trash is why this tragedy happened!" Before he throws it to the ground and stomps on it, you catch a glimpse of the album cover... Ricky Martin's Greatest Hits
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I literally busted out laughing to an empty house ... well done
"living la vida loca..."
Hahahha yes!. For me it was Bodycount
Adore Chamade. And this series is brilliant. I respectfully (somewhat) disagree though, that the best years of perfume ended in the nineties. While the nineties themselves were, imo, not fantastic for perfumery with the dawn of the aquatics, the emblem of which to me is the horror of CK One, and the dawn of the gourmands with Angel, they still brought us the mad hatter avant garde juice of Lutens (cuir mauresque, tubereuse criminelle, iris silver mist, ambre sultan) who kept going at a steady pace in the early oughties with fragrances like fumerie turque, borneo 1834, and vetiver oriental. The early oughties also saw the blossoming of houses like L'Artisan with Duchaufour as well as the rise of Andy Tauer, Frederic Malle and Tom Ford. The latter was perhaps the first - certainly the most notable - to launch a range of designer exclusives (I still weep for Japon Noir). Just a few years later Jacques Polge for Chanel followed suit. But only then, late in that decade, did things go really awry, with launches skyrocketing and prices surging, and the big corporations buying up houses. (And that's when my interest in perfumery started to wane, just a tad lol) In the early oughties, fragcom was relatively small, with the men mostly at Basenotes and the women mostly at Perfume of Life/PoL (the owner pulled the plug in the mid oughties, and most of the community moved to Facebook where the late Carlos Powell was one of the first to run a very successful group). Anyhow, I join you with Guerlain, today - Mitsouko. Cheers.
Beautiful comment mate ... just briliantly thought out.. thanks for taking the time to write it 💪🐏
This historic trajectory and its context is priceless, interesting how perfume and our olfactory sense is set in time and evolving, maybe like music and other things not always for the better. Continue this great work! There is more to this than meets the eye!
Thank you for a beautiful comment mate 🙏🙏🙏
Another landmark: yours truly graduated college smelling like Polo Sport. How far I’ve come.
Cosmair polo sport bottles are amazing 🎓
Loving the list man and the CD story typified our parents horror and distain for all the shit going on in the world,and in theirs minds eye goofing with our little closed world and possessions will somehow put things to right,and the sad thing Rams, I’ve done it back in the day with my daughter hahaha 😂great stuff have a good one 🙏✌️👍
😂😂😂
Makes for some great stories though
Your work is the best man
Thank you Andy... cheers mate 🍻
Excellent work my brother
Thanks so much for the support 🤌🤌🤌
I love Ferragamo pour Homme. My older bottle is even better than my newer. Btw i think the name of the Ted Lapidus fragrance is just "Ted" by Ted Lapidus. i have it too. And of course i love Oscar for men. Great video Ram.
Thanks so much Justin 💪🐏
Very interesting year! Great vid mate
Brilliant year.. thanks so much for watching 🙏🙏🙏
Love it all man. Great listening pleasure for me. 👍
Thanks so much for watching & commenting 🍻
Loved this video and I also love Hermes Hiris.
Thanks so much Phyllis 🙂
Good morning Ram 🐏 🙏 back when I was in 10th grade I had borrowed a Stryper album from a friend at church and came home one day and Mom had been in my room going thru it to see what I had or may have a hidden. Well I borrowed Stryper Soldiers under command with the band on he cove with a A Team type Van on the cover in Stryper colors Yellow & Black. We'll it was on my bed but totally destroyed and the album shattered and all my posters were tore down and on the bed and come in and said It's Christian!! And I borrowed it from a friend at church. Still love the album 😅 have a great day bud !!
🤣🤣🤣
Great story I dont think my album was that wholesome
I'm so glad that I found constant reviews on your channel describing Pontaccio 21. Koudos! I recently came into possession of a Diana de Silva bottle, probably from the 2000s, and it seems different to what is reviewed online from those who have this perfume . On my skin, this masterpiece smells like champagne, frost, leather gloves and something green and bitter. The top notes remind me of acetone or something like it - dry aldehydes. Could you explain more metaphorically what Pontaccio 21 smells like to you? I think that the accords and notes on fragrantica have nothing to do with what this perfume wants to be, or my bottle could be altered ?!?!?. Thank you
Thanks for watching I wont do a a review in the comments but I will try and do a full review of Pontaccio 21 soon 🙂
Thank God! :) I'll be happy to watch@@RamseytheRam
I was born in 1999! Thinkling about getting Hiris one of these days to pay hommage to my birth year! :D
It is one of the best Iris frags money can buy🤑
always interesting to watch all videos one by one ....detail and story and history ....
Thanks so much for watching & commenting 🍻
I have the (correct) Yohji Homme thanks to your recommendation on one of your videos. I love it! Bold yet not in your face, either.
The best Japanese fragrance 🤌🤌🤌
I have really enjoyed this series of videos. One fragrance from 1999 which I really like but never really gets much mention is Carolina Herrera 212 for men. The scent of Earl Grey tea combined with fresh cut grass. I’ve got a 2003 bottle when it was far superior. I believe there was a major reformulation in 2012. The dry down in the original formulation was magical. The current dry down is almost generic sadly.
I have never smelled either of 212 for men but I will put it on the to sniff list 🙂
Thanks for watching 🍻
I remember my brother's best friend rocking Pi that year and it made a big impact on my bro. At the time, we were well into the citrus floral freshie craze so something that sweet was sort of out of left field. But I had a generous decant of the vintage stuff and I'm not sure I would even classify it as a gourmand. The green notes like Morillas' favourite sage and rosemary were in complete harmony with the benzoin and almond; so much so that it was almost in a class of its own. Like a green aromatic vanilla if such a thing existed. Also remember my mother loving it, alongside D&G PH and Le Male. Bet she still does. How that nostalgia tickles our preference bone eh? 😄
Nothing transports you back in time quicker than a perfume 🐽
Just got a Pontaccio 21 , damn what a juice ! Masterpiece indeed, smells like an hommage to Antaeus or Van Cleef and Arpels pour Homme, with suede instead of leather
Its fantastic 🤌🤌🤌
@@RamseytheRam indeed, as soon as I smelled it I knew it was one of the most beautifully blended scents ever
People forget that Y2K was a legitimate serious concern in 1999. there were TONS of very old computer systems that WOULD have had catastrophic failures over something as simple as rolling back over to 0 on the calendar. Hospitals, accounting, etc. there were massive efforts to correct and update these systems prior to 2000. It's not like they could just roll out a patch in 1999 for computers from the 70s
Yup well said 🤌🤌🤌
@@RamseytheRam after the fact, my dad DID let me use the 50 gallon barrel of gas he bought just in case to fill my car for a month or so. So that was cool. Lol
That Andy Warhol bottle looks like a counterpart from Bond called: "Success Is A Job In NYC"
I wonder if they smell anything alike.
Never smelled that bond no9... to be fair there are a lot of bond no. 9s I havent smelled
I was in AP History when Columbine broke. All I remember was Mr Black breaking down in tears and falling to his chair as he told us. With that sadness out of the way: 1999 was a great year for flix. Matrix, Fight Club, Green Mile, Office Space, Sixth Sense, Boondocks Saints. Also Jar Jar Binks. And he basically embodies how I feel about 99 for frags. I have vintage Rochas Man, Pi, Bulgari Homme Extreme, Allure Homme in the collection but I never reach for them. When you get to 2003, you need some New Haarlem. I still reach for that. A better Rochas Man! Also Adidas Moves lives in my nostalgia as it was my scent of high school and early college.
Great movies indeed... going to have to sniff new harlem one of these days 🤌🤌🤌
These videos are so fun!
Ah yes Y2K. How could I have forgotten. My brother and I had an IBM and when the Y2K scare came along, i had to make sure to pack my Barbie doll in a book bag with her extra clothes. Obviously all important stuff 😅
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Life was so much more innocent back then
Hell yeah. Helluva year. Let's go ✌🏻🦖🐏
LETS GO!!! 🐏🦖
I'm not a fan of iris, as simple as that lol
In fact it's one of the most unpleasant smells to me. I chewed an iris flower when I was at 4th grade or so, don't ask why, but that traumatized me, I still remember how disgusting it was.
Thanks for the compilation, I'm curious to smell "Pontaccio 21" and "Dzing!" one day
Yes those two are amazing
Cheers Ram. How would you compare Farragamo PH to Dune? Like me some fig
I have never compared them and I threw the sticks away🤦♂️
If u like fig go for it... its a good perfume
Did u ever try the issey mitake intense? The more grayish coloured scent.
I have not
@@RamseytheRam mhm, okay its a great cheapie ;). I think its something you would like.
1999 is the year of Creed Green Valley! You need to source a sample!
I do have a sample I found it ! 💪🐏
@@RamseytheRam well done, old bean!
Will review it in Spring of 2024
@@RamseytheRam how quaint! Looking forward to your comments!
Gianfranco Ferre Pontaccio 21 how does that compare to Trussardi inside for men 2006 which one do you like better?
Not really two frags I would compare... if you twisted my arm Pontaccio 21
Hi Ramsey. I searched Initio Side Effect and saw you bashed it. I got the full bottle and also Oud for Greatness and High Frequency. I rarely put on the Oud.. and HF. I hate for the big $ miss. Side Effect I wear because I cant find similar scent. Insane # of youtube reviewers said is was best ever and sexiest. Some hot women drooled over it. Im going to put some sprays on me for 3 or 4 wears. I hate throwing this $400 bottle in trash
You wear what you love... for me the whole house of Initio is a joke...but thats just my opinion
Thanks for watching 🍻
@@RamseytheRam Youza. I can salvage SE because it comes to me as slight spice wood. I tried Spicebomb and SE beats it to me. By the way I got Royal Tobacco and that is my #1 spice. I will play around and keep open mind. What is a top spice slight sweet cologne?
Having a sample of Side Effect, and owning a bottle of Dolce and Gabbana's The One Luminous Night, I've compared them side-by-side on skin, and the D&G has some strong similarities to the Initio. Totally different notes, but surprisingly close scent profiles. Luminous Night is notoriously hard to find, though. I got mine purely through luck and fast fingers, so I wish you luck if you're interested in that one. Still a lot cheaper than Side Effect. It also has some clones.
your dad broke your limpbizkit cd, must be because he Called it trash music🤣
🤣🤣🤣
Whao Ramsey .. What a journey again.. thx for the time mashine in olfactorial behaviours .. what a decade that was in general - really .
Thanks so much for watching Boogie 🍻