Beauty in Ugly Times | Philosophy Tube

this video was supposed to be about the definition of beauty looking at two novels by Vladimir Nabokov Lolita and ardour I tried to make a video that wasn't about yeah I failed this is the video I made well the government says everyone has to stay indoors yes I should do something to take my mind off it maybe I should reread my favorite novel the one about the guy who becomes the last man on earth after everyone else dies of plague well maybe I'll rewatch my favorite movie the one about the guy who gets trapped alone on a desert island for years I know I'll play that video game the one where there's a deadly plague and the people in charge ignore it and just send everyone back to work huh what's this Lolita isn't this that really controversial book I wonder what all the fuss is about a while ago before the world ended a friend of mine and I were driving along and we were having a discussion about what is the worst music to be listening to if you are pulled over by the cops obviously our first suggestion was NWA's 1988 classic the police a solid suggestion but maybe a little bit on the nose our next guest was a CD of the speeches of Hitler which again yeah but maybe a bit of an obvious choice and we eventually concluded that the absolute worst music to be listening to if you are pulled over by the cops is the audio book of Lolita as read by Jeremy Irons lolita light of my life fire of my loins my sin were so Lolita is a famous novel by Russian born author Vladimir Nabokov or Nabokov depending on how you want to pronounce it never got with other phases since its publication in 1955 it's inspired two major movies several operas a few ballets multiple plays including a one-man show starring Brian Cox this inexplicable Instagram post from Kim Petrus and a 1971 stage musical called Lolita my love that bombed but was revived as a concert staging in 2019 the model has some themes and some plot that make it difficult to talk about YouTube automatically scans the words that creators use including in the subtitles so if I say out loud or type in my script the words that I want to say this video will get blocked so in order to get around that I've enlisted the help of fashion youtuber Luke MA from the channel Buchla mood he's gonna say something nice and the words I really mean will appear on the screen like this Lolita tells the story of a man or to use the American pronunciation man called Humbert Humbert who becomes obsessed with a 12 year old girl Dolores haze who he calls Lolita he rents a room belonging to Dolores s mother Charlotte who falls in love with him and in order to get closer to Dolores he agrees to marry Charlotte she then discovers that he is a man and tries to take Dolores away but shocking coincidence is run down by a car before she can tell Sol Humbert decides to go on a lovely holiday and travels across America with her playing animal crossing along the way so let's get the obvious take out of the way have you considered that the novel might be a little bit problematic the novel was rejected by several publishers and when it did eventually come out it was initially banned in the UK and France with one reviewer calling it a classic of modern literature the film adaptations have been similarly storied the 1962 version by Stanley Kubrick had to be made under strict restrictions from the MPAA and the 1997 version starring Jeremy Irons initially struggled to find a distributor and was banned from release in Australia for two years one of the reasons it's so controversial is the story is written from Humberts point of view casting him in a very sympathetic light obviously as a child the Loras can't consent to what happens but he tries to spin it like she is inspired by the novel there are interesting discussions to be had about the portrayal of non-consent in stories about the banning of controversial art and about young women's bodies in contemporary media none of which I am qualified to talk about if you hear for that that I'm afraid you're in the wrong place Lyndsay alice's channel is next door I am a him beau who did not study English literature beyond the age of 16 my analysis is words support yep sure are some good ones in that states it's very awkward and and yet quite charming and very funny in places and uncomfortably sexual a lot so basically Nabokov has perfectly captured the experience of watching anime what I can talk about though is the clash between beauty and ugliness and if people thought Lolita was bad they should have read this odd I've just realised I'm gonna have to pixelate that in post because the cover art of this book alone violates YouTube's Community Guidelines Arda is another novel also by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969 nice it tells the story of a guy called van the and the beautiful extremely emotionally supportive life long love affair he has with the woman of his dreams odd the book has a personal significance to me you can probably tell that my coffee is absolutely falling apart I once arduously and ardently attempted to archive ardour as an audiobook and after an abject amorous abandonment abated about a third of the way through that's enough alliteration it's not nearly as famous as Lolita and it is a lot harder to read it's longer the sentences are complex characters make double entendre z' in English French and Russian time skips around a lot it's set on an alternate earth which is weirdly different from ours in certain very specific ways that you're just supposed to pick up on it doesn't really tell you them as one reviewer put it you have to have a lover's patience if you're going to read ardour oh also a van and ardour are brother and sister [Music] apparently Nabokov was like wow my last big novel was pretty controversial so why not add incest both Lolita and Arda are kind of about this clash between beauty and ugliness vanveen is a horrible person but he and ara have this astonishing romance Humbert Humbert is despicable but there are moments of his story that are really quite moving so my first question is what is beauty if the job of the artist is to create beautiful things then what exactly does that mean but I've also got to be honest with you there is another element to this in the last few weeks every filter every art gallery every museum has closed every single artist that I know is his artwork I was supposed to be playing Count Dracula in a stage play an adaptation of Dracula here in London and we sold out and then a week before opening night we had to postpone the show until after the pandemic every artist that I know is just so demotivated and so like no one can do anything except lie on the couch and just just weep no one no one can make anything and like millions of other people I've been stuck in my flat and instead of being on stage I reread both of these novels I basically spent the first week of quarantine just like constantly reading Nabokov so I'm wondering like why why did I read these why now if the job of the artist is to create beautiful things then how on earth is anyone supposed to do that now a lot of the philosophy of beauty talks about painting or sculpture or music but this is philosophy Jim and I like doing the thing you don't expect so I want to talk about perfume perfume is really interesting because creating it is an art form but it's also an industry that has changed massively over the last few generations time was the formula for perfumes were closely guarded secrets but when chemical analysis became widely available suddenly anybody with the right tech could figure out what was in the bottle and make their own cheap knockoff creating scent has become a lot more scientific and technical but it does still require a flair for the artistic you probably know at least 10 famously beautiful paintings but how many famously beautiful perfumes can you name I'm like Chanel number five opium [Music] Beyonce David Beckham Lynx Africa I don't know so here are two of my favorites I've got truth--it and Hills Grafton it smells like it smells like lavender and lemony but also with like a little bit of sandalwood and it smells like an English dad it smells like an English dad who captains a cricket team but then after a few now is it kind of like mellows and it becomes like oh like a dashing army captain you know this one's just occasional though my go-to is this loo busy do drag or for when I'm feeling extra which is everyday the top note is almonds and there's almost a little bit of rum in there but it's mainly just almonds all the way down and then over time it becomes this like chocolatey orangey smell this like uh yeah I mean it's very evening it's very [ __ ] it's like it's like an almond dessert if that armored dessert was also trying to seduce you there are disagreements about the proper way to apply some people prefer the sprayer cloud and walk through it technique some guys just put aftershave straight on the face and then if you kiss them it's like but here's the pro-gamer move right it goes one on the front one on the wrists and then if you're really trying hard it's one on the back of the neck so if somebody hugs you they're like actually since we're doing social distancing now you probably want to just dump the whole thing on your face so after you've made sure you smell great you're ready to do philosophy and I'm wondering what makes a beautiful perfume and as a research for this episode I read a really interesting book by two noses called perfumery practice and principles in which the authors say their job is to create pleasurable meaningful aesthetically pleasing sense and they don't really have an exact theory of what aesthetically pleasing means but they think it has something to do with balance perfume isn't just about mixing together nice smelling things a scent will usually have top notes middle notes and base notes base notes have bigger heavier molecules that take longer to evaporate so by mixing them in you make sure the whole scent lasts longer and as each layer of operates the smell changes over time see it's all just science labs it's just data it's just numbers except you also smell like sexy baklava quite often things like musk and civet are used as base notes civet is a chemical extracted from small mammals called civets you stick them in a cage and you frighten them until they secrete it and musk is obtained by doing the same thing to Elan musk and one of those is excessively cruel so perfume is today tend to use artificial substitutes like the wax alight which is the synthetic musk in bezzie to drag on and on their own they smell terrible but when you use them in tiny quantities as base notes they're dark and heavy and complex so they create balance just like there are darker heavier moments in Lolita and ardour but how they balance with the lighter stuff is kind of what those books were about and this idea that beauty is about balance is an old one goes right back to the ancient Greeks according to some the visual representation of balance is symmetry which Aristotle said is one of the chief forms of beauty and apparently when judging faces people are more inclined to think that symmetrical faces are attractive but there are all kinds of asymmetrical things that people find beautiful flowers faces paintings at the very least it doesn't seem like it's that simple if we look at the world of high fashion symmetry isn't necessarily the order of the day there some of my favorite designs of the last few years have come from John Galliano's work with the fashion house Maison Margiela Galliano's clothes have this rough look to them there's a lot of layers and clashing he often uses contrast stitching and a lot of it isn't symmetrical it's very aggressive very 90s and this style is even reflected in the way the models walk this footage is from their 2018 old couture Spring Show and the models don't glide gracefully they stomp around even Maison Margiela is ready-to-wear stuff has this Starck feel to it they keep trying to make tabi boots a thing which I'm not mad about personally but they do have this amazing tie-dye hoodie which I really want to get my hand G zhis Christ now these are just my personal tastes but that one its own might tell us something interesting about what beauty is maybe it's not about balance or symmetry per se maybe it's about desire some people desire those things but other people don't so okay maybe there's a link between beauty and desire let's be good philosophers here and keep pushing it a desire for what exactly well maybe Nabokov has some ideas cause Lolita and ardour of both books all about a certain kind of desire both Lolita and ardor have erotic scenes by which I mean scenes that are about the magic of friendship in one way or another they are both quite horny books but in different ways obviously one big difference is consent but even beyond that Lolita starts out quite horny and then gets less so with ardour it's pretty much constant every two or three pages for most of it there is people playing board games and even when there isn't you know how if you asked a lover to describe the body of the person they loved they would know every detail every beauty mark every scar every curve every line of the face but they adore every single bit so they could conjure on the dark inner side of their eyelids an objective absolutely optical replica Nabokov describes everything like that with that romantic vividness like this passage where van hears Ardas for the first time in ages now it so happened that she had never never at least in adult life spoken to him by phone hence the phone had preserved the very essence the bright vibration of her vocal cords the little leap in her larynx the laugh clinging to the contour of the phrase as if afraid in girlish Glee to slip off the quick words it rode it was the tambour of their past as if the past had put through that call a miraculous connection artists one eight eight six come on no no poet on tweet with or cease golden lee youthfully it bubbled with all the melodious characteristics he knew or better say recollected at once in the sequence they came that are true that whelming of quasi erotic pleasure that are sure and animation and what was especially delightful the fact that she was utterly and innocently unaware of the modulations entrancing him that is a description of a phone call about luggage damn dude American philosopher Susan Sontag says the essence of the erotic is palpability something's being not just explicit but like feelable touchable she compares the work of the photographer Edward Weston looking at the photos he took of naked human bodies to the photos he took of peppers like they're the kind of peppers that you eat and I mean well just look at them like if I just spit in quarantine too long because I'm looking at these peppers and I'm like and I know that it's not just me cuz some Tang says the photos of the peppers are actually more erotic than the photos of the people the people are evenly lit and cropped those photos are supposed to show us their abstract visual forms but the peppers have an interplay of light and shade and they're polished and oiled the link to palpability is the best way to show visually what the surface of something is like to touch is to show how fluid interacts with it how many movies have you seen where somebody comes out of the sea and all like water runs off there and it's all a very sexy moment that's why that's the thing [Music] Nabokov does palpability really well particularly in ardour he describes not just his characters thoughts and actions but their bodily sensations as well heat breath pressure you get the whole pepper a lot of the beauty in his work is linked to desire and to erotic desire in particular what is my job but okay maybe beauty is about desire and maybe erotic desire is a very strong and prevalent example of it but not everything's about that asexual people still experience attraction they might go there's a very beautiful person but not everything is about sports the ancient Greek philosopher Plato was also interested in the link between beauty and desire but he thought that there's more to it than just that and so he wrote one of the most famous dialogues ever the symposium Socrates and all of the lads are going to a party at Agathon's house and they all decide they don't want to get too wasted because they're still hung over from the night before and they don't want to listen to music because Agathon's playlist is all Ed Sheeran because he's a basic [ __ ] so Erickson Marcus says latts isn't it kind of weird that all the gods have songs and poems written in their honor but there are none in praise of eros the God of love why don't we all go around and make speeches in honor of love Arista Dimas gets up and he says there are two kinds of love the love of the body which is base and crude and the love of intelligence and goodness Arista Dimas is sapiosexual Erickson Marcos says not only are there two kinds of love in people the whole world is like that good love makes the world go round and bad love is the source of bad weather and disease Aristophanes gets up and he says that originally humans were created in three genders male female and non-binary and back then everybody had four legs and four hands and two faces and was spherical and roll around really fast like Sonic the Hedgehog and all the rest of the lads are like what are you on about dude but Aristophanes says these Sonic the Hedgehog people had such high power levels and was so dangerous that Zeus cut them all in two so they look like regular people and that's why we're all just looking for our other half and eventually Socrates gets up and typical Socrates move here he says well it's gonna be pretty hard to follow all of those speeches lads I think I misunderstood the assignment cuz I thought we were supposed to be saying things that are true but all I've heard out of you lot so far is a bunch of [ __ ] you've all been talking about love but you forget love must be the love of something it's a desire for something that you lack having owned them with facts and logic Socrates tells them that love is neither beautiful nor ugly neither mortal nor divine but a mixture of the two the god eros is the son of both poverty and plenty he goes on to say that if you truly want to be a lover of beauty you first start out by loving one beautiful thing and then you realize that beauty is found in many things and then that higher beauty is in the soul not the body and then the highest love of all is in the contemplation of the absolute idea of raw beauty and then the story kind of takes a left turn because alka by ADIZ comes in blind drunk and everyone's like buddies and socrates is like oh crap it's my ex and alka by ADIZ is like what's going on lads and they're like well we were just talking about love and i'll kebaya DS is that love with this [ __ ] in the room right let me listen to you right now it's Socrates right he's East grey Nona shut up right right switch speeches love him but philosophy is great and I love this guy but I just hate him as why yeah and and I told him that I loved him and then we cuddled but nothing happened and then he's totally ghosting me afterwards and like he's he's such an ugly bastard that lucky Socrates like you know other Nazis at the end of Indiana Jones if they'd survived right but he's history so sweet just a really love you Socrates man the bit that people usually zoom in on when they read Plato's symposium is the idea that true beauty lies in contemplation rather than desire and this theme comes up a lot when we go on to look at the sublime the sublime is supposed to be a level beyond Beauty the 18th century Irish philosopher Edmund Burke said that beautiful things conjure up feelings of joy and desire but the sublime is about tarah a painting or a person could be beautiful but like the ocean is just sublime and overwhelming he tries to come up with some rules to distinguish them he says sublime things are big and rugged full of strong deviations of form whereas beautiful things are small smooth very gradually in their appearance and have mild and fair colors whereas beautiful things draw us into them sublime things cause us to reflect on ourselves so from these principles we can conclude that the most sublime thing ever made by human hands is the Moscow State University building nice and the most beautiful thing in the entire world is this chocolate mini egg I've made the world worse but what kind of just sticks with me is that Kant and Burke and almost all the philosophers who talked about the sublime all say that it is somehow higher and better than just beauty and like I don't really know about that at the very least you've got to make some kind of argument for it because life is full of big overwhelming things that cause us to reflect on ourselves okay there's gonna be plenty of time for that lads and when Plato says that true beauty lies in contemplation I'm like I I turned out how you can say that when to be stuck indoors to be deprived of company to be starved of touch to be barred from passion and pleasure the things that make life enjoyable I'm like a Plato you dead Greek [ __ ] how dare you say that beauty lies in contemplation when you are surrounded by opportunities to experience it and I am like medically safe but spiritually poisoned for a lack of beauty up to forget contemplation conjure play my ass Plato just give me the beautiful things that I desire please just let me have some pleasure in life give me hedonism hedonism is the idea that a good life is one with pleasure and a bad life is one with pain everything else is only good or bad insofar as it produces one of these two and to the hedonist pleasure isn't just an enjoyable physical sensation pleasure means any mental state that is desired even stinging pain if it's something you desire can be a kind of pleasure so when it comes to beauty we were almost on the right track when we said it was about desire remember we asked desire for what specifically the hedonist would say nah wrong question forget about why something is beautiful when we just desire it for its own sake like I want that Maison Margiela hoodie not because I think it's gonna keep me warm or not because it's gonna impress somebody else but I I just want I just really want it like having it will give me pleasure and that is the hedonist definition of BZ the philosopher George Santayana said beauty is pleasure objectified hedonism has a bad reputation for being shallow or frivolous or immoral which I don't think it entirely deserves and comes from quite a Victorian place there was a famous Victorian writer called Thomas Carlyle who said that it's the philosophy of swine's and thought that if we believed in hedonism we'd all be doing things like rolling around in the mud instead of enjoying the higher pleasures of going into the Opera and it's like well dude you can do both well you can't do either of them now because no one's allowed to leave their homes and also all the offers are closed ah hedonism goes all the way back to the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus who was nothing like the indulgent hedonist stereotype he actually thought there were two kinds of pleasures the first is kinetic that's the pleasure you get from satisfying a desire like scratching an itch but the second is cata Stillmatic that's the contentment that comes from not having any desires at all he actually thought we should let go of desire in order to reach a kind of state where we do not want anything more and are therefore he thinks happy with life it's an idea that comes up a lot in various religious and spiritual teachings too but again though that just doesn't seem like a very good life why would we ever seek out anything beautiful why would we ever create anything beautiful if we didn't have any where would art be without the desire that beauty provokes one thing that Epicurus doesn't really seem to consider is that a life where you don't desire anything that's that's depression dude like that's just kind of what depression feels like 99% of the acting industry is people whose second jobs is working service or retail so everyone I know has just been wiped out by this no one can can create anything no one can do anything and museums are closed and theaters are closed and I've got that epicurean cattle somatic state where I don't desire anything but it's not because I'm 100% content it's because it's cuz I'm miserable I mean even the filming of Mission Impossible 7 was delayed and I know how much we were all looking forward to that that was the big cultural event that was gonna bring us together as a species wasn't it and museums are doing virtual tours and an ancestor live streaming music but sometimes I just don't feel like I I desire anything I don't want anything there's nothing from my soul to hook on to there's there's nothing to look forward to there isn't even any looking forward in this video I can't stop watching contagion dan Olson says that this pandemic has messed with our concept of time two weeks ago feels like ancient history the present is just a prison and the future is blank and that I think is one of the biggest challenges to hedonism is it's like sometimes I don't desire anything because I just I don't even believe that pleasure is even possible anymore I found this amazing article that was written in October of last year about how artists responded to the Spanish flu pandemic in the early 20th century that disease reached its peak just as World War one was ending and considering all the poems and songs about that conflict it's unusual that there is hardly any art about Spanish Flu even though it claimed more lives there were some artists who made work out of it though Edvard Munch was a famous painter who actually caught Spanish flu and survived you probably know him as the guy who painted the screen he did two pictures self-portrait with Spanish flu and self-portrait after Spanish flu and in the first one he doesn't even have a face it's just like distorted and and chaotic there's no sense of time there but in the second one he has eyes again and there's light coming in the window behind him and you can see some of his stuff this is a man who is beginning to live his life again and honestly it's it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in my life and I'm like how do you do that how how do you make beauty in ugly times and funnily enough the question of how you do it runs right through Lolita and order reading Lolita I noticed that whenever Humbert describes something beautiful there's almost always something ugly overshadowing it there's flies on his flowers or there's a sewer pipe that stinks or there's something reminding him of how he's aging even in the scenes where he indulges his passion for Dolores he's full of disgust and self-loathing and shame and again I don't know anything about literary analysis mrs. Richardson if you are watching I really wish I'd paid more attention in English instead of trying to come up with excuses to get out of PE but I noticed that a lot of the beauty in Lolita is bound up with loss from the start Humbert wonders whether his interests are some kind of attempt to get back his dead childhood sweetheart which he obviously can't do he imposes more and more strikes on Dolores but he knows that even if he can totally control her life she's not gonna be a child forever she's gonna grow up at the start we learn he's already dead he died of cardiac arrest in prison awaiting trial and the book is his confession he literally died of a broken heart like it's actually kind of on the nose he's always trying to justify what he's done both to himself and to the jury he uses all these elaborate images and jokes to make it look not as bad as what it really is but it's all futile and he knows it and it just makes him miserable humbert humbert is a man on the run both literally from the law and also figuratively from ugliness damn mrs. Ritson you were right I can do it if I apply myself all of which is in such contrast to ardor there are ugly scenes in Van inada story but somehow they are all made beautiful there's a fantastic bit where somebody tries to blackmail the couple with photos of them taking tennis lessons and they sit in bed together and look at the blackmail photo album like oh we look so young oh I remember that time your wrist action has really improved and in their passionate scenes there is no shame they are not supposed to be together but navicomp very much leaves the morality of that up to you because they sure as hell don't care you put those two in a room alone together and they just have to something happens they just feel that desire and it is joyous what we realize as we go through the book is that it is being written by Van and ardor in their old age as a memoir looking back on their life together spoilers but despite everything they go through they do eventually end up together so I know it has a happy ending and it's much more about like pleasure and joy so maybe that's why I like it but I also think it has a much more hopeful attitude towards creating as an older man Veen becomes a philosopher of time and defends a view something like what real philosophers call present ISM the idea is that only the present moment exists the past is just a collection of images in our memory the future was never real anyway literally speaking there is nothing to look forward to all look back on all of that is just in your mind and Vance says it therefore follows we have the right to artistically invent them humbert humbert writes his book because he's trying to justify what happened or hide from it and it's never gonna work how could any artist create anything that justifies or redeems all the horrible things that happen or that are happening right now van and Arda write their book just because writing it makes them happy the philosopher Albert Camus lived through some pretty ugly times and he was interested in the idea of rebellion he said that there's a contradiction between humans desire to find meaning in life and the universe itself which is just meaningless and horrible he called this contradiction the absurd and his most famous book the myth of Sisyphus is all about like how do you realize the awful destructive meaninglessness of life and not just kill yourself and he thought the only way to live is to confront the absurd not run from it not hide from it not try and get around it or justify it but just acknowledge it and keep living anyway as an act of rebellion and he says that creating art is a great example of that rebellion because like perfumers or blues musicians or van and are Devine artists take a little piece of the ugly world and they hold it up and they find pleasure in it anyway and I think maybe that's why I needed to reread these it's pretty cheesy but the philosopher Crispin Sartre well asks why do we have flowers at a funeral why when things are so ugly do we have something beautiful sitting there like should just an insult but he says no it's cuz it reminds us to keep desiring and that's what life's about it's about happiness and seeking pleasure beauty is what reminds us to keep [Music] and once you gather seven [Music] come one smile meaning by the Oh me [Music] you're [Music] come [Music] betray to try [Music] soon forget [Music] [Applause] and find such [Music] we'll be [Music] together [Music] [Music] Miklos and you [Music]

Channel: Philosophy Tube

Views: 849,500

Rating: 4.94452 out of 5

Keywords: art, creativity, philosophy, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Ada, Nabokov, books, literature, Plato, Symposium, Sublime, aesthetics

Id: iilzRF_5EL8

Length: 42min 56sec (2576 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 24 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/EponymousBosh]

It's weird that people are having the "Is Aesthetic Too Much???" argument on this video when literally half of it is Olly talking in front of a bookcase and the other half is him talking in front of a floral wallpaper, with a brief animated interlude.

[u/sam__izdat]

olly's shit is just gradually turning into an early 70s david bowie video

[u/Dravdrahken]

Does anyone else get annoyed with the YouTube premieres stuff. I was really excited only to find out that I can't watch this for at least another 4 hours.

[u/bearlikebeard]

I called myself an Epicurean in high school because I sucked, but it does cause me to have opinions about his treatment of Epicurus's words in this video. The anhedonia he is describing as being "no desire" doesn't sound like no desire to me, since he is clearly displeased with it. He desires some sort of change in circumstances, surely, even if that is just a change in mental state.

Anyway, what drew me to Epicureanism in the first place was Philodemus's "tetrapharmakos," the four-part cure. It has brought me comfort in the past so I thought I would share it. It goes like this:

Don't fear god.

Don't worry about death.

What is good is easy to come by.

What is terrible is easy to endure.

[u/WorkingClassReptiles]

I've been looking forward to his response to the recent covid-19 outbreak. Eager to find out what this video is going to talk about since he sort of covered disasters and personal responsibility in his Chernobyl video last year.

Also, what's going on with some of the other major breadtubers? Contrapoints and Hbomb taking a little break or something?

Edit: guys stop with the "Contraversy" discussion please. We don't need to reheat 6 month old drama.

[u/Faren107]

This was a neat video, but I feel like the perfume part was a bit disconnected from the rest. He brings it up (which was kind of questionable to begin with, video isn't the best format for discussing scents unless you're already familiar with them), and then kind of drops it entirely except for a single callback later on.

Still, gotta say I loved his outfit, that animation was really nice, and props to him for actually being able to create anything given the circumstances.

[u/Anarcho_Tankie]

Socrates and the boys part was great

[u/MagisterSinister]

Damn, this was hillarious. Also,>! *cronch*!<

[u/wehavenoprairies]

Ah! Lovely Haute Le Mode inclusion; that guy's channel is fabulous.