For some, it was The White Lotus monologue. For me, it was the dance scene in Charlie’s Angels—the moment when you realize some actors are simply more daring, more compulsively watchable, and more intoxicating on screen than others. Sam Rockwell is one of those guys. Read our conversation with him below. —Madison Vain, executive editor
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Ever since that monologue—you know the one—everyone knows who the legendary scene-stealer is. Still, his appetite for taking risks means he’ll never stop surprising us.
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Sam Rockwell, fifty-seven, is wearing Nike boxing shoes, sweaty gray gym shorts, and a rumpled red T-shirt with Redd Foxx on the front. He scratches at a scruffy Vandyke beard that he’s grown for a film in which he plays a soybean farmer. A tuft of unkempt hair on the right side of his head points due north, straight uptown.
I follow Redd Foxx’s gaze, and I notice that in this godforsaken room one of the mini fridges, the one practically right next to me, is exclusively Red Bull. Oh. “Do you want one?” I ask. “Do you want me to grab you one?”
“No, I better not do that. But thanks,” he says. And then, almost to himself: “I think I have had one once before.”
And here I thought the only way to find anything interesting to do with Sam Rockwell was to get out of there. Sam Rockwell, meanwhile, walked in and almost immediately started feeling around the room’s edges to identify a point of possible interest, even if it was just a fridge full of Red Bull. To me this room was a prison. To Rockwell, it was a possibility.
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Smell and taste are intimately intertwined. Flavor is a combination of the olfactory and gustatory senses, and it gets at two things we know very well and care very much about here at Esquire: cocktails and colognes. Since it’s all so intertwined, we’re willing to bet we can pick you out a killer new fragrance just with your preferred drink order.
We’ve tried thousands of drinks, thousands of colognes. Let us guide you. If you like a light, refreshing, citrusy drink, you’ll probably also like a fresh citrus fragrance. And if you prefer something darker, bolder, and smoky, you’ll probably be into a sexy, smoky cologne (that, yes, may include some boozy scent notes). There are even some scents on here that are explicitly inspired by cocktails, though most are not.
We thought long and hard about which scents are a good match for the most popular cocktails (including a few of our personal favorites), so read on, and have fun with it.
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Chances are you’ve never seen hundreds of grooming products laid out on the table of a conference room as a group of eager editors hovers overhead, ready to snatch up each new release and take it home for extensive testing. Around the Esquire offices, though, it’s not such a novel sight. Each year, we endeavor to identify the very best stuff in the worlds of skin care, hair care, body care, fragrance, and so much more.
This year, we went big, tapping a larger-than-ever group of testers to try out hundreds of new releases and winnow the list down to the winners of our latest annual Grooming Awards. Some testers were organic obsessives. Others just wanted the most effective thing at the best price. Every single one was passionate as hell—leading to more than a few spirited conversations and no fewer than a dozen arguments about who got to try what. But we worked it out. And after lots of spritzing, scrubbing, sniffing, and sloughing, we managed to build our list of winners.
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