We caught up with the face of Bulgari's latest fragrance for men, bonding over hangovers, Jenga, and a love of dogs.

If you don&#39;t already know about Nick Bateman&mdash;the model slash actor slash outdoorsman slash walking, talking sex-on-a-stick with over 6 million Instagram followers&mdash;let this be your introduction.&nbsp;

As of last month, he&#39;s also the face of&nbsp;Bulgari&#39;s new fragrance for men, <a href="https://www.bulgari.com/en-it/bvlgari-man-wood-essence" target="_blank">Wood Essence</a>, a scent&nbsp;that could be described as liquified Bateman, combining cedarwood, cypress branches, citrus zest, and coriander. Basically, the perfect scent for an outdoorsy Canadian-born model with natural looks that could kill.&nbsp;&quot;The way they describe the heart of the fragrance is that it&#39;s a guy who connects with the city but also has a big connection to nature,&quot; he says. &quot;I was like &lsquo;you&rsquo;re literally describing me.&rsquo;&quot;

Despite landing this big-time gig, the proud father of two Yorkies would rather talk dogs. The pups in question, Joey, and Keeva Bateman,&nbsp;have their massive fanbases of their own&nbsp;with 248K and 58.8K followers respectively. And here we are just trying to get our&nbsp;dogs to not pee on the carpet. He also recently announced via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BlqYgVfA_KB/?hl=en&amp;taken-by=nick__bateman" target="_blank">Instagram</a>&nbsp;that he and his girlfriend Maria Corrigan&nbsp;are pregnant. Congratulations, beautiful people.*&nbsp;

*This interview was edited and condensed for clarity.&nbsp;&nbsp;

First of all, how do you get over a hangover? Help me. 

BATEMAN: I&rsquo;m not hungover today thank god, but usually I sleep until I can&rsquo;t sleep anymore. I eat greasy food. I usually have a good diet, but one thing I do is I go to In &amp; Out. So that saves me, I wake up and eat, then go back to sleep. I also watch a little bit of Family Guy, some animation, and then I&rsquo;m good. So, get some dirty Thai food and watch some animation and you&rsquo;re cured. Lots of water too.

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Ok, I&#39;m supposed to be asking you serious questions. What&rsquo;s it like to partner up with a luxury label like Bulgari?

BATEMAN: I&#39;m beyond stoked. When you start in the fashion industry or as a model, obviously your goal is to reach the top, the pinnacle. And for myself, anything I do I want to be the best. So when I started modeling, at least in my eyes, the top thing I could do was land a fragrance campaign. And I&rsquo;ve wanted a fragrance since I started, but I didn&rsquo;t want just any fragrance.&nbsp;I had offers in the past years for fragrances, but they weren&rsquo;t the right fit. And when I got this offer, I heard about the story and why they thought I was the right fit, and I was very excited because it was organic, it was real and it was actually how I live my life.

The way they describe the heart of the fragrance is that it&#39;s a guy who connects with the city but also has a big connection to nature, I was like &lsquo;you&rsquo;re literally describing me.&rsquo; I was blown away, and it only added to my happiness when I met Alberto Morillas, the master perfumer. They let me know that when they were making the fragrance they sent him photos of me and told him who I was and that he was thinking of me when he made it. That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m still in awe because I was like holy shit, I&rsquo;m not just the face of it, he actually thought of me while he was making it.

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You&rsquo;ve been liquified. 

BATEMAN: And that&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s cool about Bulgari is that they&rsquo;re really a family and they put a lot of themselves into who they&rsquo;re working with.&nbsp;

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Imagine you had to wear a scent that didn&rsquo;t smell good? 

BATEMAN: I wouldn&rsquo;t have done it. The thing is, I know they have a good track record with scents and I don&rsquo;t think they can make something that smells bad. Also, the thing is I&rsquo;m brutally honest, so if they gave me a scent I didn&rsquo;t like, I would have been honest with them and said this is not my favorite. Before Wood Essence I would wear two fragrances, one for the day that smelt like citrus and one for the night that smelt woodier. So they literally took the two fragrances I used to wear and mixed them together. So everything about this campaign has just been randomly too perfect to the point where it&rsquo;s scary. Even my favorite color is green and the bottle is green, I haven&rsquo;t said that in one interview.

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So this is our exclusive. 

BATEMAN: Yeah. My favorite color is green. Everything about it felt right. I like the city and the landscape, but everything else about me is very natural. I&rsquo;m very chill with my clothing and I&rsquo;m always looking to be comfortable, happy and relaxed. It&rsquo;s a guy who lives in the city but who wants to disconnect and I do that all the time. Now we&rsquo;re in London but soon I&rsquo;ll be going back home to disconnect.

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Back to Canada?

BATEMAN: I&rsquo;m going to go back to Canada for a couple of days, and then I just bought a house in California that I turned into a complete sanctuary. I bought a quarter acre, I have a pool and a hot tub, I have a basketball court, a fire pit.

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I feel like that&rsquo;s the Canadian dream, moving to LA and having a pool in your backyard. 

BATEMAN: Yeah! I bought a corn hole, darts, a beer pong table, I have truth-or-dare Jenga, it&rsquo;s so fun. I put a TV outside with lawn chairs so I can watch movies outside. So the backyard of my house is my sanctuary.

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So what do you do when you go back to nature?

BATEMAN: Well I like martial arts, and my favorite sport as a kid was football. American football. And if I&rsquo;m going into nature to play anything it would be football but it&rsquo;s hard to get a bunch of guys together. If I just want to escape, I&rsquo;ll go to the beach, I love finding places that have awesome waves. I like jumping in waves, even though I end up getting my ass kicked. I get pummelled and go through a washing machine cycle, but it&rsquo;s fun. I also like to light my fire pit and put on music, there&rsquo;s something so relaxing about staring at a flame.

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Let&rsquo;s talk about your dogs. Who are they?

BATEMAN: I have two dogs. One is named Joey Bateman, and the other is Keeva. Joey is almost ten years old, he&rsquo;s nine. He&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/joey__bateman/?hl=en" target="_blank">the most followed </a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/joey__bateman/?hl=en" target="_blank">Yorkie</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/joey__bateman/?hl=en" target="_blank"> in the world</a>, he&rsquo;s got almost a quarter million followers. He&rsquo;s a sweetheart. And Keeva, my other dog, she&rsquo;s only two, she&rsquo;s got a little over <a href="https://www.instagram.com/keeva__bateman/?hl=en" target="_blank">50 thousand followers</a>.

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Does this mean you get free dog food?

BATEMAN: Sometimes. The thing is some brands that have asked me to advertise, I&rsquo;m like, your dog food is really unhealthy. I can&rsquo;t. I feed my dogs the healthiest dry dog food I can find. I&rsquo;m madly in love with my dogs. I&rsquo;ve always had big dogs my whole life, but I was living in an apartment and my girlfriend wanted a dog and I knew we couldn&rsquo;t get a big dog. So she said let&rsquo;s just get a little dog, and I said I didn&rsquo;t want to because they&rsquo;re so yappy.

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Not all of them!

BATEMAN: Well my dogs don&rsquo;t bark at all. So I said let&rsquo;s get a dog, and I&rsquo;ll train it. So my dogs don&rsquo;t bark, the only sound Joey makes sounds like he&rsquo;s sneezing, it&rsquo;s the cutest thing.

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So these are your children. 

BATEMAN: Yeah and I want to get more dogs. Two, for now. Joey is such a baby that when we got Keeva he got a little jealous. If I show any extra attention to Keeva, he gets mad. So when I come home I have to say hi to him first. Keeva doesn&rsquo;t give a shit, she&rsquo;s happy-go-lucky.

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I heard you have a monitor in your house filming your dogs live. A doggy nanny cam. 

BATEMAN: I do! Look I&rsquo;ll show you. So it&rsquo;s a few hours behind in California so they&rsquo;re probably sleeping, but if I rewind, there&rsquo;s Joey. He&rsquo;s older and he waddles. It&rsquo;s cute because you can catch them chilling on the couch. So when I miss them I check on them. And the best thing about this camera is that I can touch a button and talk to them live. It&rsquo;s so funny because I&rsquo;ll make cat noises and they freak out.&nbsp;[makes cat noises]

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Oh my God, you&rsquo;re really good at making cat noises. 

BATEMAN: Do you see her head popping up? It&rsquo;s cool to be across the world and know that they&rsquo;re fine. I&rsquo;m always scared when people watch them because where I live, there are hawks.

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I have a Chihuahua so I know the fear is real. 

BATEMAN: I have a vendetta against these hawks. Everyone who watches my dogs knows they can&rsquo;t let out the dogs unless they&rsquo;re with them. If I get a call that a hawk killed my dog, I&rsquo;ll kill you.

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If You Hurt Nick Bateman's Dogs, He Just Might Kill You

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