The Cologne Podcast
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#308 - Percival By Parfums De Marly: Is it worth all the hype?
Ever wondered if the most popular fragrances really live up to the hype? Join us as we unravel the mysteries of Percival by Parfums de Marly, a scent that has captivated fragrance enthusiasts worldwide. Myke, with his seasoned nose, shares his personal tales of wearing this luxury fragrance, while Ryan brings fresh curiosity to the table, eager to discover if it stands up to its stellar reputation. Together, we dissect user reviews and draw comparisons to more budget-friendly designer options like Dior Sauvage, ensuring a well-rounded discussion for both the fragrance connoisseurs and newcomers alike.
hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a brand new episode of the cologne podcast.
Myke:I'm mike, I'm ryan. We're two best friends.
Ryan:We're going on a fragrance journey, smelling fragrances and giving you uneducated opinions today we're going to be smelling now this is mike's words, by the way, before we got on here one of the most popular parffums de Marly fragrances on planet.
Myke:Earth. Yeah, this is a popular one, percival yeah.
Ryan:I've never smelled this. Have you smelled it? I have smelled it, I've worn it. Did I smell it when you wore it? Maybe I remember all the times you wore like Herod and I'm just like, oh man, that smells really fucking good.
Myke:Yeah, or sometimes you're like oh, are you wearing Layton? And I'm like no, it's Boss Bottled, absolute.
Ryan:Real talk, guys. 60 bucks out there on some discounters. It's at least a try.
Myke:At this point you said it and Steve said it. I don't smell Layton in it. I don't. I can smell a little bit of the Layton vibe. To me it has more red tobacco. This isn't even an episode. We're getting off track.
Ryan:Boss.
Myke:Bottle Absolute. We're not sponsored. I wish we were. No, this is Percival by Parfum DeMarley. Yes, sir, and I am Stocka. I think we've read something from him before. I know that fucking name. Yes, this is a review. He wrote about it. It's okay. He continues. Oh good, I'm glad it's not a short one. Okay, sorry for the boring review and quotations, but that's literally the best way I can describe it. Feels more like something Abercrombie or Montblanc would put out for four times less price, but oh well, oh okay. So what do you think about that?
Ryan:it's par from the marley, but they're saying it smells very designer well, if you guys were patreon members and it sounds like you're not, from the way you're making that face right now, or you're driving oh my god, listen to this. Are you kidding me? Right now you're not a fucking patreon member. What's wrong with you? Well, if you were one, you know that this last week we just released an episode for them only.
Myke:We reviewed parfums de marley's altair, yeah, that was a divisive episode. You and I were standing on opposing sides.
Ryan:It got got heated it did, and we found out that that is a crazy popular fragrance.
Myke:Right, yeah, one of the more popular ones we've reviewed according to Fragrantico.
Ryan:But I will say this kind of leaning into what this reviewer just said of this fragrance. One of us kind of had that same opinion about that. So I'm hoping to God this is not the same thing that we're about to run into.
Myke:We're going to find out, but first, yes, we've got to go back in time, we've got to relive the moment when we sprayed Wu Long Cha X by Nishane.
Ryan:Hit the music, Todd yeah.
Myke:One night stand review. Well, ryan, after spending the night in turkish sheets how many start counts?
Ryan:were these bad boys like a million?
Myke:oh god, what did you think of of wu long cha x?
Ryan:uh, it just did not have the punch that the original had in the episode. I was like, does the x mean it's xing out some of the good parts?
Myke:right, yeah, you had a theory yeah, because they did.
Ryan:The ani was like that, which is also a patreon episode that's right, yeah, uh ani x, yeah ani x, and it's like it was missing something from the original. That just made it feel, now you thought, more wearable, more digestible maybe lighter, but more feminine yeah, I just I wasn't vibing with on chai x.
Myke:It was a skip. Yeah, it wasn't for me. I don't think it's a bad fragrance. It smelled very beautiful. Yeah, I agree with that, but I do think it's for someone who's looking for more feminine, leaning fragrances. You shaking your maraca over there.
Ryan:Sorry, I shouldn't have done that. Hold on, I put some what is this shit called mio like an electrolyte type yeah, it's like a hydrating one and honestly, it looks like piss after you've had like a bunch of vitamins. Yeah, like neon, toxic yellow, what the fuck? Sorry, sorry, go ahead.
Myke:I fucked your train of thought up, didn't I? Way to go, dude.
Ryan:You said somebody that was looking for something more feminine, right, yeah, more lighter.
Myke:I'm not. I love Wu Long Cha the way it is Wouldn't change a thing. I wouldn't either, and so it's got to be a skip for me.
Ryan:Yeah, I'm agreeing okay let's get on to the scent of the day ryan percival by parfum de marley. Uh, this was actually sent in. We found out because we did an episode in the uh patreon. I know it sounds like we're pitching this, but we did and we were like, who sent us this? Because we get stuff sent to us all the time from lovely listeners, lovely patrons, sometimes lovely brands, every great once in a while. But we got this from a gentleman named David who is a patron, and man could not be more excited for this. He sends a bunch of stuff, bunch of Parfums de Marly. This is one of them. Let's do it, I'll let you go first. Okay, I've had coffee, so I may be running like 100 miles an hour right now. I'm so sorry. Damn, he sprayed the fucking microphone. Hmm, oh, I don't know if that's a good arm. I mean, I think we're both gonna tell you right now. Off the rip smells really good, very nice.
Myke:Yeah, does smell very designer.
Ryan:Very, very designer. Hmm, very, dare I say, maybe a little savagy, a little bit of bubble gummy, a little bit.
Myke:I was thinking like a peppery savage.
Ryan:Yeah, it's definitely not bad, mm-hmm.
Myke:Hmm, what are you smelling, though? What does it smell like? Let's not use industry standard definitions here I'm with you.
Ryan:I am not liking the skin. Why? It's not pickle, it's not that. But what is it about a pickle? Not just describing the pickle smell, but there's an? It about a pickle. What is like not just describing the pickle smell, but there's like an aura about a pickle. It's like this has kind of got that, but without that pickle smell. It's the hardest thing I can describe on the tester strip.
Ryan:Very there's a tang to it yeah, there's a tang to it on the skin and I'm not really a fan of that. But on the tester strip it smells very sweet, almost bubble gummy. But I definitely have to say I hate to be this guy and sound hoity-toity, but it's got that ambroxan kind of vibe with that, with like a little bit of sweet kind of bubble gum on it. So it smells really good and it's really kind of safe I let a couple of young ladies smell this.
Myke:Okay, they lost their mind, didn't they? They loved it.
Ryan:I fucking knew it.
Myke:They absolutely loved it. I knew it. One said she was smelling it At first. She goes, this kind of reminds me of my grandpa, and I was like really. And then she smelled it and she goes man, I really like that, okay. And then she kept going. She has some granddaddy issues that you're telling me. No, I don't think so. Okay, I think, as she smelled it more, it was like maybe that first initial was so strong, maybe she thought of that, but then she was like like she smelled a little bit more and then she's like, yeah, I really like that.
Ryan:I think I know where she's going with it. Sadly, I, I guess Okay, I'm not really vibing the skin, but this tester strip could not be any more different and it smells pretty phenomenal.
Myke:It smells because we still haven't talked about it. I asked you earlier, other than you went the pickle route and I was trying to go with Tang gear. This smells very soapy. Smells clean yeah, a little powdery, definitely an old school. Clean, yeah, almost peppery.
Ryan:I'm kind of getting like a little peppery vibe to it yeah, that's why I was like I could tell where she's going with that with her granddad. Yeah, now don't hear me say masculine and you're thinking this like really loud fucking musky thing. It's not Right, but it is kind of that old school like clean masculine fucking smell.
Myke:Old school, but not like vintage smelling. It does smell modern.
Ryan:It does. It's like I'm actually appreciating it on this tester strip.
Myke:It's almost like a more mature version of like fierce or savage or yeah, legend. You know, people say the mont blanc thing like legend or something like that, which is basically just their version of fierce right man.
Ryan:If it smells as good just from a decant, I would say full bottle would probably go fucking hard on this so how I've smelled it, wore it was.
Myke:I have from pdm like a travel atomizer of it or like 10 mil or something. Yeah, went ham on it. Uh, not really ham.
Ryan:You know me three sprays now the people that smelled it could. Was it something you had to remind them? Or like you walked by and they're like, hey, what are you?
Myke:wearing well, specifically this case, there's a couple gals that's about my age, definitely younger than Ryan. That's why I say young ladies, that's a prick job. Yeah, I sprayed a little bit. I was wearing it, but I sprayed a little bit on my hand, and then I said what do you think? And well received. It makes me think, though, though. Would you ever just wear a generic designer fragrance just to smell good for you know?
Ryan:I can answer that easily yes, absolutely, when. Uh, if I wasn't broke right now, all the time, because I would, absolutely, I'm out of aquadesio.
Myke:Oh yeah, that's very designer but I feel like it's still got a little personality to it. It's not like this. You don't think this has personality? Well, this does. I mean the things that it's trying to accomplish. You know what I mean. It's doing it better.
Ryan:I agree, I mean, I still think yes, because there's just some that I'm just not afraid to go. This smells good, yeah, I mean. Yeah, I mean lunarosa carbon, I mean amazing, I cannot deny that, I still think that you've heard it guys. We say it every fucking four episodes. It feels like now, but like that fragrance seriously competes. And pants is niche fragrances to me some, but it is, but it is a designer, it's very, very clean.
Myke:Yeah, yeah, very. People say it's like the answer to savage. For people who don't like savage, absolutely which it's not that I don't like savage I can't wear it because it will choke me out like two hours in. Yeah, I love that initial burst of it, which I think beautiful. That carbon does it better, yeah, yeah, and that's kind of what I'm loving about. And then the dry down of carbon is way better than savage to me.
Ryan:Just an opinion, guys you know I wouldn't want it per se, but out of all the fragrances we've smelled on this fucking stupid podcast, yeah, 300 and something episodes here, god knows how much on the page.
Myke:Actually, I've calculated it okay 308 episodes here, 44 episodes on the patreon as of right now. That's right, extra episodes. Look, there's a few you guys out there that have literally gone through this catalog thrice, three times. How do they do it? And if you're looking for nearly 50 extra episodes, they're all up and they're all available. If you're that, friends with benefit, it's free, just jump on there. 40, some odd episodes, I don't know if it's free. I mean it's free with your subscription.
Ryan:Boy, that's some corporate speak of I've ever heard.
Myke:It's six bucks a month. For God's sake, you lose that type of shit. You sit down. Heard it's six bucks a month. For god's sake, you lose that type of shit. You sit down and you lose six bucks in your couch. God, you ain't lying in this day and age.
Ryan:I think we just lost some right. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, really quickly though. On that carbon, though I wouldn't want it, but of all the fragrances we have smelled I'm shocked that carbon has not had like a carbon.
Myke:Part two, carbon parfum yes, shocked, or like an intense or something like that.
Ryan:Something I mean Don't get me wrong, Don't be listening to us, Prada and then be like, hey, that's a fucking good one, Cha-ching.
Myke:I'm sure they would have thought of it, because they took Ocean all the way there. Why?
Ryan:that one. The first one was I don't know, anyway, fuck. Anyway, this smells really good. Yes, it smells very designer, though.
Myke:Okay, with a little just done better.
Ryan:But here's the question though what's the price compared to designer? Really good question, and had I known that we're going this route, I would actually pull up, and I'm just going to do it really quick. Anyway, let me pull up sauvage as well. I feel like you gotta, oh yeah, okay, so if you want a full juicy now, full juicy bottle for parfums de marley is a 4.2 ounce, that's like something like that. Yeah, you're looking at about. You did not have this ready. Well, it changed on me. You're looking at about $365. Woo, ho, ho, ho, ho, woo. Oh, yeah, that is high. They also make a 200 ml. How many ounces is that? Five, $510.
Myke:No, 200 would be more Six, yeah, I was about to say, because five, I think, is $150. Okay, so six $510.
Ryan:But 125 ml.
Myke:Things I never thought I'd learn in chemistry class. I'm never going to use this. Staring at these beakers Ounces to milliliter.
Ryan:But Sauvage, you know, that's low hundreds, you know, yeah, or mid-hundreds, I would say. And then it's like you can find discounters for like 70, 80 bucks.
Myke:Can you? Yeah, I feel like Sauvage is typically not super discounted. Maybe people reselling, I mean.
Ryan:EDT. I guess you're right. Two ounces of Dior Sauvage is like $86. Right, the EDT, that's discounted, yeah, so that's what, 75 mil.
Myke:Yeah, here we are doing these chemistry calculations Now on the Parfums de Marly one.
Ryan:you can find it for $176, but that's also for a 2 point something ounce 2.5. Jesus, their discount at 4.2 is $223. And it's like to me it's too close to a designer Too close.
Myke:So when you smell it, how close are we talking God? Designer too close, but when you smell it, how close are we talking god? I feel like it's framed differently than if we had smelled a designer that smelled like this. I think we'd go god.
Ryan:This is elevated actually I'm I think it just hit me what I really think this smells like, as far as like what you could compare it to. I know you kind of hate that, but I have to be real on that. It's like this is if you took Lunarosa Ocean Remember the EDP had that bubble gummy type thing, it's like that and Dior Sauvage, but not that really harsh part of Sauvage, but the Ambroxian lower, whatever it's like. Those two seriously got it on in an airplane bathroom and then you got this.
Ryan:That's where they got it on yeah, you know it's kind of unique but at the same time it's kind of a shitty situation. You know it's like not probably fun. Both of you have to be skinny as a fucking rail to even halfway enjoy yourself. Yeah, I can't even fit in the bathroom by myself right now?
Myke:well, you never. You wouldn't even be on a fucking rail to even halfway enjoy yourself. Yeah, I can't even fit in the bathroom by myself right now, exactly Well you wouldn't even be on a plane, Ryan, I mean, that part's true too.
Ryan:Dude, we go when we're coming out covered in blue shit, you know.
Myke:Yeah, for sure.
Ryan:It's I mean it's, by the way, the popularity on this. I need to give you that, since we're pricing, trend our price and popularity 4.23 out of 5. I can see why. Over 4 000 votes. Wow, yeah, so super high, super high release in 2018. Uh, perfumer, you said his name earlier. I I'm not even gonna attempt it. What was his name?
Myke:oh, maybe haman marati. Yeah, to attempt it. What was his name? Oh, maybe.
Ryan:Haman Maradi. Yeah, we'll go with that. I mean it smells good. What's been his most popular stuff? I'm always curious. We rarely talk about the perfumer, but he made fucking Leighton. Yeah, he made Altair. He's a smart man, god. He's made pretty much every Parfums de Marly.
Myke:Yeah, god he's made pretty much every Parfums de Marly. Yeah, I want to say that our buddy, chris Fragmental, got to meet this guy. Wow, that's cool. Do some content with him. So yeah, I know that this from that content Chris said is one of his more favorite fragrances, kind of top up there God.
Ryan:now I'm starting to like the skin.
Myke:What the fuck? You kind of got to be careful, because just spraying right away a lot of fragrances right away are just like you can't spray your skin and immediately put it up to your nose.
Ryan:Sorry, I'm going all in.
Myke:Damn, we got pool tonight, so we'll see how it wears out. You should actually do more, because I've got some at the house. I'll wear them. Yeah, I told you I got the travel atomizer. Oh yeah, you can spray it fresh.
Ryan:I'm not going to lie Like it's pretty good All this humming and humming whatever the fucking words you say. Hemming and humming there you go. Hemming and humming, yeah it. Whatever the fucking words you say, him and Han. And there you go. Him and Han, yeah, it's like. But I'm coming around to it. I can see why this is popular.
Myke:I haven't got the pepperiness of this before when I wear it.
Ryan:I think I may love this.
Myke:What the hell, dude, steve, this is your episode bud, because Steve calls you out on this shit all the time. You are a roller coaster with fragrances. I can't help it. You start off and you're like fuck this. By the end you're like it's probably a big juicy bottle worth Wow. Let me go back to my point, by the way. Yeah, go ahead. I feel like if we bought a designer or got a decant of a designer and we were spraying it, I feel like we would look at this way different, we would smell it and talk about how much different it is than other designers. But now that we're comparing what's technically niche to designer, we're trying to pull it closer to designers.
Ryan:Yeah, it's all in how you frame things. While you're saying that, you know I mean my brain's working overtime. It's like we should pick a couple of new episodes coming up. We're like here's these five episodes and we're going to just wrap something around where we can't see what the name is we have a listener that sent that.
Myke:We need to do that.
Ryan:Yeah, we do, don't we? We absolutely do. We need to do that. He sent a bunch of fragrances that are not labeled.
Myke:Yeah, we don't know what they are. They have little envelopes, like we're at an awards show, we do it and then we can look and see what it was.
Ryan:And best picture goes to yeah, personal. Wow, you know, I actually like planned on talking about the notes and the pros and cons but honestly, because we've been kind of going back and forth on it's, I'm sorry this episode's kind of a little.
Myke:No, I think this speaks to how subjective fragrance is. Again, because it just depends on what angle you're looking at it from. I was listening to a podcast and Tony Robbins was on it and I've heard this study before. I've heard other people use a study before, but he talks about they ran the study where someone will walk up to a random person and they go hey, do you mind holding this for me for a second? And before they can say, yes, they just hand them a coffee and they bend down to tie their shoe Right and they take a coffee and they bend down to tie their shoe right and they take the coffee. And they did a certain amount. I can't remember the number, but I'll say let's say they did 50 people, 25 this way, 25 this way.
Myke:And then afterwards they were approached. That same person who held the coffee for them was approached to read a short thing. They get 20 bucks and they need to just judge the main character, right, okay? And so they judge the main character of the thing and what had happened was 50% of the people had to hold an iced coffee and 50% of the people had to hold a hot coffee, and the people who held the hot coffee said the main character was warm and sincere, and the people who held the iced coffee said he was cold and calloused. And it was the same story. Wow, but they were pre-framed by just that physical thing of touching hot coffee versus touching an iced coffee.
Ryan:I mean, it's like what do you call those people that like whatever they can like, read your mind or something, but it's like they probably said certain things in the sentence to trigger certain synapses in your brain to pick elephant every time. You know, know, you think that's what's kind of happening. David blaine's yeah, that is interesting, by the way love tony robbins. Why is he so beloved?
Myke:because, first of all, he has a deep voice he talks like this, you know like he's for me when I listen to him. I like the whole time. I'm like dude.
Ryan:He's so comforting to listen to. He's like very charismatic and excited and well, I just want to hang out with him. You think he'd be cool?
Myke:yeah, I think so I think you just you can't interact with that many people without the truth coming out I think you're onto something with that.
Myke:Yeah, that's true to that if you like, let's say you really interact with a million. Yeah, that's true to that. If you like, let's say you really interact with a million people, it's going to be split 50 50. Yeah, just the way the ball bounces. It should be, yeah, where it's like 50 of people are going to love you, 50 people they're going to hate you, and guess what. It has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with the person casting the vote right, because who knows if they held a hot coffee before you met them or they held a fucking ice coffee you know, or they're holding some toxic green chemical cold drink mixture.
Ryan:I'm doing Exactly.
Myke:Is this why you're being so cold and callous? His drink was colder at the first of the episode, so he hated it. Now it's warming up to that. Yeah, I'm loving it.
Ryan:Exactly.
Myke:Who would wear this this, by the way, I would think it's like abercrombie fierce has graduated high school. Okay, gone to college, graduated college, but it's still very young, just graduated college, but got their shit together by senior year. You have to because you're getting ready to enter the workforce. That's where he's at. That's Mr Fierce now, yeah, he's 24 and up. Okay, got a degree. Got a degree, that's right, a little more sophisticated.
Ryan:Maybe he's bringing in a little bit more money than your typical intern. I think this is like an engineer type person Really. Yeah, okay, I'll go with that. I really do. I feel like this is a really smart individual. Yeah, they're kind of low-key, but they got their shit together.
Ryan:They're not flashy, yeah, yeah, but they do got lots of monies coming in and it's going to keep getting bigger and bigger because you know there's software engineers, something like that. You know, right, okay, you know you play bit life or something on your android, you become a software engineer and next thing you know you're a project engineer manager pulling seven figures a year something stupid, okay, and all you do is work remote. Yeah, I feel like this is that kind of thing.
Myke:I feel like if I worked for a company, I would not want to work remote, and I'm the opposite yeah you are. I want to be able to play marvel rivals all day and have one of those mouse movers that just makes you look busy, I'm like green screening, like previous recordings of me, to make me look like I'm in meetings and shit, oh yeah not me.
Myke:I want to like bump elbows with people. I want to work as a team. I I want to be locked arm in arm, Like really, if I'm on projects, that's what I want to do.
Ryan:You are very much like that and I want to be as far from it all as possible. You'd be happy being a shut-in Dude I would. That's why God won't let me win a million dollars. Be a fucking hermit Dude.
Myke:It'd be bad for your health, man, are you going gonna skip it, sample it or buy it? What are you gonna do, ryan? This is close to a buy to me really, so it's a strong sample then very, very strong samples.
Ryan:If you're listening to me, guys, this is a sample. Try it with the caveat of just knowing. Go into it knowing this definitely has a designer vibe to it. Yeah, it is doing something quite interesting. I don't know really how to describe it, maybe it's. What is this? Well blended, well balanced.
Myke:It's slightly niche elevated, but not crazy enough yeah, it's doing a lot of things, a lot of things that I feel like a designer wouldn't do to a fragrance. Yeah, that's why I'm saying, if we smell this, as a designer we'd be like Bravo, oh God, oh, bravo.
Ryan:Way to take the swing. Was that a sarcastic clap, though?
Myke:No, I'm being serious, okay, yeah yeah, yeah, I think we'd go wow, these guys, they're trying something different while still keeping it very wearable and non-challenging.
Ryan:Yeah, that to the T. It's non-challenging whatsoever. There's no challenge to this Very wearable Young man and up could wear this Honestly. We should have said this. I feel like young man and up could wear this honestly because we should have said this. I feel like young man to old man could wear this and pull this off.
Myke:Yeah really and truly very safe. I think the comments about oh, this reminds me of a grandpa. It's like maybe it's more distinguished than what you'd expect out of a designer fragrance, but it doesn't make it smell old and dingy, or too mature?
Ryan:Definitely not, God. It smells really good. I can't shake that. I smell a little bit of that sweetness that Luna Rosa Ocean did that we just dog walked this episode and said was garbage. But it was garbage for some other reasons, yeah because it's like a one-note song.
Myke:This is different. There's a lot going on to it.
Ryan:Yeah, I would say this too, where that was really kind of weak in how it smelled. I was almost going to say this is a little bit louder, but not too much. It's just enough to be on the cusp. You know what I mean. If they would have went a little bit more, you'd probably be going. This is going to be too loud for me, right? It smells really good. Yeah, who'd you say loved this? Chris? Chris loves this. Uh-huh, okay, he's got a good nose on him. This smells good. That's all I got. Man, I'm perplexed because there's simplicity to this. You know, I was kind of saying we were talking about music the other day. Actually, uh-huh, and mine's got me on this hall and oats kick right now. That's right, he goes. Man, you need to really listen to, out of touch, yeah, the hollow notes.
Myke:listen to that fucking, yeah, like the synth at the beginning of it, because we had the other day we were talking about there was another song that we listened to and it was like so punchy, yeah, like man, we, we don't get this anymore, this type of production, and this is like late 80s. This song came out, yeah, so you played it and what?
Ryan:dude. It's like I was telling michael like it's so simple. The note structure, everything is simple to the layman ears. You're like very basic, but if you really listen, especially with how things were produced back, then you can really hear a lot of different instruments. Yeah, you can hear there's a lot of layers and it's actually really intricate, but it's so intricate that it's purposely done to make it sound simple. Does that make sense, right?
Ryan:yeah, things were added to increase texture, yeah, and I feel like that's what this is doing right here. It's familiar, it's something that we kind of smell, but at the same time there's like this little something.
Myke:There's more punch to it. I can see that we were just critiquing. This guy was playing guitar and he said you can play it this way, or you can play it this way, yeah. And when he added the special little in there, you were like they're the same things, yeah, but this is way more pleasing, had way more personality, right?
Ryan:yeah, it's just, and it's just the subtlest thing you would never. It was actually a brad pay. I'm not a brad paisley fan, but you were showing me brad paisley.
Myke:Yes, to get it's a long story short here, but he has a thing on his guitar called a G-Bender. It bends the don't laugh middle schoolers a G-string. It bends the G-string. I just said don't laugh. Well, you emphasize it so much, man. So on the guitar it bends the G-string and when it does that it adds almost like a steel guitar sound to it. And the way he incorporates it he shows you that, oh, you can actually manually bend the string with your fingers and it sounds this way. But then when he bends it with the mechanism that's built into the guitar, it sounds different, even though it's literally the same notes, sonically the exact same notes, but the way it gets there is different.
Ryan:And you would be shocked. Just that little difference, how much more character that has, right, and it makes it way more distinguished, right? Yeah, and that's what I'm saying with this. It's like part of me wants to be cynical and go oh my God, this fucking designer. Yeah, they're asking way too much money, which they are. I'm going to have to say that. Right, I'm going to have to say that.
Myke:Right, I'm getting this on a discount.
Ryan:Yeah, but it's like I've got that side of me, but the other side is like but I can't deny that this smells really fucking good yeah.
Myke:I think it would be a win. I'm a very strong sample as well. I think it's good. I've wore it a few times. I get compliments. It's just a safe wear. It's a safe blind reach. It's an expensive one, yeah, but you know, if you can swing it, it's uh very nice.
Ryan:Me and mike have been uh, toying with this idea right and michael's like that's a great idea and especially because it incorporates his name, he was like it's an even better.
Myke:Yeah, wait, I can have this. Let me frame it this way we have listeners occasionally that will write in, yeah, and they will just blanket complain about the fragrance faux pas that happen at work, yeah. And so we thought should we confront these transgressors? Oh, yeah, and let them know what's going on? Let the quiet voice of reason speak through the podcast. And so we did have a listener reach out. It was a friend of mine and she said this Hi, mike and Ryan, I need your help navigating a delicate situation at work.
Myke:One of my co-workers is an awesome guy, but the amount of cologne he wears could clear a room faster than a fire drill. I'd love your help figuring out how to tell him that his cologne game is a bit too bold. I don't want to hurt his feelings, but my nose and lungs would really appreciate a gentler aroma. Can you help me find a way to tell him that less is more? And then she attached his name and his phone number and so, look, we could get the cops called on us. We could be slapped with, you know, some sort of restraining order, but we're going to call this man, and if you're a patron, you're going to hear how it all pans out and if you're a patron and you want to reach out to us and have us communicate certain difficult fragrance news, we're thinking about you Let us know. We're thinking about starting kind of a segment called Mike Breaks Bad Fragrance News.
Ryan:Which you've probably seen, the so-and-so breaks, bad news, right, we just want to do like a fragrance version of that.
Myke:Yeah, because I mean there's some people out there that they need the truth. I'm probably one of those people that need the truth. Yeah, you would definitely be. I'll be writing into the show we love you guys. And until next time, spray it up y'all.