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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Saber Protection of iHeartRadio. I'm Annie

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Speaker 1: and I'm more.

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Speaker 2: In Vogel bamb And today we have a short episode

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Speaker 2: for you about food, food scented perfumes. Food scented perfumes

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Speaker 2: like and specifically branded ones that are weird and possibly

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Speaker 2: jokes and weird.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of hard to describe, but as we

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Speaker 1: go on, you'll get it. You'll get it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is when you know, right, like

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Speaker 2: like so so like at one point, like Shakeshack had

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Speaker 2: a line of scented candles and stuff like that. So

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Speaker 2: but for perfume that you wear on your body.

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Speaker 1: Hypothetically, hypothetical, it's a tough one for me in some ways. Listeners,

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Speaker 1: and you'll find out why. Oh but yeah, not sponsors.

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Speaker 2: Nope, none of the sponsors currently. Yeah, reach out, let

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Speaker 2: us know please.

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Speaker 1: Uh well, yeah, I guess we should, we should, hop

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Speaker 1: right in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah sure, all right, So okay, as we have talked

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Speaker 2: about in many of our regular episodes that the worlds

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Speaker 2: of food and perfumery are not that far removed and

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Speaker 2: have in fact frequently overlapped throughout history. Think like rosewater

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Speaker 2: or lavender or rosemary, orange peel, vanilla, and also every

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Speaker 2: single spice we've ever talked about, you know, plus of

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Speaker 2: course ambergris. Check out our guest spot about that overrun

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Speaker 2: stuff to blow your mind if you still have not.

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Speaker 2: The sense of fruits and vegetables are also often used

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Speaker 2: in or duped for perfumes. Think notes of like melon, peach, uzo, coconut,

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Speaker 2: even green pepper shows up like not entirely and frequently,

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Speaker 2: and like the only reason that perfume and food is

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Speaker 2: a Venn diagram which is not a circle is that

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Speaker 2: you know, food is meant to be eaten and perfume

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Speaker 2: generally is not. Perfume makers are setting out to make

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Speaker 2: these typically edible items shelf stable and skin stable in

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Speaker 2: ways that make them inedible. Don't eat perfume. There is, however,

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Speaker 2: a recent trend of edible perfumes that are meant to

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Speaker 2: be spritzed on food or drinks. Is like a kind

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Speaker 2: of fun, fancy gimmick or elevation, if you'd like to

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Speaker 2: put it that way. We definitely talked with Marianna Mersir

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Speaker 2: Barani up in Vegas about some of the ones that

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Speaker 2: and there are other chefs and bartenders doing the same thing.

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Speaker 2: And of course, like the idea of perfuming a drink

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Speaker 2: with a sprits of something goes at least as far

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Speaker 2: back as whenever someone came up with using that method

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Speaker 2: of applying absinthe to a sazaraq, which I've been seeing

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Speaker 2: for about twenty years now, which is a really funny number.

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Speaker 2: What a hilarious I love that number. I'm fine. Also,

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Speaker 2: you know, like whenever someone came up with them serving

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Speaker 2: a dish or a cocktail under glass with wood smoke

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Speaker 2: inside the vessels, so that like the guest has the

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Speaker 2: experience of that smoke when they remove the cover before

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Speaker 2: they consume the whatever it is. Yeah, this is not

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Speaker 2: an episode about that. No, no, no, And we do

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Speaker 2: love some good brand marketing shenanigans, as y'all well know.

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Speaker 2: And there has been a recent trend of food brands

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Speaker 2: coming out with perfumes as marketing stunts, like perfume that

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Speaker 2: are meant to smell like their foods. I will say

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Speaker 2: perfumes that smell like foods are also not a new thing,

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Speaker 2: like especially in Indie and sort of fringe perfumery a

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Speaker 2: lot of creators have done been making sense that do

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Speaker 2: not just incorporate the sense of edible things, which most

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Speaker 2: perfumes do. These are actually meant to smell like foods

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Speaker 2: and drinks, mostly baked goods and candies, like cocktails or

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Speaker 2: coffee and tea drink kind of things, but also some

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Speaker 2: savory entries incorporating sense like a bacon or barbecue smoke

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Speaker 2: or tomato. The brand Demeter has entries like peanut butter

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Speaker 2: and jelly rye, bread and sushi which is apparently notes

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Speaker 2: of just cooked rice, seaweed, ginger, and lemon, no fish smell.

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Speaker 2: My personal favorite online goth nerd fragrance brand Black Phoenix

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Speaker 2: Alchemyla traditionally has a line of limited edition perfumes every

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Speaker 2: winter called lick It, which are candy cane themed and

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Speaker 2: wisely include an explicit note that you should not ingest

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Speaker 2: the perfume. Yeah, yeah, good note, good note, important safety tip.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, for some reason, there was like a lot

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Speaker 2: of the stunt perfume thing going on around twenty ten ish,

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Speaker 2: but we are seeing a resurgence of it right now,

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Speaker 2: like sort of this month. I'm not sure. I'm not

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I was gonna say, like, I saw

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Speaker 2: I was a little shaken by that because it's summer.

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Speaker 2: It's summer, it's summer.

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Speaker 1: But who knows. There are a lot of recent examples

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Speaker 1: that is true. Yeah, so let's talk about some examples.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about some examples. Starting with KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken.

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Speaker 1: In May of twenty twenty four, Kentucky Fried Chicken released

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Speaker 1: number eleven Oh to BBQ, O to BBQ. As the

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Speaker 1: name suggest, it has hints of smoky wood and charcoal.

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Speaker 1: It was only available in the UK as part of

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Speaker 1: a promotion around an exclusive UK KFC menu item, the

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Speaker 1: Ultimate BBQ Burger. And yes, I speaking in the past

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Speaker 1: tense because like so many of these sort of stunt

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Speaker 1: promotional products we talked about, it sold out almost immediately.

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Speaker 1: The company describes the scent as quote a woody, earthy

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Speaker 1: foundation that promises to make your mouth water for the

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Speaker 1: taste of BBQ. And I'm going to go out on

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Speaker 1: a limb and guess the eleven is for the famous

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Speaker 1: eleven herbs and spices.

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Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah, it's also a reference to Chanelle number five

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Speaker 2: and other traditions of perfume nomenclature. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it came in a one hundred millimeter bottle that

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Speaker 1: cost eleven pounds and the proceeds went to the KFC Foundation,

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Speaker 1: And from that foundation's website quote, since two thousand and six,

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Speaker 1: the KFC Foundation has provided more than thirty six million

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Speaker 1: dollars to support, empower and serve joy to over sixteen

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Speaker 1: thousand students, restaurant employees, and nonprofits. Our charitable programs focused

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Speaker 1: on education, accessibility, financial and hardship assistance, and community giving.

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Speaker 1: And I wanted to put that in there because both

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Speaker 1: people were like, and it goes to charity, and.

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Speaker 2: I was like, what charity?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, still kind of vague from that description, but at

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Speaker 1: least that's a bit more than I was getting from

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Speaker 1: the articles. Sure, so let's talk about the packaging. It's

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Speaker 1: really swanky, Like if I didn't know better, I would

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Speaker 1: never guess it is a KFC promotional cologne as they

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Speaker 1: missed that, yeah, I would have never known. It looks sleek.

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Speaker 1: It's largely black with red and white accents.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's a it's a black it's a black bottle.

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Speaker 2: It also sort of looks like if someone tried to

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Speaker 2: make Darth Vader a perfume. Yeah, yeah, which I do

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Speaker 2: have that Darth Vader hot sauce, and it does kind

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Can you imagine if you accidentally bought.

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Speaker 1: Like you somehow missed the like, oh to BBQ, the KFC.

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Speaker 2: I mean, but apparently you can't really get a hold.

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Speaker 1: Of it, right, You can't just find it in a store, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the right and I and yes, And the

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Speaker 1: I just feel like if someone smelled like barbecue, I

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Speaker 2: But I mean, uh, smoky, smokey wouold is definitely or

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Speaker 2: definitely notes that appear in a lot of fragrances that

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Speaker 2: can be quite pleasant. Oh yeah, charcoal, charcoal. I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it can work. I think, but I'm

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Speaker 1: just I'm also not sure. I'm not sure I would.

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Speaker 2: I would really have to smell it. So if anyone

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Speaker 2: knows where I can get a sample, holler, or if

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Speaker 2: you somehow got some oh yeah, and you can send

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Speaker 2: us like sent notes, please do please do gosh for

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Speaker 2: any of these, for any of these. Okay, our next

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Speaker 2: one is from Pizza Hut. And I was going to

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Speaker 2: talk about this in our Pizza Hut follow up, but

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Speaker 2: here we are. So in twenty twelve, Pizza Hut Canada

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Speaker 2: posted to their Facebook page and said, do you love

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Speaker 2: the smell of a box of Pizza Hut pizza being opened?

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Speaker 2: We thought, so, if that smell was a perfume, what

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Speaker 2: would it be called? And this post got such an

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Speaker 2: intense response that they just went ahead and produced a

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Speaker 2: limited round of one hundred and ten bottles of Pizza

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Speaker 2: Hut perfume that they gave away to people who had

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah.

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Speaker 2: They also that was not the end of it. They

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Speaker 2: brought it back briefly for Valentine's Day twenty thirteen. Fans

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Speaker 2: could at Pizza Hut on Twitter with the hashtag last

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Speaker 2: Minute Lovers on February thirteenth that year for the chance

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Speaker 2: to win a gift package including the perfume and a

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Speaker 2: twenty dollars gift card for the restaurant.

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Speaker 1: I can see that going really well or really bor.

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Speaker 2: Wait what it depends on your audience, for sure, But

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Speaker 2: I mean I hope that anyone who would give that

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Speaker 2: received by someone who would appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: One would hope, one would certainly hope. Well, next, let's

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Speaker 1: talk about Anti ms So. Earlier this month, in early

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Speaker 1: August twenty twenty four, pretzel company Anti Ann's announced the

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Speaker 1: upcoming launch of their perfume need like k n E

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Speaker 1: the fourteenth. It is meant to encapsulate buttery dough with

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Speaker 1: hints of salt and sweetness, a nostalgic scent for many me,

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Speaker 1: including Yeah, it's that smell when you're in a mall

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Speaker 1: and you're just hit with like nopees of warm buttery

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's a very intense small smell.

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Speaker 1: It is. It is, and it's like in such a

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Speaker 2: You're right here, like moving through a wall of water.

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Speaker 2: Like it's just it's just like, WHOA Do I need

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Speaker 2: a pretzel?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Usually it says surrendered to the smell, I believe

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Speaker 2: Good tagline, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Good tagline. Julie Young love Web, the company's chief brand officer,

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Speaker 1: said in a statement quote, there are a few sents

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Speaker 1: more recognizable than the aroma of Anti Ann's smell is

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Speaker 1: a special and powerful sense. Over the years, fans have

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Speaker 1: shared their memories and experiences that begin with just a

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Speaker 1: whiff of our pretzels. We've bottled that moment and can't

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Speaker 1: wait for fans to enjoy it in a whole new way. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it comes in yes, this blue box with yellow lettering

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Speaker 1: similar to their logo, while the bottle itself is clear

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Speaker 1: with a yellow pretzel similar to their logo and blue lettering.

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Speaker 1: To celebrate the launch the company, well, okay, this is

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Speaker 1: we're recording this on August sixteenth. This might have already happened,

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Speaker 1: but they're going to offer or did offer the first

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Speaker 1: pretzel perfumeriri in New York, and at that perfumery, they're

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Speaker 1: offering two sizes. I don't know what's funny about this, Lauren,

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Speaker 1: one ounce and three point four ounce for twenty five

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's definitely already sold out online and I'm

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Speaker 2: not positive, but I strongly suspect it was a one

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Speaker 1: Yes, I feel like a lot of those, a lot

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Speaker 1: Yes, I really don't. And I when I found this

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Speaker 1: But we must go on, Lauren, We must we, we

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Speaker 1: must be strong, We must report on this very important

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Speaker 1: Mayonnaise has six fragrance notes, according to them, tart lemon mayonnaise, accord, parsley,

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Speaker 2: will explain that that in Perfume and a Chord is

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Speaker 2: In this case, it's meant to evoke Mayo from the

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's me.

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Speaker 2: All right, Okay, So what happened here was apparently this

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Speaker 2: They have partnered with him, They've given him a lifetime

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, oh my, And here's a line from the

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Speaker 1: A little little nauseating.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think this was actually in the caption.

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Speaker 1: Well, anyway, they tried to define you, but you are

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Speaker 1: the ingredient to your own success. Smell like creep. And

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Speaker 1: people thought it was a joke. But the company responded

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Speaker 1: on social media and they were like, it's definitely not

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Speaker 2: I mean, well, I mean they but they produced the perfume.

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Speaker 1: They certainly did, and it is sold out. It was

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Speaker 2: I think that might be a joke, Like it says

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Speaker 1: Yeah, ah Mayo review lovers. But yeah, the the imagery

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Speaker 1: I'm sure I should be more fair my assessment of this.

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Speaker 1: I guess I just couldn't get out of my head

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Speaker 2: And so you know, like lemon and parsley and musk

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Speaker 2: always it's sort of confusing to me, and a little

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Speaker 2: But you know, maybe and then I yeah, and then

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Speaker 1: I don't know, i'd be willing to give it a whiff. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: It's okay, no, no, no, it's all it was kind

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Speaker 1: there wasn't no Doctor Pepperson. I mean, I'm willing to

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Speaker 2: I mean you wouldn't have to spray it on yourself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is not his at all.

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Speaker 1: And randomly I guess stuff I've never told you. Has

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the the creator the creator of that brand,

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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of ground for us to cover

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Speaker 2: Yes, oh my goodness, yes yes.

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