Percival

Alright guys, here is a 100% honest review. I received a sample....I was beyond excited. I threw 4 sprays of the sample on and I was very disappointed. It was something I have smelled before. I couldn't believe it. Im pretty sure I had outrageous expectations for PdM. I love Herod, Layton and a few others from them so my expectations were way too high.... I decided to wear it one last time before I swapped my sample....Well, my mind had made a complete 180 degree turn. This stuff was GORGEOUS on my second wearing. I really dove into the scent and found out that it reminded me of Abercrombie & Fitch Fierce as well as Mont Blanc Legend. The main difference being...Percival is of outstanding quality. It is top notch. Anyone who has ever dreamed of having an expensive smelling Fierce or Legend is now in luck. This stuff is incredible. We all know the Fierce and Legend DNA is an absolute crowd pleaser...specifically with the ladies. Well, I can truly say this is going to be even better, strictly because of the quality. It doesn't smell like anything new, but it takes the ever-classic masculine mass-appealing DNA and enhances it into an HD version. This is Abercrombie & Fitch Fierce HD. Mont Blanc Legend HD. This is for the more mature burly studs and not the skinny, growing high school dudes. This stuff is powerful, masculine, bad-ass and is going to be a complete compliment monster. OVERALL: The performance is unbelievable. 4 sprays will last all day and I will get whiffs for 8+ hours. I guess at the end of the day you get what you pay for. Scent: 8/10 (Would be a 10, however the DNA has been around) Longevity: 9/10 (Insanely good for a fresher frag) Projection: 9/10 (Huge scent cloud for the first 2-3 hours and then lingers in air for 8+ hours)

This is more of a nostalgic piece for me. Initially, it gave me vibes of Lynx Apollo (as devaluing as it sounds). Around a decade ago, my friend and I revered that specific Lynx scent. It carried a fresh yet masculine character, and its name — Apollo — appealed to our fascination with all things outer space back then. There isn't much I can say about Percival’s scent profile that hasn’t already been somewhere else on this site. It opens with a bright, fresh elegance — not the kind that screams “superiority” but a refined, understated type of sophistication. As it develops, it becomes smooth, creamy, and nostalgic, evoking a comforting familiarity. Fastforward to the present and I haven't smelled Lynx Apollo for quite some time now as it is discontinued in the UK and you can only obtain it through online retailers at higher prices. I bit the bullet and bought the 200ml bottle of Percival around a month or so ago and I am more than satisfied with the commitment. On my skin it lasts around 6+ hours after which I can only smell it directly on my skin. To call this gem an upgraded Lynx Apollo would be a gross understatement but to me is the most personal way of coveying what this fragrance means to me. It achieves complexity through simplicity (at least to my nose). Can you get something that smells similar for a fragment of the price? Absolutely! But this is my signature scent for as long as I have the bottle.

Parfums De Marly Percival opens with a unique and layered combination of spicy citrus and lavender, where a denser, slightly sweet and peppery top sits over a clean, airy citrus “shower gel” background, creating a distinct contrast between a darker, more structured surface and a fresh, lifted base. As it moves into the mid, the fragrance quickly settles and blends into a cohesive ambroxan-driven profile with lingering fruits and aromatics rounding out the composition, maintaining that clean shower gel character while becoming more balanced and unified, before the fruity aspects fade and the scent transitions into a more dominant peppery ambroxan core with florals and aromatics softening the edges. Into the drydown, the fragrance continues to refine and simplify as the top notes fully dissipate and the composition becomes increasingly woody and ambroxan-focused, eventually losing the florals and settling into a colder, sharper, peppery ambroxan profile that remains relatively strong through Hour 6–7 with minimal further evolution. Overall, I enjoyed the layered and unique opening, but once it reached the drydown I’m not sure it fully justifies the price; it is a very well-done blue fragrance with obvious quality, but the later stages become more linear and centered on ambroxan. 8/10

I have a very long love hate relationship with this fragrance. During the start of my fragrance journey I smelled all the PDMS and was really enticed by percival. I applied it on my skin and kept getting whiffs of it throughout the day, splendid performance for such an airy light scent profile. However I fell for the hype and just bought layton as my first niche perfume. I didint really wear layton much because of the medicinal opening and ended up selling it years later. Throughout the years ive been searching for a daily blue fragrance to replace my Blue De Chanel because of performance issues, and I keep coming back to Percival. Every time I spray on my skin at the store I keep getting reminded how good it is. It might be time to just pull the trigger and buy a full bottle for this upcoming summer. I ordered a bunch of decants of other popular summer freshies and will be defaulting to Percival if none of them scratch the itch that percival does. Yes the scent profile of percival is a generic mass appealing blue fragrance, but the performance backs it up the niche price tag. This dumpsters LV Imagination and I highly recommend Percival over Imagination. The performance is superior and has a more unique interesting shower soap like DNA. Its not even close

Holy shit, this is amazing. I owned a 50ml of Montblanc legend and went through it in about 3 months whenever I had around 40 bottles. I also had Kaaf and this blows both of those out of the water by a mile. I relieved this in a trade after smelling it at Neiman Marcus and enjoying the initial spray. Yes its expensive for a profile like this. But, my god is it worth it in my opinion. It is so extremely versatile and works in almost every occasion I could think of. I was apprehensive initially because, "why get percival when Montblanc legend exists", but the quality is so much better, its slightly more grown up, more Ambers, less fruits. This is a big dose of lavender, ambroxan, citrus, and amberwoods. It is pretty linear, but the ambroxan and amberwoods sing the more it dries down. Its a huge performer, around that 10-11 hour mark. Projection is strong, my girlfriend could smell me across my bedroom. This made my top 10 almost instantly and I cant wait to get use out of this! I love to layer this with an Indian white musk oil, it makes it slightly more interesting and adds a small animalic touch to the base. Definitely sample and bottle worthy! 10/10