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Hosted by comedian, dating expert, and perfume lover/advisor Emma Vernon, Perfume Room is a safe space for the Perfume-Obsessed to hang, learn, *live, laugh, and love.* Each episode delves into the mysterious world of fragrance through a lens that is equal parts entertaining and informative. You can expect perfume reviews, 101s, hot takes, funny tangents, dating stories, and juicy conversations with top experts, innovators, and personalities in and outside of the fragrance world. Perfume Roo ...
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The New Savant Co-Founders Ingrid Nilsen and Erica Anderson join me in the Perfume Room this week! The New Savant is a queer, women-owned, candle brand with handmade, small-batch candles, inspired by unique personal stories, and scented by top industry perfumers. Erica (a Fortune’s 40 Under 40) was Twitter News employee number one, and Ingrid (a St…
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Today’s episode is a masterclass! Fragrance legend, author, historian, taxonomist and Perfume Room fan-favorite Michael Edwards is back (!!), this time to chat about his newest book, “American Legends: The Evolution of American Fragrances.” What makes a perfume *American* in style and who are the quintessential American perfumes? What makes them le…
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Romano Ricci—Juliette Has a Gun Founder, great-grandson of Nina Ricci, and Co-Founder of Nose Paris—joins me in the Perfume Room this week! We discuss everything from rebelling against the fam biz, reimagining it, what gender in fragrance means to him, the idea behind Nose Paris, and why fragrance pyramids are a thing of the past. Plus, I live-smel…
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*canon episode alert* Back in March, I sat down with legendary Givaudan VP Perfumer (and incredible storyteller!), Rodrigo-Flores Roux, to record a very special live-audience episode. This week, enjoy a condensed version of that conversation! Rodrigo shares his earliest scent memories and wins (the latter will shock (& delight) you), where he sourc…
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LuckyScent’s Steven Gontarski and Dana Buchanan are in the Perfume Room today talking hidden gems of LuckyScent, how to intuit what a client actually wants (versus what they say they want), and a retail phenomenon they refer to as 'perfume trigger words.' We of course also discuss their personal wardrobes/collections including their desert island s…
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Givaudan Perfumer Christine Hassan is in the Perfume Room today! We discuss her unconventional and holistic path towards becoming a perfumer, perfumery across cultures, her own special scent rituals, and a benzaldehyde spill in her high school chemistry class that changed EVERYTHING. FRAGS MENTIONED: Zoologist Rabbit, Oriza L. Legrand Chypre Mousse…
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Esxence is an annual Milan-based niche fragrance convention that boasts the title of world's largest perfumery trade show! Content Creator Valerie March, AKA @thenichesampler — a longtime friend of the pod AND 3rd year attendee of Esxence — is in the Perfume Room this week recapping her recent experience and sharing everything from perfumes [from E…
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IT'S OFFICIALLY FRAGRANCE WEEK! To celebrate, longtime friends of the pod—Jenn Sullivan and Jess Matlin, Fat Mascara Co-Hosts—are in the Perfume Room today sharing the fragrances that are exciting and intriguing them most for Spring 2024! FRAGS MENTIONED: Xinú Ummo, Parfums de Marly: Perseus, Delina; Riddle Oil, The Body Shop White Musk, Phlur Apri…
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In 2001, 62 vials of perfume were recovered from the Titanic shipwreck. Neil Owen, Head of Product Safety Sciences at Givaudan, was one of the lucky few specialists (alongside esteemed perfumers Christopher Sheldrake and Mark Evans as well as a botanist) tasked with analyzing exactly what the contents of those vials were. To whom did these vials be…
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Dave 1 is the guitarist and lead vocalist of the Grammy-nominated, Electro-Funk duo Chromeo, and he’s also a fraghead. This week he’s in the Perfume Room talking about everything from the the F-Boy scent of Paris you never saw coming, gems from his personal collection, perfumes you'll never catch him wearing, the evolution of his own taste, smells …
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What's the actual best Britney fragrance? Who's the most underrated flanker of them all? Liz Renstrom (@basenote_bitch) is in the Perfume Room today and we're traveling deep into the multiverse that is: BRITNEY SPEARS FRAGRANCES to tackle all the hard questions. We've procured 12 of her 36 creations (including 6 Fantasy flankers, 3 Prerogative flan…
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Margaux Le Paih Geurin is a perfumer at boutique perfume house, Flair Paris. A team of just four perfumers with infinite niche perfume launches to their name, Flair is easily one of the best houses of our time, and Margaux is one to watch. In just a few years in the industry, Margaux has already seen several of her creations hit shelves, including …
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We're celebrating Valentine's Day with Master Perfumer Honorine Blanc, a perfumer especially renowned for her sensual and addictive fragrances. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, modern perfumery has two eras: B.H. and A.H. (that is, before Honorine and After), because Honorine quite literally invented a texture in perfume that before her, didn't ex…
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A Third Culture Kid as she refers to herself, Phway Su Aye, Co-Founder and Creative Director of Gabar, has called many countries home. This week, she's in Perfume Room to talk about the one whose unforgettable aromas inspired her fragrance brand. Phway shares stories, rituals, and personal memories from her early childhood in Myanmar; she tells of …
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Flower Shop Perfume Co’s Isaac Lekach and Lillian Shalom (also real-life husband and wife!) are in the Perfume Room today! We discuss: growing up in the industry (Isaac’s dad is former CEO of Parlux); celebrity perfume secrets; why the best perfumes are always a little bit controversial; the viral sensation that is Melanie Martinez’s Portals collec…
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Régime Des Fleurs Founder/Perfumer Alia Raza is in the Perfume Room today. We discuss everything from those absolutely perfect rococo bottles, to what it's like collaborating with THE Dominique Ropion, and you *know* I live-smell Nymphaea Caerulea—a perfume that at $990 for 8ML, earns the title of World's Most Expensive. SOTD: Fueguia Yakeñ & Chris…
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NEW YEAR, NEW SOLO. SAME PERFUME ROOM. 2023: favorite launches, most-worn fragrances, and most exciting discoveries 2024: INs and OUTs, trend predictions, and *manifestations* for the year ahead! FRAGS MENTIONED: Versatile Paris Rital Date, Masque Milano Basilica, Dior Hypnotic Poison, Kerosene Unknown Pleasures, Versatile Paris: Dimanche Flemme, C…
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'Tis the season for my holiday gift guide! I share all the fragrance gifts I’m coveting including stocking stuffers, candles, other scented goodies, and answer a few gift-help requests! Plus, A VERY SPECIAL GUEST make a very VERY SURPRISE appearance ;) ;) ;) SHOP MY HOLIDAY PACK: ⁠https://rb.gy/7arvgd⁠ Tune in to IG Live || Thurs 12/14 at 1P EST/10…
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Toskovat Founder and Perfume-Maker David-Lev Jipa-Slivinschi is in the Perfume Room today. With fragrance pyramids comprised of accords like credit card, dirty dollar, priest's clothes, blood, and plastic bag, Toskovat fragrances beg the question: are all perfumes meant to be worn? FRAGS MENTIONED: Diptyque Benjoin Boheme, Serge Lutens Santal Majas…
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Longtime friends and tastemakers Marissa Zappas + Ruby McCollister are in the Perfume Room today discussing their latest collaboration: a fragrance called Tragedy. Marissa, the perfumer behind all the Internet’s cult-fav perfumes, & Ruby, an actress and comedian you may know from Search Party, High Maintenance and Curb Your Enthusiasm, have joined …
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Internationally-known DJ, Entrepreneur, and now Fragrance Founder Zernell Gillie is in the Perfume Room! As a lifelong fragrance collector, in 2022, Zernell decided to combine his two greatest passions to launch an eponymous fragrance line. With extraits at a whopping 50% concentration, and fragrances all inspired by different genres of music, it's…
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You know naturals; you know synthetics; but do you know *bio-engineered materials?* Through her biotech fragrance brand, Future Society, Jasmina Aganovic (Founder & CEO) is resurrecting extinct smells through DNA sequencing, and introducing this novel 3rd category of fragrance materials into the conversation. FRAGS MENTIONED: MAISON d’ETTO: Rotano,…
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The delightful Pissara Umavijani, Founder and Perfumer of Parfums Dusita, is in the Perfume Room today! Pissara discusses uprooting her life from Bangkok to Paris in pursuit of perfume, said pursuit of perfume [Pissara is self-taught!], and how, through Dusita, Pissara honors and bottles the smells of her father’s legacy, her Thai heritage, and cla…
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What IS love and what does it smell like? Givaudan’s Head of Fine Fragrance North America, Matthieu Befve, and Perfumer Dana Schmitt join me in the Perfume Room today as we explore this very topic. Specifically, we discuss Givaudan’s most recent immersive fragrance experience—'What Is love?’— an olfactive exploration of love and seduction as experi…
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MAISON d’ETTO Founder and Professional Horse Girl Brianna Lipovsky is in the Perfume Room today. Brianna and I chat everything from competing in Dressage at the Grand Prix level, channeling horse relationships into smells, a shamanic healing session in a Midtown office that changed the trajectory of her career, and a fragrance in her collection wit…
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Papillon Artisan Perfumes' Liz Moores is in the Perfume Room this week! We discuss: a perfume that smells post-coital, fragrance formulas that come in dreams, reading her own perfumes' Fragrantica reviews, the importance of sticking to a brief when no one else is watching/smelling, smells inspired by pets, and more! FRAGS MENTIONED: Diptyque Orpheo…
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Olfactive Artist & Researcher M Dougherty is in the Perfume Room this week! M uses scent to explore communication, memory, and interaction, and has created bodies of work around everything from dog perfume, to olfactive concerts, to the fragrance wheel...of human body odors, to urban forest bathing via mycelium sculptures! FRAGS MENTIONED: Electimu…
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CALLER WHAT IS YOUR NAME AND WHERE ARE YOU CALLING FROM? Hear from FIVE fellow listeners today as I answer their biggest fragrance dilemmas ranging from the perfect scent to celebrate a new home, a perfume for *the stage,* scents that match songs, the floraliest floral for a non-floral lover, and that elusive perfect skin scent plus. Plus I review …
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*SPECIAL NYFW REPORT* Highsnobiety Beauty Editor Alexandra Pauly is in the Perfume Room today to recap the biggest beauty and fashion trends from NYFW and discuss what it all means for… PERFUME! From everything from Barbiecore to Girlcore (note: they’re different), to mermaid hair and berry lips; with looks from Sandy Liang to Collina Strada, we're…
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Enjoy PART 2 of my conversation with Escentric Molecules’ Creator Geza Schoen where we talk about the fragrances he wears *off the clock,* making the leap from consumer to perfumer, his thoughts on people duping his creations, what different popular synthetics smell like, and a *very special* tradition he’s started for his daughter <3 FRAGS MENTION…
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Escentric Molecules Founder Geza Schoen is in the Perfume Room this week (and next!)! More than an illustrious perfumer, Geza Schoen singlehandedly changed the way both the industry and consumers alike see/wear synthetic molecules. He’s responsible for an entirely new genre of fragrances: the non-perfume perfume! Here is part 1 of our conversation!…
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SOLO THIS WEEK with my reviews/[HOT] takes on the Le Labo City Exclusives, tips for picking a signature scents, how to identify notes in fragrances, some lesser known Hilde Soliani scents I am loving, and of course ANSWERING YOUR CALLS and doing listener scent consults! FRAGS MENTIONED: Le Labo: Gaiac 10, Bergamote 22; D’Orsay Nous Sommes Amants MD…
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Alaska Thunderfuck (!!) and Fragrance Evaluator Travis Aikman are in the Perfume Room today discussing this making of Alaska's first (but likely not last) fragrance: Red For Filth. Plus, learn which Drake song inspired this scent (?!) as well as the perfumes your other fave Queens are wearing! FRAGS MENTIONED: Perris Montecarlo Cacao Azteque, ERIS …
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ERIS PARFUMS Founder Barbara Herman is in the Perfume Room today! Barbara is the author of "Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume" as well as the blogger behind the very popular 2010s vintage perfume blog, "Yesterday’s Perfume." With such a vast knowledge of vintage fragrances, Barbara founded ERIS to celebrate subversion …
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Universal Flowering Perfumer/Founder Courtney Rafuse is in the Perfume Room today! We discuss everything from her creative process, to why fragrance pyramids are gentle suggestions at best, to the vulnerability that comes with transforming intimate accounts of her personal life into fragrances meant for other bodies (and imaginations and memories).…
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Perfume Royality Hilde Soliani, La Regina dei Gourmand//the Queen of Gourmands, is in the Perfume Room today! At first glance, you might say dessert scents are her bread and butter, but Hilde would be quick to tell you that *bread and butter scents* are also her bread and butter. And for that matter, so are her fish, oyster, and cheese fragrances. …
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ELOREA Co-Founders (and real-life husband and wife duo) Wonny Lee and Su min Park are in the Perfume Room today! ELOREA is a fragrance brand dedicated to capturing, preserving, and sharing the stories of Korea's rich history of fragrance. The concept for ELOREA came to the pair during a trip to Seoul, where they realized that despite the K-Beauty b…
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David Frossard — the Creator of Obvious Parfums, Founder of Liquides Paris (a perfume shop), Artistic Director of Frapin, and longtime fragrance Entrepreneur responsible for the launch of all your fave brands from Atelier, to Byredo, to BDK, to Liquides Imaginaires, Juliette Has a Gun, Parfums de Marly, and more — is in the Perfume Room today! We d…
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Fragrance Stylist El-Aton Georges is in the Perfume Room! If there's anyone who knows niche, it's El-Aton, and I trust his recommendations/taste implicitly. Currently, he works at Bergdorf's, where he is the Brand Manager for The Maker, and previously, he was the Manager of Atelier's flagship store in Nolita (RIP). You *know* we get that the juicy …
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IT’S THE 100th EPISODE!!! Today, we are joined by DSM-Firmenich Principal Perfumer Sabine de Tscharner! Sabine is a unicorn in the industry because over the course of her career, she’s worked on EVERY category: fine fragrance, air care, body care -- all of it! Today, her focus is in the laundry space, where she’s bringing all kinds of innovations t…
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In anticipation of the BIG 100th EPISODE (airing this Tues!), enjoy this special bonus re-release and *where are they now* update from the first-ever guest of Perfume Room: Thin Wild Mercury's Cathleen Cardinali! *SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR BDK PARFUMS* 10% off BDK Parfums luckyscent.com (code: 10pr) BDK Perfume mentioned: Villa Neroli…
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TV Writer, Comedian, and longtime-YSL Black Opium-wearer, Cynia Barnwell, is in the Perfume Room today and on a quest for her new signature scent! We discuss everything from the writers strike to Spice Girl typecasting to Sagittarius gender inequity, BUT most importantly, today Cynia smells and live-reacts to several perfumes I’ve handpicked just f…
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I went to Paris and now it's my *~whole personality~*. Here's a recap of everything I smelled and loved! Wish you could smell along? YOU. CAN. Sign up for JUNE SMELL CLUB, where we'll be smelling 5 of my favorite discoveries from the trip! FRAGS MENTIONED: Mathilde M. Astrée (scented plaster dove + room spray), Le Nez du Vin Master Kit, Le Nez du V…
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How would you describe the smell of Earth (and Earthlings) to someone who's never been? Today I chat with olfactive artist Eva Petrič, whose line of fragrances are meant to do just that. Each scent bottles a different fragrant aspect of life on Earth and the humans who inhabit it. And sure, we [Earthlings] can buy them at Bergdorf's, but these frag…
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Travaulya Wallace is BACK in the Perfume Room today! You may remember her from Perfume Room LIVE or perhaps you are one of her 238K TikTok followers(!), or maybe, you’ve even shopped with her at Nordstrom where she is a Fragrance Specialist providing her clients with the ultimate personalized fragrance experiences. Today, Travaulya and I chat about…
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Perfume Legend Roja Dove is in the Perfume Room today! Creator of the first Haute Parfumerie, Founder and Perfumer of the ever-luxurious Roja Parfums, Chairman of the Fragrance Foundation UK, and Culture Ambassador for Great Britain, it seems that all Roja touches turns to gold (in fact, you can find gold flakes in his signature scent ;)). Today he…
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If you’ve ever wondered about the path to becoming a perfumer, this episode is for you! ISIPCA Student Yousif Saleh is parlaying his chemistry degree, love of fragrance, and background as both a drag artist and sommelier into the most logical career: PERFUMERY. Halfway through ISIPCA’s curriculum, Yousif is *in the thick of it* and shares everythin…
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Very special episode today!! You often hear about the founder/perfumer collaboration process, but rarely do you get an inner-glimpse of it. Today, you do! I am joined by the Founder AND the Perfumer of one of my favorite-ever brands: Ourside! (Yes, that brand I won't stop talking about...) Ourside is a small-batch, luxury, ingredient-conscious, Bla…
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BDK Founder David Benedek is in the Perfume Room today! We chat about everything from the BDK Parfums signature—that common thread/secret note(s) you might find in every scent, to growing up in the fragrance world, to what’s most played on David’s Spotify right now. David discusses the journey/evolution of creating BDK and the friends and family th…
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Oooo ooo ooo - it's an all new solo ep this week, and I am answering your burning Qs including: what I am wearing this spring niche fragrances exciting me right now April Smell Club deets! ‘funny’ stories from my childhood (that double as tRaUma) the conditioner that saved my hair the body oil I can't quit work scent etiquette and my work scent pic…
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