106. Creating Postmodern Vintage Perfume (w/ ERIS PARFUMS Founder Barbara Herman)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
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 and unconventional beauty in fragrance, and to a bring a missing boldness to modern niche perfumery akin to what she had encountered in all of her vintage fragrance adventures. Today we chat about everything real animalics versus synthetic ones, prominent scent trends of each decade of the 20th century, and how what’s old is new, and of course, we discuss the perfection that is ERIS PARFUMS, including the very exciting guava-licious newness that is Delta of Venus.
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Le Labo Cedrat 37, ERIS: Delta of Venus, Green Spell; Prescriptives Calyx, Jean Patou Colony, ERIS Ma Bête, Aramis, Paloma Picasso, Revlon Charlie, Emanuel Ungaro Diva, Nina Ricci L’Air du Temps, Giorgio Beverly Hills Giorgio, Guerlain Shalimar, Guerlain Jicky, Robert Piguet, Etat Libre D’Orange Secretions Magnifiques, ERIS: Mx., Scorpio Rising, Belle du Jour, Ma Bête, Night Flower, Mx., Mxxx., Green Spell, Delta of Venus; Geoffrey Beene Grey Flannel
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. My son to the day today is a Lalabo City exclusive. If you have been a long-time listener at this pod, you know that that is a full circle moment. But today I am wearing |
| 0:20.9 | Sidreth 37. This was a fragrance that they gifted me. They sent me a sample pack of five |
| 0:27.0 | city exclusives, and this was one in the mix. It's a very nice, fizzy, sweet citrus scent, |
| 0:32.7 | and it sort of feels like soapy and sudsy in texture. And then citron as a note is a sort of citrus that |
| 0:39.3 | feels more zingy than bergamot, but more round and warm than lemon. It's sort of an in-between |
| 0:45.5 | of the two and warmer and rounder than either. And there's almost something to it that, to me |
| 0:51.5 | at least, feels like a sort of subtle dried leafiness. Like I feel like |
| 0:55.9 | citron is a very autumnal smelling citrus. So imagine a bar of lemon soap, add a little bit more |
| 1:02.8 | burgomat, at a little bit more warmth, and that is what Sidra 37 kind of smells and feels |
| 1:07.9 | like. But stay tuned because I do plan to share my updated thoughts on all of the |
| 1:13.0 | La Labo City exclusives in an upcoming solo episode. |
| 1:17.2 | I can't remember if I did this last year around this time. |
| 1:19.8 | I feel like I did. |
| 1:20.9 | But you know what? |
| 1:21.6 | It's been a year. |
| 1:22.5 | My thoughts have changed. |
| 1:23.8 | More to come. |
| 1:26.9 | Let's get to our guest today because we are joined by the wonderful Barbara Herman. |
| 1:31.8 | Barbara is the founder of Ereis Perfam. |
| 1:34.0 | She is the author of Sentence Subversion Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume, |
| 1:38.7 | and she is the blogger behind the very popular 2010's Vintage Perfume blog, Yesterday's Perfume. |
| 1:45.3 | Eres Perfam is a niche fragrance brand that celebrates unconventional beauty, subversive |
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