12. The Woman Behind all the Smells of Your Childhood (w/ Ann Gottlieb)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Listen to me fangirl for an hour straight with the nose behind every major fragrance from your childhood: Ann Gottlieb. Ann is as much of a pioneer as she is an institution in the fragrance industry. She is the nose behind fragrance canons like Axe, J’Adore Dior, Marc Jacobs Daisy, Carolina Herrera 212, all of the Calvin Klein fragrances, and honestly, I’m just scratching the surface. Her fragrances range from everything from fine fragrance to body care to home fragrance and more. If you can smell it, she can scent it.
In this episode, we discuss the rise of edible fragrances, the vision behind Axe, why J’Adore Dior wouldn’t be created today, the difference in style between French fragrances versus American ones, Ann’s relationship with and tutelage under Estée Lauder, how I need to stop trying to make Giorgio happen, new innovations and trends in fragrance, how Ann got started in this industry and what her advice is to those looking to follow in her footsteps.
Trust me: this is an episode you don’t want to miss.
FRAGS MENTIONED:
(INTRO) Robert Piguet Petit Fracas, Guerlain Angelique Noire, MFK Gentle Fluidity Gold, Maison Margiela By the Fireplace, Commodity Velvet, Lancome La Vie Est Belle Intensement, Christian Dior Bois D'Argent.
(INTERVIEW) Atelier Vanille Insensée, Tom Ford Soleil Blanc, Mugler Angel, Glossier You, Bath and Body Works Kaleidoscope, The Body Shop White Musk, Axe, J’Adore Dior, Guerlain Shalimar, Calvin Klein Obsession, Marc Jacobs Lola, Giorgio, Givenchy Amarige, Estée Lauder Beautiful, Bleu de Chanel, CK One, Chloe Innocence, Prada Carbon.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. |
| 0:12.7 | Today's episode is just out of this world. |
| 0:15.0 | I am so excited to share it with you guys. |
| 0:17.9 | Before we do, my scent of the day today is Robert Piguay Petit fracas, and I feel like I am saying fracas wrong. I, when I see that word, I want to make the S silent. Like, I feel like it's Petit fracca, but I am not sure. And then the other problem I keep encountering is I keep wanting to add a Yiddish twist to fracas, and it's really hard for me to not say |
| 0:38.3 | fracas like you would tukas, and that's a me problem. Petit fracas is, sorry, I don't know |
| 0:44.3 | how to say it. Petit fracca is the most beautiful, gorgeous, candied bubblegum tuburus. |
| 0:50.8 | If you like the original, this is a more youthful version with these beautiful |
| 0:54.7 | juicy notes of pear in the opening warmed by a soft sweet cacao. And I feel like tuburos |
| 1:00.6 | is a hard note to wear in a youthful way. And this just wears so youthful. It is so happy and |
| 1:06.5 | joyful and playful and flirty. And it totally feels like the younger sister of fracas and what i like |
| 1:15.6 | about it is that even though it is so youthful and fun and happy it is so elegant and sophisticated |
| 1:22.9 | and well blended and it just makes me absolutely happy wearing this fragrance and the |
| 1:29.3 | sillage and projection are just as good as the original. It lasts throughout the whole day and I just |
| 1:35.3 | get whiffs of it on my arm all the time. If you like fragrances like Gucci Bloom or Toka |
| 1:40.9 | Florence, definitely give this a try. You are welcome. That is also my |
| 1:45.9 | perfume juice of the day today because I am trying to get straight to this episode because it is |
| 1:50.9 | sir good. The TikTok question of the day today is a collective question that I have been getting |
| 1:55.9 | a lot in my comments recently, which is what are my favorite vanillas and or what are the most |
| 2:01.7 | sophisticated vanillas in my collection? So I will share that with you. What I will say, |
| 2:07.7 | as a disclaimer, is that vanilla is an ingredient in so many of my favorite fragrances. So I could |
| 2:14.5 | literally name like 50 fragrances for you that have nice vanilla notes in them, |
| 2:18.3 | but I'm going to try and name the few that I think are pretty vanilla dominant. |
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