128. Following Her Nose All the Way To The Dream Job (w/ Perfumer Margaux Le Paih Guerin)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
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 3 BORNTOSTANDOUT fragrances. We discuss valuable learnings from her time in fragrance retail (including the one perfume she always recommended to customers), a risky decision to leave a secure fragrance job, and how she has found and developed her own personal style at Flair.
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Melanie Martinez Portals: Fiery Passion, Earthy Abundace; Alaska Thunderfuck Red for Fifth, Future Society Reclaimed Fame, Portals Water of Intuition, Le Labo Santal 33, Commodity Book Expressive, Portals Air of Clarity, B&BW Warm Vanilla Sugar; Mugler Angel, Tartine et Chocolat Ptisenbon, Annick Goutal Eau D’Hadrien, Naomi Goodsir Iris Cendre, BORNTOSTANDOUT Wabi-Sabi, Dirty Heaven, Happy Nuts, Sora Dora Jany, Notes de Bas de Page Towédé, Versatile Paris God Bless Cola, Cafe Croissant
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. I have re-recorded this intro like five times because every time I start speaking, I keep getting this tickle in my nose and then I pause it and I curse and then I blow my |
| 0:22.8 | nose and this tickle won't go away. As I'm like talking right now, I'm going to lean into it, |
| 0:27.1 | but my nose is so freaking ticklish right now and I don't know what's wrong with it. Okay. For my scent of |
| 0:33.5 | the day today, I thought I would review the highly anticipated portals collection from |
| 0:38.9 | Melanie Martinez. So if you remember a few weeks back, we had Isaac Likash and Lillian |
| 0:44.3 | Shalom, the co-founders and real-life husband and wife duo behind Flower Shop perfumes. |
| 0:49.3 | They are also the team that helped Melanie Martinez execute and bring this vision to life. And after we |
| 0:55.9 | recorded our episode, Isaac generously sent me samples of all four fragrances in the collection. |
| 1:01.5 | Also, if you haven't listened to that episode, I highly, highly recommend it. It was such a fun |
| 1:05.5 | episode. So these are near first impressions. I say near because technically I sprayed these |
| 1:10.7 | 10 minutes ago. But I wrote down my first impressions. I say near because technically I sprayed these 10 minutes ago, |
| 1:12.3 | but I wrote down my first impressions in my little fragrance diary, and I'll obviously resmell my |
| 1:17.6 | skin as I talk about it and tell you what it's smelling like 10 minutes into where. Okay, so I sprayed |
| 1:21.9 | them by order of intrigue. The first one I wanted to spray was fiery passion. I smelled this. I was |
| 1:27.1 | getting some fun like body |
| 1:29.0 | splash, strawberry fruity ice cream dessert vibes and I was very excited to spray it. So |
| 1:35.3 | fiery passion, here's what I wrote down. This smells like those pre-packaged strawberry sundaes. |
| 1:41.9 | Do you know what I'm talking about? They come in a plastic container and it has |
| 1:45.8 | like a strawberry syrup in it, but it's also like vanilla ice cream swirl. It smells like one of those |
| 1:53.0 | in that it has like this lectonic quality, but this like distinctly like syrupy, saccharine, |
| 1:57.4 | sweet fruitiness to it. It smells like if you took one of those and then you put |
| 2:01.5 | pop rocks and like strawberry nerds and watermelon nerds on top. It's like that mixed with like a |
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