130. What Makes a Perfume a Smash Hit? (w/ Chromeo's Dave 1!)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
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 from different places and points in his life, and his *highly efficient and innovative* means of teaching himself new hobbies.
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Sana Jardin: Vanilla Nomad, Berber Blonde; Matière Première Neroli Oranger, Masque Milano Russian Tea, Frederic Malle French Lover [FKA Bois D’Orage], Ex Nihilo The Hedonist, MFK Baccarat Rouge, Le Labo Santal 33, Christian Dior Bois D’Argent, Frederic Malle Portrait of a Lady, CoSTUME NATIONAL: Soul, Homme; Comme des Garçons, L’Artisan Parfumeur, Escentric Molecules, Nasomatto, Xerjoff, Creed Royal Oud, Baccarat Rouge 540, Creed Aventus, Guerlain Shalimar, Hermes Eau d’Orange Verte, Azzaro, Guerlain Bois D’Armenie, Celine: Nightclubbing, Bois Dormant, Reptile; Givenchy Insensé, Chanel ÉGOÏSTE, Issey Miyake L’Eau D’Issey, Dior Bois D’Argent, Carbone de Balmain, Chanel Sycamore, Comme des Garçons Avignon, Christian Dior: Eau Noire, Dior Homme, Bois D’Argent, Eau Noire, Cologne Blanche; Ralph Lauren Polo Sport, 4711, Creed Bois de Portugal, Diptyque: Benjoin Bohème, Orphéon; Byredo Bal D’Afrique, Diptyque Figuier candle, L’Artisan Parfumer Premier Figuier, Diptyque Benjoin Bohème, Oriza L. Legrand Relique D’Amour, Frederic Malle Portrait of a Lady, ERIS Parfums Scorpio Rising, Headspace Absinthe, Celine Cologne Francaise, Les Bains Guerbois Eau de Cologne, Diptyque Orphéon, Guerlain Shalimar, Chanel No. 5, Giorgio Beverly Hills Giorgio, YSL Opium, Paloma Picasso, Aramis, Celine Nightclubbing, Dior Eau Noire, Le Labo Santal 33, BR 540, CdG: Comme des Garçons, Garage; MSCHF Smells like WD-40, Régime des Fleurs Nymphaea Caerulea, Hermes Hermessence Poivre Samarcande
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. My scent of the day today is from the brand Sanajardan, and that is |
| 0:16.3 | Vanilla Nomad. Now, this is a brand that I wasn't that familiar with. A few of you have asked me |
| 0:20.9 | to review the brand or what my thoughts were over the years. And admittedly, I only really knew |
| 0:25.7 | one fragrance from this collection, that fragrance being Berber Blonde. So Berber Blonde, I have loved |
| 0:31.9 | as long as I've known about it. I feel like it's just like a best in class, Noroli, orange |
| 0:36.6 | blossom, like bitter orange tree incarnate |
| 0:39.4 | fragrance. I would place it in like the same category and it's something I like as much |
| 0:45.7 | as Matteo premieres Noroli Orange A. It's just chic and balanced and buoyant and photorealistic |
| 0:53.2 | and happy and I really love that fragrance. |
| 0:56.7 | Anyway, I hadn't really smelled anything else and I was recently gifted the Discovery |
| 1:00.1 | set from the brand and there were a few other standouts for me, one of them being |
| 1:04.4 | vanilla nomad, which is what I am skin testing today. |
| 1:08.0 | So I thought I would share my thoughts with you. |
| 1:10.6 | So I've learned that the inspiration |
| 1:11.7 | behind the scent is the very specific smell of a burning vanilla incense stone found in Morocco. |
| 1:17.5 | And I'm not familiar with that specific stone or its aroma, so I don't have that same frame |
| 1:22.4 | of reference. So I thought I would share with you all what it smells like to me. If you have ever burned sweetgrass, which I happen to think is one of the most comforting, warm aromas that exists in this world. It's this sort of toasty and weedy, but distinctly sweet kind of smell, not like a cloying sweet, more like the smell of something like freshly baked, wafting into your space kind of sweet. It's also a |
| 1:44.8 | smell that I have tried to describe to people who aren't familiar with it. And weirdly, the image |
| 1:49.2 | that always comes to mind is cinnamon life cereal, not cinnamon toast crunch. Cinnamon life. There is a |
| 1:56.4 | difference. It's a sort of branny, grainy sweetness. |
| 2:03.8 | So imagine that as a base, but then much toaster. |
| 2:07.4 | Much more ambry, much more resinous, a dialed up vanilla. |
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