135. Stop Limiting Your Own Perfume Exploration (w/ LuckyScent's Steve Gontarski and Dana Buchanan!)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
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 scents, what's new and exciting them most right now, and why we need to redefine the criteria of what makes a fragrance “GOOD.”
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Granado Violeta, Marissa Zappas Violette Hay, Escentric Molecules Molecule 05, Commodity Paper +, L’Artisan Musc Amarante, Ella K Poeme de Sagano, Ella K Musc K, Essential Faith: Essential Faith, Bliss, Aura; Nobile 1492 La Danza delle Libellule, Xerjoff Lira, Parle Moi de Parfum Milky Musk, Liis Bo, Parle Moi de Parfum Wake Up World, Juliette Has a Gun Pear Inc., Etat Libre d'Orange Secretions Magnifiques, Prell Shampoo Classic Clean, Guy Laroche Drakkar Noir, Liz Claiborne Claiborne, Davidoff Cool Water, CK One, Jessica McClintock, Annick Goutal Petite Cherie, Princess Marcella Borghese Giardini di Montecatini No. 6, Comme des Garcons, DS & Durga: Bowmaker, Burning Barbershop, Debaser, Mississippi Medicine; Clinique Happy, Celine: Reptile, Black Tie; For Strange Women perfume oils, MCMC Maine, Amouage Fate Woman, Grandiflora, Lubin Korrigan, Profumum Roma Acqua e Zucchero, Montale Chocolate Greedy, Anamor All that Matters, Chasing Scents: Rain Tea, Tea Service; MFK: Aqua Media, Aqua Universalis; Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Herba Fresca, Ella K Poeme de Sagano, Eau D’Italie: Morn to Dusk, Jardin du Poete, Rosa Greta; Universal Flowering Holy Hell, Dior Bois D’Argent, Comme des Garcons Lily, Astier de Villatte Mantes la Jolie, Oriza L. Legrand Relique d’Amour, Le Labo Lys 41, Jorum Studio: Paradisi, Firewater, Gorseland; Ella K Poeme de Sagano, Astier de Villatte Mantes La Jolie, Chasing Scents Rain Tea, Ella K Camelia K, Sora Dora: Brocéliande, Mallow; Giardini di Toscana Borabora, Rogue Derviche II, Caswell Massey Almond, One Day Jasmine Tea, Kilian Imperial Tea, Oriza L. Legrand Relique d’Amour, Andrea Maack Coven, Grandiflora Madagascan Jasmine, Saskia
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. I am back. I missed you. My send-of-the-day today is a brand new purchase from my recent Portugal trip, which, by the way, I smelled so many fragrances on this trip. |
| 0:23.1 | Some of them were from Portuguese brands and some were just these like amazing, lovely |
| 0:26.8 | niche perfumes that are distributed internationally that I just hadn't smelled in the States yet. |
| 0:32.0 | So there will be more to come there. |
| 0:34.0 | I feel like I have smelled so much recently, not just on this trip, but in the last |
| 0:37.9 | few months that we are well overdue for a solo episode. So that will be in the near future. |
| 0:43.5 | Anyway, back to what I am wearing today. Today I am wearing violetta from Granado. Now, Granado, I believe, |
| 0:51.8 | is technically a Brazilian brand, but it was founded by a Portuguese |
| 0:55.5 | man in 1870, and their Lisbon storefront was one of their very first international stores. |
| 1:01.7 | Now, of course, like a month before I left for this vacation, they happened to open a store |
| 1:05.8 | in New York City on Madison Avenue, so I know this is an experience that I could totally |
| 1:09.8 | have at home in New York, |
| 1:11.6 | but it did feel like a fun little Portugal discovery. And violetta is delightful. It's an ode |
| 1:17.5 | cologne, so it's very light. And on first spray, there's like a distinct sort of chalkiness |
| 1:21.9 | that accompanies the violet that immediately I was like, there is definitely some iris in here. |
| 1:27.2 | It's such an angelic sort of like violet iris. |
| 1:30.3 | And I would say not like powdery or makeupy necessarily, but more woody. |
| 1:36.1 | I smell some dry vetiver in here. |
| 1:38.3 | I smell a bit of a watery sandalwood, maybe some cashmerean. |
| 1:41.6 | It's like gently chalky, woody, dry violet that's faintly sweet but not |
| 1:46.7 | candied, just smooth. If you enjoy perfumes like Violet Hay from Marissa Zappas or Molecule 05 |
| 1:54.2 | from eccentric molecules, paper plus from commodity, or even weirdly like a really watered down |
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