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137. [JULIETTE HAS A GUN'S ROMANO RICCI] Evolving A Fragrance Family Legacy

Perfume Room

Emma Vernon

Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.9619 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Romano Ricci—Juliette Has a Gun Founder, great-grandson of Nina Ricci, and Co-Founder of Nose Paris—joins me in the Perfume Room this week! We discuss everything from rebelling against the fam biz, reimagining it, what gender in fragrance means to him, the idea behind Nose Paris, and why fragrance pyramids are a thing of the past. Plus, I live-smell the newest Juliette Has a Gun launch, Juliette!

SOTD/review: Fueguia Ett Hem

FRAGS MENTIONED:

Fueguia Ett Hem, D'ORSAY Nous Sommes Amants MD, Creed Millesime Imperial, Juliette Has A Gun Not A Perfume, Acqua di Parma Colonia, Dior Eau Sauvage, Nina Ricci: Coeur Joie, L’Air du Temps; JHAG: Ode to Dullness, Pear Inc;  JPG Le Male, Narciso For Her, JHAG: Citizen Queen, Calamity J, Juliette; Chanel Egoiste Platinum, JHAG: Sunnyside Up, Lady Vengeance; Bond No. 9, Cacherel Amor Amor, Creed Millesime Imperial

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the perfume room. My son to the day today is from Foya, and it is at hem.

0:15.8

So I think I talked about this a few episodes ago, but a few months back, I had the opportunity

0:19.8

to spend over

0:21.1

an hour in the Fuea Soho store and really get a chance to smell through the entire collection,

0:27.1

which takes time because in this one brand alone, they have almost 100 offerings. As I made my way

0:33.9

around the gallery, there were different sense that stood out to me, but there was one that was

0:37.4

always beautiful to me that I kept coming back to, and that was at hem.

0:41.6

It is a peppery floral sandal wood, and it's gentle, and it's soft, and it evokes feelings of

0:47.6

flower petals and calming shades of blue, but it really is woody and cozy.

0:52.3

And I don't even think that there are any floral notes listed in the pyramid.

0:56.9

I think I talked about this when I, like right after I had gone to the foia store,

1:01.0

but it's an Argentinian brand.

1:03.1

The founder is also the perfumer.

1:04.9

And every scent is centered on botanicals native to South America.

1:08.4

So because of this, some of the perfumes didn't smell like

1:12.2

anything that I could necessarily place because I had never smelled the native material firsthand.

1:16.7

Or incidentally, it smelled exactly like something I knew, but the pyramid provided would never

1:21.6

have led me there. So to give you a sense of what I mean, this scent, which I'm saying is sort of

1:26.3

like a flowery sandalwood, the three notes that are listed for this fragrance are astro this scent, which I'm saying is sort of like a flowery sandalwood.

1:28.0

The three notes that are listed for this fragrance are astrocedrus, which I had to look up,

1:31.9

but it is a cedar tree that's native to Chile and Argentina.

1:35.2

So we have cedar, Norway spruce.

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