146. [SONGWRITER STEPH JONES] Smash Hits & She Perfumed Them For Ya!
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
She wrote the song of the summer... and she perfumed it for ya, too!
Songwriter (and fraghead!) Steph Jones is in the Perfume Room this week! We discuss the role niche fragrance plays in her songwriting ritual; manifesting smash hits via perfume; scenting sessions, songs, and artists; and why we need to let celebrities gatekeep!!
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Dusita Pelagos, Neandertal Them, Escentric Molecules Molecule 01 + Iris, Indult Tihota, Celine Black Tie, Le Labo Santal 33, Essential Parfums Bois Impérial, EM Molecule 01, Essential Parfums Fig Infusion, Ex Nihilo: Santal Calling, Fleur Narcotique; Marc-Antoine Barrois B683, Versatile Culot Thé, Maison Crivelli Hibiscus MahaJad, Oriza L. Legrand Déjà Le Printemps, Gap Grass, Clinique Aromatics Elixir, Elizabeth Arden Sunflowers, Victoria’s Secret Love Spell, patchouli oil, Hilde Soliani Orgasmo, Universal Flowering Daddy, Le Labo Santal 33, Indult Tihota, Liis Bo, Liquides Imaginaires Blanche Bete, Nishane Afrika-Olifant, Diptyque Orphéon, Byredo Gypsy Water, Abdes Salaam Attars Oud Caravan No. 3, La Danza Delle Libellule, Rogue Perfumery Jasmin Antique, Dusita Pelagos, Robert Piguet Bandit, Diptyque Fleur de Peau, Ex Nihilo Venenum Kiss , Costume National Om, Penhaligon’s Opus 1870, J. Lo Glow, Taylor Swift, Marc Jacobs Daisy, Initio Atomic Rose
FOLLOW: @iamstephjones
SONGS BY STEPH JONES: https://shorturl.at/200lz
THE SWAP (this Thurs!): summerswap.eventbrite.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. I got to tell you about my scent of the day today. It is the |
| 0:15.1 | newest release from Ducita perfume, and it is called Pelagos. And I love it so much i i also have to say on a side |
| 0:22.6 | note like you know if you listen to this podcast that i dream of like a reverent weird |
| 0:28.6 | mind-blowing oracence so imagine my surprise and delight when only a few weeks ago i discovered |
| 0:34.8 | neanderthal them and then just weeks later i later, I smelled Ducita Pelagos. |
| 0:40.2 | And I smelled it because it was generously gifted to me in PR. |
| 0:43.8 | And I, oh my God. |
| 0:47.4 | Spoiler alert. |
| 0:48.3 | It's an amazing or a scent. |
| 0:50.1 | And this is the perfume manifest of, like, Lady in the Street, but a freak in the sheets. |
| 0:54.0 | In, like, almost likeilless painting kind of way. |
| 0:57.0 | Let me explain. Okay. So from far away, this perfume feels like your grandmother's lipstick. |
| 1:03.4 | And I mean that in the way that I have always wanted a perfume to smell like my grandmother's lipstick. |
| 1:08.5 | That is my white whale. |
| 1:11.1 | That is the smell that I'm always chasing because of my scent memories of being a four-year-old |
| 1:15.2 | kid, going to my grandma's apartment and just sitting at her vanity for hours and like huffing |
| 1:19.8 | all of her lipsticks. |
| 1:21.7 | This is that. |
| 1:22.8 | It's waxy and it's fruity and it's irisy and it's irisy. |
| 1:25.7 | And I just, I love it. Okay. But then up close, it's fruity and it's irisy and I just I love it okay but then up close it's dank okay |
| 1:32.0 | and it's raunchy and pungently mossy in a way that actually reminds me if you've smelled |
| 1:37.6 | it of Robert Piget Bondi I don't know if people would agree with me but I get that same like |
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