17. My Secret Weapons: My Teachers! (w/ Serendipitee NYC Founders Kathryn Balcerski and Tami Katz)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
I feel like I am leaking the sacred, secret family recipe — this is where I get my perfume knowledge! You all wonder how I know so much — well it’s passion, curiosity, research and… courses with Tami and Kathryn!
Learn from this BFF industry insider duo about how fragrances are developed, why we need to show more respect for toilet bowl cleaning products, our shared love for orris, their favorite fragrances, the perfume secret that will keep your perfumes from expiring, and coolest of all — they give me and Perfume Room editor Wyatt Peake (yes, this is the episode where you all meet Wyatt!) a behind-the scenes tour of their scent studio. It’s *Show and Smell* baby. We're smelling raw ingredients and giving you our unfiltered thoughts. And perhaps, most importantly, we settle once and for all how neroli is pronounced!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. This episode is juicy. You guys are always like, Emma, how do you know all this? Where did you learn it? Is it self-taught? And the answer to that is no. Yes, I'm always researching. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm always interested. I've been passionate about this for a long time. But I also have studied |
| 0:26.3 | this and I have taken professional courses. If you listen to the episode last week, you heard |
| 0:31.3 | Monica Katan reference that we met in class. Well, this episode is with the teachers, the founders of that perfume class. Today we have |
| 0:41.2 | the founders of Serendipity, NYC, Catherine Balserski, and Tammy Katz. Serendipity NYC is the only current |
| 0:48.8 | American licensee to teach the curriculum from Sankey Am Salms, which translates to fifth sense, which is a very |
| 0:55.9 | prestigious fragrance curriculum that's mainly taught in Europe. To be honest, I feel like I am leaking |
| 1:02.0 | a family secret recipe. I feel like I'm spilling the secret sauce. But you guys, this is really |
| 1:07.9 | where I've gotten such a wealth of information. They are so informative. |
| 1:12.2 | They're such a great resource and I have learned an infinite amount about fragrance, |
| 1:17.2 | its creation, its history. Serendipity was founded in 2016 with two main focuses, |
| 1:23.2 | fragrance development and education. Tammy and Catherine, the founders, met while working at IFF, and |
| 1:28.9 | they are professional noses for hire. They basically help companies translate their brand visions into |
| 1:35.5 | award-winning fragrances. Together, they've worked on the creation of perfumes for brands like |
| 1:40.9 | Calvin Klein, Axe, Oscar De LaRenta, Bath and Body Works, Mark Jacobs, and more. |
| 1:46.8 | And if you guys remember, if you listen to the episode with Anne Gottlieb, they worked with Anne. |
| 1:51.5 | So it's this crazy full circle. |
| 1:53.5 | I love when this happens. |
| 1:55.2 | But in this episode, you will learn from this insider duo who also happened to be a real-life best friends. |
| 2:00.7 | We love a work bestie |
| 2:01.8 | couple about how fragrances are developed, what mods are and how they work, how they evaluate |
| 2:08.3 | fragrances, how fragrances go through different iterations, the best way to keep your perfumes from |
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