182. RODRIGO FLORES-ROUX ~ What Does 2025 Smell Like? (According to a World-Renowned Perfumer.)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Givaudan VP Perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux generously returns to the Perfume Room to offer a definitive roadmap to the past, present, and future of perfume. Bookmark this ep. You'll come back to it.
Rodrigo is a fragrance genealogist of sorts, tracing your favorite perfumes’ parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. He offers a rare perfumer's POV on the current landscape: What’s trending? Why? What even qualifies as a trend? Should we care? And what's happening in the world today that will shape how fragrance smells tomorrow?
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FRAGS MENTIONED:
Sol de Janeiro, Phlur, Burberry Goddess, 27 87 Hakuna Matata, Mary Kay Velocity, Marc Jacobs Daisy Wild, Vacation Inc, Arquiste Tropical, Cire Trudon Merida, ARQUISTE Esencia de El Palacio Guayabos, Chanel No. 5, Guerlain Shalimar, Lanvin Arpège, Schiaparelli Shocking, Robert Piguet Bandit, Balmain Vent Vert, Carven Ma Griffe, Givenchy L’Interdit, Nina Ricci L’Air du Temps, Madame Rochas, Rabanne Calandre, Eau de Lancome, Eau de Patou, Eau de Guerlain, Estée Lauder Estée Super, Revlon Charlie, YSL Opium, Estée Lauder Youth Dew, Balenciaga Prelude, Estée Lauder Cinnabar, Fendi, Giorgio, Dior Poison, Ralph Lauren Polo, Guy Laroche Drakkar Noir, Davidoff Cool Water, New West, Calvin Klein Escape, Issey Miyake L’Eau D’Issey, Mugler Angel, Tom Ford Oud Wood, Donna Karan Black Cashmere, Clinique Happy, Isabell Calla, Ungaro Diva, Florstalgia: Violet, Carnation; YSL Paris, Eauso Vert Fruto Oscuro, Le Galion Bourrasque, Thom Browne: Vetyver & Brut, Vetyver & Rose; Xinu: OroNardo, Copala; ARQUISTE: A Grove By The Sea, Tropical; Roberto Greco Porter Sa Peau
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. A special thanks to this month's incredible sponsor, The Rock Contour. |
| 0:17.3 | The Rock Contour is an Australian artisanal luxury fragrance brand specializing in botanical |
| 0:22.8 | fragrances that use Australian native plant extracts. The branding is brilliant. The scents are so |
| 0:28.8 | original and the new gourmand collection will challenge everything you think you know about gormones. |
| 0:34.0 | And you can learn more about the collection and the perfumer behind it all in episode 180 of |
| 0:38.8 | perfume room with the founder and perfumer Craig Andrade. Stay tuned because the results of the |
| 0:44.5 | poll that you voted in are in and the winner is Daintree Rainty. So I will be reviewing that |
| 0:50.0 | fragrance as well as a few others from the collection in more detail next week on the podcast. |
| 0:55.5 | And now through July 31st, you can enjoy an additional 10% off any full bottle of the |
| 1:01.8 | rock contour fragrances exclusively online at Stell with code Emma 10 at checkout. |
| 1:07.3 | Go to Stell.shop and use code Emma 10 at checkout for 10% off any full bottle of the rock contour |
| 1:13.5 | fragrances. |
| 1:16.0 | Today is a very special episode. |
| 1:18.5 | We are joined again by one of your all-time favorite guests, Rodrigo Flores Rue. |
| 1:23.2 | A man who needs no introduction, but I'm going to give him one anyway. |
| 1:26.8 | Rodrigo Flores Rue is the multi-award-winning VP of Perfumery at Givodon, |
| 1:31.4 | one of the world's leading oil houses in perfumery. |
| 1:34.3 | He is the creator of hundreds, if not thousands of fragrances, |
| 1:38.4 | ranging from everything from commercial blockbusters to niche darlings, |
| 1:42.1 | sense like Clinie Cappy, Tom Ford and Roli Portofino, |
| 1:45.7 | John Varvedos, Donna Karen Black Cajmir, all of the Shino fragrances, the entire Tom |
| 1:50.5 | Brown-Vetever collection, Elizabeth Arden White Tea, ubiquant frugier-royal, most of the archiste |
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