183. AGUSTINE ZEGERS (AGAR OLFACTORY) ~ Perfuming the Apocalypse, Unscented Perfumes, and Fragrant Time Portals.
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
agustine zegers, Chilean olfactive artist and creator of agar olfactory and speculative scent lab, directs experimental scent spaces focused on expanding our sensorial tools to navigate a planet in transition.
With perfumes that boast notes like hot fax machine, Mac carcass, mushroom gills, and yeasting dough, their work begs the bigger question: what is perfume and what are its functions?
FOLLOW: @agar.olfactory | @speculativescent
FRAGS MENTIONED:
The Raconteur Daintree Rain Tea, No Tell Motel, Lord Lamington; Oddity Naked Dance, Zoologist Squid, CKOne, Clinique Happy, CdG Wonderwood, agar olfactory damp, cero, bit bit , cereale, matsu musk, damp; Zoologist Bee, The Zoo Club Design, Loewe Wasabi
Thank you to this month's sponsor, The Raconteur!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. |
| 0:12.6 | Today's episode is brought to you by this month's incredible sponsor, The Rock Contour. |
| 0:17.4 | Now, if you are listening to this episode, The day it airs on July 29th, you have two |
| 0:22.0 | days left to get 10% off any full bottle of the rock contour at Stel. All you got to do is use |
| 0:28.4 | the code Emma 10 at checkout at Stell.shop. And today, as promised, I'm going to be reviewing |
| 0:35.5 | the winner of your Spotify poll from a few weeks back. |
| 0:39.1 | So I had asked you which fragrance from the Rock Contours' New Gormand Collection most intrigued |
| 0:44.0 | you, and you overwhelmingly voted for Daintree Rain Tea. |
| 0:48.1 | But I did sort of softly review that one in episode 178 with Jake and Matt from Still. So in addition to that |
| 0:56.4 | one, I'm going to review two other fragrances from the collection, Notel Motel and Lord |
| 1:02.2 | Lammington. And I know you got an episode to get to, so let me make it snappy. And again, |
| 1:07.7 | the rock contour is generously this month's sponsor. |
| 1:12.9 | So these are technically ads. |
| 1:16.4 | But with that, I have not received any brand talking points. |
| 1:18.6 | Craig doesn't even know what I'm about to say. |
| 1:20.9 | I don't even know what he's going to think about what I'm going to say. |
| 1:25.0 | All opinions expressed are entirely my own. |
| 1:27.3 | Okay. First, Daintree Rainty. This is a meditative, wet, mineralic, naturey |
| 1:35.6 | sheep fragrance. Like, imagine if, like, Coco by Chanel had a rainforest slinker, or I don't know, |
| 1:43.0 | like, posh spice goes on a wilderness retreat and |
| 1:45.8 | she's like sitting on a wet stone looking down at all of her peers, swimming with reckless |
| 1:50.1 | abandon, being like, thank God I am sitting on this wet stone. Now you all can smell it perfectly, |
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