188. JOY MILNE ~ The Nose That Can Smell Parkinson's
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Born with a rare hereditary condition called hyperosmia, Joy Milne possesses a superhuman sense of smell—one so acute it led her to make a groundbreaking medical discovery: Parkinson's Disease has a smell.
How did she do it? What might it mean for the future of diagnostic testing? And what other diseases and human conditions have scents?
(SPOILER ALERT: romantic compatibility is one of them!)
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SOTD: Maison D'Etto Noisette
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. My scent of the day today is an oldie book goody. I am wearing |
| 0:16.3 | Maison ditto noisette. This is one I've been reaching for a lot in the last, like, I don't know, |
| 0:21.8 | week or so, which makes perfect sense because to me, this is the ultimate transitional scent. |
| 0:28.2 | This is the type of scent that I crave when I also want to wear a fuzzy sweater, when it's |
| 0:32.3 | like 55 degrees and breezy out. Maybe I'm pulling the layers out. I'm taking the fall boots back out, but I am not |
| 0:39.1 | going full-blown Lincoln Park after dark. Nozette is like your oris lovers favorite oris. |
| 0:46.6 | But the other thing is, I guess I'm just talking about myself, it's your lavender haters favorite |
| 0:52.2 | lavender. And what I mean by that is if you love all the nuances, |
| 0:56.9 | all the hallmarks of a great orscent, |
| 0:59.3 | rudy, earthy, powdery, makeupy, it's that. |
| 1:04.3 | However, the way that it feels sort of aromatic in that lavender way, |
| 1:10.4 | it's not soapy, it's not Fugere, it's not Farmer lavender way. It's not soapy. |
| 1:11.7 | It's not fujer. |
| 1:13.3 | It's not farmer's market. |
| 1:15.1 | It just adds sort of like a buzz. |
| 1:17.8 | Like almost if you take the bubanness of a great oris scent and just kiki it up. |
| 1:22.7 | Yeah, this is a dual kiki-buba scent. |
| 1:25.6 | I will go on record. |
| 1:26.8 | A rare dual kiki-buba. scent. I will go on record. A rare dual kiki-bubba. It's just beautifully balanced. |
| 1:31.7 | Imagine you took one of those like linen lavender satchels that maybe you would find in like an old |
| 1:35.7 | chest of drawers or in some sort of like country farm store, right? But then take it out of the |
| 1:43.2 | farm stand and stick it in a burkin bag. It's very |
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