19. ~Wine & Dine~ Your Perfumes (w/ Black Girls Smell Good Founder Maiya Gant)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Created by Maiya Gaint, Black Girls Smell Good is an online community that rolls 115K members deep (across platforms) for Black women to share, obsess, and learn about all things fragrance. In this ep, I am joined by Maiya herself and WOW, it’s a juicy one. Having previously spent time in beauty retail as both a sales associate and educator, Maiya spills the secrets on the behind-the-scenes of department store beauty departments. Spoiler alert: there’s a reason you're guided towards certain fragrances and not others.
We also discuss how Cloud is NOT a dupe for BR 540, the weird Internet obsession over the latter, how Maiya got into fragrance, her inspiration for creating BGSG, her first date perfume picks, the art of ASMR in fragrance reviews, Rihanna’s Fenty fragrance, and the fine line between collecting vs. hoarding (hard to say where we fall on that one), and Maiya reveals her current relationship status… with her perfumes ;)
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Fragrance Du Bois NY 5th Ave, Penhaligon’s Cairo, The Body Shop White Musk Lover, The Body Shop Black Musk, Nemat Amber, By Rosie Jane Rosie, Pure Instincts, Le Labo Rose 31, Montale Sensual Instincts, Tom Ford Lost Cherry, Kilian Princess, Baccarat Rouge 540, Alt Crystal No. 23, Ariana Grande Cloud, Estee Lauder Pleasures, Ocean Pacific OP Juice, Estee Lauder Youth Dew, Vera Wang Princess, Kilian Princess, Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb, Tom Ford Fucking Fabulous, Kilian’s Kissing, MFK Gentle Fluidity Gold, Pinrose Pillowtalk Poet, JHAG Not A Perfume, Clean Reserve Warm Cotton, Montale Wild Pears, Montale So Iris Intense, Kilian After Sunset, Fenty Fenty, Kilian Love Don’t Be Shy, Rihanna Reb’l Fleur, Vacation Inc by Arquiste, Tom Ford Beau de Jour, Giorgio by Giorgio Beverly Hills, Mugler Angel
PERFUME 101: Cypriol Oil
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. How's everybody doing today? You guys, I used to say that whenever I would open up a comedy set and it's like nobody's going to respond and you don't feel that more than when you are a podcast |
| 0:21.4 | host. If you've ever like taken a shower and started talking to yourself and you realize like, |
| 0:26.8 | oh my God, I've had a whole conversation with myself. Congratulations. You now know what it feels to be |
| 0:32.2 | a solo podcast host. Anyway, my scent of the day today is New York 5th Avenue by Fragrance Dubois, |
| 0:39.2 | and this is such a gorgeous gourmand. It's got notes of rose and caramel and cashmere and wood |
| 0:45.5 | and musk and cypriol. And you know what? I have loved this fragrance ever since I first smelled it, |
| 0:52.8 | and today I finally had an epiphany of what it |
| 0:57.0 | smells like. Do you want to take a guess? Let me tell you. Again, why am I asking these rhetorical |
| 1:02.6 | questions? It smells like Panhaligans, Cairo. Unfortunately, it's not a dupe. I know you guys |
| 1:08.8 | have been asking for one. These fragrances are both |
| 1:11.4 | $300. The only reason I have a bottle of Panhaligans is because they sent it to me and I only have a |
| 1:17.1 | sample of New York Fifth Avenue. But oh my God, they both are amazing. They remind me of each other. |
| 1:23.9 | It's funny because I hear Cairo compared to Udza and Mood all the time and maybe it's just because |
| 1:28.6 | this one isn't as popular but I don't hear anybody compare it to this fragrance so I was trying to |
| 1:33.2 | figure out like what it is that makes them similar so I was looking up the notes and there's only one |
| 1:38.8 | note in both that I don't recognize or immediately know the smell of I know it's in a few fragrances |
| 1:43.6 | I love I just like I don't know what the raw the smell of. I know it's in a few fragrances I love. I just like, |
| 1:45.1 | I don't know what the raw ingredient smells like. And that is Cypriol. So I'm going to assume that |
| 1:50.9 | what I love about both fragrances besides the other common notes like rose and vanilla and woody |
| 1:57.1 | notes is Cypriol. So stay tuned because I did a little research and that is actually |
| 2:03.7 | going to be the perfume 101 today. And my perfume juice of the day is on the body shop. So you guys |
| 2:10.3 | know and love white musk by the body shop. It's been around, I think, since 1988. It's a classic. |
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