199. THE BEST OF 2025 EPISODE! (in 1Q26!) (w/ surprise co-host!)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
MY TOP 20 FAVE LAUNCHES/DISCOVERIES OF 2025!!!
with highly requested/repeat award show co-host: my mom, Karen!
(Most of these shouldn't surprise you because I have been talking about them all year.)
FOR TIX TO SMELLS LIKE LOVE/TO APPLY TO BE A DATER: linktr.ee/emmavern
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Courreges Hyper Musc, EM Molecule 01 + Iris, Nobile 1942 Il Colore del Vento, Roja Isola Blu, Ex Nihilo Spiky Muse, Lancôme La Vie Est Belle L’Elixir, La Vie Est Belle; Giardini di Toscano Celeste, Hilde Soliani Fraaagola Saalaaata, Meo Fusciuni Viole Nere, Ibrahim Fuhaid Orrisilla, Cartier La Panthere (Les Gouttes de Parfum), Param Sara The Mandala, Anti: Rosa Antiqua, Duke’s Carpet;Thom Browne Vetyver & Brut, Vyrao Georgette, Voyager Flashbulb, Villa Erbatium Mossy Glen, Harlem Candle Co. Eartha, Le Pere, Fzotic Deixis, Spoturno 1921
(NOTE - there were many other frags I loved that for interest of time and/or sourcing issues, didn't make this episode! As in years prior, if could do a top 50, I absolutely would!)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. I have a very special guest today and a very special episode for all of you planned. As promised. And this year, I'm not only doing it in one Q, 2026, but specifically in January, |
| 0:22.9 | I am giving you my best of 2025 episode. |
| 0:27.2 | And in order to help me do that, we have a special guest, a fan favorite. |
| 0:33.8 | Do you want to introduce yourself? |
| 0:35.7 | Okay, here I am again. |
| 0:39.1 | Why is screaming? I don't know. Okay't okay here I am again I don't know any more today than I did a year ago when we did |
| 0:43.9 | this episode but I'm always game to try and to learn and you're a great teacher for me so |
| 0:48.7 | let's go to it let's go to it. |
| 0:57.0 | If you couldn't tell, it is my mother. |
| 1:00.3 | And yeah, mom. |
| 1:02.3 | So here's what we have in front of us. So I have gone through my wardrobe and pulled out the fragrances that were my favorite personal discoveries of 2025. |
| 1:10.6 | A lot of these came out this year, or if they didn't come out this year, maybe they came out at like the tail end of 2024. |
| 1:15.9 | A few of them didn't. |
| 1:16.8 | A few of them have been around longer, and I just personally discovered them this year. |
| 1:20.8 | And some of these are ones that you smelled earlier in the year, but I know you have scent to amnesia, so you're not going to remember anyway. |
| 1:26.8 | But when we did that episode before on Substack, you smelled a few of these then. |
| 1:33.6 | Don't test me to see which ones they were because I won't remember. |
| 1:39.1 | Emma's giving me the look like you are so stupid. I can't believe I'm talking to you. |
| 1:43.5 | I don't know what you're talking about. Okay. |
| 1:46.2 | So what I have done is I have gone through my wardrobe and just, yeah, I pulled out things that I've |
| 1:53.2 | been wearing a lot or things that were so fun to discover. Most of these are bottles. Some of them are |
| 1:57.9 | testers. And I also tried to have like a few different categories. So I have |
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