20. The 90s Edit (w/ Base Note Bitch Liz Renstrom)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
If hearing the words Malibu Musk, Pear Glace, Cucumber Melon, Country Apple, and Sun-Ripened Raspberry make you feel some type of way, this episode is for you. Base Note Bitch is the IG account unlocking your happiest and cringiest scent memories alike. Through her quippy photography and descriptions, Liz Renstrom, the mastermind behind it all -- perfectly encapsulates the people, time, and places of these nostalgic fragrances.
In this ep, we discuss how the 90s and early-aughts were the *American Pie generation,* and thus every teen scent was subsequently created/worn with one goal [getting laid], what edible perfumes actually taste like (*cough cough* looking at you Jessica Simpson Dessert), the '90s canons that would still be hits today and our memories associated with them, horse girl frags ~n OtHeR TinGz~, how Limited Too is the OG Brandi Melville, how to actually find legitimate vintage fragrances on the Internet, what makes a perfume smell like sex, the art of *dabbing,* and I smell Secretions Magnifiques for the first (and last) time.
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FRAGS MENTIONED:
Escentric Molecules Molecule 01+Iris, Montale Iris So Intense, Diptyque Fleur de Peau, Hilde Soliani Hot Milk, B&BW Vanilla Bean Noel, Nishane Ani, Atelier Des Ors Lune Feline, Commodity Velvet, Maison Margiela By the Fireplace, Diptyque Benjoin Boheme, Atelier Cafe Tuberosa, Penhaligon's Cairo, Atelier Jasmin Angelique, Atelier Clementine California, Victoria Secret Love Spell, Avon Skin So Soft, B&BW Sweet Pea, B&BW Country Apple, B&BW Sun-Ripened Raspberry, Victoria's Secret Pear Glace, Coty Tribe, Cabotine, Gap Om, Jessica Simpson Dessert Treats, Ralph Cool, Malibu Musk, Bijan Bijan, Hanae Mori, Baccarat 540, Ariana Grande Cloud, Etat Libre Secretions Magnifiques, Frederic Malle Musc Ravageur, Pure Instincts Pheromones, Papillon Angelique, Oriza L. Legrand Relique D’Amour, Mugler Womanity, Vulva Original, Agent Provocateur, Estee Lauder Knowing
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. My center of the day today is from eccentric molecules. It's molecule 01 plus iris, which is part of their new M plus line. I think the other two in that line are molecule O1 plus petulii and molecule O one plus |
| 0:26.6 | Mandarin, I believe. |
| 0:28.4 | Yeah, mandor. |
| 0:29.6 | I, you guys know, I mean, I don't have to say it, but you know I love anything, |
| 0:33.1 | Oris, Iris. |
| 0:34.4 | And I actually just recently placed an order with Lucky Scent, which spoiler alert, |
| 0:40.2 | they are my perfume juice of the day. |
| 0:42.2 | I placed an order for like 12 different scents that I wanted to try and this one really |
| 0:49.3 | rose to the top. |
| 0:50.8 | It reminds me of the same kind of, I don't, okay, so it's weird. |
| 0:54.1 | On for Granica, it lists the notes as same kind of, I don't, okay, so it's weird. On for Granica, |
| 0:55.2 | it lists the notes as being Isoui super and Oris. However, the perfumer says that it is an |
| 1:02.0 | iris note, whatever it is, it is creamy and powdery and makeupy and sweet in a non-gourmandu. |
| 1:09.0 | Just sweet in like that perfect, cozy, warm, soothing hug. |
| 1:14.8 | The fragrance that this most reminds me of that's already in my collection is Montal Iris |
| 1:20.1 | So Intense. |
| 1:21.4 | The way that I would describe this M-plus Iris fragrance would be somewhere in between Molecula 1, |
| 1:30.3 | Fleuripo by Dipique, and Montel Iris so intense. It's just somewhere in the middle, totally a skin scent. If you want to project, if you |
| 1:36.1 | want compliments, I don't know that I would choose this one. However, if you just want to be comforted |
| 1:40.6 | throughout the day and occasionally get a whiff of yourself. Oh my God, this. I would wear this |
| 1:46.6 | to bed. Someone actually asked me on TikTok the other day, what is the scent that I would say is like for |
| 1:52.9 | the ultimate like casual effortless but like also glam at the same time person? And I feel like it's |
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