206. JANA MENARD [Fragrance Vault] ~ What Happens to Your Perfume When You Die?
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
All perfumes go to heaven.
Heaven = the Fragrance Vault in Lake Tahoe.
Jana Menard is the owner of Fragrance Vault, a one-of-a-kind perfume store in Lake Tahoe that carries niche, commercial, and incredibly hard-to-find, rare vintage perfumes (so like... everything).
Today we chat about her store, how she sources and authenticates vintage, the most precious and rare gems in her collection, and her disciplined and benevolent philosophy around collecting.
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SOTD: Sana Jardin Vanilla Nomad
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Balenciaga B. Skin, L’Interdit, Caron Infini, YSL Y, Catherine Deneuve Deneuve, Jorum Studio Elegy, Darren Alan Songe à Fleurs, ERIS Belle du Jour, BR540, Dior Sauvage EDT, Darren Alan Sea Fever, D&G Light Blue, Indult Manakara, Avon: Sweet Honesty, Lily of the Valley; Revlon Ciara, DVF Tatiana, Estée Lauder Youth Dew, Guerlain Shalimar, Chanel No 5, Ralph Lauren Lauren, YSL Paris, Maxim's de Paris, Payot Pavlova, Salvador Dali Laguna, YSL Kouros, Frederic Malle Portrait of a Lady, Initio Atomic Rose, Davidoff Cool Water, Ralph Lauren Polo, Robert Piguet Bandit, Guerlain Shalimar, Annick Goutal, Perfumer’s Workshop, Etat Libre d’Orange, L’Artisan, Shiseido Nombre Noir Pure Parfum, Beaufort Acrasia, Chanel No. 46, Femme Rochas, Prince Matchabelli: Wind Song, Queen of Georgia; Guerlain: Mitsouko, L'Heure Bleue, Shalimar; Mary Kay, Amway, Miss Dior, Nina Ricci L’Air du Temps, Victoria's Secret Rapture, Mugler Angel, Viktor & Rolf FlowerBomb, Rogue Perfumery, Les Indemodables Musc des Sables
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. My scent of the day today is Sonagarden vanilla nomad. |
| 0:16.0 | This is a perfume that has been my scent of the day before, and it will surely be my scent of the day again. |
| 0:21.6 | It's hard for me to quantify anything as my favorite, but I will say that vanilla nomad |
| 0:27.2 | absolutely lands in my top five vanillas of all time. |
| 0:31.4 | The reason I love this scent so much is because it's this dry, airy vanilla, bolstered by the most warm incense, resins, and mossy |
| 0:40.5 | patchouli, and it somehow has this cozy sweetness level of like cereal milk or burning sweetgrass, |
| 0:47.6 | but in a maximalist presentation. To be clear, this is not a light skin scent. It's warm and spicy and rich and in fact as I'm wearing it right now, that was me sniffing. |
| 1:00.0 | The petulie is feeling particularly strong, almost like a little bit of like a headshot |
| 1:05.0 | petulie, which usually bothers me but I just, I don't mind it in this fragrance. It somehow feels still so gentle and |
| 1:13.5 | cocooning to me. This is a Carlos Benaim masterpiece in my opinion, and I love it. Let's get to |
| 1:22.5 | today's guest. Today, we are joined by Jana Menard, who is the founder of Fragrance Vault, a one-of-its-kind |
| 1:29.2 | perfume store that carries niche, commercial, and incredibly hard to find vintages. |
| 1:35.4 | To have that kind of expertise across so many categories is so rare. I mean, as a customer, |
| 1:42.3 | on one trip to that store, I could leave with a bottle of Mugler |
| 1:45.7 | Alien, a Lalik glass factis, which are those big bottles, by the way, of ubiquant, |
| 1:51.2 | Kelkefleur, and a niche perfume like Joram Studio Gorsland. And that is range. |
| 1:58.7 | Jenna is a lifelong devotee of perfume perfume who began her collection and her storefront |
| 2:03.7 | decades ago out of her apartment as an eBay seller. Today, she owns and operates the only |
| 2:10.8 | perfume store for hundreds of miles, one which boasts over 6,000 fragrances and was recently featured in Allure. |
| 2:18.7 | I'm going to link the article in the notes of that episode because it's wonderful and it's |
| 2:22.3 | actually how I found Jana to have her on perfume room. |
| 2:27.2 | Today we chat about everything from the vintage gems, most precious and rare in her collection, |
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