Welcome to the perfume room. My scent of the day today is D'Orce Vue et Traille.

Now, you might remember that when I went to Paris back in, I believe, 2023, I recorded an episode after that trip

recapping my perfume discovery highlights,

and I even did an entire smell club theme around it.

And you might also recall that Voulat et Trailleur was not only one of the sense

that I discussed in that episode, but one that I featured in

that small club. Suffice to say, I am obsessed with it. So when their PR team generously offered me

a bottle, I responded with an incredible eagerness and a lot of joy. So thank you Dwarce and Pistol

PR for sending me a bottle. I am so happy to have upgraded my little baby sample. So just to clarify, the names of the D'Orsay perfumes are all like a phrase and then like two letters. So Vlua et Reheur, C.G is the full name, but I will just say C.G here on out. So C.G is actually a rework of a century-old perfume. Because before there was CG, there was Ti'ul, created in 1915, and 80 years later, back in 1995,

31 years ago, oh, Olivia Jacobetti gave this old formula a new life and reimagined it mostly as it was, but with a few contemporary

tweaks.

And then when Emily Wynne acquired Dorsay, the 1995 T.U.

got a new name, Vueloer et cetera here we are today.

Olivia Jacobetti has an incredible way of snaking into our brains and unlocking scent

memories we didn't even know

we had stored deep in the depths somewhere. She recreates nature so accurately, but also so singularly.

And in fact, the more I think about it, the more I'm reminded of my conversation with Kalees Becker from a few weeks ago

and her explanation of the many truths of perfumery,

that perfume can somehow exist in both an objective and subjective state.

This is a perfume that empirically smells like sunshine

beaming down on fresh-cut grass,

but from an unmistakable Olivia Jacobetti lens.

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