213. SEBASTIAN JARA ~ A NICHE PERFUME CONVENTION IS COMING TO SF!?

Perfume Room

Emma Vernon

Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.9 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Sebastian Jara is not new to this [fragrance content]; he's true this. Since 2012, he's been creating videos, and today his YT channel boasts over 335K subscribers. Now he's onto the next venture. After years of attending perfume trade shows all over the world, Sebastian has created his own and it's called ScentFEST. And the inaugural show is happening in just 3 weeks in SF! (June 26-28, 2026)

We chat all about what can you expect at the show, highlights from his 6000-bottle personal collection, the evolution of fragrance content over the last decade, and all the roads that led him here!

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~PERFUME ROOM WEST COAST TOUR OF LOVE!~

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Stop 1 ~ LA: Smells Like Love (June 20) NOW CASTING!

Stop 2 ~ Monterey: WPC (June 22-25)

Stop 3 ~ SF: ScentFEST (June 26-28)

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FRAGS MENTIONED:

Angelos Créations Olfactives Soma Panorama, EM Molecule 01, Alrehab Choco Musk, YSL Rive Gauche, Madame Rochas, YSL Opium, Polo Green, Caron Pour Un Homme, Pierre Cardin, Guy Laroche Drakkar Noir, Chrome Azzaro, JPG Le Male, D&G Pour Homme, Jo Malone: Orange Blossom, Vetyver, Black Vetyver Cafe, Blue Agave & Cacao, Lime Basil & Mandarin, Pomegranate Noir, Wild Fig & Cassis; Mugler A*Men, Cologne; Penhaligon’s, Annick Goutal, Mugler Angel, Sarah Baker Jungle Jezebel, Massimo Dutti White Evening, Jusbox Fifty Four, BLNDGRPHY Vanilla Mudslide, Trudon 45°, Sarah Baker VaVa Vanilla, Dusita Light of Bangkok, Pesad Orris Cocoon, Dior Homme (orig.), Hugo Boss Bottled Absolu, Le Male Elixir, Loumari Radanfor, JPG Le Male, Guerlain Guerlinade, Jean-Louis Scherrer, Lancome Magie Noire, Hermes Eau d’Orange Verte, Eau de Gucci, Carine Roitfeld Carine, Houbigant Fougère Royale (1884), Coty Ambre Antique (1904), Chanel No. 5 (1921), Guerlain Mitsouko (1919), Caron Tabac Blond (1919), Molinard Habinita (1924), kyphi from ancient Egypt

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0:00.0	Welcome to the perfume room.
0:12.8	You might have noticed that today is Wednesday.
0:14.7	And last week's episode also came out on a Wednesday.
0:17.3	And next week's episode will also come out on Wednesday.
0:20.4	Are you picking up what I'm putting
0:21.2	down? Perfume room episodes have officially moved air dates to Wednesdays. So with that said,
0:28.2	my son of the hump day is Parfam MDCI Encore on May. And if you were in the May Rose
0:34.4	Smoke Club this month, Maybe it is yours too.
0:44.3	This scent is so magnetic, it immediately pulls me in, and it is described by the brand as a dizzying spring floral.
0:46.2	And I think that's a perfect descriptor.
0:49.3	It is a spring garden in peak bloom.
0:55.6	There's rose and tuberose, an orange blossom, a langeling, mimosa, and a spicy effect of carnation and lily of lilyle of lilyk, a sort of violity melon, a big, big dose of galbanum. It is green and
1:01.9	heady and spicy and waxy and bushy and floral and warm. The dizziness in here is not nauseating.
1:09.3	It is a joyful dizziness, like the lightheadedness
1:12.3	you get from smelling too much perfume too quickly, or maybe you've spun too fast on a big green
1:17.9	lawn. It is overindulgence in life's simplest pleasures. Imagine that big galbanum opening
1:24.3	of something like Deja le Pontomp, but instead of developing into that sort of
1:28.9	like cedary kind of smoky grassiness, it veers more spicy floral, a la Casheel Anais Anais, or Ormez 24 Fowlberg.
1:39.1	Somebody in Smell Club even pointed out this sort of olive oil brininess that it has to it, which now that I'm
1:45.7	smelling for it, I cannot unsmell and I love. And what remains hours later on skin is this sort
1:52.0	of powdery blanket of musks and green galbanum and a sort of bar-soapy, creamy rose with a melon-like
2:00.2	powdery floral that makes me think of the sort of
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