Welcome to the perfume room. Today's episode is so good. I say that every episode, but like genuinely, this one is a gem.

My scent of the day today is Flaming Creature by Marissa Zappas.

You guys will hear this person come up numerous times in the episode today.

And that is because both today's guest, Lauren, and past guest Liz Rendsrom,

you know her, you love her as a bass note bitch, have been singing her praises.

And I was like, I need to meet her.

So I reached out to Marissa and she graciously had me over to her perfume studio last week

and let me sample so many of her fragrances.

She will be a future episode.

So I'm not going to spend too much time there.

But when I tell you that flaming creature did something to me, changed who I am through what I knew. Before I explain

what it actually smells like, let me tell you why I think it's so special. It is somehow

universally appealing, yet not mass appealing. So the way that I would differentiate the two

is like universally appealing in that it is a good

scent. It smells good. If you smelled it on yourself or another person in the subway, it's

intriguing. It's interesting. Your nose will be like, yes, I like this. But it's not mass appealing

in that it's like complicated. And I don't think everybody can pull it off. And I don't think

Marissa intends for it to be the type of scent that everybody can pull off.

So if you think of a scent, I don't know, like if you take like scents that are sold at mass, right?

Like go, if you walk into Sephora and you smell Yassalibre or La Viebelle or even something like Angel Share by Killian, those are fragrances that are made

to be easy to love. There are no complicated notes or hurdles that you kind of have to jump past

to get there. And I think that Marissa has a really amazing way of throwing in complexities

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