26. The Smell of Anal (w/ UFO Parfums’ Maxwell Williams)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Yes you read that correctly. In today’s ep, I am joined by perfumer, olfactive artist, and DJ, Maxwell Williams. We discuss what anal actually smells like (spoiler alert: he created a perfume inspired by the deed), why anal is (in fact) for everyone, the appeal of animalic scents, Fragrantica trolls and we why secretly love them, and how human sex pheromones are not a thing… yet. Maxwell discusses how getting in touch with himself helped him cultivate his sense of smell and vice versa, and how for him, fragrance is an expression of extroversion. I also take the audience on a rollercoaster of my tumultuous relationship with Abercrombie & Fitch. Basically, we cum full circle.
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Abercrombie & Fitch Ellwood White Bergamot, Nemat Egyptian Musk, Kuumba Made Egyptian Musk, Nemat Amber, UFO Anal, ELdO Secretions Magnifiques, Agent Provocateur, Paris Hilton Eau de Parfum, Pure Instincts Oil, UFO Parfums Literalvolcano, Coty Aspen, Ralp Lauren Polo Sport, Drakkar Noir, Hugo Boss
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. Today's scent of the day is combined with my perfume juice, |
| 0:15.1 | and that is because I am wearing a scent that is going to shock you all. I am wearing an |
| 0:20.0 | apocrombian fitch men's scent. It's called Elwood white bergamot. And why is this surprising? Um, where do I start? Let me give you a little backstory. Okay, as long as I have been doing perfume reviews on TikTok, I have gotten comments that I need to try apocryombian fitch's Elwood white bergamot. To be honest, I don't know if it's one account who comments it on all my videos, or if this is like a cult scent that I genuinely just did not have on my radar. But I didn't realize that Apocronbian Fitch is like relevant again. So every time I saw the comment, I kind of just assumed it was like somebody my age trying to get me to review an unearth bottle of like their favorite |
| 0:55.2 | 2002 scent and I was like this is too niche for TikTok I have no idea what this scent is |
| 0:59.8 | it's probably discontinued. Lo and behold, not only is it not discontinued and it's a current scent |
| 1:05.7 | but apparently Apicrombian Fitch is now relevant and a good store to shop in which is insane to me, because if you asked me if there's anything I would do over going into an Apocrombian Fitch break-and-mortar location, I'd be like, yeah, I'd rather squeeze lemon juice into my paper cuts. If you are Gen Z right now shopping at Apocrombian Fitch, you just don't know what Apocrombie and Fitch was like in the early |
| 1:28.6 | 2000s. Let me explain it to you. The size extra large was as big as they carried, and that was |
| 1:34.8 | equivalent to like, I don't know, maybe like a size six, if that. Mind you, this was a store made for |
| 1:40.7 | tweens and teens. Do you know what that does to a teenager? You do because it's |
| 1:47.6 | insane and if you think like something like Brandy Melville's one-size-fits-all is crazy, |
| 1:52.0 | they had that at Episcromby and Fitch too, except the one size that was supposed to fit all |
| 1:56.1 | was genuinely an extra small, which according to their sizing was like a size zero. |
| 2:01.2 | The amount of tears I shed every time I went into that dressing room, honestly, the phrase |
| 2:05.3 | should be changed to brick and martyr because that's what I felt like every time I stepped |
| 2:09.8 | foot in an apocrombian fitch. |
| 2:11.7 | Anyway, apparently now they actually do jeans really well and have very inclusive sizing and I posted a video |
| 2:18.6 | about a gene hall I was doing because I couldn't find boyfriend jeans or mom jeans |
| 2:23.3 | or whatever wide-like jeans that I thought were flattering for my body type and the |
| 2:27.1 | amount of comments of people being like get apocrombie to which I was like you |
| 2:31.2 | know what I think I'd rather drink a full bottle of canola oil but thank thank you so much for your recommendation. Anyway, I was in a mall yesterday and I went in and I tried on some of their jeans, did not leave with any pairs because I did not think they look flattering. But the fact that I could fit into them was a huge milestone. Just take a moment to take that in. I fit into their jeans now that I'm 30, but I did not fit into them when I was 11. |
| 2:54.4 | And it is not because I have lost weight. |
| 2:56.8 | Anyway, as a full-time creative, I take on a lot of random side gigs and whatever to make ends meet. |
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