31. New Year, New(ish) Brand: The COMModity Re-launch (w/ COMModity CEO Vicken Arslanian)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
COMModity, your fav once-defunct brand, is back and *thriving* thanks to RE-Founder, Vicken Arslanian (who also happens to be the CEO and Founder of Europerfumes). In this ep, we discuss *why* COMModity, how an initially ignored LinkedIn message led to this lightning in a bottle (pun intended) opportunity, the new ScentSpace Exploration Kit, Vicken’s personal faves (and least faves), the draconian process of deciding which archived scents got the ax (cough cough: Orris), that time Vicken was the Cinderella of QVC, his $1.5M reminder to keep going, and most importantly, Vicken makes me a promise for which I need you all to bear witness.
FRAGS MENTIONED: Atelier Iris Rebelle, Commodity: Orris, Paper, Rain, Nectar, Leather, Gold, Velvet, Paper Plus, Moss, Whiskey, Milk, Visari Fleurage, Gabar No II Ground, Diptyque Philosykos, BDK Gris Charnel, Lost Alice Masque Milano, Monsieur Balmain, Polo
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. The year is now 2022. I can't believe that this podcast has existed for almost a full year. You better believe that if things with Omicron are better in New York |
| 0:22.6 | come April, there will be a live one-year anniversary show. |
| 0:27.5 | If you live in the greater New York City area, start isolating now, and I will see you in four months. |
| 0:34.2 | Because it's a new year, I put together some New Year's resolutions and they're all |
| 0:39.4 | fragrance related. So I'll share a few of them. The first, which benefits all of you, is to |
| 0:45.4 | continue to get rid of full bottles that I don't reach for regularly. These perfumes are all |
| 0:52.5 | great and they deserve great homes. And if they are not with me, |
| 0:56.0 | then they deserve to be with you. So stay tuned because there are going to be lots of giveaways |
| 1:01.3 | coming in the very near future. Second, I need to make money, honey. Yeah, I love this podcast. |
| 1:09.8 | I do it for hours every week. Unfortunately, it does not |
| 1:13.1 | bring me a dollar, which is why. If you do buy anything with my affiliate links, if you do a |
| 1:19.6 | sent consultation with me, you are supporting the podcast because it is currently the only way |
| 1:26.2 | that I am able to make money from it at this point in time. |
| 1:29.6 | I want to continue to hone my nose and get even more effective training. |
| 1:36.0 | I want to continue to explore niche and indie houses and give you guys recommendations |
| 1:41.6 | that you might otherwise not have heard of. |
| 1:44.5 | And I want to continue to feature diverse voices and perspectives, both in and outside of the fragrance industry. |
| 1:51.6 | And with that said, I always love your guys' recommendations. |
| 1:55.3 | So many of my favorite episodes and so many of the incredible guests that we had in 2021 were people that you suggested for |
| 2:02.6 | the podcast and for that I thank you. And another thing I really want to do in 2022, especially |
| 2:09.5 | because so many of you guys have requested it is partner with a company to make my own |
| 2:15.3 | curated sampler kit of maybe my top 10 fragrances. |
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