34. Niche Houses You Need to Know (w/ @thenichesampler Valerie March)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
@thenichesampler Valerie March, one of my favorite fragrance content creators, is in the Perfume Room today. By day, she explores bio-hazardous samples (she's currently getting her PhD in Tuberculosis research in Switzerland) and by evening, niche. Valerie shares the houses you NEED to know, her fragrance wardrobe theory and the five scents in her own collection that would make the cut, the molecule responsible for “old people smell,” her 2022 fragrance trend predictions, and — you will NEVER guess what her signature scent was prior to getting into niche.
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Abercrombie and Fitch Ellwood White Bergamot, Nemat Amber, Insurrection II Sport, MFK BR 540 Extrait, Les Liquides Imaginaries L’Ile Pourpre, Les Liquides Imaginaries Blanche Bête, Frederic Malle Portrait of a Lady, BR 540 EDP, Maison Crivelli Lys Sølaberg, Frederic Malle Carnal Flower, Atelier Des Ors Lune Feline, Roos & Roos Song for a Queen, Maison Crivelli Discovery kit, Parle Moi de Parfum discovery set, Revlon Pink Happiness, Carolina Herrera 212, Rihanna Nude, Coco Mademoiselle, Elizabeth Arden: Red Door, Green Tea, Sunflowers; Vilhelm Dear Polly, Chloe EDP, Parfum de Marly Safanad, Armani My Way, Savour, Pernoire, YSL Black Opium, Eau de New York 00 Auriel Odin, D&G Light Blue, Parfum de Marly Delina, Marc Jacobs Daisy, Carolina Herrera Good Girl, Tom Ford Santal Blush, Atelier Materi Santal Blond, Le Labo Santal 33, Byredo Bal D’Afrique, BDK Gris Charnel, Carolina Herrera VIP, JHAG Sunny Side Up, DS & Durga Rose Atlantic
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. My scent of the day today is Elwood White Bergamot by none other than Apicrombie and Fitch, the brand behind all of my middle school nightmares. |
| 0:21.7 | And this was a fragrance that was recommended to me on TikTok numerous times and I finally got a |
| 0:29.4 | chance to try it. I talked about it a few episodes ago, but I'm still at my mom's house, |
| 0:33.4 | which is why the fragrances I've been cycling between have been somewhat limited as I really only |
| 0:38.5 | have access right now to what I left in my childhood bedroom. Having worn this perfume many |
| 0:45.9 | times over the last few weeks, I finally have like really comprehensive thoughts about it and they are, |
| 0:52.4 | I don't love this fragrance on the skin that much. |
| 0:55.6 | You really get a strong alcohol note in the opening and then the dry down. |
| 0:59.1 | I'm like, I don't know if the payoff is there. |
| 1:01.4 | You do get a hint of Namad Amber, but again, for me, it's like a little bit more citrusy |
| 1:07.0 | and a little bit more linnyy, which are two things that I kind of don't want in Namad Amber. |
| 1:12.4 | I would rather be softer and warmer versus crisper and cleaner. |
| 1:17.5 | What I will say, however, is that I have been asked many times if there's something similar |
| 1:22.5 | to Namat Amber that I recommend for clothing because I really, really do recommend the Namad Amber in its oil form. |
| 1:29.7 | I don't particularly like it in the spray form. |
| 1:32.6 | And I will say that this sits very nicely on clothes. |
| 1:37.2 | It feels like a mix between clean linen, fresh laundry, and Namat Amber. |
| 1:42.5 | It's kind of everything you want in a clothing smell. It's super fresh, |
| 1:46.3 | but also has that warm sort of white amber, white musk skin scent. So yeah, I guess in some ways |
| 1:53.4 | it's kind of like a clothing perfume. Like I would use this in lieu of Fabriz. I do want to talk |
| 1:59.5 | about one other fragrance while we are talking about alternatives |
| 2:03.7 | to other fragrances, and that is Insurrection to Sport. |
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