36. Decolonizing Scent (w/ Perfumer Yosh Han)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Perfumer, Sommelier, Activist and Clairvoyant Yosh Han is in the Perfume Room today. Yosh has been at the forefront of decolonizing scent and her activism has led to major change in the industry; across the world, major stakeholders are officially re-classifying the o-word to amber (or ambré). We discuss why this change is necessary, the progress thus far, as well as how you (yes YOU!) can get involved. Yosh also vulnerably discusses a low point in her perfume journey including a time when she essentially lost her sense of smell, why vanilla is a low-hanging fruit, and of course the connection between clairvoyance, auras, and scent (which may or may not include a live aura reading). Oh and buckle up because I accidentally say creamy a lot; moist, you’re next! I also discuss the tragedy that is Atelier Cologne.
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Diptyque Volutes, Parfum de Marly Meliora, Juan M. Pérez Lime, Eau de Yosh: Ginger Ciao, Sompre Negra, Sottile 1.61, König, Atelier Cologne
FOLLOW YOSH ON IG: @eaudeyosh @scent_festival @scenttrunk
SIGN THE PETITION: change.org/p/sign-the-petition-to-reclassify-oriental-and-floriental-and-share-it-with-others
FOLLOW THE POD: @perfumeroompod
FIND YOUR PERFECT SCENT! https://shoplist.us/emmavernon/consults
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. My scent of the day today is actually two cents and also a little bit of perfume juice for you all. |
| 0:18.8 | On my right wrist, I am wearing perfume de mali |
| 0:21.2 | meleura, which you know I love, best in class black current scent. And on my left wrist, I am |
| 0:27.2 | wearing diptec valute, which is a fragrance I believe I talked about on this podcast a few weeks |
| 0:32.1 | ago as a more recent discovery that I fell in love with. And unfortunately, my opinion has changed. Let me tell you |
| 0:39.6 | why. So when I first tried Dipique Velut a few weeks back, I really smelled the iris note. To me, |
| 0:47.6 | it was this honeyed, tobaccoy, resiny, iris note. It smelled like a makeup bag at night. It was just sweet and sexy and |
| 0:58.9 | syrupy. And what I smelled today reminds me of sergauten-chart. It's very dry and arid. It's |
| 1:06.8 | tobacco-y and hay and very spicy. And what I'm getting in non-fragrance terms |
| 1:13.7 | is a very spicy baby powder on my skin. |
| 1:17.9 | And I'm just wondering, because it's like night and day, |
| 1:20.2 | like I got something syrupy and just absolute like |
| 1:24.8 | saccharine goodness. |
| 1:26.2 | And it smells like a totally different unrecognizable scent |
| 1:30.5 | today. Both of them were the au de perfume. I'm not sure what happened. But I also think this is a good |
| 1:36.6 | like moment to just talk about the fact that sometimes your opinions change. I have many times |
| 1:43.6 | smell the fragrance that I did not like at first that really grew on me. I have many times smelled a fragrance that I did not like at first |
| 1:45.5 | that really grew on me. And I have many times smell the fragrance that I did like at first, |
| 1:50.8 | that especially as I was able to wear it on my skin, maybe, you know, I loved the first impression |
| 1:54.9 | of it on the blotter, and it just didn't work with my skin chemistry. So I'm very curious what |
| 1:59.7 | perfumes have you had that experience |
| 2:02.8 | with where you've loved it and then disliked it, hated it, and then loved it, anything of the like. |
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