Welcome to the perfume room. My center of the day today is appropriately plum and cognac by Sense of Wood. Why do I say appropriately? Well, our guest today is the founder of sense of wood, Faprice Cuis.

So I will save the backstory and the inspiration behind this fragrance for Friplice because he does talk about it.

But let me tell you about the scent memory that this trigger is for me because it is a strong one.

Let's set the scene.

The year is like 2006, 2007.

As a kid, I went to sleepaway camp.

And my camp friends and I all grew up in suburbs of New York City.

So we would all take their train in, whether it was New Jersey Transit, Long Island Railroad, Metro North, and meet in the city at my grandmother's apartment.

And down the street from her apartment was this

amazing neighborhood sushi spot that we loved and they loved us and it was kind of like small

and tucked in a corner and they weren't strict on IDs and so they would always serve us and

the one thing that they had on their menu was plum wine. We were all of the same mindset that we will drink absolutely anything that anyone is

willing to serve us, which meant we drank almost exclusively plum wine.

With that said, I will say you would be surprised how many spots served a bunch of 15-year-old

girls with essentially like fake beauty marks drawn on them.

Like in retrospect, we

definitely looked like a stack of kids in a trench coat. But if they'd have us, we'd have them.

And that was our motto. None of us had fake IDs. We would just walk into bars. And if anyone

was like ID, we'd be like, oops, we left it at home and just like run out of the bar.

So yeah, a lot of plum wine-induced

fun and this fragrance was immediately a trip down memory lane. Anyway, I digress. If you want a

little bonus episode about my underage escapades in New York City, let me know. But if not,

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