42. Making Content, Perfume, Money, & Moves (w/ Exalté Perfume Creator & TikToker Funmi Monet)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Your Fave Fragrance Auntie, Funmi Monet, is in the Perfume Room! By day, Funmi is a licensed therapist and by night— a fragrance star. She's not just a fragrance content creator, she is a fragrance creator AND a content creator. In one short year on TikTok, Funmi has amassed well over 100K followers as well as launched her own fragrance, Exalté. UM, let that sink in for a sec. Funmi shares the fragrance she stopped a stranger for; the ones that get her stopped; her first, second and third date fragrance picks (hint: they are not the same); the inspiration for Exalté; and, PERFUMETOK — TAKE NOTES: Funmi talks everything from rates, to negotiating, to different ways to partner with brands, and ultimately, how to grow your brand and monetize your content.
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Kierin NY Pier NY, D.S. & Durga Bistro Waters, Maya Njie Tobak, Phlur Lost Cause, Oribe Cote D’Azur, Henry Rose Jake’s House, Henry Rose Smyth, Electimuss Mercurial Cashmere, Dior Oud Ispahan, Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb, MFK Baccarat Rouge, JHAG Not A Perfume, Ariana Grande Cloud, Carolina Herrera Good Girl, YSL Black Opium, Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds, Estee Lauder Pleasures, Britney Spears Fantasy, Marc Jacobs Daisy, Juicy Couture Viva La Juicy, Funmi Monet Exalte, Givenchy L'Interdit Rouge, Simone Andreoli Leisure in Paradise, PdM Delina Exclusif, Dior Hypnotic Poison, MFK Oud Satin Mood, Penhaligon’s Cairo, Amouroud Mysterious Rose, Frederic Malle Musc Ravageur, Tom Ford Lost Cherry, Dior Poison Girl, Dior Sauvage, Dior Sauvage Elixir, Givenchy L’Interdit, YSL Libre, YSL Libre Intense, Lancome LVEB, Lancome LVEB Intonement, Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb Ruby Orchid, Carolina Herrera Very Good Girl, Dior Dune, Kayali Vanilla 28, La Botica Soho, Dior Eden-roc
FOLLOW FUNMI: @funmimonet on all platforms
SHOP EXALTE: www.bellaaura.com
SHOP MY DISCOUNTS: linktr.ee/emmavern
FOLLOW PERFUME ROOM: @perfumeroompod
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. I've got a little bit more pep in my step today because I am recording this intro on a very special occasion. |
| 0:19.4 | Today is March 21st and it is indeed fragrance day. Fragrance lovers, |
| 0:24.3 | this is our Christmas, this is our birthright, our Hanukkah, our Halloween, whatever. This is |
| 0:29.6 | the day where the world says, we see you. You will be listening to this probably on March 22nd. |
| 0:34.9 | I hope you lived your best life yesterday, but I've got great news for you. |
| 0:38.3 | It is also fragrance week. So if you didn't catch fragrance day yesterday, guess what, you got a week |
| 0:43.7 | to celebrate. Try a new brand, buy a new bottle, buy 10, layer your perfumes, wear a fragrance |
| 0:50.3 | you hate, wear a fragrance you love. You can do whatever you want. Now, as we are |
| 0:55.2 | celebrating this momentous occasion, I want to shout out a fragrance that has been top of mind all |
| 0:59.4 | weekend, okay? And that is Kieran Pier and Y. Humor of this fragrance is Jerome Epinette, |
| 1:05.5 | and I am convinced that he took a bell jar and just bottled the exact smell of the East River and recreated it |
| 1:11.8 | because it is the most transportive photo realistic scent in my collection. Okay, I have a very |
| 1:18.1 | strong memory and tie to the East River because I've always been an East Sider. I love |
| 1:23.6 | running on the East River, which if we're being realistic, is really just like walking at a pretty, I don't know, fast pace. Like, I'm doing like a 12-minute mile, but I like to call it running because I add a little bounce in my step. I digress. The point of all this is to say that this smells exactly like the East River. Okay, it's got that weird saltiness that you're like this is a river, it fresh water, but why does it smell salty? And then it's got that sort of like ozonic, like aromatic |
| 1:48.4 | feeling of like warm sun with like a bit of something industrial that you're like something's |
| 1:54.1 | in this river that shouldn't be there. And I smell FDR drive right next to me. But it all mixes |
| 1:59.1 | and you get this like sage, salty, figgy goodness. |
| 2:03.7 | And when I tell you that if you know what the East River smells like and you like it, |
| 2:08.7 | which I happen to love, you got to get pure New York. |
| 2:12.1 | Trust me, it is the same smell. |
| 2:15.3 | It's wild. |
| 2:16.4 | I also just want to say on a side note, this weekend I went to |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Emma Vernon, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Emma Vernon and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.