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Perfume Room

43. When Your Living Room Doubles As A Fragrance Shop (w/ MUSE Experiences Founder Kim Waters)

Perfume Room

Emma Vernon

Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.9619 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Kimberly Waters, Founder and Creative Director of MUSE Experiences, is in the Perfume Room today! Recently featured in the NYTimes, MUSE Experiences is Harlem’s only niche fragrance retailer, as well as the only fragrance retailer in the city to operate out of an actual home (on the parlor floor of Kim’s townhouse), and thus, the only perfume shop (that we know of) where, as Kim mentions, you can take shoes off upon entering! The coziest. Kim and I chat about her fragrance background prior to founding MUSE, the inspiration behind the concept, what happens during an appointment, how she navigates working where she lives, and the brands and fragrances she’s most excited about right now.

FRAGS MENTIONED:

Chabaud Lait et Chocolat, Comptoir Sud Pacifique Vanille Banane, Affinessence Santal Basmati, Milano Fragranze Basilica, Hilde Soliani Hot Milk, Obvious Parfums Un Bois,  Atelier Vetiver Fatale, Prada Candy, Keiko Mecheri Loukhoum, Byredo Pulp, By Kilian, Nasomatto Narcotic Venus, Fleur des Fleurs Une Nuit Nomade, Maya Njie, Juicy Couture, Bridge and Blend, Photo/genics + Co No. 3 Sativa, Photo/genics + Co Pavot, Olfactive Studios Iris Shot, Maya Njie Nordic Cedar, Jamaica Bay Rum

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the perfume room.

0:12.5

My scent of the day today is Le Chocolat by Chobode Maison de Parfam.

0:17.4

This scent is so fun.

0:19.7

It's reminding me of, okay, when I was a kid, I'm talking like, I don't know, like five years old.

0:24.9

We took a family vacation to Hershey Park and we went on that like tour of chocolate world.

0:30.7

I don't know.

0:31.1

It's a very specific reference.

0:32.7

But if you know, you know.

0:34.0

And the entire tour is scented of this like dusty cocoa milky but also sort of like dark

0:40.7

chocolate smell and that is what my skin currently smells like the jury is still out like i don't know

0:47.5

if i would wear this out but it is making me so happy there's also know, in the middle of these like dark chocolate and

0:56.7

cocoa notes, there are also some woody notes and there's also a jasmine note, which gives

1:00.7

it the slight floral see that I think actually as edible as it is makes it wearable as well.

1:07.6

I think the reason I'm loving this is because it straddles this line of like so playful,

1:12.5

so whimsical, but also something that you could wear. Like part of me is like, oh, I'm an umpalumpa

1:18.7

in Charlie's Chocolate Factory, like on my work break floating down the chocolate river. But then the other

1:24.4

part of me is like, no, I am wearing a sexy gourmand and I am ready for a night out on the town.

1:31.2

And I think the fact that I can't figure out which one is why I'm so drawn to this fragrance.

1:35.3

It is my favorite in the Leigh Collection from Shibu.

1:39.5

I am so excited because today we are joined by Kimberly Waters.

1:44.1

She is the founder and creative

1:46.6

director of Muse Experiences, which is Harlem's only niche fragrance retailer and the only

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