52. A Fraghead Hotel!!! (w/ The Maker Co-Founders Lev Glazman and Alina Roytberg)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Beyonce and Jay-Z, Barack and Michelle, David and Victoria… LEV & ALINA. Today, I sit down with the ultimate power couple—The Maker Hotel & Fragrance Co-Founders, Lev Glazman and Alina Roytberg. Business and life partners whose titles (past and present) span from Founders to Presidents to Hoteliers to Noses to Designers to Restauranteurs, are also the same duo behind Fresh Beauty. We discuss the intimacy and role scent has played in their own relationship, the SOLE fragrance behind the Iron Curtain (and the one that secretly penetrated it), how their respective upbringings in the Soviet Union impacted their fragrance journey, and, of course, the story of The Maker Hotel — a hotel by and for fragrance enthusiasts complete with a dedicated fragrance library and an eponymous line of luxury perfumes and candles.
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Floris Platinum 22, Commodity Paper +, The Maker: Stag, Libertine, Wild, Naked; Miss Balmain, Red Moscow (Men’s & Women’s), Lancome Climat, Guerlain Vetiver, Paco Rabanne, Givenchy Gentleman, Nina Ricci L’Air du Temps, Joop!, The Maker Spiritus (candle), The Maker Fire
FOLLOW: @themakerhotel @perfumeroompod
SHOP/VISIT THE MAKER: themaker.com
SHOP MY DISCOVERY SET: twistedlily.com/products/twisted-talent-x-emma-vernon
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. I am wearing two sons today. They were both gifted PR. The first one I'm wearing is Floris platinum 22, and the second that I'm wearing is |
| 0:22.3 | Commodity Paper Plus. |
| 0:24.0 | Need to just shout out the PR I have received recently. |
| 0:27.6 | It has all been top tier. |
| 0:29.2 | I do not need to talk about anything that I receive, but you know that if I do talk about |
| 0:33.8 | it here, it is because I love it. |
| 0:35.7 | And these are two excellent sniffs. So let me tell |
| 0:39.2 | you why. First, let's get into Floris. They reached out and asked me if they could send me their |
| 0:43.0 | newest scent. And I was like, sure, what is it? And they were like, it is inspired by the historic |
| 0:47.4 | milestone of the platinum jubilee of her majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. And it is |
| 0:52.8 | inspired by her own majestic gardens, |
| 0:55.0 | and the heart of the fragrance is, oris. |
| 0:58.4 | You guys, I was like, yes, say no more. |
| 1:01.1 | Because you know when you just hear a description and you're like, I'm going to love this, |
| 1:03.7 | I'm going to love it. |
| 1:04.6 | Well, you know what? |
| 1:06.0 | I was right. |
| 1:06.8 | I received it last night, and it blew me away. |
| 1:10.6 | Oh, my God. It has such a beautiful journey. It is |
| 1:15.3 | very much not linear in its wear and I loved every single part. So let me tell you a little bit about |
| 1:20.4 | said journey. It opens with this very sort of like cool earthy iris and clary sage combo that kind |
| 1:26.6 | of feels something similar to what i get in |
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