55. We Need a Le Labo Kitty Litter!! (w/ COMEDIAN MARGARET CHO!)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In today’s installment of all the best people are fragheads, I am joined by the ultimate fraghead: the one, the only MARGARET CHO!!! A 5-time Grammy-nominated comedian, Emmy-nominated actor, activist, entrepreneur, musician and artist, Margaret Cho not only does it all, she does it all…smelling GOOD. Margaret has an extensive collection, immaculate taste, and lays her head on her pillow each night smelling like a character in an Edith Wharton novel. We discuss what makes a scent a *bed scent,* the appropriate time to wear Secretions Magnifiques, what her perfect fragrance would smell like, and the niche fragrance that's scentscaping her...cats' litter boxes. Still not over this episode. Won't ever be.
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Celine Dion Spring in Paris, Elizabeth Arden Green Tea, Estee Lauder Pleasures, Avon Haiku, Serge Lutens Filles en Aiguilles, Le Labo Petit Grain 21, Le Labo Santal 26, Figue 15, Le Labo Cedre 11, ELdO Secretions Magnifiques, Frederic Malle Portrait of A Lady, Vilhelm Poets of Berlin, Prescriptives Calyx, Byredo Belle de Tanger, Le Labo Another 13, Byredo Super Cedar, Frederic Malle Vetiver Extraordinaire, Glossier You, JHAG Not A Perfume, Le Labo Gaiac 10, Revlon Charlie, Jean Nate, Old Spice, Estee Lauder, Dana Loves Baby Soft, Cacharel Anais Anais, China Rain, Byredo Blanche, patchouli oil, Oil of Olay, The Body Shop Dewberry, Le Labo Santal 33, Comme des Garcons Wonderwood, Escentric Molecules Molecule 01, D&G Light Blue, Escentric Molecules: M01 + Iris, M01 + Patchouli, M01 + Mandarin, Molecule 02, Molecule 03, Molecule 04; Frederic Malle: Iris Poudre, French Lover (Bois D’Orage), Musc Ravageur Hair Perfume, Carnal Flower; Comme des Garcons Celluloid, Akro Ink, Chanel Jersey, Diptyque Benjoin Boheme, Le Labo Benjoin 19, MFK Petit Matin, Le Labo Limette 37, Le Labo Rose 31, Dana Loves Fresh Lemon, Dolly Fragrance, headshop strawberry oil, Hilde Soliani Fraaagola Saalaaata, Demeter Gingerale, Atelier Clementine California, Atelier Pomelo Paradis, Robert Piguet Fracas, Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds, Revlon Enjoli, Coty Emeraud, SJP Stash, Commodity Book, BR540, Vilhelm Poets of Berlin, DS & Durga Cowboy Grass, Nemat Amber, DKNY Delicious, Parfums MDCI Peche Cardinale, Serge Lutens Filles en Aiguilles, Xinú Monstera
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. |
| 0:12.6 | My sent to the day today is something I found in my mom's bathroom cabinet. |
| 0:17.2 | I was going through it this morning as I'm wont to do. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm currently at her house, which is why you might hear birds chirping instead of the usual |
| 0:23.3 | sirens wailing. |
| 0:25.1 | But as I was going through her cabinet, which I would describe as eclectic, bougie, and expired, |
| 0:32.0 | a trifecta in my personal opinion, I found a bottle of something that was just intriguing. |
| 0:36.9 | And I pulled it out, and you know what |
| 0:38.3 | it was? It was Celine Dion Spring and Paris. It is a flanker Celine Dion scent. This is the type of |
| 0:44.7 | fragrance that only gets worn by two types of fragrance consumers. One, the deep fraghead who's like |
| 0:50.4 | looking for the obscure deep cuts, or someone who wears zero fragrances at all |
| 0:55.8 | that somehow is just like, oh, I like Celine Dion. |
| 0:58.5 | Yeah, I like springtime, okay. |
| 1:01.0 | And I would put my mom in the latter camp of the aforementioned categories. |
| 1:06.7 | What is funny to me is that my mom just did like a spring bathroom clean out. |
| 1:12.4 | I have never smelled this fragrance on her in my life. |
| 1:15.8 | And it's just funny to picture her like throwing away, you know, all of these products and things that she never uses, but being like the Celine Dion stays. |
| 1:26.5 | And just putting it right back on that shelf. Anyway, mom, |
| 1:29.9 | if you're listening, I tried it out so that you don't have to. And I'm happy to report |
| 1:34.7 | that I don't think I uncovered any sort of hidden gem. I think it is an appropriately covered |
| 1:40.2 | gem. It's perfectly pleasant, nothing more, nothing less. It is a dewy floral tea scent. |
| 1:46.1 | I definitely get Lillia the Valley. I get a very strong tea note. And it's giving me, like, if you know |
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