56. Perfume Room LIVE!!! (w/ Kismet Olfactive Founder/Perfumer Shabnam Tavakol!)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
At long last, today's ep is the recording from Perfume Room LIVE (the one-year anniversary live show)!! Enjoy a snippet on trends of the past, present, and future from panelists Travaulya Wallace, Liz Renstrom (Basenote Bitch), and Dulma Altan, plus a full length interview with the Founder/Perfumer behind Kismet Olfactive, Shabnam Tavakol! Shaby and I discuss the path that led her to perfumery, what she actually learned in perfume school, the time she slept with a flower, and a phone call from Christopher Sheldrake that changed her life. PLUS enjoy a bonus cameo from MY MOM!
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Revlon Enjoli, Jean Nate, Dana Canoe, 4711, Ambre Blends, Dry Idea, Clean Reserve Muguet & Skin, Kenzo Parfum D’Ete, Parfums de Marly Meliora, JHAG Not A Perfume, Frederic Malle Carnal Flower, Kilian Good Girl Gone Bad, Avon Skin So Soft, YSL Opium, BR 540, La Perla Possibilities, Malibu Musk, Gap: Dream, Grass, Heaven; Miss Dior, Miss Dior Cherie, Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb, SpiceBomb, Dior Sauvage, Curve for Men, SJP Stash, M by Mariah Carey, Paris Hilton Pixie Dust, Byredo, Phlur , Ariana Grande Cloud, Narciso For Her, Kismet Olfactive: Tuberose Tantra, Nymphea; Elizabeth Arden Sunflowers, A&F Fierce, Kismet Olfactive The Poet, VS Love Spell, Ralph Lauren Romance, Max Azria BCBG, Polo Blue, Strangelove, Kismet Olfactive Nostalgia, Tuberose Tantra
FOLLOW THE PANELISTS: @basenote_bitch @travaulyawallace @iamdulma
FOLLOW SHABY (Kismet Olfactive): @kismet.olfactive || kismetolfactive.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. |
| 0:13.0 | To open up this week's episode, I thought I would have a brief conversation with a very special person, someone who comes up in many of the episodes of |
| 0:21.7 | perfume room. I am joined today by my mother, Karen. Mom, how are you? I'm doing really well, |
| 0:27.8 | thank you. Well, I wanted you to come on because you were telling me a story the other night |
| 0:32.8 | about my father, who is no longer with us. |
| 0:39.6 | Hadn't been with you for a long time before that either. |
| 0:44.9 | But he used to work in fragrance marketing, and I had no idea. |
| 0:47.9 | So can you please share the story that you told me? |
| 0:54.8 | Well, back in the 70s, it was when it was the women's movement, the launch of Ms. Magazine, |
| 1:02.3 | and there was a whole thought about what could it mean to have it all, in quotes, have it all, right? |
| 1:07.8 | And so there was an advertising agency that your dad worked at, and it was called, ironically, I believe, |
| 1:14.1 | but they didn't see it as an irony, advertising to women. And so one of the accounts that they had was a fragrance called Anjali, which actually came up in last week's |
| 1:20.1 | episode of Margaret. Right. That's how we started this conversation because of Anjali. And I said, |
| 1:24.2 | I remember Anjali and I told you the lyrics of their song, which was... |
| 1:29.1 | Can you do them for us? |
| 1:30.2 | I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan. |
| 1:33.9 | No, you sang it. |
| 1:35.2 | Okay. |
| 1:35.7 | I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never let you forget you're a man. |
| 1:43.8 | I'm a woman, Anjali. |
| 1:48.6 | That is the most off-key ever, but you can imagine. |
| 1:52.2 | No, that was flawless, thank you. |
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