64. Lighting The Way to The Soft Life (w/ Sir Candle Man!)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Your fave candle creator, Sir Candle Man (Kudzi Chikumbu), is in the Perfume Room today! This ep has been a long time coming! Sir Candle Man and I discuss everything from his creative process for content creation, to the chance encounter in Paris that started it all, and obv, you guessed it the launch of his first-ever fragrance (in collab with L’Or de Seraphine) Soft Life! We discuss the meaning and inspiration behind Soft Life, why and how he created this candle, and of course, what it smells like.
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Givenchy MMW, Escentric Molecules Escentric 01, Miason Crivelli Papyrus Moleculaire, Le Labo Santal 33, Gucci: 1921, A Song for The Rose, Tears from the Moon; Lancome Idole, Givenchy Indompte, Memo Sicilian Leather, Cire Trudon Bruma, Byredo Black Saffron, Dedcool Blonde 03, MFK 724, Diptyque Tam Dao, Escentric Molecules Molecule 01, Tom Ford Ebène Fumé, MFK Au 17, Vilhelm: Mango Skin, Morning Chess; Carrière Frères: Acacia, Absinthe; Rewind Moscow Mule, JHAG Not A Candle, PF Candle Pignon Incense, Mizensir Ambre Magique
ORDER SOFT LIFE: https://www.lordeseraphine.com/products/soft-life
FOLLOW SIR CANDLE MAN: @sircandleman on all platforms
FOLLOW PERFUME ROOM: @perfumeroompod (IG) @emma_vern (TT)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. My scent of the day today is from the Jivanshee Private Collection, which I didn't even know existed until this past weekend. It is their collection called La Collection Particular, and the |
| 0:22.2 | scent that I am wearing is MMW, which are the initials of Jivanshee's creative director, Matthew M. |
| 0:28.8 | Williams. This scent was an instant love for me. I would describe it as like a Palosanto |
| 0:34.2 | woody, soft skin scent, and I will say if you enjoy Accentrica One, which has that |
| 0:41.3 | sort of like leathery, lemony skin scent type vibe, and you enjoy that sort of like soft sandalwood |
| 0:49.2 | papyrus vibe from Maison Crivelli Papyrus Molecular, you will love MMW. |
| 0:55.9 | Imagine both of those, but with like a palosanto cardamum twist. |
| 0:59.9 | It is just, it's such a good skin scent. |
| 1:02.8 | It's kind of like what I wish Santal 33 were. |
| 1:04.9 | It's much more subdued and has that really soft, subtle smokiness. |
| 1:10.1 | Now, the way that I even discovered that this collection |
| 1:12.6 | existed was because of my friend, April Antoinette, who is a fellow fragrance and beauty content |
| 1:17.8 | creator. If you are not following her on Instagram, you should do it right now and thank me |
| 1:22.0 | later. Her account is at the April Antoinette, but she is also a beauty manager at Nordstrom, And my boyfriend and I were there this weekend because he was looking for a new suit. We took a wrong turn, ended up in the wrong place. And of course, in order to get us to the men's clothing department, I knew that the only way to do it would be to take a detour through the fragrance department. I was like, don't worry, let's just walk through. |
| 1:45.4 | I won't even stop. |
| 1:46.4 | And as we were just walking through, that's where I saw April. |
| 1:50.1 | And the rest, as they say, is history because April knew that I had not yet tried Gucci |
| 1:55.1 | 1921, which is not only in Alberto Maria's masterpiece, but it also was the Fragrance Foundation |
| 2:01.4 | Universal Luxury Fragrance of the Year winner. So she was like, all right, okay, before you go, |
| 2:07.5 | just smell 1921. As you can guess how this story ends, that's obviously not all I smelled. |
| 2:14.3 | I smelled 1921 and then I was like, okay, what about every single other scent |
| 2:18.4 | in the Alchemist Garden Collection because I had not smelled it and I am obsessed with the bottles. |
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