76. A Family For Every Fragrance (w/ The Fragrance Wheel Creator Michael Edwards)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Another *Perfume Room Required Listening*
This week’s guest has not only authored Perfume Legends (vol I and II), he IS one. I am joined by the person responsible for the taxonomy of fragrance as we know it — Founder of Fragrances of the World, Inventor of the Fragrance Wheel(!) — Michael Edwards. It is because of Michael that we have universal and empirical language around perfume.
We discuss everything from The Fragrance Landscape B.C. and A.C. — that is, before Charlie and after Charlie, fragrance stews (AKA unclassifiable scents), the necessary formal reclassification of the o-word to amber (and how it’s been received), and perhaps one of the biggest bombshells of our conversation: that without discounted fragrances there would be no niche. And of course, Michael walks us through the different families and sub-families of the fragrance wheel — describing how they differ from and relate to one another.
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Commodity Paper +, ELdO Remarkable People, Chanel No 5, Revlon Intimate, Guerlain Shalimar, Givenchy Ysatis, Molinard Habinita, Jean Patou Joy, Chanel No 5, Diorissimo, Marc Jacobs by Marc Jacobs, Chloe EDP, Robert Piguet Fracas, Norell, Aramis New West, Mugler Angel, Madame Rochas, Hermes Caleche, Escentric Molecule Molecule 01, Robert Piguet Fracas, Michael Kors, Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Lys Soleia, Chloe EDP, Giorgio Beverly Hills Giorgio, YSL Opium, Estee Lauder Youth-Dew, MFK Baccarat Rouge 540, Yves St Laurent Y (for women), Revlon Charlie, Francois Coty: L’Origan, Chypre; Chanel No 5, Revlon Charlie, YSL Opium, Mugler Angel, Carven Vetiver, Shiseido Bois de Violette, Dior Eau Sauvage, CK: Eternity, Obsession; Guerlain Habit Rouge, Serge Lutens Féminité du Bois, Dior Eau Sauvage
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. My scent of the day today is yet another change of heart fragrance. If you recall, this happened to me not too long ago with a certain commodity scent that scent being commodity paper plus. |
| 0:22.8 | Now, I've been talking about commodity as long as I've had this platform. And with that said, |
| 0:27.2 | when they introduced their new scent space collection of all of the new fragrances, I found paper |
| 0:32.0 | in all of its iterations to be pretty underwhelming. But for some reason, something possessed me to bring a sample of |
| 0:39.1 | commodity paper plus on a weekend trip a few months back, and I wore it all weekend long, and as soon |
| 0:45.9 | as I got home, I knew I needed a full bottle of it. And wouldn't you know it, it is one of my go-to |
| 0:51.1 | cents in my weekly rotation, and I wear it often. |
| 0:55.1 | And I had the exact same experience this past weekend because I went home to my mom's house for the holiday. |
| 1:00.4 | And whenever I go home, I usually don't pack any fragrances. |
| 1:03.1 | And instead I just sort of cycle through whatever I left in my drawer in my bedroom. |
| 1:08.1 | So this weekend I found an unused sample of a tatlibre d'orange remarkable people, |
| 1:12.8 | something I had previously written off as unremarkable. After wearing it for about an hour, |
| 1:17.8 | I could not stop smelling my wrists. It was such a nostalgic smell and one that I can best |
| 1:23.2 | describe as that very distinct smell of both a glossy magazine and the perfume strips that you would |
| 1:30.7 | find inside them. Do you know what I'm talking about? It's like that papery smell of a freshly |
| 1:35.3 | printed magazine and then that sort of vaguely perfumy smell of the siage of a mixture of |
| 1:41.1 | whatever traditionally masculine and traditionally feminine fragrances are in that |
| 1:44.6 | issue. It's spicy. I would even call it like a little Christmassy, glossy, fresh, a little bit |
| 1:50.6 | makeupy. It smells perfumy, but not in a generic way. So, yeah, I do have some other gripes |
| 1:56.2 | with that brand, like some recent offensive marketing decisions that they've made. But when it comes to |
| 2:02.5 | remarkable people, I am so pleasantly surprised and delighted. And I could see this really being |
| 2:08.5 | a great signature winter scent. It's crisp, it's spicy, it's fresh, but it has depth. And |
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