Welcome to the perfume room. For my scent of the day today, I thought I would switch it up and give you guys a candle review. I was just gifted one in PR. It is Lalabo's newest scent and baroxide 17. And yes, let's acknowledge the elephant

in the room. What a full circle moment. If you remember, I had a little, you know, beef with LaLabo,

like a year, a year and a half ago. And now somehow I am on their PR list. We grow, we evolve.

You know what? If LaLabo will have me, I will have Lelabo. Anyway, I'm also currently on a no-buy, no-open scenario with candles right now because I have so many unopened boxes in my apartment, so many semi-burned ones that I was like, all right, I have to burn through at least like three or four before I open a new one. But then you see my friends, I found a

loophole because for the holiday weekend, I went to my mom's house and I was like, well, I can bring the candle to my mom's house. And I brought it to her house because I'm having a flirt, tangerine boy moment all over again, which is that I gave it, you know, an initial whiff of the cold throw.

I was like, eh, I like this, but do I need this? Not really for me. What do we do when that happens? Say it with me now. We give it to my mom. Well, happy to be here because I am taking home tangerine boy and I'm taking back Ambroxide 17. So let me tell you what it smells like. Okay, as the name would imply,

it is ambroside, which is, I think, just another word for ambrosin, which is the synthetic molecule that is responsible for that very specific smell that we have come to associate with ambergris

that is now used prolifically in fragrance as it is much more affordable, easy to create, and easy for

perfumers to access. But there are many different kinds of ambrosin, and in this execution,

it is salty and mineralic and ozonic. You guys, you might know Eloise at the Plaza, okay? But this

fragrance is Moby Dick at the Baccarat, okay? And I say that because if you are familiar with that sort of sharp, fizzy, crayon-y type of smell that you know from Baccarat, that comes – I think in Baccarat it's also from the saffron, but that comes largely from the amber-green note of that fragrance. So imagine something like Dias and DERga

minus the woodiness. Imagine something like La Lavo another 13 minus the sort of soft, sweet, muskiness.

And then again, dial up that sort of seawater aspect of it, and that is ambroxide 17.

And I happen to love how it burns in a room.

And I do think it is a 2023 bougie hotel lobby scent because if you remember in 2020,

I made a video, right, saying that commodity book was that boogie hotel lobby smell. And in 2020, I think that was correct because I would say like 2017 through 2020,

hotels were scenting their lobbies with sandalwood. But now, because Baccarat is so huge,

I feel like hotels have pivoted and now Ambroxin is the smell. I personally, I have a weird

relationship with that ambergrisin scent. If you remember last

week, I talked about Umma, which I'm obsessed with, which also has that sort of mineralic seawater

ambergris facet to it and I love it. I'm just, I'm very particular. I'm a little bit over the

trend, but if I find a fragrance that's well executed, I will appreciate it. And I, I feel that way about this candle.

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