95. Only [Fragrance] Fools Rush In (w/ Roja Parfums Creator Roja Dove)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Perfume Legend Roja Dove is in the Perfume Room today! Creator of the first Haute Parfumerie, Founder and Perfumer of the ever-luxurious Roja Parfums, Chairman of the Fragrance Foundation UK, and Culture Ambassador for Great Britain, it seems that all Roja touches turns to gold (in fact, you can find gold flakes in his signature scent ;)).
Today he takes us back to his earliest scent memories, recounts multiple pivotal moments in his lifelong fragrance career (a career which he fondly recalls having ‘pestered’ his way into), and shares why we must be willing to flirt [with perfumes] until we find our perfect match. We discuss what makes Roja Parfums so special (including why some carry larger price tags than others), AND Roja even leaves us with a life-changing hot take: SPOILER ALERT — it involves lotion.
FRAGS MENTIONED:
La Perla: Once Upon a Garden, My Day; Roja Parfums: Roja (Haute Luxe), Chypre Extraordinaire, Coty L’Aimant, Balenciaga Eau de Balenciage Lavande, Caron Pour un Homme, Guerlain: Jicky, L’Heure Bleue, Mitsouko; Chanel No. 5, Dior Miss Dior, Hermes Caleche, Rochas Madame Rochas, Hermes Equipage, Amouage Gold, Pierre Balmain Ivoire de Balmain, Coty La Rose Jacqueminot, Dior: Diorama, Diorling, Eau Fraiche; Houbigant Quelques Fleurs, Roja Parfums: A Good Night Kiss, Apex, Elysium Eau Intense, Isola Blu, Vetiver, Risque
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. My Sunday the day today is La Perla Once Upon a Garden. Now, I was actually talking about this on Instagram the other day, but I had previously ordered the La Perla Discovery kit, I think like several months ago. Again, I sort of haphazardly sniffed them all, and I was immediately drawn to my day. And then it was like my day or bust, I, to my own detriment, neglected the rest of the fragrances. Anyway, I finally returned to them yesterday as I was organizing some samples, and I realized I had made a grave mistake. La Perla has so many |
| 0:38.5 | beautiful scents, but the one that I was immediately smitten with was once upon a garden. It's |
| 0:43.5 | grassy and dewy, a little herbal, a little fuzzy even, but all under the umbrella of being |
| 0:49.1 | a warm and mossy, but still fresh, floral. And you know that whenever I smell things, I always |
| 0:54.1 | try and analyze |
| 0:54.7 | what it is that I'm perceiving. So I jotted down some notes as I was smelling. So let me read you |
| 0:58.9 | what I perceived. Okay. I wrote down rose, frisia, raspberry apple, dried apricot, marjoram, |
| 1:07.2 | grassy notes, oak moss, and patchouli. A lot lot going on there now the hero note of this |
| 1:12.7 | fragrance is the sweet pea flower which is a flower I'm just not at all familiar with |
| 1:16.7 | so I could be describing the exact smell of sweet peas I don't know what I do |
| 1:21.2 | know is that the dewness of this fragrance feels youthful the mossiness |
| 1:25.0 | feels mature and because of this I could see this on a perfume |
| 1:29.3 | lover of any age, wearing the scent with pleasure. It feels agreeable and mass appealing, |
| 1:35.2 | but still unique, and I love it. Let's get to our guest. This episode is my true honor, |
| 1:42.7 | because today we are joined by Raja Dove. |
| 1:45.6 | I will say that again, stop what you're doing, put your phone on Do Not Disturb, tell the |
| 1:49.9 | boss you're sick because Raja Dove is in the perfume room today. |
| 1:54.0 | Raja is a true luminary in the industry and not even just for his own perfumes, which |
| 1:57.8 | will obviously get to in a moment. |
| 1:59.4 | If you enjoy shopping in thoughtfully curated niche luxury perfume shops, guess who made the mold? It was Raja. |
| 2:06.5 | He's the founder of the world's first haute perfumery, which launched in Herod's almost 20 years ago, |
| 2:11.5 | and of course is the creator of Raja perfume, a fragrance brand that's come to be known, |
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