96. No, Not Everything Smells Like Baccarat (w/ Fragrance Specialist & Personality Travaulya Wallace)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Travaulya Wallace is BACK in the Perfume Room today! You may remember her from Perfume Room LIVE or perhaps you are one of her 238K TikTok followers(!), or maybe, you’ve even shopped with her at Nordstrom where she is a Fragrance Specialist providing her clients with the ultimate personalized fragrance experiences. Today, Travaulya and I chat about everything from scent preferences that make us think twice, to why Aquarius’ are misunderstood (and the scents they should be wearing), to the difference between a ‘Don’t Hug Me’ scent vs. a ‘Leave Me Alone’ scent (because they are indeed quite different), and of course, the delicate balance between intuition and knowledge when it comes to fragrance consulting.
FRAGS MENTIONED:
La Perla: Once Upon A Garden, My Day, Possibilities; Tom Ford: Electric Cherry, Lost Cherry; BDK Rouge Smoke, Tom Ford Cherry Smoke, Creed Aventus For Him, Baccarat Rouge 540, Allsaints Sunset Riot, Burberry Her, Ariana Grande Cloud, Parfums de Marly Haltane, Maison Margiela Coffee Break, Frederic Malle Portrait of a Lady, Henry Rose Dark Is Night, Parfum de Marly Valaya, Tom Ford Fu*king Fabulous, Coty Ex'cla-ma'tion!, Tommy Hilfiger Tommy Girl, D&G Pour Homme, Curve for Men, Issey Miyake, JPG Le Male, Victoria Secret Love Spell, Clinique Aromatics Elixir, Miss Dior, Egyptian Musk, Byredo: Vanille Antique, Rose of No Man’s Land; Amouage Reflection, Aerin: Cedar Violet, Fleur de Peony; Jo Malone Peony Blush Suede, Tom Ford Black Orchid, Creed Love in White, Dior Oud Ispahan, Floral Street Arizona Bloom, YSL Tuxedo, Malin & Goetz Dark Rum, Replica Jazz Club, Diptyque Orpheon, MFK: Gentle Fluidity Silver, Gentle Fluidity Gold; Tom Ford Oud Wood, The Phluid Project Transcend, Jimmy Choo I Want Choo, Givenchy L’Interdit, Diptyque Fleur de Peau, Le Labo Santal 33, Jo Malone Silver Birch & Lavender, Tiffany & Love For Her, Clinique Happy, Byredo Mojave Ghost, Parfums de Marly Valaya
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. |
| 0:12.7 | My scent of the day today is a little controversial because it's the scent that I was talking about last week. |
| 0:17.8 | I have been wearing it nonstop, and that is La Perla Once Upon a Garden. But you know what? La Perla, if you are listening, do I love your fragrances? Yes, I adore. But I have a bone to pick with you. Okay. The caps on your discovery set samples are adorable. Okay, for everyone listening, they're like those little ball caps, their dabber samples, and they're supposed to mirror their full-size counterparts, which we all know have those amazing fun color ball caps. However, these caps on the samples |
| 0:44.7 | break so easily. When I go to the gym, I'm lifting three pound weights, okay? It is not my |
| 0:50.7 | brute strength that is doing this. This happened to me with my day. This just happened |
| 0:54.6 | with Once Upon a Garden, and I can no longer wear either of my favorite samples from your |
| 0:59.7 | discovery set. And you know what? I'm going to get a full bottle of both. I really am, |
| 1:03.2 | but I was planning to use both samples down to the last drop. And these caps rob me of that |
| 1:09.8 | opportunity. Thank you for listening. My life is so |
| 1:12.8 | hard. Anyway, you know who first put La Perla on my radar? Today's guest. It was today's guest who |
| 1:20.2 | was talking about a different scent in that collection, possibilities, which I also love, |
| 1:24.3 | which was a panelist on Perfume Room live, which was the live show that we did |
| 1:28.3 | last year on the Lower East Side. Today's guest, if you haven't figured out yet, is Travalia Wallace. |
| 1:34.2 | You might know her from TikTok, where she has over 238,000 followers and has loved for her |
| 1:38.8 | fragrance reviews and suggestions, and of course her expertise expertise and fun high-energy personality. |
| 1:44.9 | Travalia is a fragrance specialist at Nordstrom, where she takes private clients through the |
| 1:48.6 | Travalia experience, which consists of one-on-one consults where every fragrance brand |
| 1:53.5 | carried at Nordstrom is on the table. It is an emotional, intuitive, luxurious, rewarding |
| 1:59.3 | experience that often ends in tears. |
| 2:02.8 | We chat about everything from the moment Travalia realized that certain fragrances could bring out |
| 2:06.8 | certain feelings in her to her process for matching clients with scents. |
| 2:12.3 | And why contrary to popular belief, no, not everything smells like Baccarat Rouge. Travalia tells us the difference |
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