99. ISO ~ New Signature Scent: A Live Scent Consult (w/ TV Writer & Comedian Cynia Barnwell)
Perfume Room
Emma Vernon
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
TV Writer, Comedian, and longtime-YSL Black Opium-wearer, Cynia Barnwell, is in the Perfume Room today and on a quest for her new signature scent!
We discuss everything from the writers strike to Spice Girl typecasting to Sagittarius gender inequity, BUT most importantly, today Cynia smells and live-reacts to several perfumes I’ve handpicked just for her as contenders on the journey. Will she find *the one*?
EDITOR’S NOTE: The original recording included over 20 scents over a course of two-plus hours and has been cut down & condensed to the favorites/highlights.
FRAGS MENTIONED:
Nobile 1942 Il Giardino, Frederic Malle Carnal Flower, By Kilian Good Girl Gone Bad, Bath & Body Works Plumeria, Tea Cabanel Oh Là Là, YSL Black Opium, Lattafa Fakhar Rose, BDK Pas Ce Soir, Louis Vuitton Attrapes-Reves, Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille, Sol Janeiro Cheirosa 62, Sol de Janeiro Beija Flor Elasti-Cream, Burberry Her, Victoria's Secret: Love Spell, Strawberries and Champagne, Pear Glace; MFK Baccarat Rouge 540, Le Labo Santal 33, Fragrance du Bois NY 5th Ave, Carthusia Terra Mia, Aquolina Pink Sugar, Hanae Mori EDT, Liis Studied, Grace de Monaco Promenade Sur la Rocher, Funmi Monet Exalte, Malin & Goetz Kith Vapor, Afnan Ornament Pour Femme, YSL Mon Paris, Givenchy: L’Interdit Intense, L’Interdit Rouge; Thameen Peregrina, Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds, Elizabeth Arden Red Door, Paco Rabonne Lady Million, Floris Platinum 22, La Perla Possibilities, Chanel Chance Eau Tendre, Vilhelm Mango Skin, Montale Intense Cafe
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the perfume room. My scent of the day today is Il Gerdino del Delizzi from Nobile, 1942. Now, if you recall in last week's |
| 0:18.0 | episode, I had mentioned that this was what I thought |
| 0:21.0 | my favorite scent in the store at Jivois was. |
| 0:23.7 | And I will say, and this is rare for me, but I was getting pretty nose blind while I was |
| 0:28.3 | there. |
| 0:29.3 | And that is because there were just so many aromas in the air and I sprayed, I kid you |
| 0:32.6 | not, like 40 different fragrances and at a certain point, nothing mattered. |
| 0:36.9 | Yeah. We're getting a little |
| 0:39.0 | existential today. Anyway, I left with the memory and the feeling of being enamored by this one. |
| 0:46.1 | And even though Nobile 1942 is carried in the U.S. at stores like Lucky Sunt, this perfume in |
| 0:51.7 | particular is not. I have never seen it in the U.S. |
| 0:55.3 | Anyway, would you believe just the other day I saw it on Fragrance Net on sale for $100, |
| 1:00.5 | so obviously I copped it. And as I am recording this, I just Googled it and it is still there |
| 1:05.0 | now listed for $97. So should you wish to blind buy it after my review, it should be available. |
| 1:11.9 | And here is my review. |
| 1:14.0 | I am very much still in the perceiving phase. |
| 1:17.6 | So in the scent, I smell suede, tobacco, tuberose, osmanthus, plum. |
| 1:23.2 | It's like a nutty, cigarettey, bananae stone fruit, carnal tuberose. |
| 1:28.8 | And while I do think I kind of love this, |
| 1:31.2 | I would also categorize it as a car six cent. |
| 1:34.4 | Two things can be true at once. |
| 1:36.3 | And I think maybe it's the suede note, |
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