Chriselle Lim of Phlur on Turning Pain into Purpose
Naked Beauty
The Naked Beauty Podcast
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
When Chriselle Lim started blogging 18 years ago, she didn’t know she was building a career in what would become the most powerful industry today. During our conversation, Chriselle talks about watching the influencer industry develop from within, and how it led her to the most unexpected places. Growing up in Northern California and Korea, Chriselle felt pressured by national beauty standards, neither of which she thought she quite met. With limited Asian American representation in popular culture, she turned to fashion to project an air of confidence. She became the representation she always wanted as her digital audience grew.
Her success in creatively directing her online presence resulted in an opportunity to join Phlur as co-owner and creative director. As with her own style, she merged her passion for storytelling with a beautiful product and helped turn the fragrance brand into one of the most popular on the market. Her impeccable taste and close attention to what fans want have led to Phlur’s placement in 500 Sephoras and other international retailers. During her rising professional success, Chriselle went through a divorce. Again, she turned to her creativity to project closeness and confidence in her life, which led to the development of Phlur’s hero scent, Missing Person. Her talent and storytelling led to a 250,000-person waitlist of people who resonated with Chriselle’s visionary approach to scent and story.
Tune in as we discuss:
- (4:16) What her beauty experiences were like as an Asian American teen
- (7:08) What led her to dissolve her facial fillers
- (27:30) Her scent predictions for the future
- (43:34) The books she can’t get enough of
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, it's Brooke DeVard and you're listening to The Naked Beauty Podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | And if you're watching on YouTube, you're watching the Naked Beauty podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | Today I am so excited for my guest, Chris Lymn, someone who I have admired and followed |
| 0:16.9 | pretty much for her whole career. |
| 0:18.7 | And where she's at now, I'm just so excited to discuss. |
| 0:21.2 | To give you all some background on her incredible journey, |
| 0:23.7 | Crystal Lim is a trailblazing entrepreneur, |
| 0:25.8 | creative visionary, and one of the OG digital fashion influencers |
| 0:29.8 | who helped define the modern creator economy. |
| 0:32.5 | With over 6 million followers across her social platforms, |
| 0:35.6 | Lim has built a global audience through her sharp, |
| 0:38.0 | irreverent approach to style and her deeply personal storytelling. In 2022, Lim launched her |
| 0:43.7 | fine fragrance brand, Floor, which became an instant viral sensation. Its hero scent, |
| 0:49.2 | missing person, sold out within hours of launch and generated a wait list of over a quarter of a million people. |
| 0:55.3 | Is that correct? |
| 0:56.2 | Yeah, 250,000 people. |
| 0:58.2 | Okay. |
| 0:58.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.0 | Amazing. |
| 0:59.9 | Today, Fleur is carried in over 500 Sephora stores across the U.S., Canada, as well as internationally |
| 1:05.6 | in Selfridges and Space NK. |
| 1:07.8 | You all know I've been on my fragrance founder journey. |
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