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Perfume: Articles of Interest #9

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Arts, Design

4.828.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Perfume can be a key to a whole olfactory world

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0:00.0

So what do you want?

0:02.0

Oh my god, I'm a slut.

0:04.3

I wear a bunch of different stuff.

0:05.8

I've never worn the same perfume two days in a row.

0:08.6

This is Rachel Sime.

0:10.0

She's a staff writer for The New Yorker

0:11.7

and one of the most genuinely glamorous people I have ever met.

0:15.5

So she always smells like some perfume or another.

0:18.2

I love like deor poison.

0:20.0

And I use NIE's and I love wearing number five

0:22.7

in the highest concentration as the oil.

0:24.7

And I like tuberose and I love gardenia

0:26.7

and I love it to be like a cloud of that around you.

0:29.8

I just love it.

0:31.2

I was the opposite of Rachel.

0:33.4

I didn't really get perfume.

0:35.6

I would spritz some on at the airport sometimes,

0:37.4

but mostly I just found it all smelled perfume-y.

0:40.9

I don't think I can smell.

0:43.7

On paper, everything just smells like chemicals to me.

0:46.1

Yeah.

0:46.6

Well, it needs a moment to dry down.

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