Selects: How Perfume Works
Stuff You Should Know
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🗓️ 7 January 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Women consistently rate scent as the most important factor in a man's attractiveness and men have been manipulating that for centuries with scents of all sorts. Learn about the fascinating history -- and, well, art -- of making perfumes in this classic episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Holidays, my podcast on I Heart has brought me together with friends both old and new. |
| 0:07.2 | Want to know how fashion designer Michael Kors built his iconic American brand? |
| 0:12.4 | Aren't you curious how rapper Snoop Dogg and I really became good friends? |
| 0:17.8 | Catch up on the Martha Stewart podcast this holiday season on the I Heart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:25.4 | Hey everybody, welcome to the Saturday Select episode. I am Chuck. You are a curator for this weekend. |
| 0:34.6 | You know how perfume works? Well, if you have less than an hour, we can explain it to you. |
| 0:40.1 | This one goes back to February 19th, 2015. How perfume works? Right here, right now. |
| 1:10.1 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 1:24.6 | Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with Charles DeVie Chuck Bryant and Jerry |
| 1:30.0 | Jerry. Jerry. Jerry. Jerry. Jerry. Yeah, like Tony Tony Tony. My friend used to call them Tony Tony Tony |
| 1:40.2 | Tony. Why? Is this spelling? Oh, I don't know. Okay, but I thought the last one was an E with a little accent. |
| 1:48.6 | Well, that was Tony, but he didn't say Tony accent. I would say that's Tony. Tony. |
| 1:53.5 | Well, the point is it's E.I.Y. Are the three letters. When Jerry pressed your cord, did you think we |
| 2:00.6 | were going to be talking about Tony Tony Tony? I never knew what the heck we're going to talk about for the |
| 2:05.2 | first 30 seconds. I would not have predicted that one. I was going to tell a little story, but |
| 2:10.6 | I'm not going to now. What's that sent you're wearing? It is O.D.D. Chuck Musk. It's called Chusk. |
| 2:20.4 | In French, that means water of Chuck Musk. Gross. Yeah. I'm wearing Dracar noir. |
| 2:29.4 | Are you really? No. No. Did you think you'd be able to smell it? Well, yeah. Sure. I never know. |
| 2:35.6 | I don't want to like I'm very sensitive to making fun of people and what they choose to do. |
| 2:40.9 | I'm not making fun of anybody. No, but I didn't want to say you're wearing cologne. You're |
| 2:45.7 | wearing Dracar noir. Gross. I used to love Dracar noir back when I was in like seventh eighth grade. |
| 2:51.2 | I believe it. Man, alive. Those were the cologne days. I looked it up and I was like, what does Dracar noir |
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