Kurt Anderson of Studio 360 takes Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez of Perfumes: The Guide to a Duane Reade pharmacy to smell things. Perfumistas, take heart, you won't have to hear another long discussion of Eau de Toilette vs. Eau de Parfum, etc etc etc. About 11 minutes long. You can listen below, or download an MP3 file at the website.
Update: I had trouble getting the embedded whatchamacallit above to work in Firefox; it worked perfectly for me in Internet Explorer. Your mileage may vary.
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Worked for me in Safari, as well.
I laughed out loud more than once while listening. “Old Fart Extreme” Ha!
Thanks for posting this, R.
Good, don't know why Firefox had problems. I loved “Old Fart Extreme” too…and missed the name of the vanilla scent at the end that was a sign of the downfall of western civilization, but that was funny too
It was Secret Vanilla Sparkle body spray. The perverse side of me is going to check it out when I go grocery shopping this weekend.
Secret Vanilla Sparkle! It just sounds bad, doesn't it.
What I liked from this interview is that Luca Turin tends to see perfumes as a work of art and that Tania pointed out to him that people have to be able to wear those perfumes..:-)
Bless her! I totally agree. I had a Montale Aoud on yesterday. Wonderfully complex and interesting…but it wore me out after 10 minutes…and folks around me had to step back apace.
I have samples of Montales White Aoud and Golden Aoud and I really do not like them. To me, they plain and simply stink.
Of course I don't always agree w/ them on what is “wearable”
I thought it was just me…when I hear something trashed like that (Luca says it's “indescribably vile”) – it becomes a sort of nasty lemming…I really wanta know what it smells like!
LOL — it will be very comical if drugstores the world over run out of the stuff now!
Hey, don't laugh – I'm still working my way through all those one star scents from Perfumes: the Guide :=)
That could be a fun project!
I'm new to Aouds – so new that this is my Very First. However, it may be that they're just not 'us', huh? As a newbie I'm continually surprising myself with my likes and dislikes. A few months ago I wouldn't have thought to try leathers (which I now adore) and who knows….perhaps down the line I might retry an aoud..and find that I love it!
Right now? Not so much, LOL!
Just listened this am (firefox worked fine). I must say, LT/TS came across as way less strident and way more accessible than they do in their book. Luca, especially, seem to have a true passion for perfume – verbally, it really comes though – and that passion, combined with his scientific chops, is endearing. Totally different tone than I got with the book.
Weird — must be something in my Firefox settings, it still won't work for me today. Oh well! Glad you enjoyed it, and totally agree — it is more lighthearted than some of the specific reviews in the book.
“Malicious vanilla” – I have no access to Secret Vanilla Sparkle, but that sounds like Anna Sui Dreams to me…
And I have not smelled Dreams…
Mm, Mamabear, maybe the Aouds will grow on you. I have only sampled Black Aoud and am hording each precious drop of my vial until I can get a bottle. Love the stuff. Makes me feel like an emir or sultan or something.
I didn't get a chance to click your “thingie” last week, but heard the segment on the radio this past Sunday evening and loved it. I feel completely justified now in my defense of Drakkar Noir on the other thread since *even* LT & TS like it. Ha!
HA — although undoubtedly they hate something else you love, LOL…that seems par for the course.