76. A Family For Every Fragrance (w/ The Fragrance Wheel Creator Michael Edwards)

Nov 29, 2022

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Another *Perfume Room Required Listening*

This week’s guest has not only authored Perfume Legends (vol I and II), he IS one. I am joined by the person responsible for the taxonomy of fragrance as we know it — Founder of Fragrances of the World, Inventor of the Fragrance Wheel(!) — Michael Edwards. It is because of Michael that we have universal and empirical language around perfume.

We discuss everything from The Fragrance Landscape B.C. and A.C. — that is, before Charlie and after Charlie, fragrance stews (AKA unclassifiable scents), the necessary formal reclassification of the o-word to amber (and how it’s been received), and perhaps one of the biggest bombshells of our conversation: that without discounted fragrances there would be no niche. And of course, Michael walks us through the different families and sub-families of the fragrance wheel — describing how they differ from and relate to one another.

FRAGS MENTIONED:

Commodity Paper +, ELdO Remarkable People, Chanel No 5, Revlon Intimate, Guerlain Shalimar, Givenchy Ysatis, Molinard Habinita, Jean Patou Joy, Chanel No 5, Diorissimo, Marc Jacobs by Marc Jacobs, Chloe EDP, Robert Piguet Fracas, Norell, Aramis New West, Mugler Angel, Madame Rochas, Hermes Caleche, Escentric Molecule Molecule 01, Robert Piguet Fracas, Michael Kors, Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Lys Soleia, Chloe EDP, Giorgio Beverly Hills Giorgio, YSL Opium, Estee Lauder Youth-Dew, MFK Baccarat Rouge 540, Yves St Laurent Y (for women), Revlon Charlie, Francois Coty: L’Origan, Chypre; Chanel No 5, Revlon Charlie, YSL Opium, Mugler Angel, Carven Vetiver, Shiseido Bois de Violette, Dior Eau Sauvage, CK: Eternity, Obsession; Guerlain Habit Rouge, Serge Lutens Féminité du Bois, Dior Eau Sauvage