- Hello darlings.
My name is Deni.
My pronouns are they, them.
I am a fashion editor, content creator, and queer activist.
And also a fragrance lover.
And I'm here today to talk to all of you
at Adore Beauty about fragrances.
We're gonna talk about the fragrance wheel,
what that all even means.
Fragrance families, notes, categories.
Categories, let's do a review.
I'm going to talk to you about the various scents
that I love that sit within the fragrance families.
It's going to be a great time.
Okay, let's get into it, shall we?
So not so long ago, I actually went to
this really cool event,
which was like a kind of cheese and wine night.
learning about the fragrance wheel.
So, the fragrance wheel has four categories.
Repeat after me.
The first one is the woody family.
The woody family range from dry wood
to mossy wood and woody.
I love a little woody, not gonna lie.
Then we move on to the oriental notes.
Within that family, we have woody oriental,
oriental, and soft oriental.
Then we move over to the floral notes, henny.
We love a floral family.
Within the floral family, we have floral oriental,
floral and soft floral.
And then last, but certainly not least,
is the fresh family, honey, the fresh notes.
Within the fresh notes, we have green,
we have water, and we have citrus.
So, shall we dive right in?
I want to kick us all off with fresh.
Fresh, fresh, fresh fresh, fresh.
This is one of my favourite categories.
And within the fresh family I have here
with me today, "Who is Elijah"
Shall we do a little bottle cam?
Bottle cam, cute, cute.
"Who is Elijah?"
And we have the fragrance called "Her, Her".
So, "Her, Her" is a combination of citrus, floral and wood.
Let's do a smell-aroo.
(sniffs loudly)
Mmm-hmm, honey.
Who is, "Her, Her?"
Well, "Her, Her" is fab.
She's chic, she's fresh.
She is drinking an oat latte.
She's just finished Pilates.
She's got a fresh glowy face.
She's about to go meet the gals.
And before she goes home to do
her working from home PR and marketing job,
that is "Her, Her".
Very here for it, very chic, very cute, boom.
Often fragrance families combine
because in order to build the right fragrance,
you need to have your top note,
your heart of your fragrance, and your base note.
So often the noses of fragrance houses
will combine each family to get a gorgy blend.
Sometimes you have one fragrance
that is very much one or the other,
but you know, the good ones are a mix because we like a mix.
We're here, we're there, we're they, we're them,
you know what I mean?
Okay, so next up, oriental woody.
And joining us we have,
"Papyrus Moleculaire" by Maison Crivelli.
This is a rich fragrance, you know what I mean?
You just know it's going to smell like money
before you've even smelled it.
Oh sweetheart, she is divine.
This is heaven, this fragrance is actual heaven.
So, what's in this fragrance, you wonder?
Let me tell you.
We have woody notes, we have black pepper,
we have papyrus, we have tobacco, we have leather.
This to me feels very gender-neutral.
Okay, this to me is screaming gorgeous.
I'm seeing a man, actually.
I'm seeing this gorgeous man.
He's wearing brown, a brown suede biker kind of jacket.
He's wearing a denim shirt.
He's wearing aviator sunglasses.
He's got a gorgeous head of dark hair.
He's tall, dark and handsome.
This fragrance is tall, dark and handsome.
If it were a woman, this fragrance would be Vaucluse, honey.
Toorak, honey.
She's got money and she's not afraid to show it.
But also, she's kind of subtle.
This is her, this is her.
Next up, we've got a fan favourite, a floral.
We love a floral fragrance.
And joining us for the floral family is,
"Southern Bloom" by Goldfield & Banks Australia.
Now, this one is very special
because it's made with a very rare flower, Boronia,
that only grows in Tasmania.
Let's spray, and then we'll kind of talk through the notes.
Oh, she is floral.
Do you know what? She's floral and woody.
We have that Tasmanian Boronia,
we have that sandalwood, Australian sandalwood.
Do you know who this is?
This is a mum.
This is like a beautiful, warm mum, she's wearing linen.
I want to say she shops at, where is she shopping?
Just a moment.
(sniffs loudly)
She's shopping at Scanlan Theodore, potentially.
Also, not afraid to kind of duck into
a Witchery, Country Road, you know, this is her.
She's just chilling at her little beach house.
She ain't fancy, she's relaxed, but she's peppy.
She's floral, she walks in.
She's like, "Shine, shine, shine.
"I'm here, let me give you a big hug."
You know, she's very that.
Last but not least, we have one of my favourite categories,
woody spiciness oriental.
When those things are combined, it's a match made in heaven.
And joining us is this special guest,
bottle cam, bottle cam, bottle cam, coo-coo, coo-coo.
It's, "Gris Charnel" by BDK.
(moans) I'm in heaven.
The first thing I smell is vetiver,
which is actually one of my favourite ingredients,
when it comes to fragrances.
There's definitely some vetiver in there, honey.
We have fig, we have cardamom, we have sandalwood.
So, this to me, this is a refined human.
Again, it feels very gender-neutral to me.
This to me is like,
we're spending our winters in Paris, honey.
We're spending our summers in the south of France.
We are wearing beautiful understated,
gorgeous cashmere, honey.
We're wearing linen in summer.
We're the human that knows what's up.
We're not ostentatious, we're not over the top,
We're not, well, we're not me (laughs)
We are subtle, and subtlety is not my thing.
This human is a chic human.
10 out of 10, I think this is my favourite.
Oh, I think this one and the papyrus,
these would be my faves.
Thank you very much for joining me today.
I hope you've learned a thing or two about fragrances.
Thank you Adore beauty for having me, get shopping.
All of these fragrances are available
at Adore Beauty to shop now.
Add to cart, henny.
(blows kiss)
See you next time.
Within the woody fam (clears throat)
Woody notes.
Woody notes range...
Woody notes range from dry note.
Woody notes, the wood (laughs)