Fragrance Through the Decades

[@despatrick5602]

Roja, you are a legend. I own some of your fragrances and I hope to own more. I love your work!

[@o2xb]

He doesnt create them though, just directs them😊

[@despatrick5602]

@@o2xb he does create them. Not to sound offensive but do you have any evidence he doesn’t create the perfumes?

[@ajgunari]

@@despatrick5602There is some text on this in the book “The Ghost Perfuner” by Gabe Oppenheimer. He briefly touches on Roja Dove, but mostly the house of Creed.

[@RichMitch]

​@@despatrick5602Read the ghost perfumer. There's a quote from a female perfumer, I _think_ Sophia Grojsman, that Roger has never been anywhere near making a perfume.

[@Devasterium]

@@o2xb He is the perfumer for his own brand… he even has videos in his workshop blending raw materials to show the process.

[@storkonstage]

Wonderfull mesmerizing lecture. Thank you very much Roja Dove. My love for perfumes and scents will always be as long as I walk this good earth.

[@amyallison574]

Roja Dove is a creative genius. His fragrance compositions are complex and beautiful. I adore them.

[@ScentedMoments]

Absolutely brilliant lecture! And all of those original perfume pieces were a delight to the eyes! I would just slightly disagree on the 2010's view though. Tom Ford's Private Blend collection, Chanel Les Exclusifs, Dior Prive Collection, Guerlain L'Art et la Matiere, Frederic Malle, all came out in the 2000's. In my view, the 2010's could be described as the boom of niche perfumery.

[@schneir5]

I would take PTO any day to watch Roja Dove talk about fragrances!

[@highoctanehome]

Thoroughly savored the entire video. Well done Roja and thank you!

[@TheScentientMan]

Thank you to Roja and the fragrance foundation for this great talk. Really enjoyed it.

[@micahcshoemaker]

Two loves of mine history and fragrance. Wonderful presentation and discussion

[@drakeforte5]

I just realized that good perfumers are historians too. And what a priceless collection he has. Loved the presentation. Cheers!

[@aikjones1]

I was present for this & it is by far the best fragrance related presentation I’ve ever been to! Roja remains my number 1 fragrance brand, you listen to the man & you just fall in love with perfume all over again! A true legend!

[@krishnakanthcake]

thanks for uploading

[@PhilOuFragrances]

What an amazing storyteller and perfume connoisseur.

[@greymike8528]

Good night kiss is a work of art. The best fragrance I have ever put my nose on. Thanks Mr Roja for all these beautiful and incredible scents you've created Be blessed sir.

[@alanandrenelson-smith6679]

I wept when your presentation came to an end. Someone once asked if you could have dinner with any three people dead or alive. Who would they be. You are top of my list. In fact, I hope to be stranded on desert island with you.

[@suzannecarden4330]

I absolutely loved this! 👏👏👏👏❤

[@ArmchairSniffer]

Thank you for sharing this incredible presentation. Loved watching every minute of it!!

[@J_M_E_83]

Absolutely captivating from start to finish. Well done Roja 😊

[@JM-ig8mf]

Extrodinary collection of perfumes. And thank you Roger for your depth knowledge. This video should be shown to young perfumers and perfume enthusiast like me. Thanks again Roger.

[@Joy-y7g]

Really enjoyed this. I would love to have just one of those gorgeous bottles. BTW, the Coty story he referenced & the house he says stole the story was Estée Lauder & Youth Dew.

[@alfredo2506]

You are correct.

[@rammul7801]

Thanks

[@hangtimedangjang]

@fragrancefoundationUK you mustn't delete the other Fragrance Through the Decades video from 5 years ago. I absolutely love it as much as I love this one!

[@jpjp2818]

Thank you so much for this lecture, I absolutely loved it! Please do more

[@jaan3352]

such an insanely talented speaker. great talk!

[@ScentTrail]

Fantastic ,thank you ! I enjoyed listening to you.

[@PeterMortensenLit]

1:04:34 that bottle is for me the best bottle i ah seen til date. I envy you Roja 😂🎉.

[@Figureight]

Fantastic talk! I'd kill for that bottle of Schiaparelli Shocking!

[@andreicutar9959]

Around the minute 15:00, Roja tells a story about Coty and mentions that another house stole the story, does somebody have any idea what house did that?

[@alpercaglayan777]

I’d love to know too!

[@worstenbroodzor]

Perhaps Creed, they try to inflate their image by by simply lying about their origins and perfumers

[@suzannecarden4330]

It was Estée Lauder that stole the story. The story goes, that saks 5th avenue wouldn’t make an order of her perfume Youth Dew because they only really wanted French Brands. She dropped a bottle in the store and everyone around was mesmerised by the smell. The reactions of the other customers persuaded Saks to take an order of Youth Dew. I used to work for Estée Lauder and they always spoke about this story to us. I realise now, it was a story they stole from Coty

[@andreicutar9959]

@@suzannecarden4330 great! Thank you for sharing!

[@theo2z1z94]

thank you!

[@JT-rx1eo]

Wore Elysium today, wearing Scandal tonight.

[@eus9]

Fantastic presentation, I learnt A LOT! Thanks!

[@MillieonaVespa]

I am sure is Mother was very lovely …she created a wonderful warm kind man in Roja..

[@alexnicolaou]

you had me at Mariah Carey Lollipop bling!!! hahahah iconic ref

[@razvanyke]

Is this video new, or a reUpload from the past? ROJA looks great, he dissapeared from the public eye for a good period of time.

[@MarufKhan-px2dc]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@IsabelParfumAngel]

❤💖❤💖❤💖❤💖❤

[@PeterMortensenLit]

There must be for 500,000 £ on that table 😮. Ps. We all have a kiss we remember... yes🤦‍♂️.. i was 13 a new years eve, a beautiful grown woman looked at me an kissed me and said i would become a very handsome man.. she used Opium.. to this day, her image is the most vivid thought in my mind due to that scent.

[@firatcavas6431]

amazing perfumer Roja...make elysium stronger..is the perfect perfume for the summer

[@o2xb]

He doesn't actually make them

[@firatcavas6431]

@@o2xb ? Who make it

[@TheBTG88]

It comes in an Intense version, as well as a parfum concentration.

[@wib6044]

This was much better than the previous. Thank you. The person or persons coughing, good lord 🤯🤦🏼‍♂️🫤 in the background.

[@SebastianSmellsGreat]

So scared that the wobbly table would fall over with all the precious perfume 😬

[@giovannadellana5507]

Me too! 😢

[@PeterMortensenLit]

But do we know what the old parfums he has was msde of ?!. I want to smell em. Ps i have heard thet the cloth was sented so they could hold it up against ther nose due to the horrible smell of the streets at the time.

[@ToTheWind]

I wish Roja would remake Djedi.

[@alanna4858]

Obsessed with Roja Parfums. Roja is amazing what an honour to see this recording.

[@despatrick5602]

How do all these old perfumes that Roja owned not go off?

[@Andy_T79]

What you have to realise is early perfumes were basically a mix of pure oil extracts and applied with a dabber... perfume oils don't really go off, they can evaporate over decades if not sealed correctly, hence why you often see bottles from the 20s 30s and 40s with a brown / black glue like substance in the the bottom for that reason. But when it became fashionable to spray perfumes with the first type of bulb sprayers they added perfumers alcohol to create toilettes, which also wasn't an issue, the problem has been the introduction of water into perfumes in more modern times, and it's the edts and colognes that can go off, not all but some do... whereas I don't have one antique or vintage pure parfum that's turned bad in anyway in my collection, and some are over 100yrs old.

[@despatrick5602]

@@Andy_T79 ah, very interesting. Thank you ☺️

[@TheBTG88]

“Francois Coty was the first millionaire through commerce.” Hardly, in a world that had already experienced Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Astors, etc. were worth hundreds of millions or more. Perhaps Coty was the first to be a millionaire in France from perfumery.

[@tammynarro1998]

I believe commerce referring to retail etc. The prominent families you mentioned were mostly in shipping and railroad which opened up commerce etc but is not considered commerce by definition.

[@TheBTG88]

@@tammynarro1998 There were plenty of retailer families that made millions long before Coty - Macy’s, Sears and Roebuck, Montgomery Ward, Selfridges - just to name a few.

[@Cmc995]

Lovely presentation. All the coughing is so annoying though 🤣

[@davidpenner28]

Someone knocks over that table and destroys the history of perfume

[@DirtyDawg]

Roger Bird!