Top 5 Roja Parfums

hi everybody welcome back to fragmental in this video I'm talking about the top 5 fragrances from Roger part foams and I wanted this to be a 200 so I've roped in a random passerby from the street to help me out so stay tuned to FM so since Roger has done me the fantastic honor of coming on fragmental I thought the way we do this top 5 is to make it the top five fragrances that mean the most to Roger so some of these I've never smelled I think actually I've only smelled one of these I probably smelled them in store and but you know when you're smelling a lot you get a bit sand that there's a lot to take in isn't that so Roger will talk about each one of these the inspirations how he came about to come up with the idea to compose the fragrances and I will sniff them so work so you'll get some first impressions from me in this video as well so let's sum I mean can we do these five to one do you have them in an order or would you rather do them all alright fine okay that's how I work that's how we will do this top five these are the top five so choose one and we'll we'll have a sniff let's start with the one that's nearest to me this scent is called Diaghilev Diaghilev was a very famous Russian who basically modernized the whole of theater I was asked to make this scent for an exhibition of V&A that was it limited edition and then I in 2011 had the great honor of going to Moscow for the first time and was given a private tour inside the Kremlin Wow pinch me pinch me absolutely and I decided I'd relaunched this perfume it's fake and barak and I've had the most enormous number of fantastic things said about it on the net over the years but yeah make me very very proud and I do know this well my favorite thing which has been said long sometimes it's like the Mona Lisa of perfumery it is a perfume if you want to walk into a room and make everybody notice you hmm it's the perfume that would yeah but in a really good way not in an obnoxious way to and in a very good yeah big Barak Mong and smells are very expensive and actually I just said to you before we start filming I was wearing this scent yesterday and one skin comparing it to a smiley on paper on skin it is even bolder and even bigger I feel totally I projects much more one of the things that to that comment the hips interesting with my work I use such high volumes of natural materials they're around 80 85 percent Naturals in an industry which uses maybe around 10 percent Naturals yet on average you get an impression on the card but these scents absolutely you need to be put on the skin for you to smell them yep this drove all perfumes but it's particularly true of my work and this is a shaper it's a very big sheep yes yeah it wants to be noticed it wants to be noticed so it's so what does a ship remain for your viewers who maybe don't yeah sure she prays are based around woods and moss mm-hmm in perfumery we use the same language as wine sweet and the opposite is dry so these are the driest perfumes yep and the people that like them generally are very very self-confident they're people where the grey or maybe is not in their vocabulary it's black white and yes so if you're that type of person or you want to project that then Diaghilev is absolutely Cynthia lovely tryin spicy isn't it thank you thank you very much fantastic what's the next one so the next one I had this great privilege of being invited to Downing Street which was a bit more thing oh wait six people just ticking them off I'm just sticking all these things you have to imagine one day I'm just sitting at work and the phone rings and somebody says he's Downing Street on the phone to you oh okay hello Roger doll speaking this is Downing Street blah blah anyhow I was in fact along having no idea why I was there but when I left I've been made one of around 30 ambassadors for our country which I'm very proud of for my creative work and they did a big campaign about Shakespeare and it was called Shakespeare lived lives and they asked could I read my favorite quote from Shakespeare which really made me nervous and there are some of the most Fame actors in Britain say their favorite quotes anyhow I did it was a quote from Romeo and Juliet but I also met the chief merchant of Selfridges who said oh do you think you could make a perfume to do with Shakespeare said of course has to be from A Midsummer Night's Dream so this scent is called a midsummer dream so I got the night bit and in this story as we all know Park makes this magic has this magical potion that if he drops it on your eye when you wake up you fall in love with the first person you see yeah so I thought perfume is just like that it's a magic potion yeah hopefully it makes people fall in love with us if your personality doesn't do it maybe the polonium will who knows so this is a really really unusual structure because you have elements in it which are like a food share very very fresh citrus no magic you then have something slightly she played in it so you have this very mossy woody element and also it has floral materials in so it really is a very highly unusual and individual composition the great thing is people really did love it it became the number one selling perfume in Selfridges in London against everything else in the store with not a penny spent on marketing you see why is just falling in love with it almost a little bit of a gourmand quality to it there is a little bit of Ella I think that the gourmand note you pick up is maybe from the vanilla Kiril when the sweetness of the flowers because it doesn't smell flowery they just add a touch of sweetness without it being sweet yet that makes yeah I played Demetrius once in a Midsummer Night's Dream I was studying in the States and yeah doubling a little bit of acting and it was a funtastic just big all of ICH performance as most performances of their Midsummer Night's Dream are so it's great to smell this one actually with my association Felice really nice and this is marketed to women you say this oh no we all know it's UNICEF nearly I was gonna say it's all they were they say you're one of our fragrances are most of more unisex enough for one gender or another I think gender on our perfumes are later nonsense baby too that's a whole story I could I'm with you I'm with you on that one what's the next one so the next scent these three perfumes that sit in the middle all have violet caps and the significance of violet in my company is it's my favorite color so the fact that I elected to have these caps made says that these perfumes hold a very special place in my heart and they sort of tell part of my story as a perfumer the first one here is a perfume called a goodnight kiss when I was a very small boy six or seven years old my mother came to my bedroom to kiss me goodnight she was going out to dinner party or a cocktail or something and I remember the smell of her face powder and the perfume and it was the first time I made a connection between a person the perfume and a minute in time so it's a fascinating perfume we launched it on the 6th of January which would have men on his birthday we launched 6 bottles we launched on the 6th floor in Harrods we sold 8 bottles where we didn't have them and by the end of the month it became a bigger selling perfume globally so I was nervous of this perfume wouldn't people relate to the story of a kiss from somebody they knew didn't know yeah but it seems that everybody knows someone that kissed them where the kisses laugh lasted a lifetime so they can develop an association develop memory of them yeah exactly which I have a similar memory as well of my mother and father they would dress up and my mother would look glamorous and my father would look very sharp and it's probably they'd be going out for a dinner date or dinner party yeah and I just remember that the smell I really associated with my childhood so I always enjoy hearing you tell a story when I think you know when I was a child when perfume was in the air it suggested saying special what's happening so you know my ordinary mom or your dad yeah suddenly become these other people who have all very grown-up yeah well that's intriguing we don't quite understand yeah so anyhow that's the story of a goodnight kiss if I hadn't had the kiss from my mother I wouldn't have done the job that I do I wouldn't be sitting in Milan here with you your viewers wouldn't be listening to what I have to say because none of this would exist so everyone should remember a kiss they give their child can literally shape their future absolutely the last beautiful just on that one you know the scent is this have you tried to recreate that scent from your memory or it or is it it's the feel of a scent yeah so I haven't tried to capture smell of my mother because I think no a little bit odd anybody will be interested in that so yeah yeah I inside you have what's got a rice powder a quart so there's a perfume within it that had to be made which makes you think of the smell of face powder it's very gentle and very very soft yeah my mother used to love jewelry which one the reasons maybe I wear so much of it so you have a lot of water called aldehydes in which make this shimmering or sparkling effect it's very very warm very soft so it has a touch of an echo of the perfume my mother wore but I wanted to really capture the scent of sounds stupid the scent of the warmth and gentleness of love of the kiss beautiful it smells very classic time using classic yes it's in the perfume I've ever made that I made deliberately to be a bit retro because I'm not a very retro person I tend to live tomorrow rather than dreaming yesterday and I was really thrilled that the number of very young people without my brand for what it's worth our average customer is sits between 25 and 45 from all the stuff we know around the world which are quite young this the beauty director of Russian vogue smell to it a terminal said I've always looked for my perfume this is it how great because I was really frightened of this perfume because the story was so personal and I thought maybe nobody will relate to it but yeah I'll have it reminds me it doesn't smell the same but it gives me a similar feeling to Shalimar and I've just been lucky enough to purchase an x-ray of mother gates 50s 60s being really nice that's gorgeous thank you yes it's the pout I'm sure the powdery element the next is this one which is for a lot of people a frightening perfect you you because it really commands something of the person that wears it okay and I think that very few perfumes made today do that this is called Great Britain I was asked if I would make the scent of our country for the first great festival which was held in Istanbul so this was softly percolating through the air and what I try to create someone to tell you the story quickly before you smell it yeah I thought what is Britain when people from abroad think of Britain I think they'll think of the royal family so they'll think of majesty so I knew my scent need to be majestic yeah I think people think of our Parliament the inside of which is wood and leather so the perfume had to have a lot of leather and wood and whilst all that democracy happens in the house of parliament I still think in our country that the gentlemen's clubs in Powell Mullins and James is which also leather and wood aware a lot of the big power conversations go on yeah so you have wood leather rose as a symbol of Britain England it's also the symbol of the monarch so it has rose and I thought that in London in particular we have more foreign nationalities than any other capital city in the world so Britain has always been this very inclusive country which is not true of all countries and I thought one of the things I love about being British is the fact that whoever you are and whatever you are you can flourish in our country so you could be the most delicate delicate fragile creative whatever person and this might and majesty and strength allows you to flourish so what symbolized that for me is the violet flower because I thought you could go walking in a wood and literally crush this flower not even though you've done it but in our country something like that which is delicate and precious the might and majesty of the country supports it and allows it to flourish any Sherman is a patriotic good that's what my vision tapes are called and you know fish-and-chips I wasn't in that lots of Britain but very very irreverent yeah and I think it's a very very sexual smell not sensual I think it's very animalic yeah that was a little tongue-in-cheek because we've always had the reputation that we don't when of course we most certainly do so that was that bit we don't need to be shy about no we don't shy about anything and then in a heartbeat you smell this it all wraps around the central motor violet mmm I'm sure lots of your viewers watch for lots of different reasons for anybody who really really loves perfume and knows a lot about it historically this in fact is a very classical style of perfume which used to be called quit overseas Russian leathers and no one makes many more these be popular in the 1920s and 30s so it's a lovely smooth soft leather a very smooth it's not a turn sometimes leather in fragrances can be quite sharp and people like that sometimes this is this is a community can be very they can be hard yeah very aggressive mmm but I think I hope like the people of Britain we grow on people in the end that you get and I think that perf is that it's smooth and easy and very warm it is it is I I think leather can be a difficult note for some people but that's why I said it's challenging yeah yes but I think this I don't think this is as challenging as its beautiful is really beautiful and in fact all of them are have we don't know we don't know more yeah well alright great and this one has to be the one I like the most ok I have to say it because it's the perfume I made and where for me that's so of all the things again where I I only ever smell like this yeah ideas same scent for years and years and then one day I noticed that it didn't smell the way it used to because the formula was changed so I suddenly had to think how do I want to smell my sound bit oh I'm not much but I've always spent my time thing how other people should smell something I think how do I want to smell and I was working on this Accord and I described it as a sheep wrapped up in Kashmir that not smelled it you sold it something but does now I describe it associate I wrapped up in Kashmir because you have really a very classical shipper it's very dry very mossy very woody yeah it has a very soft spiced accent but that really just adds the warmth it doesn't really smell spicy and then the base of it is extraordinarily soft and enveloping that's it one yeah I said you have to smell them on the skin yeah almost a it's like tea notes on the skin a little bit maybe so they're as lovely that's that's my scent inside I hope your camera will pick it up you'll see that it's full of gold yeah and the gold is me again being a bit tongue-in-cheek because every customer will say that's real gold yes but that Jasmine in there cost twice the price of that gold and the Auris which takes six years produced costs three and a half times surprised the gold and it has natural ambergris in that cost seven times the price of the gold yeah but yes it's good well I mean it doesn't get more luxurious than that does it well Roger thank you very much I think that was the perfect way to do because I was thinking should we do bestsellers should we do from the the femme line or the for the gentlemen I think that's perfect I think they're the ones you mean the most thank you very much indeed well thank you for joining me it's been an absolute honor to have you on from the fact we had to travel halfway around Europe to do it when we could have just done it in London we could yeah we could when you're in a couple of weeks so just go to Milan why would you want to do it anyway absolutely oh it's my first time in Milan so and I've just arrived I've literally just stepped off the plane so I'm looking forward to checking everything out well thank you very much thank her thank you for watching everybody I hope you enjoyed this video on my special guest it's been great so I always love doing these two hundreds because it's a it's basically an easier video to edit and I just love having a conversation with somebody so thanks for watching everybody remember keep tuning into our firm and keep smelling good hi would you do me the honor of the tagline to camera stay tuned to FM would you feel comfortable doing that of course I would excellent so what I will say is who's wrong what they're buying from well I'll give you I'll give you a good address um [Music]

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Keywords: Roja dove, roja parfums, top 5, fragrance review, luxury, selfridges, interview, perfumer, tv presenter, fragmental, best cologne, best perfume, best fragrance YouTuber, best roja

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Length: 17min 29sec (1049 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 02 2019