7 Beauty Editors Reveal The #DamnGood Perfumes They’re Hoarding Now
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Today’s #DamnGoods episode is all about the perfumes that beauty editors really hoard!! We’re welcoming *7* beauty editors from top publications – Elle, Allure, Fashionista and more – who are sharing their all-time fave fragrances, from a $600 ‘expensive vanilla’ blend to a before-its-time bottle you can only score on eBay. Plus, tune in to hear their expert tips on how-to avoid smelling like everyone else; ‘fragrance coupling’ and where to get your flaçon monogrammed like an editor.
You’ll hear from:
- Former Vogue.com Beauty Editor Jenna Rennert, on the perfume you can only find on an if-you-know-you-know shelf. Plus, Which fragrance bottles from her collection are most likely to withstand a 6 foot drop!
- Asia Milia Ware, fashion and beauty writer for The Cut, who reveals her blind-buy perfume that has men stopping her in the streets – time and time again
- People Magazine’s Style & Beauty Director Andrea Lavinthal, on her fave “salty” scent – and which perfume all the Greenwich Moms are wearing now
- Kathleen Hou, beauty director at Elle Magazine, who surprises us with a blast celebrity scent from the past – along with a sneak peek at an exciting fresh woody fragrance launching this fall
- Fashionista Beauty Director Stephanie Saltzman, on the GOAT in vanilla perfumes that’s made her very discerning top shelf – followed by a fun game of ‘Guess What The Row Fragrance Would Smell Like’?
- Cosmopolitan Beauty Editor Beth Gillette, on the travel-inspired luxe perfume that she expertly layers with… an affordable celebrity spritz that nobody could have predicted
- Allure Associate Beauty Editor Annie Blay, who divulges her Parisian mainstay perfume as she schools us on the art of ‘fragrance coupling’ with your date (a trend in the making?)
- Stay tuned until the end as Carlene and Jill announce the perfumes they’re hoarding, too
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to Breaking Beauty. |
| 0:10.0 | The podcast all about the breakthrough people,, Products, and Moments in Beauty. |
| 0:14.0 | We're your host, Jill Dunn, and Carleen Higgins. Hello, hello, and welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | We're Carleen and Jill, |
| 0:26.0 | two beauty editors turn Beauty Podcasters. |
| 0:29.0 | Hey, Carleen, so for our longtime listeners |
| 0:32.0 | who've been riding with us for seven years, you know that we're in your feeds every single Wednesday telling you what's good in the beauty world and you know we're we've spoken to so many amazing people like make up by Mario |
| 0:44.8 | Jen Atkins Chris Appleton and celebrity guests like Haley Bieber and |
| 0:50.0 | Tracy Ellis Ross and Kate Hudson yes I am name dropping over here, |
| 0:53.8 | but I think over the years, |
| 0:55.7 | what people have really come to know us for |
| 0:57.5 | are our product review episodes, |
| 0:59.9 | our hashtag damn goods, |
| 1:01.8 | because as beauty editors for this many years we're skeptical by |
| 1:05.8 | nature and we're really just here to share what you actually should be spending |
| 1:08.7 | your money on. That's right we've seen it all and we've watched it all and today we are really hearkening back to our beauty editor routes because |
| 1:17.6 | We've invited not one guest editor not two guest editors, but seven guest editors who will be contributing to today's |
| 1:27.7 | theme, which is the fragrances that beauty editors poured. |
| 1:32.4 | We reached out to fellow Beauty Editors who we've met in our travels, everyone from |
| 1:36.8 | Andrea Laventhall from People magazine who's been a past guest on our show and really fun. |
| 1:42.2 | To three awesome ladies we met on a press trip |
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