That Gaby Roslin Podcast: Reasons To Be Joyful - Show n Tell with Lloyd Griffith

Episode Date: February 16, 2024

For our extra nugget of joy this week, comedian, actor and singer Lloyd Griffith brings in a few objects which bring a smile to his face (and nose) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Extra nugget of joy. I'll show and tell moment on reasons to be joyful. To be joined by the man who personifies joy, lovely Lloyd Griffith. Okay, so what have you brought up? I love that it's always a surprise for me. So it's more of a concept situation here. I'm not thinking outside the box, but I am thinking outside the box. So I love, love perfumes.

Okay. I'm obsessed with perfumes. Always having, always will be. For you or for other people or just smells? Smells. Okay. And so I brought in three after-shaved perfumes. And you've got rhinitis.

And I've got rhinitis. So you can smell okay? Oh, I've got to smell incredibly. So basically, I can usually smell what someone's wearing. And it's a bit weird because I wear a lot of women's perfumes as well. That's not weird. No, no. But as in like people are going, how can you smell that?

I'm wearing Joe Malone, promontic noir. I'm like, oh right. Are you wearing anything? I am. Are you? Let me get, can I have a little, let me see if I can. It's sort of faded off. Oh, right, yeah.

So I'm not going to get that, which isn't great for the, um, but I know of it. But what, what is it? It's Daisy by Mark Jacobs. Yeah, lovely. Old school. Yeah, a bit of tuberose in there. I love a bit of tubaroes in there. Oh, so I brought in just three, three.

So the reason, right, so I brought in three aftershaves. This one is Aqua, um, by Bulgari. Okay. I like it's a bottle. It's a lovely bottle. And they've all got like a little story to tell it. Oh, okay. Do you want to do one by one?

Yeah. But also... May I? Yeah, yeah. And spray it into... Oh, can I? Okay. Oh, it's heavy.

It's heavy, yeah. It's like a pebble for the people just on audio. Like a blue glass pebble. I know what it smells like. Go on. It smells like I can see the men who wear it. You're looking at it on. Ed, do you wear it?

Just me. I really like that smell. So I, so the reason I love perfume is I grew up in a just a female household and like a lot of antis and they always wore perfume. They all always wore perfume. And so I just became a little bit obsessed with perfume. Like just growing up and I, you know, like Izzy Mayaki Lurdezay,

Monsoon, Chloe, like all these perfumes, like women's perfumes. I kind of like, so I'm like, oh, you're wearing so-and-so. And they'd be like, yeah, how do you know that? I just grew up in a house full of women. I know what you're wearing. And I've always been a bit of a, you know, a bigger lad, and I've struggled sometimes to get into clothes and stuff. What I love is that I don't feel sad when I'm trying on perfume.

Oh, Lord. When I go into, like, this is my fault for being, you know, a tubby lad anyway. And also, I guess my mom's for feeding me. But, like, when, you know, like, sometimes clothes won't fit. Perfumes will always fit. And so that's why I splash out on perfumes more than, probably closed because I love them. You just made, you just brought tears my eyes.

Oh, bless you. But I just, they have like memories. So this one, so it's Bulgari Aqua. Bulgari Aqua, Porham. I still wear it every now and then. And I bought this when I first moved to London. And I was a bit worried about moving to London. Like, what am I going to do?

Am I going to be a singer? I'm not going to make it, mum. And I remember going out with my then-girlfriend Blanche. Shout out Blanche, if you're listening. Same age as me, not a nine-year-old lady. It's what an old lady's name, isn't it, Blanche? Anyway, we went... I'm so pleased you said that.

We went shopping and I remember I bought some brogues. Brown? Yeah, brown brogues. Oh, you came to London and wore brown brogues. Oh! And this... I've gone for a number of phases. I'd say this is my West London phase. Okay.

Where I got brown brogues, you know what I mean? With jeans, with a line down the front. No! No! A blazer? A blue blazer. You didn't? I did.

You blazered it? You blazered it? You blazered it. You blazed it? You blazed it. Brog? I've tried to burn the photos of those times. And we went to, you know, Aragon House in Parsons Green.

Oh, you even went up to... It was very like, ha-ha, yeah, absolutely no to... You're hanging out at the Slody Pony and then go... Literally, yeah. Oh, my way. But I remember getting this perfume, finding it. Oh my God, I really love that smell. And I've loved it every time I smell it.

I think back to London, 2008. And I... Memories are... Smells and memories are incredible. But that's what I love. I love the fact that I can walk past someone and go, oh, that's reminded me of George. I used to work.

I wonder what he's up to. Then you might just text him. So the next one is... This is a bit of Joe Malone, Wood Sage and Seasol. That reminds me of the summer of 2016. I just broken up with a girlfriend. I was going to say it's a sad.

smell. That's really weird. Is it? That's really weird. I don't know what made me. That's so funny. Did you just think I was a sad smell? Yeah. I should write a song with that. Sad smell. But yeah, but I bought that the week before Grimsby Town got promoted from... Oh, so it's a happy smell, as far. So for me, it's like, oh, yeah, the end of that relationship, but on so anything. And so I just, but I love this smell. And I remember, I just having a really nice summer. I've sadly broken up with a girlfriend, but I'd had a really nice summer after that. And knowing that Grimsby had got

promoted back into the Football League. So, so Wood Sage and Staghan's, I was a really and sea salt is my little, you know, that's my... But they bring me, like, I genuinely, when I put them on, I'm like, I'm happier. It's not, you know, I'm not poopoo in other fragrances, but some of them, people just put them on just for the sake of it. There's a reason and I'm still all right. And then this one, this is one of my favourite perfumes of all time.

This one, it's La Labo. Another 13. La Labo? Are you not aware of La Labo? No. Gabby. Another 13, okay. You work in the media.

What do you mean? Oh, that's nice. Can I spray you so I can smell it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you got it on? What am I wearing? No, I think I am wearing that, yeah. Are you?

So shall I just sniff you? Yeah, yeah, well, have a look, but you can also... Oh, that's nice. It's lovely, isn't it? That's very... Needs a bit of time to fumigate, rumigate. That's, it smells of clean days. Clean days.

Yeah, it smells of clean days. I bought that, well, not this bottle, but that is the same bottle. I've had this. you can't get it refilled and you get a little bit of... Oh, I like that. That's good. It's got my name on it. It's got my name on it. It's got the date.

It was... But I got that in... Soho. Yeah, in Soho. But the original one, I got in LA when I was out in LA. And so it just reminds me of being out in LA, seeing me, mate, Holly, going to the La Labo by Malibu Beach, I think it was.

And then... And yeah, so I just love perfumes. And they genuinely bring me so much joy. It sounds so weird. No, it doesn't. It doesn't at all. There's nothing weird about it. I think I absolutely agree with you. I think smells are incredibly precious.

There's a really good book called A Perfewon by Patrick Suskind, which I highly record. Have you read it? No, but it's the amount of people that say that. Oh, so good, yeah. And it's all about a bloke with a nose like mine. A super nose. A super nose, yeah.

And I've actually got quite a small nose for a bloke on my side. It's a bit odd. Huge calves, tiny nose. That might be in the next tour show. Do you know, please, I was just about to say, I think you need to have a tour that's called Huge Carve Small Nose. Huge Cups, Small Nose. Thank you, Lloyd.

Joy. Thank you. Thank you.