Smell Ya Later

Imagine only being able to make a perfume when the raw materials are in peak season. That's how April Gargiulo developed Understory, the singular perfume oil from her brand Vintner's Daughter. A year after its original launch, it's back again—round 2—with some slightly evolved aromatic tweaks. This is how a winemaker creates a perfume oil. [What we smell like today: Victoria's Secret Bare Magnolia...

A friendly and chill "what we're smelling lately" chat, including some spookily familiar scents and some new scent discoveries found in the gift shop (or regular shops too). Things we discuss: NOAH is Sandy Liang for boys (??) Our new obsession with Clue Perfumery and Amphora Burberry Goddess now has an INTENSE flanker Le Labo's newest city-exclusive scent, Coriandre 39 Maison Francis Kurkdijian a...

This, as well as other hard-hitting listener questions, are included in this week's Q&A episode. Enjoy! We discuss: Sable's Die Hot With A Vengeance perfume launch event at Stèle. Why do They (Big Fragrance) keep trying to make perfume layering happen? Byredo 1996 is allegedly coming back. What fragrances belong in a museum? Perfume snobbery.  The ideal time to have sex.  The impending 'beauty...

When two scent podcasts collide... we have fellow New Yorker and perfume podcaster Emma Vernon on this week's episode to talk about all the behind-the-mic business of making a podcast, the uniquely weird and fun idiosyncrasies of talking about smells online. It's a good hang chat! Follow Perfume Room @perfumeroompod and @emmavern  And subscribe to the Perfume Room Substack   Find more info, episod...

Here's a one-off special, a minor departure, a host-turned-guest episode where Tynan interviews Sable about her debut essay collection Die Hot With A Vengeance . We cover the process of the book deal, the writing of the book, the convoluted nature of our current beauty culture and the precarious positions we find ourselves in for its pursuit, and (almost) everything you'd want to know about the bo...

It's here: the perfume this podcast made (you'll find that out in the episode)! We have Sable's perfumer for Die Hot With A Vengeance eau de parfum , Joey Rosin of Hoax Parfum on the pod to talk about the whole process of making the perfume and being an independent perfumer.  You can find the Die Hot With A Vengeance Eau De Parfum Here.     Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smellyalater.live...

Things we are talking about in this episode:  How all of Miami smells like BR540. Morning Swood. Elorea's new fragrance collection: Timeless Legacy. The polarizing (between us) Frederic Malle X Acne scent. Lube. Lube. And more Lube — with Dave Shanfield of GoodParts Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smellyalater.live Leave us a voice message on the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater an...

A hangtime discussing the BBC documentary about child labor in the Egyptian jasmine supply chain, scented lip balms are everywhere, normalizing not having takes on everything (in beauty coverage ), Binaurale's kooky fragrances, a poppers-themed (?) Boy  Smells candle, how a brand's signature scent is its strongest leverage, and how the fragrance You is the dangling carrot in the Glossier buyout ru...

One fragrance brand we give a lot of (deserved) lip service to is Ellis Brooklyn. And now we finally have brand founder and NYT beauty journalist Bee Shapiro on this episode to talk about how the brand came about and its evolution into the new fragrance landscape. Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smellyalater.live Leave us a voice message on the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater and...

Nothing against Fruits™... but we're yapping about new smells we've been smelling, these influencer scents, a new bar of banana-scented soap, visits to the Firmenich archives — you know, the regular stuff. We also answer a  Hotline listener query concerning scents for horny librarians ;)     Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smellyalater.live Leave us a voice message on the SYL Hotline at Spe...

Juliette Has A Gun's founder Romano Ricci may be more of a Mercutio in the Shakespeare-coded and metaphorical world of this episode. With Not A Perfume, Anyway..., Mmmm..., Ode To Dullness, and others, Juliette Has A Gun has undone haute parfumerie's formalities and proven that levity can be luxury as well. We speak with Ricci about the risk of launching an unserious fragrance brand in the height...

Spring is canonically a season of bare knees, vitamin D-derived dopamine, crushes, and for many, the expiration of their winter and fall cuffs. An uncuffing season, if you will. In this yap-centric episode, we cover some of our foolproof 'get back out there' scents, and a whole lot of other scent-adjacent behaviors that put the sprung in spring.  Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smellyalater...

Oh, you like gourmands? Name five flavors. Le Monde Gourmand can give you dozens more than that. We have Ann Somma, chief brand officer of Tru Fragrance  & Beauty to chat behind the makings of your favorite retailers' fragrances (American Eagle, Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters, Wrangler Jeans...) and how one of those secret fragrances seen only in Urban Outfitters stores struck out to become i...

We have prolific beauty writer Arabelle Sicardi on this episode about perfume's mileage, scent stories that break your own heart, how beauty can be a tool for meaningful connection and care, and their upcoming perfume book club! Check out Arabelle's substack You've Got Lipstick On Your Chin and sign up for their Perfume Pages, a scent sampler and writing experience at Arabellesbook.club .     Find...

Tynan is too stressed to wear ouds, and Sable can't decide: cylindrical or rectangular?  Also feat. extensive yapping about recent smells we've smelled, and how good or bad they are to us: New Mugler Alien Hypersense, new Maison Crivelli Tubéreuse Astrale extrait, yet another Lolita Lempicka revival, Guerlain Oud Nude, Persons Of Interest Crybaby, Phlur Strawberry Letter, et al. Find more info, ep...

Are seasonal scents over? According to the culture (and the media that informs the culture) ... probably, yes. Now that perfume trends run more on a fast fashion current, more frequently birthed by immaculate consumption and tied to some Pinterest aesthetic group devoid of context, fragrance may be freed from another one of its strongest categories (other than gender). So, how will we navigate fra...

We are catching up with a slew of new scents we've been smelling lately, including Kylie Jenner Cosmic, DS & Durga Black Magenta, Donna Karan Cashmere Collection, Fine'ry's shameless dupes, and more.  Visual things we mention on this non-visual platform: Arabelle Sicardi on how Dupe Culture Is Ruining Everything The croissant charm necklace The new Kacey Musgraves Boy Smells candle Find more i...

A little chit-chat about scents we've been  experiencing lately, including but not Limited Too™: New Fine'ry launches in Target A Flowerbomb flanker that copied Prada's homework Kilian's new diet Princess and toxic masculinity cola scent The new Daisy...flanker? Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smellyalater.live Leave us a voice message on the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater and we...

Once again we are talking about body odor and all the agents of its disguise we have at our disposal, with cosmetic chemist and co-founder of Hume Supernatural, Melissa Christenson. [What we smell like today: Elorea Be By My Side,  mannn idk] Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smellyalater.live Leave us a voice message on the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater and we may respond on a fu...

The scent of Sexy™ as far as we the people know it in the mainstream has been delivered by Victoria's Secret. We have Adriana Medina, VP Perfumer at Givaudan, who's created such tentpole scents as Bombshell and Tease, to explain Victoria's secret of Sexy™ with us. [What we smell like today: MEMO Paris Italian Leather, Le Monde Gourmand Fraise Fouettée] Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smelly...

It's January. It's brick. Beauty consumerism has us in its dopamine-laced grip. It might be time to reject transparency and embrace gatekeeping. Best fragrance articles are all dealers' choice. Sable discovers a new saffron scent. Tynan got his hands on a fragrance interpretation of an espresso martini. Fragrance shop vibes are off. This is still not a pronunciation podcast. [What we smell like to...

Two of our favorite contemporary independent perfumers Marissa Zappas and Courtney Rafuse (of Universal Flowering ) have teamed up to create Gumamina , a new fragrance concept brand that launched with the swan duo Odette and Odile. [What we smell like today: J.LO Glow, Tom Ford Vanilla Sex] Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smellyalater.live Leave us a voice message on the SYL Hotline at Spea...

Peanut perfume, nuclear florals, textile accords, spiritual smells — these are a few directions perfume may be going in 2024 and beyond. Some of our predictions for this year have been spot-on while others are still cooking, and that is enough encouragement to keep us following our noses to give you another scent trend forecast for the next year to come. [What we smell like today: Dedcool Sunlit B...

It's our version of Spotify's Wrapped, featuring our most worn smells, most mentioned brands and scents, genres, artists (perfumers), and scents of the year.  [What we smell like today: Mugler Angel Muse, Gucci A Chant For The Nymph] Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smellyalater.live Leave us a message on the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater Follow us on Instagram @smellyalater.mp3...

A little post-autumn, pre-winter catch-up episode featuring all the new celebrity scents we have not smelled yet, the new non-celebrity scents we have smelled, the Black Friday of it all, Thanksgiving of it all, Sable's first visit to the ER, Tynan in peak 'changing my mind' era, and predictions and forecasts for the fruits and vegetable scent trends to come.  [What we smell like today: Boy Smells...