Smell Ya Later

A recording of our live show for On Air Fest 2023 at the Wythe Hotel, Feb 24th.   Find us at Smellyalater.live (where the merch is) Leave us a message on the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater Follow us on Instagram @smellyalater.mp3 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 futu...

  [What we smell like today: Funmi Monet Exalté, Obvious Parfums Un Vanille] Find us at Smellyalater.live (where the merch is) Leave us a message on the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater Follow us on Instagram @smellyalater.mp3 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 future ep...

In light of viral articles, this episode is an abbreviated guide to fragrance etiquette according to your hosts. We cover wearing whatever the hell you want, removing the classism judgments from perfume, reserving one's prejudice for fuckboy scents, complimenting the way people smell (or not), and  other logical nonsense. [What we smell like today: Marissa Zappas The Pink Bedroom, Escentric Molecu...

What smells repel and attract us? What does Love™ smell like vs what love actually smells like to us? Why are so many for men fragrances so bad? Why does cum smell like bleach? These questions and more are presented and circumvented on our third annual Valentine's Day episode. [What we smell like today: Margiela Replica On A Date, Imaginary Authors A whiff of Wafflecone] Find us at Smellyalater.li...

We have Frederick Bouchardy of Joya Studios on this episode to talk about all things scent & design, the chaos of building your own studio, and all those quirky candle collabs.  [What we smell like today: Imaginary Authors Whispered Myths, Go-To Skin Party Lotion] Find us at Smellyalater.live (where the merch is) Leave us a message on the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater Follow us on...

We go through a broad catalog of the celebrity fragrances we grew up with, and the evolution of the modern celeb fragrance format. Also: A lil catch up with what's new from some  of our fave brands Is butter a gourmand Being romantically chaotic But not professionally chaotic New York City smell destinations Aluminum is bad for your brain apparently But saunas are good Who do we want to make a cel...

We said it once (one episode ago) and we will say it again: it is going to be a Gourmand Year. But on its way there, the gateway to gourmand will be a renaissance of Vanilla™ entering the fragrance matrix. This episode contains our vanilla-scented conspiracy theories and otherwise evidence of the impending Vanilla-ssance. Also, we discuss at length the second coming of D.S.&Durga Pistachio, Th...

What do our noses have in store for the new year? Lots of new smells, fragrance habits, new nomenclature,  where you'll be smelling things, how you'll be sharing scents, and who will be launching scents.   [What we smell like today: Phlur Tangerine Boi, Matiere Premiere Parisian Musc] Leave us a message on the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater Find us at Smellyalater.live Follow us on Inst...

LUSH is perhaps best known for bath bombs with the biggest bloom. However, they also have some of the most unique and memorable fine fragrances -- all handmade with a combination of thoughtfully sourced naturals and synthetics.  This episode, we speak with LUSH's perfumer and creative buyer about all how a handmade brand creates such potently memorable and earth-friendly fragrances as they do.  [W...

We're joined  by Kilian Hennessy to talk about the world of Kilian Paris, the sensuality and creativity in his perfumery, and what makes a really iconic scent.    [What we smell like today: Kilian Black Phantom "Memento Mori", and Kilian Good Girl Gone Bad] Leave us a message on the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater Find us at Smellyalater.live Follow us on Instagram @smellyalater.mp3 Find...

As 2022 Decembers itself away, we reflect upon our favorite fragrances that were launched this year. There were so many! But we have but two noses between us and have only smelled a handful. These are our favorites of that bunch.  (Also if anybody knows where to get perfume factices -- those giant fake perfume bottles -- let us know. Because we want them.) [What we smell like today: Kilian Princes...

Every December since the start of this pod, (so the last two) we wind down in December with a bi-annual Q&A AMA for our loyal and nosy listeners. This is the 2022 edition of that. Enjoy. [What we smell like today: Byredo Black Saffron, Abel Pink Iris] Leave us a message on the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater Find us at Smellyalater.live Follow us on Instagram @smellyalater.mp3 Find m...

Continuing our previous episode (because it's so damn long), here is the second half of our TOP 100 Smells Of All Time (100SOAT) 100th-episode episode.    [What we smell like today: Ariana Grande Vanilla Mod, Marissa Zappas Flaming Creature] Leave us a message on the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater Find us at Smellyalater.live Follow us on Instagram @smellyalater.mp3 Find more info, epis...

For our 100th episode, we're covering 100 of the best smells of all time, in no particular order.  This is part 1.  [What we smell like today: StrangeLoveNYC DeadofNight, Kayali Vanilla Royale Sugared Patchouli 64]   Leave us a message on the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater Find us at Smellyalater.live Follow us on Instagram @smellyalater.mp3 Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smelly...

How do you give the gift of scent? It's a question we get and answer often... and we're doing it again in this episode. We asked listeners for their specific gifty target and did our best to fill in the blank with some soon-to-be successful scent-related gifts that will endear all those who receive to all those who give. Or something. [What we smell like today: Regime Des Fleurs Leather Petals, Lu...

In which we list off fragrance discovery sets we like/are good/worth it for you to explore a brand and collect as many tiny smells for your personal collection and enjoyment. But not before a half-hour cold open featuring our thoughts about our writing careers, Sable being (problematically) sprung, Tynan's conflicted feelings about personal essays, and other bullshit you either love or hate. [What...

[What we smell like today: Byredo Oud Immortel,  Ellis Brooklyn Bee]   Leave us a message at the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater Find us at Smellyalater.live Follow us on Instagram @smellyalater.mp3 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 future episode. Follow us on Instagr...

In which we rank in order of what we like, Bath & Body Works' 12 best-selling holiday scented candles.  We also address a listener question about our favorite household/unconventional scented product. And talk about other things such as: all these new albums out suddenly, making scents with Persons Of Interest and Joya Studios, the latest D.S. & Durga studio juice, getting turned down by L...

As this episode title suggests, this is another classic chat, featuring listener voice memo guidance, new smells, October vibes (?), seasonal scents not being a thing except for fall (and maybe summer), scents we want to smell but haven't yet, etc. Surprisingly! With very minimal spiraling! They said it couldn't be done!  Enjoy :) [What we smell like today: Matiere Premiere Crystal Saffron, Easu V...

What do the dawn of dial-up Internet, pool floats, and chill, early 90s  party tunes have in common? They are the tenets of Vacation Inc , the  sunscreen brand born of a cheeky radio station Poolsuite.fm . Among their suncare products, the brand launched with a sunscreen-scented fragrance, which turned out to be a huge hype hit, proving what we at SYL HQ already know: People love the smell of suns...

We thought we had heard the last of what luxury fragrance could be, and then came Aeir . Founded by disciples of the tech, luxury, and designer goods worlds, we have Enrico Pietra and Rodrigo Caula on to talk how about fragrance can be a vehicle to express how luxury is so much more than cost and expense. With the innovation of extractionless molecular scent-making, custom packaging made from thou...

It's the 2022 Second Maybe Annual Smell Ya Later Awards, in which your hosts collect the year's most significant, impressive, iconic, legendary, and problematic smells into the most relevant categorization that we can wrap our noses around. Please enjoy this entirely serious, cash prize money, official awards ceremony for the best, biggest, smells in the industry of smells, please, and thank you....

Your hosts go back in time, and then forward, and then back again, and a bit around... to recount how they got into fragrance, with what fragrances and when, and how they have all come to define the sophisticated, broad, and omniscient palette of scent that they both possess today ;) [What we smell like today:  Le Labo Tonka, Le Labo Thé Matcha]   Find us at smellyalater.live and follow us on Inst...

A little catch-up convo with the hosts, inventorying our recent scent faves, fave-nots, and what our scents of summer are doing the most (and the least). Plus: Sable learned that Martha's Vineyard is not affiliated with Martha Stewart Tynan remains in his Vanilla Era Why doesn't anyone respect vanilla? Sable bought big pants A new cherry bombshell enters the villa Trying so hard to understand Phlu...

This episode, we're joined by Funmi Monet , TikTok's "fave fragrance auntie" and one of the funniest and most comprehensive fragrance content creators on web3. She regales us about her journey seeking mental health that led to her creating her beauty and fragrance content that we love and lol, as well as being a licensed therapist.   [What we smell like today: YSL Libre Intense, Mancera Instant Cr...