Smell Ya Later

Every six months a new Daisy blooms, by which we mean a flanker of a flanker of Marc Jacobs Fragrances' most popular perfume franchise. We have Erwan LeBerrigaud, VP of MJ Fragrances at Coty, on to explain what the deal is with fragrances flankers and how the MJ team can and will continuously spout new Daisy fragrances as long as people keep loving them.   [What we smell like today: Marc By Marc J...

Scent in beauty products is a touchy subject, but even those that don't have a scent sometimes incorporate aroma molecules to delete their natural odors. We have cosmetic chemist and co-founder of Dieux Skin Joyce De Lemos on the pod to science at us about masking fragrances, skincare formulations, and the misconceptions and villainization of fragrance (and chemicals in general) especially when it...

It's another bi-annual Q&A for your hosts. Things we cover in this mid-2022 edition: how to be a beauty writer do we clean our own homes? red flags green flags (one frags, two frag) quit your job sable still cannot fully smell things scents we like scents we don't like makeup we like makeup we don't like thick smells don't be dry don't subscribe the importance of tact the importance of being i...

Before there was Secretions Magnifique, there were magnificent secretions — that aromatic cocktail made by one's own body-ody-ody and it has been dubbed "vabbing" (a portmanteau of vagina and dabbing).  Wearing one's own snail trail as a perfume to pull goes in and out of the zeitgeist, and thanks to TikTok it has been yanked back into it once more. Your hosts graciously, articulately, and elegant...

Did you know that ice cream does not have a scent? Neither did we. Well someone decided to do something about it, I guess, and here we are. Salt & Straw, premium ice creamery hailing from Portland, OR has teamed up with premium fragrance makers Imaginary Authors (also from Portland) to make edible fragrances you can spray on your ice cream to enhance the experience of your pint plundering. We...

Summer officially drops today, and it's party girl season and thusly the party girl scents will soon fill the atmosphere in a cloud of girl-smell, boy-smell, and them-smell. It's the season of really going for it and putting that atomizer through its paces. What IS a party girl scent, you ask? Not a simple answer, but you'll know it when you smell it. We certainly do. And so does this episode. [Wh...

It's vacation season or whatever, which got us thinking about travel scents and the smells of some vacations we've had — you know, all those unfamiliar and exciting smells far from home. Tynan has a designated vacation scent, and Sable  likes finding new smells when elsewhere. Other tangents include but are not limited to: Why Pride month and all these dedicated months are a little cringe, "Clean...

The mysterious, Canadian fragrance brand Persons Of Interest has a habit of popping up in all kinds of good-smell convos by those in the know. Their non-descript bottles bear compelling titles like Sex & Cigarettes, Buried Past, and Two Wolves that speak for themselves. We spoke with the brand founder Dino Caracciolo all about his initial successful men's grooming and skincare line, how a reta...

Now that another Memorial Day has been memorialized, that means it's officially summer — the season of skin. And smelling  scents on other people's skin. So, that got us thinking... what kinds of scents do people compliment the most? And what do they have in common? How do certain scents develop a reputation beyond their intended context? And most importantly, what scents can we wear  manipulative...

If you've ever wondered why scent isn't incorporated into other experiential endeavors like cinema, museums, reenactments, or  performance itself, you are not alone. However, Andreas Keller, owner and curator of Olfactory Art Keller  decided to make it real, with a downtown gallery in NYC dedicated to the art of smell. He tells us all about it in this episode, as well as how and why everyone smell...

It's been a minute (three weeks) but due to unforsmelled circumstances, we took a little-medium break. But now we're back on the very same bullshit that we are known and loved for: talking about smells we like. In this very casual catch-up chat, Tynan and Sable discuss new scents they like, new scents they would like to smell, and the beginnings of what is shaping up to be a S centboi Summer™ (you...

This is a jewelry and condiment podcast now. For one episode, at least. We have jewelry designer Jennifer Fisher on to discuss how she is Tynan's favorite jewelry designer and also her first upcoming scent based on her upbringing in Southern California and her dedication to condiments. [What we smell like today: La Perla Let The Dance Begin, Christian Louboutin Loubicharme] Follow us on Instagram...

On this, the holiest week of tax season, we've decided to examine the sinnery of scents — specifically the seven deadly sins and what they would smell like. Also, beauty marketing has reached a new level of unawareness. Oh yes, and we get down to musing about which of the 7s we're personally guilty of, and which fragrances would scent a sin. That's all. Enjoy! Oh, and we have merch now. The Smell...

As two moody people who love scents, we're always curious to know why and how scent affects our moods, for good and for evil.  There is indeed a science to mood manipulation through scent, and who should be the maestros of such power as the perfumers of Givaudan. We have Stephen Nilsen on to tell us all about Givaudan's proprietary Moodscentz technology, and how scent has been studied to be able t...

One could argue that music and fragrance are parallel art forms, especially when you realize that so much fragrance language borrows from music (notes, accords, compositions). And sometimes they become one when people sing about perfume, name-dropping certain fragrances or simply smelling in song. In this episode, we discuss the songs of smells that we are aware of and a whole lot of ones we are n...

With Y2K making its way back up to the surface of cultural relevance (or nostalgia), it's inevitable that it would get the Smell Ya Later treatment. We've gone on about nostalgic scents before, and we will do so again, this time in the only cultural wrapper that makes sense — the moral alignment chart. We discuss our personal picks on the lawful/neutral/chaotic scale of goodness and evilness and n...

AI comes for us all. And this time, by "all," we mean fragrance. We have Givaudan perfumer Dana Schmitt on to tell us all about Carto, Givaudan's AI helper, aiding perfumers to experiment even more with the fragrances they create. But  will robots replace perfumers? Not quite. So how exactly does AI get its digits into perfumery — the one art that requires a sense of smell, which robots categorica...

What if you could use your sense of smell to fall asleep quicker and rest more deeply?  We have vice president and perfumer at Givaudan Olivier Gillotin on the pod to tell us about Dreamscentz™, the tech that aids the creation of scents scientifically designed to promote better sleep. We get into the research and the application of how these scents are created and how scent can affect mood for ove...

Sex sells, but you can't fuck a fragrance. You can, however, fuck a celebrity (if you're lucky or maybe try really hard), and combining the two has been the standard for how to sell a fragrance since forever probably. The spokespeople are however getting kookier and by way of more interesting choices... hotter? Now that it appears that clout and a certain It-ness of cultural relevancy garner more...

Those who know better know that money smells like balls, but when it comes to smelling rich , wealthy , or classy , people have opinions that may or may not be misinformation  set to a soundtrack of Lana Del Rey remixes on everyone's favorite clock app. It's a vibe, it's a mood, it's perhaps an ill-conceived aspiration that says nothing of wealth itself but the idea of a certain level of taste and...

South Korea has proved to be a triple threat with K-beauty, K-pop, and K-dramas putting us all in a cultural chokehold within the last decade. And yet... what about K-perfume? K-Fragrance? K-Scent? WELL. Meet ELOREA , a new fragrance brand pioneering the way for K-fumes. Co-founders Wonny Lee and Su Min Park join us on this episode to tell us all about ELOREA , its humble beginnings, inspirations,...

It takes your hosts 40 whole-ass minutes to answer the goddamn question but they get there.  Preceding that, a lot of hot goss: What even is love? Are we all doomed? How many people have been personally victimized by Dior Sauvage? Will this fragrance finally allow Sable to manifest her dreams? Why does Tynan always shower alone? Is it live, laugh, love? Or love, laugh, live? Does she who loves lif...

Mugler Angel is one of the most famous fragrances ever. The iconic star-shaped bottle is instantly recognizable as is its scent — unapologetically sweet, sticky, hot, and heavy. It gets in your nose, your eyes, your mouth, and sets up shop in your brain with all its gooey, candy-like floof.  Its overwhelmingly abundant make-up is what we affectionately refer to as "shit on shit." You either love i...

Deep in the Lower East Side, you will find New York City's own Temple Of Beauty , AKA Aedes Perfumery . The artisanal fragrance boutique has carried some of Europe's most elite brands under one roof since 1995. We talk to co-founder Robert Gerstner, who along with his co-founder Karl Bradl, opened one of New York City's most unique fragrance boutiques, which brings some of Europe's best artisanal...

Your spoiled hosts have been holding out on you. We get SO many scents sent (jinx!) to us that we often don't have time to discuss them on the pod without derailing the whole episode. So this is an episode dedicated to the scents (fine fragrance and otherwise) that have enchanted and captivated us as of late. [What we smell like today: Elorea Heaven, Marissa Zappas X Liara Roux Whore] Follow us on...