Smell Ya Later

It's a brand new year, which doesn't actually mean... a thing. BUT we do have our first episode of 2022 kicking off with our made-up scent resolutions AKA the " ins " and " outs " of smells and scents, plus, as it turns out, lots of things that have nothing to do with either.  [What we smell like today: Elorea Fire, Maison Francis Kurkdijian Gentle Fluidity Gold] Find more info, episodes, and merc...

While we're all dealing with the Omicron of it all, your intrepid hosts insist upon looking ahead — to the future of scent and what it holds. We may not be meteorologists or have a degree in marketing or communications, but when it comes to trend forecasting, we know when to bring an umbrella. Here's an hour and change featuring our crystal balling into what we can all expect to smell in the new a...

Another year's end, another opportunity to intimately get to know your hosts with our biannual AMA, in which your hosts answer the most invasive and least rude reader-submitted questions — no subject off-limits except the ones we don't want to talk about!  In this 4th quarter edition, we cover: The Hustler Industrial Complex Scents that will turn on everyone around you Dumb things we've done Very...

End of year lists are here and we are no better than all the other self-appointed clout contenders out there in the mediasphere, so in the spirit of the end of 2021, your hosts are reviewing the past year in smells and giving you strictly anecdotal ranked and unranked recollections from memory: their top, most, and best smells and smell-makers of the year.  [What we smell like today: Iman Love Mem...

Pals in pod, Emilio Quezada & Evan Shinn, AKA   Dewy Dudes join us for our first roundtable on the eau dude scent, king behavior, and the collective trauma of Axe body spray. What are the dudes spraying these days? What's the difference between a hot-boi and a fuck-boi? What's a pick-me scent? What do they call Axe in England? All these questions and more are addressed in this episode.  [ What...

Whoever said never meet your idols never told Tynan, who has manifested such a meeting with none other than mega influencer and scented candle queen, Jackie Aina . Excuse the jittery energy, as we get into it with our girl, who's had a prolific career, from dropping out of college, joining the army, dominating YouTube, interviewing the president of the United States (!!!) and of course, launching...

Supply chain who? We're coming at you with another holiday gift guide to charm and delight the olfactory receptors of  all those within your blessed spending radius. We're coming at you this extended cut episode with  a variety of home fragrance, fine fragrance, body products, scented activities, bougie smells, budget smells, a smelly fan, candles, fabric care — we have you and yours covered.  Als...

What's it like to be a perfumer? Is it like going to Hogwarts School of Whiffcraft & Whiffery? In some ways, yes. And in some ways...not no. Luckily, we have perfumer Marissa Zappas on to tell us about her journey into the olfactory arts, what it's like going from the corporate world of fragrance to carving her own independent path in scent sorcery, and why it's better to study for a smell tes...

Carbon emissions = bad. Perfume = good. This is the basic math behind Air Company's second product ever: AIR EAU DE PARFUM , a fragrance made from CO2 emissions. How do you make perfume from [gestures all around] the air ?? We have Greg Constantine, co-founder of Air Company on the pod to tell us about his humble operation that literally turns carbon emissions into useful things like vodka, perfum...

It's spooky season once again and we're bubbling up this very seasonal episode on THE SMELL OF DEATH from a year ago with neuroscientist and cadaver scholar, Mo Costandi. It's not just a copy/paste — that's not our style, no, what the hell. We, of course, include an all-new, updated, present-day, overwrought overture, as is our style indeed . Also, we have so many new smells to tell you about! So,...

Added fragrance in beauty products gets a bad rep these days. But given the likelihood that most products "don't work" anyway, may we at least reap some sensorial joy out of greasing up our slowly deteriorating mortal vessels with our little creams and potions, please? If you can slather it, we've smelled it, and this episode contains our favorite non-fragrance fragranced products.  What else: Tyn...

We've been noticing a perfume pattern that suggests a move towards indulgence, intensity, and the extreme. What could it mean? Listen to us trying to figure it out for nearly the time commitment of a feature-length film. This episode has everything:  A list of perfumes A list of their "extreme," "intense," and in some cases "Eau fraîche" flankers Things we like :) Things we do not like :( Sable re...

You asked, and we deliver. Not that wouldn't have thought to do so of our own accord, but it just so happens all our interests and obsessions align with the release of Ariana Grande Cloud 2.0 Intense —  the more dramatic newborn sibling to our beloved Cloud.  In this episode,  we review the new fragrance (obviously), we break down the nuanced differences between the Intense and the original, we di...

It's been one whole American year for Smell Ya Later. 49 episodes later, we've decided to celebrate and commemorate ourselves  by foisting our opinions onto our listeners once more using the most official and indisputable format we know of: an awards show. We thoughtfully penned the categories and have selected the winners with the gravitas and focus of red-pill-blue-pill methodology. We would lik...

In this episode: Tynan's cloud kingdom is fully assembled and he still insists that Kim Kardashian would come on this podcast. Sable recounts the trauma of draining water bulges in her apartment walls post-hurricane and complains about social media. Both of your hosts promise to stop co-opting the intros of these episodes to spiral about personal struggles and instead wax conspiratorial about toxi...

What happens when virtual reality co-ops scent for immersive experiences in intentionally manipulative ways to help people become more capable, more at peace, and better equipped to navigate real life? As a tech podcast, which we are now, we are investigating how the power of scent is used in virtual reality applications for good and for evil (maybe?). We have CEO Aaron Wisniewski of OVR Technolog...

Why are the richest and famous-est simply not bathing? And why are they running their mouths about it when they should be running their faucets? Your hosts investigate, disagree (about Jake Jellyhall), sort of agree (about our collective disconnect between the theater of hygiene vs actual cleanliness),  and wax chaotic about bathtub time sucks, sedentary lifestyles, and certain words that are not...

There have been some events happening in the world that can be smelled and then thought about: The Fenty Par FUM : What it smells like. What it's made of. What's the deal with that logo. Also, Rihanna's government name is Robyn?? (It is.)  Also, all these scented stunt products from IKEA and Ford. Plus, some very fascinating and confusing scientific discoveries in a bug's nose about how olfactory...

We all remember navigating the mall through the huge beauty floors (because you always had to enter the mall through a department store for some reason) where your friendly fragrance sales associates would be demo-ing the latest,  pungiest (you know what I mean), designer-iest fragrances. Well, we have always wondered what it's like to have one of the most glamorous jobs at the mall: perfume girl....

The smell of love is not quite the same thing as the scent of lust . The latter is more... slutty for lack of a more polite word. But along all the lines of all things amorous and sessual , the scents we associate with attraction, sex, and love are often not quite the odors present in either context. And sometimes  they are.  So that's what we're talking about in this definitely not PG episode.  [...

So you thought targeted ads would stop at just your eyes and your ears? No, they're coming for your nose as well — in fact, they've been  there and you may or may not have even been aware of it. Some such companies like our guests for this episode, Air Aroma, are responsible for curating the olfactive vibes  in any kind of space, from hotel lobbies to fancy stores, homes of the rich and famous, ca...

Another bi-annual round of AMA Q&As submitted by our dear and loyal SYL listeners. We cover all sorts of topics, including career stuff, beauty products that are just OK, Tynan's eternal scourge with Santal 33, things to buy, things not to buy, the capitalist success paradigm, and other things of absolutely no libelous nature whatsoever. Get to know a bit more about the SYL hosts... six months...

If you've watched any beauty YouTube (or Instagram) in the past decade you're likely well aware of Huda Beauty. But the brand's co-founder Mona Kattan also has an extremely high-profile (perhaps the highest) side hustle with KAYALI , a very fancy fragrance brand. Perhaps you've heard about it from Tynan absolutely losing it over Sweet Diamond Pink Pepper in previous episodes, or more likely from M...

We are discussing Tynan's most loathed topic: deodorant. And in an attempt to talk about anything but this topic, he deftly veers the discussion around to: pimple-popping (videos and IRL), scabies, ballsacks, natural beauty's foibles, the clothes that make B.O. even worse, sunscreen (again), sexual handshakes, and of course the deodorants we actually like because they work . (You have to listen to...

Everyone knows that when you start smelling that sweetly tropical scent of sunscreen on everyone's skin, summer is officially here. But what is that particular scent that we all seem to just know ? We do a not-that-deep dive into our favorite sunscreen brands' telltale fragrances and get into what our favorite classic summer fragrances are for getting into all the kinds of trouble that only this h...