181: Swipe no more: sniff your way to your next match
For those tired of swiping on apps, four artists in London have brought you another sensory option for finding a date: smelling your way to a match. The Scent of Connection (https://thescentofconnection.com/) is an artist collective founded by Jack Jessé, Niko Alonso, Porsha Thompson, and Jasmine Imren, focused on reimagining how people connect by exploring sensory experiences beyond sight — na...
1hr 8m Feb 25, 2025
1hr 8m
180: The blind leading the buys
Blind buying fragrance is on the rise. What's the most you're willing to invest or risk in an unknown scent purchase?
55m Feb 18, 2025
55m
179: Perfumes to fall in love (or just crush) to ❤️
It happens to the best of us.
59m Feb 11, 2025
59m
178: What does a movie smell like?
New year, same us — now with more ( ◡‿◡ *) as you'll notice in our official new look (thanks to photographer Zach Bergren). We're chatting about all the things we've smelled during the longest month of the year (new Chloe, new Fine'ry collection, Jil Sander's newest perfume drop, and more), addressing a listener question about scents being licensed for other media, and speculating on which beau...
53m Feb 04, 2025
53m
177: How will PerfumeTok survive this?
(A < 24hr TikTok snooze...) Enjoy this little chat that may very well become prescient now that we know who the clock app is pledging allegiance to...
53m Jan 21, 2025
53m
176: The State of Scent (What is it?)
It’s the start of 2025, and what are we smelling? A lot of existential ennui, a lot of apocalyptic uncertainty, a lot of Baccarat Rouge dupes. If a chart of the fragrance brands with the most social media “vitality scores” (c/o WWD (https://www.instagram.com/wwd/p/DEPp4VYovUs/?locale=pt_PT&img_index=1) and Beauty Inc) is to be believed, it’s a lot of the usual suspects. But if we were to go of...
56m Jan 14, 2025
56m
175: 🔮 2025's Gonna Smell Kooky
Our trends and predictions of what's in store for smells in 2025 are here in this episode. You've been warned.
54m Dec 17, 2024
54m
174: Smell Ya Later's 2024, Wrapped
AKA Our most-worn, most-talked-about, most loved scents released in 2024.
1hr 2m Dec 10, 2024
1hr 2m
173: A highly specific scented gift guide for any non-random individual in your life
What do you get your college-aged girl relative, boy roommate, tech bro with questionable hygiene, situationship, hot mom, and anxious wellness-pilled friend for the holidays? We don't know. Oh wait, but it's scent-themed? OK, yes, we know. Enjoy this highly specific gift guide for all kinds of non-random individuals in your life who you wish to treat with the best type of gift (manipulatively...
1hr 5m Nov 19, 2024
1hr 5m
172: Mist Connections with Sol De Janeiro
The smell that launched a thousand ships, if there was one, it would probably be wafting from some maiden absolutely doused in any cheirosa of choice from Sol De Janeiro's perfume mists. We have Maggie Arms (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maggiearms/) and Liza Henowitz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/liza-henowitz-1aba2a5a/) from the product side to talk to us about the Sol De Janeiro scent philosoph...
52m Nov 12, 2024
52m
171: What Does The Amazon Smell Like? [feat. Francisco Costa]
This episode we speak with Francisco Costa of Costa Brazil about creating his one coveted fragrance Aroma, and the journey to make it — as well as to buy it back, once his parent company Amyris declared bankruptcy last year.
45m Oct 29, 2024
45m
170: Can you ever fully dissociate your ex's fragrance from memory?
...And other listener queries. We are catching up at SYL HQ with a few hotline queries, including what scented laundry detergent is actually good for, and what's the deal with fragrance getting so intense lately?
50m Oct 22, 2024
50m
169: Chicago Smells F*cking Terrific (feat. Bianco Profumo)
We have Mark and Nick Holmes, the father & son duo of Bianco Profumo — a new Chicago-based fragrance brand that captures the Italian-Americana of the '80s and '90s. In their words: "We do it big. Our hair is perfectly spritzed into place, we speak ten decibels louder than everyone else, we’re the life of every party, and we smell f**king terrific." Their debut launch of three scents immediately...
1hr 4m Oct 15, 2024
1hr 4m
168: What Does Attachment Theory Smell Like?
Eleasium's mystically oceanic and intuition-formed debut scent is a single perfume oil inspired by dark, cold water, pomegranates, mermaids, seashells, pearls, and...attachment theory. We have Courtney Brunson, founder of Eleasium (and our former colleague from xoJane days) on this episode to chat about her career in brand copy and product development, moving to Paris, and making her first frag...
1hr 20m Oct 08, 2024
1hr 20m
167: 🕯️Getting A Clue💡 with Laura Oberwetter of Clue Perfumery
Classic gameboard game turned film, and now perfume brand, Clue Perfumery is such a novel take on the smells of everyday surroundings: the forest floor, church pews, a dusty lightbulb, and more curious objects. Perfumer and co-founder Laura Oberwetter comes on the pod for this episode about all things Clue Perfumery (Those custom caps! Designing the bottles and branding! Making a beer scent!). ...
55m Oct 01, 2024
55m
166: Amphora Parfums Will Cure Your Hottness Fatigue
We have Noah Virgile of Amphora Parfums on this episode to talk about their breakout debut collection that we've personally fallen for, taking perfume classes and creating scents, their growing vintage Mugler flanker collection, and the joy of finding new ways to self-express through makeup, scent, eyebrow bleaching, you name it. This is such a great chat for anyone who wants to escape the cycl...
1hr 8m Sep 24, 2024
1hr 8m
165: ✨🏆 The 2024 Smell Ya Later Awards 🏆✨
Every year we concoct the most unique, intriguing, clever, and correct awards categories for smells and scents in the Smell Ya Later universe. This year is no different, except yes it is because we've added new categories that explore the depths of our scent logic that you can only find on Smell Ya Later. This year's categories are: The Honda Award For Best Accord or Note The Hi diva, you kno...
1hr 7m Sep 17, 2024
1hr 7m
164: Bringing Ceremony Back To Scent [feat Richard Christiansen of Flamingo Estate]
Before the tomato-ssance, there was Flamingo Estate. Richard Christiansen's humble Los Angeles farm is where the vegetal scent trend gained the luxury home reputation. His home, place of work, and brand has quickly made a name for itself in all things farm-to-credenza, agriculture awareness, farmer-friendly, and salt (and herb, and flower, and vine) of the earth. Christiansen chats to us about ...
1hr 7m Sep 10, 2024
1hr 7m
163: Stéle Ya Later 🪽 [feat. Jake & Matt Belanger]
You'll find NYC's newest and coolest fragrance boutique in South Williamsburg. For those who wander further from the beaten path of the neighborhood's main drag, at Stéle you can smell some of the most unique and hard-to-find fragrance brands you've only seen online. In this episode we speak with founders and shopkeeps, Jake & Matt Belanger about how they built the shop, the fragrance community...
1hr 5m Sep 03, 2024
1hr 5m
162: The Perfume You Can Smell Only When It's In Season [feat. April Gargiulo of Vintner's Daughter]
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 Magn...
1hr 4m Aug 27, 2024
1hr 4m
161: apom is a pom is a pom
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 Kurkdiji...
48m Aug 13, 2024
48m
160: "brat" scents for when you want to party but are in the midst of an existential crisis
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...
1hr 11m Jul 30, 2024
1hr 11m
159: The Perfume Room Crossover Episode (feat. Emma Vernon)
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 (https://www.instagram.com/perfumeroompod/?hl=en) and @emmavern  (https://www....
58m Jul 16, 2024
58m
158: "Beauty is crazy" AKA The Die Hot With A Vengeance special interview episode
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 beauty culture and the precarious positions we find ourselves in for its pursuit, and (almost) anything you'd want to know about the book of the su...
1hr 6m Jul 09, 2024
1hr 6m
157: Die Hot With A Vengeance: The Perfume! (feat. Joey Rosin)
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 on the pod to talk about the whole process of making the perfume and being an independent perfumer.
1hr 7m Jul 02, 2024
1hr 7m
156: The Lube Episode (With GoodParts)
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!
1hr 15m Jun 25, 2024
1hr 15m
155: On The Brink Of Glossier They/Them
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...
43m Jun 11, 2024
43m
154: Ellis Brooklyn is a JUICE Brand feat. Bee Shapiro
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 (https://dashboard.simplecast.com/accounts/8b7973f0-fdbe-4555-91cd-1417b8e...
1hr 4m May 28, 2024
1hr 4m
153: What would a horny librarian smell like?
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 Smell Ya Later Hotline listener query concerning scents for horny librarians ;)
57m May 21, 2024
57m
152: Not A Podcast (feat. Romano Ricci of Juliette Has A Gun)
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 serious formalities and proven that levity can be luxury as well. We speak with Ricci about the risk of launching an unserious fragrance brand in ...
55m May 07, 2024
55m
151: The Tortured Perfume Department
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.
49m Apr 30, 2024
49m
150: Le Monde that launched a thousand Gourmands
Oh, you like gourmands? Name five flavors.
1hr 1m Apr 23, 2024
1hr 1m
149: Chasing Chanel No.5's Ghost with Arabelle Sicardi
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 (https://arabellesicardi.substack.com/) and sign up for their Perfume Pages, a scent sampler and writing...
1hr 8m Apr 16, 2024
1hr 8m
148: Too Stressed For Ouds
Tynan is too stressed for 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...
45m Apr 02, 2024
45m
147: These Scents Are Moving In Silence: Are Seasonal Scent Over?
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 ...
55m Mar 19, 2024
55m
146: The Fine & Frenchie Cosmic Cashmere Universe
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, Boy Smells Deeper Well, and more
59m Mar 12, 2024
59m
145: Enough With These Apostrophes
A little chit-chat about scents we've been experiencing lately, and their extraneous punctuation sometimes.
49m Feb 20, 2024
49m
144: The Deodorant Goes All Over Your Entire Body
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 (https://dashboard.simplecast.com/accounts/8b7973f0-fdbe-4555-91cd-1417b8ef917d/shows/643affe1-...
1hr 3m Feb 06, 2024
1hr 3m
143: What Is The Scent Of Sexy™?
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 S...
55m Jan 30, 2024
55m
142: To Each Their...Something
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 lik...
46m Jan 23, 2024
46m
141: What Would Gumamina Do?
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.
1hr 10m Jan 09, 2024
1hr 10m
140: Perfume Is About To Get Weirder In 2024 🔮🗓️
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 Sunl...
1hr 2m Dec 12, 2023
1hr 2m
139: Smell Ya Later WRAPPED: 2023
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.
1hr 1m Dec 05, 2023
1hr 1m
138: You can keep your little juices
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.
48m Nov 28, 2023
48m
137: It's Giving Guide: Our 2023 Scent Gift Guide
Featuring a bunch of scented gifts that you will probably just end up getting for yourself. But that's up to you. Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smellyalater.live (https://dashboard.simplecast.com/accounts/8b7973f0-fdbe-4555-91cd-1417b8ef917d/shows/643affe1-f13e-4659-91cd-5c0854e29609/episodes/cb196eda-6c70-4dcc-9d51-cabe4bb6ed38/www.Smellyalater.live) Leave us a message on the SYL ...
1hr 5m Nov 07, 2023
1hr 5m
136: It Was The Bees All Along, feat. Guerlain Perfumer Delphine Jelk
Guerlain perfumer Delphine Jelk joins us in this episode to chat about the "Guerlainade" way of perfumery, the importance of bees to fragrance, the legacy of Shalimar, and how Le Maison Guerlain has maintained its perfumery legacy for nearly 200 years. Episode rundown: 0:00 ~ A cursory glimpse into making the Die Hot With A Vengeance scent 13:30 ~ Sable smells like Future Society Floating  F...
1hr 6m Oct 31, 2023
1hr 6m
135: In Our Prednisone Era
Sable can smell again (thank you prednisone) so this is a big catch-up chat including new scents launched this Fall, the Glossier You formula controversy, Tynan's second (Chanel) Chance, The Kayali Oudgasm universe, soft boy smells, Halloween scents, and more...
58m Oct 24, 2023
58m
134: The Nostalgia-core Of Ourside
We interview Keta Burke-Williams, founder of Ourside, a NYC-based fragrance brand by outsiders for outsiders.
1hr 2m Oct 10, 2023
1hr 2m
133: What Does A Ghost Smell Like?
How do you create the smell of fear? We have just the person on to ask! Liam Findlay of Aroma Prime talks about how scents are used in immersive and entertainment applications like theme parks, amusement attractions, and museums to enhance the experience and shift the vibes – anything from stoking anticipation before a roller coaster to recreating a lifelike olfactory environment of a Viking hu...
59m Sep 26, 2023
59m
132: From DIY To DedCool
Whenever you ask the cool, nice girl who smells so good all the time what she's wearing, there is an eleventy-five percent chance that they'll say it's Dedcool. We have brand founder Carina Chazanas as our guest on this episode to talk about creating her first personal scent when she was 13 and launching Dedcool as a way to create the kinds of fragrances that are memorable without being overpow...
1hr 9m Sep 19, 2023
1hr 9m