81: Overheard At The Fragrance Duty-Free
A little chit-chat about scents to travel with and smells of places traveled to!
1hr 4m Jun 14, 2022
1hr 4m
80: The Fragrance Born From REVENGE
What do you call eau de "Big mistake, BIG MISTAKE!" This episode's guest tells us how he spun ...that... into the beloved, hype-fulfilling fragrance brand we've come to know and love, Persons Of Interest.
1hr 9m Jun 07, 2022
1hr 9m
79: Wearing Scent (Manipulatively)
What scents garner the most compliments?
1hr 7m May 31, 2022
1hr 7m
78: The Art Gallery You Can Sniff
What if there was an art gallery but for smells? There is. Olfactory Art Keller is downtown NYC's (and maybe the world's?) destination to experience scent as an artistic medium.
1hr 9m May 24, 2022
1hr 9m
77: Gearing Up For A Scentboi Summer
A little catch-up episode in which your hosts chat about new smells they like, new smells they want, and the advent of what is gearing up to be Scentboi Summer™.
1hr 5m May 17, 2022
1hr 5m
76: Silver, Salt, Then Sex Wax
This is a jewelry and condiment podcast now (for one episode). 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.
1hr 14m Apr 19, 2022
1hr 14m
75: The 7 Deadly Scents
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 Sm...
1hr 3m Apr 12, 2022
1hr 3m
74: Big Lavender Has Been Lying To Us All
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 abl...
1hr 10m Apr 05, 2022
1hr 10m
73: Who's Singing About Perfume?
You ever just sing about perfume? Us neither.
53m Mar 29, 2022
53m
72: The Moral Alignment of Y2K Scents
Seems timely.
1hr 8m Mar 22, 2022
1hr 8m
71: Eau De AI
The robots are coming for perfume, but not in the way you think.
1hr 18m Mar 15, 2022
1hr 18m
70: We're Getting Scent To Bed
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 ...
1hr 19m Mar 08, 2022
1hr 19m
69: You Can't Fuck A Fragrance
All fragrance ads have hot famous people in them. And we are taking this occurrence as an opportunity to talk about hot people in fragrance ads.
1hr 8m Mar 01, 2022
1hr 8m
68: Why Does Everyone Want to Smell Rich?
Those who know better know that money smells like balls, but when it comes to smelling rich, wealthy, or ClaSsY, it is an aroma that many on some clock app love to post about.
1hr 4m Feb 22, 2022
1hr 4m
67: K-fume Is About To Be A Thing
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.
1hr 12m Feb 15, 2022
1hr 12m
66: What Does Love Smell Like?
It takes your hosts 40 whole-ass minutes to answer the goddamn question but it gets there.
1hr 6m Feb 08, 2022
1hr 6m
65: The Angel Legacy: From 'Shit On Shit' To The God Of Gourmands
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 twirls around in all its gooey, candy-like floof. You either love it or can't stand it. There's more to her than just dozens upon dozens of notes and accords, though, as ...
1hr 4m Feb 01, 2022
1hr 4m
64: The Most Intimidating Fragrance Shop In New York
Shopping for fragrance can be intimidating — NOT. According to Robert Gerstner, co-founder of New York City's preeminent "temple of beauty" AKA Aedes Perfumery, here's how to get the most from your fragrance shopping, walk out with the perfume of your dreams, and be the best-smelling person you know. Also, mind the peacock.
1hr 28m Jan 25, 2022
1hr 28m
63: Our Deepest Italian Emotions
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 them.
1hr 5m Jan 11, 2022
1hr 5m
62: Auld Lang Smells: The 2022 Of It All
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 and, as it turns out, lots of things that have nothing to do with either.
1hr 32m Jan 04, 2022
1hr 32m
61: What We Can All Learn From The Yankee Candle Stages of Abstraction
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. Here's an hour and change featuring our crystal balling into what we can all expect to smell in the new and near year.
1hr 14m Dec 21, 2021
1hr 14m
60: Send In The Clowns
Another year's end, and another opportunity to get to intimately know your hosts with our biannual AMA, in which Sable and Tynan answer the most invasive and least rude reader-submitted questions — scent-related and not scent-related.
1hr 29m Dec 14, 2021
1hr 29m
59: Smell Ya Later, Wrapped
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 giving you this year's Wrapped for best, top, and most smells of the year.
1hr 10m Dec 07, 2021
1hr 10m
58: Sup, King, You Smell Good
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.
1hr 8m Dec 02, 2021
1hr 8m
57: Jackie Aina Is A FORVR Mood
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, launchin...
1hr 27m Nov 23, 2021
1hr 27m
56: Another Scent-sational Gift Guy: 2021 Edition
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.
1hr 17m Nov 16, 2021
1hr 17m
55: So You Want to Be a Perfumer...
A question we at Smell Ya Later have pondered since beginning this podcast: What's it like to be a perfumer? We have perfumer Marissa Zappas on to tell us about her journey into the olfactory arts, going rogue, and what it's like starting in the corporate world of fragrance to carving her own independent path in scent sorcery.
1hr 16m Nov 09, 2021
1hr 16m
54: One Planet's Air Is Another Person's Perfume
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, you say? Listen to this episode to find out.
1hr 3m Nov 02, 2021
1hr 3m
53: DEATH (To All Of Them) [The Remix]
It's spooky season once again and we're bubbling up this very seasonal episode on THE SMELL OF DEATH from a year with neuroscientist and cadaver scholar, Mo Costandi.
1hr 2m Oct 19, 2021
1hr 2m
52: We've Had Enough Of This Scent-less Violence
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.
1hr 8m Oct 12, 2021
1hr 8m
51: The Extreme Intense Pleasure Paradox
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 :( Sabl...
1hr 27m Oct 05, 2021
1hr 27m
50: Reinventing The Wheel With Cloud
In honor of Ariana Grande's Cloud 2.0 Intense launching into the world, we were moved to reinvent the fragrance wheel to include a whole new scent profile called...Cloud (duh).
1hr 4m Sep 28, 2021
1hr 4m
49: The First Maybe Annual Smell Ya Later Awards
It's been one full gregorian year of this podcast, and to tolerate it, we are hosting our very first awards ceremony.
1hr 32m Sep 14, 2021
1hr 32m
48: The Perfume Most Likely To Be Seen In A Wes Anderson Film
Both of your hosts promise to stop co-opting the intros of these episodes to spiral about personal struggles... but before that happens we have Sweden's newest hot boi of scent, Jan Vilhelm Ahlgren, as a guest on this episode to discuss the imaginative collection of fragrances he's created to encapsulate parallel universes and figures in scent form for his very luxuriously anachronistic fragran...
1hr 16m Sep 07, 2021
1hr 16m
47: Smell This Simulation
The simulation we're living in is about to get way more Inception-y, now that virtual reality olfaction is here and happening. In this episode, we explore how scent can be used to create life-like experiences for better experiences of real life.
1hr 19m Aug 31, 2021
1hr 19m
46: I Think I Smell A (Shower) Rat
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?
57m Aug 17, 2021
57m
45: Fenty Fumes, Gasoline Meatballs, & Toxic Girlfriend Tips
What do meatballs, gasoline, a bug's life, and Robyn Fenty have in common? They are all in this episode, chock full of the current events in the scent and fragrance world, reported at a leisurely pace.
59m Aug 10, 2021
59m
44: Confessions From Behind The Fragrance Counter
This episode takes us back to the mall, back to the department store beauty counters, where the perfume girls lurk, waiting to spray...
1hr 14m Aug 03, 2021
1hr 14m
43: I Smell Sex And [Redacted]
We are diving into that body-ody-ody amorous aroma in this episode. The hosts respectfully request that family members and professional colleagues in superior rankings do not listen to this episode.
1hr 6m Jul 20, 2021
1hr 6m
42: Scent Sells: How To Sniff Targeted Ads
This episode explores the world of scent marketing with the company responsible for the smell of hotel lobbies as well as other aromatic atmospheres you probably find yourself in often, never knowing that SOMEONE is behind the smell of the space.
1hr 15m Jul 13, 2021
1hr 15m
41: Big News, Gay Rights, and a Bi-Annual Q&A
In which your hosts answer a bevy of listener questions that will undoubtedly get them blacklisted from a few more brand PR lists.
1hr 15m Jun 29, 2021
1hr 15m
40: The Many Layers of Kayali
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...
1hr 9m Jun 22, 2021
1hr 9m
39: Some Of These Bitches Need The Aluminum
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 and work.
1hr 10m Jun 15, 2021
1hr 10m
38: Talking SPF: Summer Perfumes & Fragrances (& Sunscreen)
We're slathering ourselves with sunscreen body oil for that seasonal slutty shine and slipping off the lawn furniture as we dig into what the scent of SPF — summer perfumes & fragrances — is made of (yes, actually sunscreen but also the acronym we just made up).
49m Jun 08, 2021
49m
37: The Scent Of Toxic Masculinity
For the world's impending grand re-opening, here is a trigger warning in the form of an entire episode about the fragrances most associated with those who would wish horny befuddlement upon our hearts and mental health: fuccbois™.
1hr 5m May 25, 2021
1hr 5m
36: It Puts The Perfume On Its Skin
Tynan will not stop hating on skin scents so in seeking emotional closure, we decided to do an entire episode about them. Sable is cool with them, but not with everyone mistaking her new perfume bottle for a boob implant.
1hr 16m May 18, 2021
1hr 16m
35: Cleaning Up "Clean" Fragrance With By Rosie Jane
Our crusade on the overuse of "clean" in fragrance kicks off with one of the first brands to identify as clean. Sable has some pepper theories, Tynan has once again become an unpaid Cloud influencer.
1hr 21m May 11, 2021
1hr 21m
34: The Aroma Of Our Addictions
Akro is a new conceptual French fragrance brand that bottles a few familiar universal addictions for us to bask in the splendor of our most indulgent experiences, hangover-free.
1hr 11m May 04, 2021
1hr 11m
33: Why Are We Still Describing Fragrances As OriEnTaL?
Here's a long-form rant about the usage of the term "oriental" in fragrance.
49m Apr 27, 2021
49m
32: Don't Spray Your Dick
There's technically no right or wrong way to wear fragrance. But there IS one universal code of understanding...which you'll learn about in this episode.
45m Apr 20, 2021
45m