Smell Ya Later

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75: The 7 Deadly Scents Apr 12, 2022

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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 Ya Later 2022 World Tour gear is live on our website.

[What we smell like today: Oribe Desertland, Malin + Goetz Strawberry]

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74: Big Lavender Has Been Lying To Us All Apr 05, 2022

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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 to change moods and behavior (nematodes are involved) way beyond the scope of essential oils and aromatherapy.

[What we smell like today: Maison Crivelli Hibiscus Mahajad, Arielle Shoshana Sunday]

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73: Who's Singing About Perfume? Mar 29, 2022

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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 not.

[What we smell like today: Ex Nihilo Iris Porcelana, Hermes H24]

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72: The Moral Alignment of Y2K Scents Mar 22, 2022

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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 neutralness. For fun. It's for fun.

[What we smell like today: D.S. & Durga Bistro Waters, Sarah Jessica Parker Covet]

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71: Eau De AI Mar 15, 2022

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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 categorically do not have? Obviously, that's in this episode. So listen to it. It's good.

[What we smell like today: YSL Black Opium Illicit Green, Philosophy Fresh Cream]

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70: We're Getting Scent To Bed Mar 08, 2022

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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 overall wellbeing.

[What we smell like today: Phlur Missing Person, Juliette Has A Gun Not A Perfume Superdose]

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69: You Can't Fuck A Fragrance Mar 01, 2022

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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 intrigue and more dollars, the people in our fragrance ads are perhaps less familiar but wholly more inclusive and interesting. Anyway, all that and such, but we shall be using this flimsy structure of a topic to go on about hot people in fragrance ads.

[What we smell like today: YSL Libre, Mugler Alien Musk Extraordinaire]

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68: Why Does Everyone Want to Smell Rich? Feb 22, 2022

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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 what it means to live a life of conspicuous consumption. So, we stay wondering. Why does everyone want to smell rich, anyway?

[What we smell like today: DS & Durga Pistachio, Snif Natural Talent]

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67: K-fume Is About To Be A Thing Feb 15, 2022

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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, and unique ingredients and notes sourced from Korea.

[What we smell like today: Annick Goutal Sables, Commodity Gold Personal]

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66: What Does Love Smell Like? Feb 08, 2022

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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 life get the last laugh? Tune in to find out.

We dissect love, dating, romance, anxiety, neurosis, and OK YES eventually the smells of it all, in this, The 2022 Valentine's Episode.

[What we smell like today: Escada Candy Love, Vyrao Witchy Woo]

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