Smell Ya Later

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65: The Angel Legacy: From 'Shit On Shit' To The God Of Gourmands Feb 01, 2022

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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 it or can't stand it.

There's more to her than just dozens upon dozens of notes and accords, though, as we've learned and you can too, in this episode — like the genesis of the fragrance, what untraditional ingredients made it not just another fragrance but an innovation of what fragrance could be, what inspired the bottle, how many takes it took to get the scent right, and just how many goddamn flankers its spawned (a lot).

[What we smell like today: Mugler Alien, Replica When The Rain Stops]

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64: The Most Intimidating Fragrance Shop In New York Jan 25, 2022

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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 scents to the states. Gerstner shares some fragrance-shopping insight, like why the coffee bean smell-reset thing is bullshit, what you should actually smell to neutralize your nose when testing lots of fragrances, and why you should get over fragrance shopping intimidation. Also, Naomi Campbell's eyedrops of choice.

Also pertinent: Aedes De Venustas, the shop's house line of fragrances, offers some of the most exquisite scents this side of the Atlantic — a bit of European sophistication and flair handmade in New York with the energetic attitude that this city imbues unto all those who dare make a name for themselves here.

[What we smell like today: Ex Nihilo Amber Sky, Gucci A Gloaming Night]

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63: Our Deepest Italian Emotions Jan 11, 2022

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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]

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62: Auld Lang Smells: The 2022 Of It All Jan 04, 2022

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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]

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61: What We Can All Learn From The Yankee Candle Stages of Abstraction Dec 21, 2021

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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 and near year.

[What we smell like today: Ellis Brooklyn Après, Commodity Milk]

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60: Send In The Clowns Dec 14, 2021

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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 smart things we've done
Why bashing your wrists together after spraying perfume is bad
The next Baccarat Santal 5433
Coffee scents!
Soup!
What is Tynan's job?
Does Sable actually work?
Or is she actually just a swarm of hampsters in a Zara sweater?
The best way to mispronounce this one word
The ideal sandwich
Cheap candles
How we actually do this podcast
Dating??
Advice????
How to do a fragrance hobby without going broke
The actual and only valid knockoff criticism

[What we smell like today: Prada L'Homme, The Harmonist Hypnotizing Fire]

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59: Smell Ya Later, Wrapped Dec 07, 2021

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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 Memoir, Aedes De Venustas Copal Azur]

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58: Sup, King, You Smell Good Dec 02, 2021

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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 we smell like today: Lush Cardamom Coffee, Nomenclature Psy_Cou]

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57: Jackie Aina Is A FORVR Mood Nov 23, 2021

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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 cheeky candle brand, FORVR MOOD.

[What we smell like today: Idolette Venus, Lake & Sky Midnight 07]

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56: Another Scent-sational Gift Guy: 2021 Edition Nov 16, 2021

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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.

Also in this episode: A hailstorm interrupts this podcast to spook the hosts, a fair-moderate amount of Byredo lip service, Tynan secretly worked on the Billie Eilish fragrance (!!!), the trick to getting boys to do skincare, a mid-episode gift-giving, some good body acne product reccs, eggs.

[What we smell like this episode: Maison Crivelli Iris Malakhân, Eilish by Billie Eilish]\

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