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55: So You Want to Be a Perfumer... Nov 09, 2021

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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 test when you're ovulating. Find out more about Marissa Zappas at her website and on Instagram at @marissazappas.

[What we smell like today: Kayali Invite Only Amber, Commodity Velvet+]

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54: One Planet's Air Is Another Person's Perfume Nov 02, 2021

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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, perfume, and jet fuel — all essential items for our planet's uncertain future.

[What we smell like today: Skylar Vanilla Sky, Air Company Air Eau De Parfum]

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53: DEATH (To All Of Them) [The Remix] Oct 19, 2021

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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, even if you are familiar with the smell of death (our episode, not the actual smell), there are reasons to give it another listen.

Find Mo Costandi on Twitter at @mocost and https://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/.

Read more about what death smells like here: https://mosaicscience.com/story/smell-death/

[What we smell like today: Louis Vuitton Spell On You, The Nue Co. Mind Energy]

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52: We've Had Enough Of This Scent-less Violence Oct 12, 2021

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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:

Tynan doesn't know how to do laundry
Sable is the worst rock star
I'm a little lad who loves Botox and cream
The Ariana Grande Cloud Atlas Ultimate
Sable was not a teenage klepto ;)
Is there such a thing as a round fetish?
No, I'm seriously asking
The surprise best lip product for male-identifying makeup wearers

[What we smell like today: Diptyque Kyoto, Dior Vanilla Diorama]

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51: The Extreme Intense Pleasure Paradox Oct 05, 2021

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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 reveals the worst fruit
Tynan reveals what size his bed is
The illusion of morality in beauty
The paradox of pleasure and restraint
Jokes!

[What we smell like today: Etat Libre d'Orange She's an Anomaly, Parfums De Marly Oriana]

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50: Reinventing The Wheel With Cloud Sep 28, 2021

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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 disagree about the word "boyfriend," and also Dolly Parton's fragrance (sorry), we reinvent the fragrance wheel by inserting "cloud" as a scent profile category. Yes, we have it on good olfactive authority that Cloud is a unique and recognizable enough accord that its name deserves respect and promotion. Also because everyone seems to be clocking Cloud as a dupe for this or a "this is the only perfume people compliment on me" that. It's time. We graciously took it upon ourselves to name several contenders that illustrate exactly what we mean.

[What we smell like today: Maison Margiela Replica Autumn Vibes, By Kilian Apple Brandy]

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49: The First Maybe Annual Smell Ya Later Awards Sep 14, 2021

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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 like to thank our listeners for tuning in weekly to this very important, innovative, and groundbreaking audio program. We could not do this without your enablement.

[What We Smell Like Today:Abel Cobalt Amber, Le Labo Santal 33]

The Awards:

Most problematic fragrance

The Frank Voekl award for best skin scent

Best celebrity fragrance that isn’t Cloud

Most triggering scent

The Glow by J.Lo award form most nostalgic fragrance

Best Fuckboy Scent

Worst Brand

The Sky Ferreira Award for most underrated fragrance or brand

The Shit on Shit Award

The award for best smelling product

Best smelling man

Best smelling men’s product

Best fragrance product that’s not a fine fragrance

Celebrity we wish would do a fragrance

Best spiral

Best cloud

Biggest spray

Smelliest Smell

Rihanna Award For Most Hyped Smell

Best Attempt

Sexiest Armpit

Britney Spears Award For Best Comeback Brand

Yeezy Award For Sucking Up The Most Air In A Room

Mariah Carey Award For Best Note

The Honda award for best accord

Most Influential Smell

Best Feeling To Smell Things To

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48: The Perfume Most Likely To Be Seen In A Wes Anderson Film Sep 07, 2021

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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 toxic influencing. And then we talk to Sweden's newest hot boi of scent, Jan Vilhelm Ahlgren, and how he captures complex fantastical imaginings of parallel universes and figures in scent form for his very luxuriously anachronistic fragrance collection, Vilhelm Parfumerie.

[What we smell like today: KKW Beauty Nude Soleil, Marc Jacobs Daisy, and a lil bit of Etat Libre d'Orange Secretions Magnifique]

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47: Smell This Simulation Aug 31, 2021

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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 Technology on to talk about how they're incorporating scent into virtual reality for all sorts of applications, such as but not limited to: healthcare, mental health, therapy, education, military, and civil service training.

[What we smell like: Crabtree & Evelyn Raw Instinct, YSL Black Opium Extreme]

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46: I Think I Smell A (Shower) Rat Aug 17, 2021

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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 for the straights.

[What we smell like today: Aesop Erémia, Bel Rebel Peach Me]

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