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Smell Ya Later

Tynan Sinks and Sable Yong — friends, beauty editors, award-winning fragrance writers (some of us), and scent fiends — are giving the world the podcast no one asked for.

Smell Ya Later explores every imaginable angle at which we interact with the aromas and odors in our lives, the scents that have seared themselves into our memory, and scents that inform the way we envision our future. That includes everything from fine fragrances to candles to dish soap.

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Smell Ya Later: The Trailer from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.486156

It's a trailer, so... you kind of get an idea of what Smell Ya Later will be about. Keep up with us on IG @smellyalater.mp3<...

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The Pumpkin Spice Episode from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.438815

This episode has everything: Satanism, cinnamon-flavored colonialism, misogynistic food groups, and the Hamburglar. We take it upon ourselves to do a two-person roundtable of all things pumpkin spi...

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Boy Smell(s) Ya Later from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.404053

You mean to tell me a boy made this smell?? Matthew Herman, the co-founder of everyone’s favorite candle brand, Boy Smells, joins us to talk about creating the candle brand with his partner David,...

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A Very Scent-sational Gift Guide from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.383486

It's the most capitalist time of the year! Haha! But honestly how else would we show our nears and dears just how much we care about them if not via material items with indisputable monetary val...

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It's Demeter's World And We're Just Smelling It from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.377100

Dirt. Holy Water. Angel Food Cake. Puppy's Breath. Demeter's fragrance library could easily be a word association card game, but far greater than that, they're a catalog of singular scents bottled ...

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A Dupe-ious Discussion from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.307568

The beauty world is full of dupes galore and for good reason: shit's expensive. But when it comes to fragrance, dupes are on a whole 'nother level— namely, that they are generally shameless abou...

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Candle Chemistry In Otherland from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.300087

You know those cool, eye-catching candles that pop up on your Instagram feed (usually in a very aesthetic post) and are so VI...

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Haley Kiyoko's First Fragrance Hue Is That Hot Girl Scent™&Then Some from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.276394

We finally did it. Our  obsession with celebrity fragrance brings us to interview queer pop icon Haley Kiyoko about her first fragrance Hue...

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Scent-hacking Wellness With The Nue Co from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.269417

Your sense of smell is a powerful connector for your memories and emotions but it can also be an avenue to improving your mental and emotional wellbeing. Supplement brand The Nue Co offers two f...

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The Godfather of Smells from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.241336

If you want to talk about fragrance, you have to talk to Luca Turin. So we did.  The biophysicist and writer wrote the book on fragrance—three actually—which were some of the first published gui...

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The Aroma Of Our Addictions from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.211835

Addictions are the hedonistic and sometimes dangerous expression of our indulgences, so it should be of little surprise that scents are a huge indicator, enabler,  and even keeper of our fondnes...

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Talking SPF: Summer Perfumes&Fragrances (&Sunscreen) from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.180170

Everyone knows that when you start smelling that sweetly tropical scent of sunscreen on everyone's skin, summer is officially here. But what is that particular scent that we all seem to just ...

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Confessions From Behind The Fragrance Counter from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.133713

We all remember navigating the mall through the huge beauty floors (because you always had to enter the mall through a department store for some reason) where your friendly fragrance sales assoc...

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The Perfume Most Likely To Be Seen In A Wes Anderson Film from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.103388

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...

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The Extreme Intense Pleasure Paradox from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.084924

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...

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One Planet's Air Is Another Person's Perfume from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.066229

Carbon emissions = bad. Perfume = good. This is the basic math behind Air Company's second product ever: AIR EAU DE PA...

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So You Want to Be a Perfumer... from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.060092

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 u...

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Sup, King, You Smell Good from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.040823

Pals in pod, Emilio Quezada & Evan Shinn, AKA  Dewy Dudes join us for our first roundtable on the eau dude scent, ...

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Smell Ya Later, Wrapped from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.034784

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...

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Auld Lang Smells: The 2022 Of It All from 2023-12-12T16:44:29.013523

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 s...

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The Angel Legacy: From'Shit On Shit'To The God Of Gourmands from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.995575

Mugler Angel is one of the most famous fragrances ever. The iconic star-shaped bottle is instantly reco...

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What Does Love Smell Like? from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.989694

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 b...

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You Can't Fuck A Fragrance from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.966808

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 ...

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We're Getting Scent To Bed from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.960705

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™,...

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Big Lavender Has Been Lying To Us All from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.938077

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 w...

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The Fragrance Born From REVENGE from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.899456

The mysterious, Canadian fragrance brand Persons Of Interest has a habit of popping up in all kinds of good-smell convos by those ...

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Ice Cream Doesn't Have A Scent... Until Now from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.882921

Did you know that ice cream does not have a scent? Neither did we. Well someone decided to do something about it, I guess, and here we are. Salt & Straw, premium ice creamery hailing from Portla...

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Flankers Forever from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.856313

Every six months a new Daisy blooms, by which we mean a flanker of a flanker of Marc Jacobs Fragrances' most popular perfume franchise. We have Erwan LeBerrigaud, VP of MJ Fragrances at Coty, on...

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Everyone's Fave Fragrance Auntie, Funmi Monet from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.850547

This episode, we're joined by Funmi Monet, TikTok's "fave f...

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So you want to smell like a salad? from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.814303

As this episode title suggests, this is another classic chat, featuring listener voice memo guidance, new smells, October vibes (?), seasonal scents not being a thing except for fall (and maybe ...

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Eau De Thotumn™ from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.802235

[What we smell like today: Byredo Oud Immortel,  Ellis Brooklyn Bee]

 

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How About All These Tiny Perfumes? from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.796077

In which we list off fragrance discovery sets we like/are good/worth it for you to explore a brand and collect as many tiny smells for your personal collection and enjoyment. But not before a ha...

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Imposter Syndrome Is Over&Other Answers from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.772937

Every December since the start of this pod, (so the last two) we wind down in December with a bi-annual Q&A AMA for our loyal and nosy listeners. This is the 2022 edition of that. Enjoy.

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No Punk-Ass Perfumes at Joya Studios from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.728003

We have Frederick Bouchardy of Joya Studios on this episode to talk about all things scent & design, the chaos of building your own studio, and all those quirky candle collabs. 

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Live From NY, It's Smell Ya Later from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.705012

A recording of our live show for On Air Fest 2023 at the Wythe Hotel, Feb 24th.

 

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The Santal Elephant In The Room feat. Perfumer Frank Voelkl from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.668260

We have the perfumer of the moment, Frank Voelkl on for this benchmark episode of Smell Ya Later. We talk scent trends, signature perfume styles, how one fragrance he created is solely responsib...

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Fragrance Has Always been Quiet Luxury from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.662077

All this chit-chat about quiet luxury is skipping fragrance, which one could argue has always been quiet luxury. Your hosts go on about what luxury is now, what kind of fragrances and scent note...

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Perfume For Yearning feat. Universal Flowering from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.631421

We have Courtney Rafuse, perfumer and founder of Universal Flowering on to talk about perfume for yearning and the romance of perfumery.

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Flop-onomics Report 2023 from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.621164

After a little break, we're back with a catch-up, a listener question about one of our beloved fragrance brands veering a bit too closely to the o-word,  and a data snapshot of what fragrance tr...

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From Checkmate To Soulmate with Mind Games from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.600653

What do chess and perfume have in common? Mostly one thing that we know of: Mind Games, the fragrance brand that revolves around the moves and spirit of chess. In this episode we interview brand...

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It's Giving Guide: Our 2023 Scent Gift Guide from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.564449

Featuring a bunch of scented gifts that you will probably just end up getting for yourself. But that's up to you.

 

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Smell Ya Later WRAPPED: 2023 from 2023-12-12T16:44:28.554066

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. 

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Perfume Is About To Get Weirder In 2024 🔮🗓️ from 2023-12-12T05:00

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 w...

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You can keep your little juices from 2023-11-28T05:00

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,...

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It Was The Bees All Along, feat. Guerlain Perfumer Delphine Jelk from 2023-10-31T04:00

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...

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In Our Prednisone Era from 2023-10-24T04:00

Sable can smell again (thank you prednisone) so this is a big catch-up chat that includes new scents launched this Fall, the Glossier You formula controversy, Tynan's second (Chanel) Chance, The...

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The Nostalgia-core Of Ourside from 2023-10-10T04:00

We interview Keta Burke-Williams, founder of Ourside, a NYC-based fragrance brand by outsiders for outsiders. 

Episode rundown:

~ 1:00 Sable still can't smell things

~  5:40 Ta...

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What Does A Ghost Smell Like? from 2023-09-26T04:00

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, ...

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From DIY To DedCool from 2023-09-19T04:00

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 Chaz...

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The Third Maybe Annual Smell Ya Later Awards from 2023-09-12T04:00

It's 2023 and three years after launching this podcast, we have yet another maybe annual awards that acknowledge the year's triumphs and the year's flops, with minimal pivoting to scent trends, ...

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Scent Is A Self-Love Thing (✿♥‿♥✿) feat. Steph Stone from 2023-08-29T04:00

FOTP (friend of the pod), the lovely and endearing Steph Stone — nail artist to the stars and our personal friend — comes on SYL. We have a fun friend hang, chatting about the smell of being on ...

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Lessons In Romance With Régime Des Fleurs from 2023-08-22T04:00

We have Alia Raza, founder of Régime Des Fleurs on this episode to talk about how she went from a video artist to launching a perfume brand, the romance of fragrance and scent, collabing with ve...

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Getting The MEMO from 2023-08-15T04:00

We have John Molloy, co-founder of MEMO Paris, Floraiku, and Hermetica, to regale us with the joys of creative partnership, the intricacies of creating three unique luxury fragrance brands, and ...

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What Are Your Fragrance Beige Flags? from 2023-07-11T04:00

There are red flags, there are green flags, and now there are beige flags — all of which we've somehow made about fragrance and scent in this episode. We answer a listener hotline memo about cul...

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The Fragrance Brand With A History Lesson In Every Bottle, Feat. Arquiste from 2023-06-27T04:00

We have Carlos Huber of Arquiste on this episode to chat about the historical lore of his scent creations, making hotels smell so expensive, and being the collab king of the scent world.

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What Perfume Would You Get Tattooed On Yourself? from 2023-06-13T04:00

A lovely listener and tattoo artist tagged us in a photo of a Mugler Angel bottle she tatted on...

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The Best Non-Visual Compliments from 2023-05-30T04:00

The best compliments are ones where you feel understood, known, and sometimes maybe a little too seen. This is where fragrance serves as a homing beacon. Here is a fun little ep about the most m...

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If You're Gonna Do One Thing This Summer, It's Smell Me from 2023-05-23T04:00

We are exploring "beast mode" fragrances as a concept, as a way of wearing scent, and as a trigger. It could very well be the antithesis of summer fragrances, just happening to have a resurgence...

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Make Everyone Around You Suffer from 2023-04-25T04:00

What is the perfume spray threshold? How many sprays do you spray? We asked, we researched (went on Reddit), and we sprayed, all in the interest of Sprayology™ (not to be confused with anything ...

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What's The Value Of Viral? from 2023-04-11T04:00

OK, look, we haven't seen each other in over a week so this is a lot of catching up in all areas: beauty, personal, taxes, fragrance, professional, fragrance...

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How Do You Trademark A Scent? from 2023-03-28T04:00

We finally lawyered up... to find out how and why scents are trademarked. We'll smell you in court!

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Nothing But Nette from 2023-03-21T04:00

We talk to Carol Han Pyle, founder and poet of our favorite candle brand Nette about what "clean" means when it comes to candles and scent, the poetry of describing scent, and the importance of ...

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My Way Or The Privé With Armani Fragrance from 2023-03-14T04:00

We are having a nice little convo with Bec Morgan of Armani Fragrances to talk all things Privé, My Way, and the lasting legacy of Acqua Di Gio. 

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Storytelling Through Scent With Imaginary Authors from 2023-02-28T05:00

 

[What we smell like today: Funmi Monet Exalté, Obvious Parfums Un Vanille]

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The SYL Fragrance Etiquette Guide from 2023-02-21T05:00

In light of viral articles, this episode is an abbreviated guide to fragrance etiquette according to your hosts. We cover wearing whatever the hell you want, removing the classism judgments from...

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I should text him... from 2023-02-14T05:00

What smells repel and attract us? What does Love™ smell like vs what love actually smells like to us? Why are so many for men fragrances so bad? Why does cum smell like bleach? These questions a...

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The Celebrity Fragrance Of It All from 2023-01-31T05:00

We go through a broad catalog of the celebrity fragrances we grew up with, and the evolution of the modern celeb fragrance format. Also:

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The Gateway To Gourmand: It's The VANILLA-SSANCE from 2023-01-24T05:00

We said it once (one episode ago) and we will say it again: it is going to be a Gourmand Year. But on its way there, the gateway to gourmand will be a renaissance of Vanilla™ entering the fragra...

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What Scents Trends Can We Expect For 2023? from 2023-01-10T05:00

What do our noses have in store for the new year? Lots of new smells, fragrance habits, new nomenclature,  where you'll be smelling things, how you'll be sharing scents, and who will be launchin...

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Living La Vida LUSH from 2022-12-27T05:00

LUSH is perhaps best known for bath bombs with the biggest bloom. However, they also have some of the most unique and memorable fine fragrances -- all handmade with a combination of thoughtfully...

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KILIAN Is Writing The Script On Perfume from 2022-12-20T05:00

We're joined  by Kilian Hennessy to talk about the world of Kilian Paris, the sensuality and creativity in his perfumery, and what makes a really iconic scent. 

 

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Our Favorite Perfumes From 2022 from 2022-12-13T05:00

As 2022 Decembers itself away, we reflect upon our favorite fragrances that were launched this year. There were so many! But we have but two noses between us and have only smelled a handful. The...

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The Top 100 Best Smells of All Time: Part 2 from 2022-11-29T05:00

Continuing our previous episode (because it's so damn long), here is the second half of our TOP 100 Smells Of All Time (100SOAT) 100th-episode episode. 

 

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The Top 100 Best Smells Of All Time: Part 1 from 2022-11-22T05:00

For our 100th episode, we're covering 100 of the best smells of all time, in no particular order.  This is part 1. 

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Your (Holiday) Scent Siri Is Here from 2022-11-15T05:00

How do you give the gift of scent? It's a question we get and answer often... and we're doing it again in this episode. We asked listeners for their specific gifty target and did our best to fil...

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The Bath&Body Works Holiday Fancy Football Candle-Off from 2022-10-25T04:00

In which we rank in order of what we like, Bath & Body Works' 12 best-selling holiday scented candles. 

We also address a listener question about our favorite household/unconventional scen...

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The Smell Of Vacation™ from 2022-09-27T04:00

What do the dawn of dial-up Internet, pool floats, and chill, early 90s  party tunes have in common? They are the tenets of Vacation Inc, ...

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Do you like the smell of LUXURY? from 2022-09-20T04:00

We thought we had heard the last of what luxury fragrance could be, and then came Aeir. Founded by disciples of the tech, luxury, and designer goods worlds...

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The Second Maybe Annual Smell Ya Later Awards from 2022-09-13T04:00

It's the 2022 Second Maybe Annual Smell Ya Later Awards, in which your hosts collect the year's most significant, impressive, iconic, legendary, and problematic smells into the most relevant cat...

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How It Started, How It's Going from 2022-08-30T04:00

Your hosts go back in time, and then forward, and then back again, and a bit around... to recount how they got into fragrance, with what fragrances and when, and how they have all come to define...

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A MidSummer Scent Catch-up from 2022-08-16T04:00

A little catch-up convo with the hosts, inventorying our recent scent faves, fave-nots, and what our scents of summer are doing the most (and the least). Plus:

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What Are These Sneaky Scents In Skincare Products? from 2022-07-26T04:00

Scent in beauty products is a touchy subject, but even those that don't have a scent sometimes incorporate aroma molecules to delete their natural odors. We have cosmetic chemist and co-founder ...

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One Frag, Two Frag, Red Flag, Green Flag from 2022-07-19T04:00

It's another bi-annual Q&A for your hosts. Things we cover in this mid-2022 edition:

  • how to be a beauty writer
  • do we clean our own homes?
  • red flags
  • green flags...

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Absolutely VABulous from 2022-07-12T04:00

Before there was Secretions Magnifique, there were magnificent secretions — that aromatic cocktail made by one's own body-ody-ody and it has been dubbed "vabbing" (a portmanteau of vagina and da...

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When Woo Girls Waft By from 2022-06-21T04:00

Summer officially drops today, and it's party girl season and thusly the party girl scents will soon fill the atmosphere in a cloud of girl-smell, boy-smell, and them-smell. It's the season of r...

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Overheard At The Fragrance Duty-Free from 2022-06-14T04:00

It's vacation season or whatever, which got us thinking about travel scents and the smells of some vacations we've had — you know, all those unfamiliar and exciting smells far from home. Tynan h...

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Wearing Scent (Manipulatively) from 2022-05-31T04:00

Now that another Memorial Day has been memorialized, that means it's officially summer — the season of skin. And smelling  scents on other people's skin. So, that got us thinking... what kinds o...

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The Art Gallery You Can Sniff from 2022-05-24T04:00

If you've ever wondered why scent isn't incorporated into other experiential endeavors like cinema, museums, reenactments, or  performance itself, you are not alone. However, Andreas Keller, own...

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Gearing Up For A Scentboi Summer from 2022-05-17T04:00

It's been a minute (three weeks) but due to unforsmelled circumstances, we took a little-medium break. But now we're back on the very same bullshit that we are known and loved for: talking about...

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Silver, Salt, Then Sex Wax from 2022-04-19T04:00

This is a jewelry and condiment podcast now. For one episode, at least. We have jewelry designer Jennifer Fisher on to discuss how she is Tynan's favorite jewelry designer and also her first upc...

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The 7 Deadly Scents from 2022-04-12T04:00

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 ...

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Who's Singing About Perfume? from 2022-03-29T04:00

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...

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The Moral Alignment of Y2K Scents from 2022-03-22T04:00

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, ...

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Eau De AI from 2022-03-15T04:00

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 m...

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Why Does Everyone Want to Smell Rich? from 2022-02-22T05:00

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  ...

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K-fume Is About To Be A Thing from 2022-02-15T05:00

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-Sce...

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The Most Intimidating Fragrance Shop In New York from 2022-01-25T05:00

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 e...

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Our Deepest Italian Emotions from 2022-01-11T05:00

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...

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What We Can All Learn From The Yankee Candle Stages of Abstraction from 2021-12-21T05:00

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 mar...

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Send In The Clowns from 2021-12-14T05:00

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 su...

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Jackie Aina Is A FORVR Mood from 2021-11-23T05:00

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, Listen

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Another Scent-sational Gift Guy: 2021 Edition from 2021-11-16T05:00

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 ext...

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DEATH (To All Of Them) [The Remix] from 2021-10-19T04:00

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/pa...

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DEATH (To All Of Them) [The Remix] from 2021-10-19T04:00

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/pa...

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We've Had Enough Of This Scent-less Violence from 2021-10-12T04:00

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 slow...

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Reinventing The Wheel With Cloud from 2021-09-28T04:00

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 Clou...

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The First Maybe Annual Smell Ya Later Awards from 2021-09-14T04:00

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 mos...

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Smell This Simulation from 2021-08-31T04:00

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 rea...

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I Think I Smell A (Shower) Rat from 2021-08-17T04:00

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 Ja...

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Fenty Fumes, Gasoline Meatballs,&Toxic Girlfriend Tips from 2021-08-10T04:00

There have been some events happening in the world that can be smelled and then thought about: The Fenty ParFUM: What it smells like. What it's made of. What's the deal with that logo. Al...

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I Smell Sex And [Redacted] from 2021-07-20T04:00

The smell of love is not quite the same thing as the scent of lust. The latter is more... slutty for lack of a more polite word. But along all the lines of all things amorous and sessu...

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Scent Sells: How To Sniff Targeted Ads from 2021-07-13T04:00

So you thought targeted ads would stop at just your eyes and your ears? No, they're coming for your nose as well — in fact, they've been  there and you may or may not have even been aware...

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Big News, Gay Rights, and a Bi-Annual Q&A from 2021-06-29T04:00

Another bi-annual round of AMA Q&As submitted by our dear and loyal SYL listeners. We cover all sorts of topics, including career stuff, beauty products that are just OK, Tynan's eternal scourge...

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The Many Layers of Kayali from 2021-06-22T04:00

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 Listen

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Some Of These Bitches Need The Aluminum from 2021-06-15T04:00

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), scabi...

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The Scent Of Toxic Masculinity from 2021-05-25T04:00

There are certain fragrances that carry connotations of the types of personalities who wear them loud and proud. And for those unfortunate few fragrances who did nothing wrong other than hang ar...

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It Puts The Perfume On Its Skin from 2021-05-18T04:00

"Skin scents" are a newly trendy fragrance aesthetique that we can all thank/blame the people who brought you  'no-makeup makeup' and con culture. Just kidding (maybe)! We've had a vague ...

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Cleaning Up"Clean"Fragrance With By Rosie Jane from 2021-05-11T04:00

“Clean” is the biggest beauty buzzword in recent history, but what does it mean? Rosie Jane Johnston of By Rosie Jane joins us to help demystify how loosely the term is thrown around, yet...

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Why Are We Still Describing Fragrances As OriEnTaL? from 2021-04-27T04:00

You may have noticed how the co-hosts of this podcast audibly cringe every time we talk about a fragrance that is marketed as an "oriental" scent. It feels icky and wrong and way tone-deaf. Beca...

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Don't Spray Your Dick from 2021-04-20T04:00

How do you apply fragrance? Well, that is a many-pronged question, pondered for many years and with varying degrees of authority on the matter.  Tl;dr: it depends. How far do you want your scent...

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Getting Sprung On Seasonal Scents from 2021-03-30T04:00

Are you team switch-up-your-fragrance-for-Spring or are you bad at sports? There are arguments for both and we have them here in this episode. Seasonal fragrances do the shelf shuffle twice a ye...

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Fragrance In Skincare Is Not The Enemy (Unless...) from 2021-03-23T04:00

So many people are alarmed at the presence of added fragrance and scent in their skincare products. But scent in skincare products is also there for the added experiential element of enjoyment. ...

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The Scent of Celebrity from 2021-03-16T04:00

Have you ever wondered how so many celebrities have perfumes? We have (obviously). So we asked Steve Mormoris, CEO of Scent Beauty and form...

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The Es-scent-ial Work Perfumers Do Everyday from 2021-02-23T05:00

Rodrigo Flores-Roux is the nose behind some of the most popular fragrances you've been spritzed with at the mall (Clinique Happy, John Varvatos, Britney Spears Hidden Fantasy), as well as some o...

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The Scent of LOVE from 2021-02-14T05:00

It's the episode that we (mostly Tynan) have all been waiting for. We're doing Valentine's Day with an early surprise episode discussing scents of former lovers and former lives, a semi-accurate...

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Whiff-Busting With Neurologist&Author Rachel Herz from 2021-01-26T05:00

Would you rather lose your cell phone or your sense of smell? Apparently, a lot of chuckleheads would be OK with losing their sense of smell. BUT! Did you know just how integrated your se...

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Bottling Romance with Atelier Cologne from 2021-01-19T05:00

Atelier Cologne is not only a prolific collection of fragrances but also an olfactive retelling of the love story between the two founders, Sylvie Ganter and Christophe Cervasel. Can you stand it? ...

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The Places We Have Come to Smell The Most from 2021-01-12T05:00

We know it's 2021 or whatever, but we're starting off the year by dusting off this vintage gem from early days that we just...never published for some reason. Never too late to right a wrong! Reco...

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Ask Your Gay Son, And Other Good Advice from 2020-12-29T15:06:47

Smell Ya Later's inaugural year is coming to a close and this candle in the wind is going out with...an inquisition. You asked and we put all those asks in a pile to save for one whole episode to d...

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The Scents of Herbal Essences from 2020-12-22T05:00

We all remember THOSE commercials — the orgasmic shower scenes inspired not from a highly pressurized hose attachment but the euphoric scent of...Herbal Essences shampoo. Its bright, fruity, and...

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The Scents of Herbal Essences from 2020-12-22T05:00

We all remember THOSE commercials—the orgasmic shower scenes inspired not from a highly pressurized hose attachment but the euphoric scent of...Herbal Essences shampoo. Its bright, fruity and flora...

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Every Kiss Begins With Krigler from 2020-12-15T05:00

The word "iconic" gets thrown around a lot. So does the word "literally." Well, prepare for an encore when we tell you that Krigler is literally one of the most iconic fragrance houses in the WORLD...

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Falling BACK Into The GAP Scents from 2020-11-24T05:00

This episode features the ultimate anti-aging ingredient: a concentrated dose of Nostalgia. Today we’re taking a trip back to middle school (sorry) with the six GAP Scent fragrances. Yes, THOSE fra...

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The COMMODITY Comeback from 2020-11-17T05:34:05

Commodity was one of the first fragrance brands to launch on the Internet, pioneering the fragrance DTC model. And then, a few years after its launch, it vanished. Quietly, suddenly, tragically....

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Malin + Goetz Is For Lovers from 2020-11-10T14:55:02

Dark Rum. Cannabis. Peppermint. No, not the remnants of a hotel room Hunter S. Thompson just checked out of — these are some of the Hall of Fame scents slung by the chic and minimalist lifestyle br...

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The Smell of Death from 2020-10-27T04:00

Happy Halloweek, smellheads. For this episode, we're taking you someplace fascinatingly disgusting and morbidly evitable — DEATH. We spoke with writer and neuroscientist Mo Costandi about that cert...

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(Not) Burning Down The House With T. Kyle from 2020-10-20T04:00

Internet tastemaker, podcast superstar, and candle vlog darling, T. Kyle, joins us to talk candle vlogs, the formative (and homophobic) smells of his teen years growing up in New Jersey, and his mo...

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All Work&All Play With Hawthorne from 2020-10-13T04:00

THE LAST FRONTIER in the customization of beauty…is fragrance. Many have tried, many have failed. And then there came Hawthorne, a brand created to match you with not one, but two custom scents: on...

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Bath&Body Works All Grown Up from 2020-09-29T04:00:08

It's our episode with the brand that your hosts grew up with, formed our nascent scent-ualities around, and forever have a soft spot in our gummy little hearts for... Bath & Body Works. It was t...

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D.S.&Durga Sprays The Hits from 2020-09-22T04:00:27

We've got the D.S. in D.S. & Durga and the brand's perfumer, David Seth Moltz, to Zoom with us about how he and his partner Kavi Moltz went from a musician/waiter and architect (respectively) to cr...

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Eau De Nostalgia from 2020-09-15T04:00:05

Many-something years ago in a megamall complex far, far away... is where some of the most poignant scents of our formative years were found, sprayed, and burrowing into the recesses of our brains t...

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What Do We Smell Like? So Glad We Asked. from 2020-09-15T04:00:05

Welcome to Smell Ya Later's inaugural episode. Your hosts, Tynan and Sable talk about their fragrant backgrounds, why writing about and describing fragrance is so complicated, why they started this...

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Everything We Know About Perfume (For Now) from 2020-09-15T04:00:04

This is the Smell Ya Later perfume primer. In our careers as beauty writers and editors, we've sniffed a fair amount of fragrances and learned a fair amount of behind-the-scenes fragrance industry ...

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