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  • ✨🏆 The 2024 Smell Ya Later Awards 🏆✨

    ✨🏆 The 2024 Smell Ya Later Awards 🏆✨

    · Smell Ya Later

    Every year we concoct the most unique, intriguing, clever, and correct awards categories for smells and scents in the Smell Ya Later universe. This year is no different, except yes it is because we've added new categories that explore the depths of our scent logic that you can only find on Smell Ya Later.

    This year's categories are:

    The Honda Award For Best Accord or NoteThe Hi diva, you know, I’m just not feeling this one Award for Biggest FlopThe Industry Plant - Best Fragrance That Smells Like LibreThey’re here, they’re queer, and they’re not going anywhere…? Award for Best Body SprayThe Tynan Sinks Award for Biggest FruitThe “Touch My Body” by Mariah Carey Award for Best Smelling Body ProductThe Kris Jenner Award for Note We Want to Get Really FamousThe Chappell Roan Award for Best Overnight SuccessThe That’s That ME Espresso Award for best Coffee FragranceThe Anna Delvy honorable mention for best scam scentThe Sav’ring All My Love For You Award for Best Savory ScentThe Eras Tour Award for Longest Lasting FragranceThe Missionary Position Award for Best Vanilla ScentBest Idea We HadThe “Ladies And Gentlemen, H.E.R.” Award For Best Girl SmellThe Pink RAZR Award for Best Y2K ScentThe “This Shit Again?” Award for Best Flanker//The “She’s You, But Stronger” Award for Best Flanker//The REEEMMMIIIXXX 🔊🔊🔊Award for Best Flanker

    [What we smell like today: St. Rose Out Of The Blue, Will Levis No8 Parfum De Mayonnaise]

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  • Bringing Ceremony Back To Scent [feat Richard Christiansen of Flamingo Estate]

    Bringing Ceremony Back To Scent [feat Richard Christiansen of Flamingo Estate]

    · Smell Ya Later

    Before the tomato-ssance, there was Flamingo Estate. Richard Christiansen's humble Los Angeles farm is where the vegetal scent trend gained the luxury home reputation. His home, place of work, and brand has quickly made a name for itself in all things farm-to-credenza, agriculture awareness, farmer-friendly, and salt (and herb, and flower, and vine) of the earth. Christiansen chats to us about the COVID-driven collapse of his creative agency that led to his rebirth as a farmer, the importance of ritual and ceremony, and how he personally texts and calls Flamingo Estate's top customers every week (if that's you, please text him back, it's not a bot, we swear!).

    [What we smell like today: Orabella Nightcap, d'Anam Harvest Season]

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  • Stéle Ya Later 🪽 [feat. Jake & Matt Belanger]

    Stéle Ya Later 🪽 [feat. Jake & Matt Belanger]

    · Smell Ya Later

    You'll find NYC's newest and coolest fragrance boutique in South Williamsburg. For those who wander further from the beaten path of the neighborhood's main drag, at Stéle you can smell some of the most unique and hard-to-find fragrance brands you've only seen online.

    In this episode we speak with founders and shopkeeps, Jake & Matt Belanger about how they built the shop, the fragrance community, the difference between concepts and notes, and what makes a really good smell.

    Some of the new scents we smelled in episode:

    Régimes Des Fleurs EclairAndrea Maack OsmoPerfumer H Saddle

    [What we smell like today: Sabrina Carpenter Sweet Tooth Cherry Baby, Eleasium Attachment oil]

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  • The Perfume You Can Smell Only When It's In Season [feat. April Gargiulo of Vintner's Daughter]

    The Perfume You Can Smell Only When It's In Season [feat. April Gargiulo of Vintner's Daughter]

    · Smell Ya Later

    Imagine only being able to make a perfume when the raw materials are in peak season. That's how April Gargiulo developed Understory, the singular perfume oil from her brand Vintner's Daughter. A year after its original launch, it's back again—round 2—with some slightly evolved aromatic tweaks. This is how a winemaker creates a perfume oil.

    [What we smell like today: Victoria's Secret Bare Magnolia, Mindgames Sisa]

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  • apom is a pom is a pom

    apom is a pom is a pom

    · Smell Ya Later

    A friendly and chill "what we're smelling lately" chat, including some spookily familiar scents and some new scent discoveries found in the gift shop (or regular shops too). Things we discuss:

    NOAH is Sandy Liang for boys (??)Our new obsession with Clue Perfumery and AmphoraBurberry Goddess now has an INTENSE flankerLe Labo's newest city-exclusive scent, Coriandre 39Maison Francis Kurkdijian abbreviated new scent, APOMRegime Des Fleurs Crushed Fruits and Ormaie Paris 18-12 sharing scent profiles with Die Hot With A VengeanceMaison Crivelli's oud collection's newest addition, Oud Stallion ~ very good!

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  • "brat" scents for when you want to party but are in the midst of an existential crisis

    · Smell Ya Later

    This, as well as other hard-hitting listener questions, are included in this week's Q&A episode. Enjoy!

    We discuss: Sable's Die Hot With A Vengeance perfume launch event at Stèle. Why do They (Big Fragrance) keep trying to make perfume layering happen? Byredo 1996 is allegedly coming back. What fragrances belong in a museum? Perfume snobbery. The ideal time to have sex. The impending 'beauty is horror' cultural genre. What brands are banned from the pod. And much more...

    What we smell like today: Dolce & Gabbana Q, Scentspace Toasty Vanilla, Smoky Haze, Breezy Bay

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  • The Perfume Room Crossover Episode (feat. Emma Vernon)

    The Perfume Room Crossover Episode (feat. Emma Vernon)

    · Smell Ya Later

    When two scent podcasts collide... we have fellow New Yorker and perfume podcaster Emma Vernon on this week's episode to talk about all the behind-the-mic business of making a podcast, the uniquely weird and fun idiosyncrasies of talking about smells online. It's a good hang chat!

    Follow Perfume Room @perfumeroompod and @emmavern

    And subscribe to the Perfume Room Substack

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  • "Beauty is crazy" AKA The Die Hot With A Vengeance special interview episode

    · Smell Ya Later

    Here's a one-off special, a minor departure, a host-turned-guest episode where Tynan interviews Sable about her debut essay collection Die Hot With A Vengeance. We cover the process of the book deal, the writing of the book, the convoluted nature of our current beauty culture and the precarious positions we find ourselves in for its pursuit, and (almost) everything you'd want to know about the book of the summer — because it's officially out today!

    You can also find the perfume made for the book of the same name here, which we covered in a previous episode.

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  • Die Hot With A Vengeance: The Perfume! (feat. Joey Rosin)

    Die Hot With A Vengeance: The Perfume! (feat. Joey Rosin)

    · Smell Ya Later

    It's here: the perfume this podcast made (you'll find that out in the episode)! We have Sable's perfumer for Die Hot With A Vengeance eau de parfum, Joey Rosin of Hoax Parfum on the pod to talk about the whole process of making the perfume and being an independent perfumer.

    You can find the Die Hot With A Vengeance Eau De Parfum Here.

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  • The Lube Episode (With GoodParts)

    The Lube Episode (With GoodParts)

    · Smell Ya Later

    Things we are talking about in this episode:

    How all of Miami smells like BR540.Morning Swood.Elorea's new fragrance collection: Timeless Legacy.The polarizing (between us) Frederic Malle X Acne scent.Lube.Lube.And more Lube — with Dave Shanfield of GoodParts

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  • On The Brink Of Glossier They/Them

    On The Brink Of Glossier They/Them

    · Smell Ya Later

    A hangtime discussing the BBC documentary about child labor in the Egyptian jasmine supply chain, scented lip balms are everywhere, normalizing not having takes on everything (in beauty coverage ), Binaurale's kooky fragrances, a poppers-themed (?) Boy Smells candle, how a brand's signature scent is its strongest leverage, and how the fragrance You is the dangling carrot in the Glossier buyout rumors.

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  • Ellis Brooklyn is a JUICE Brand feat. Bee Shapiro

    Ellis Brooklyn is a JUICE Brand feat. Bee Shapiro

    · Smell Ya Later

    One fragrance brand we give a lot of (deserved) lip service to is Ellis Brooklyn. And now we finally have brand founder and NYT beauty journalist Bee Shapiro on this episode to talk about how the brand came about and its evolution into the new fragrance landscape.

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  • What would a horny librarian smell like?

    What would a horny librarian smell like?

    · Smell Ya Later

    Nothing against Fruits™... but we're yapping about new smells we've been smelling, these influencer scents, a new bar of banana-scented soap, visits to the Firmenich archives — you know, the regular stuff. We also answer a Hotline listener query concerning scents for horny librarians ;)

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  • Not A Podcast (feat. Romano Ricci of Juliette Has A Gun)

    Not A Podcast (feat. Romano Ricci of Juliette Has A Gun)

    · Smell Ya Later

    Juliette Has A Gun's founder Romano Ricci may be more of a Mercutio in the Shakespeare-coded and metaphorical world of this episode. With Not A Perfume, Anyway..., Mmmm..., Ode To Dullness, and others, Juliette Has A Gun has undone haute parfumerie's formalities and proven that levity can be luxury as well. We speak with Ricci about the risk of launching an unserious fragrance brand in the height of mid-aughts fragrance culture, his roots in fragrance and fashion legacy, and how fragrance can be invisible armor.

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  • The Tortured Perfume Department

    The Tortured Perfume Department

    · Smell Ya Later

    Spring is canonically a season of bare knees, vitamin D-derived dopamine, crushes, and for many, the expiration of their winter and fall cuffs. An uncuffing season, if you will. In this yap-centric episode, we cover some of our foolproof 'get back out there' scents, and a whole lot of other scent-adjacent behaviors that put the sprung in spring.

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  • Le Monde that launched a thousand Gourmands

    Le Monde that launched a thousand Gourmands

    · Smell Ya Later

    Oh, you like gourmands? Name five flavors. Le Monde Gourmand can give you dozens more than that. We have Ann Somma, chief brand officer of Tru Fragrance & Beauty to chat behind the makings of your favorite retailers' fragrances (American Eagle, Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters, Wrangler Jeans...) and how one of those secret fragrances seen only in Urban Outfitters stores struck out to become its very own brand, now jumping to bigger retailers like Ulta, and developing its own following on social media with cute, edible (and French-sounding), and collectible scents.

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  • Chasing Chanel No.5's Ghost with Arabelle Sicardi

    Chasing Chanel No.5's Ghost with Arabelle Sicardi

    · Smell Ya Later

    We have prolific beauty writer Arabelle Sicardi on this episode about perfume's mileage, scent stories that break your own heart, how beauty can be a tool for meaningful connection and care, and their upcoming perfume book club!

    Check out Arabelle's substack You've Got Lipstick On Your Chin and sign up for their Perfume Pages, a scent sampler and writing experience at Arabellesbook.club.

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  • Too Stressed For Ouds

    Too Stressed For Ouds

    · Smell Ya Later

    Tynan is too stressed to wear ouds, and Sable can't decide: cylindrical or rectangular?

    Also feat. extensive yapping about recent smells we've smelled, and how good or bad they are to us: New Mugler Alien Hypersense, new Maison Crivelli Tubéreuse Astrale extrait, yet another Lolita Lempicka revival, Guerlain Oud Nude, Persons Of Interest Crybaby, Phlur Strawberry Letter, et al.

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  • These Scents Are Moving In Silence: Are Seasonal Scent Over?

    These Scents Are Moving In Silence: Are Seasonal Scent Over?

    · Smell Ya Later

    Are seasonal scents over? According to the culture (and the media that informs the culture) ... probably, yes. Now that perfume trends run more on a fast fashion current, more frequently birthed by immaculate consumption and tied to some Pinterest aesthetic group devoid of context, fragrance may be freed from another one of its strongest categories (other than gender). So, how will we navigate fragrance if not through seasons, genders, and micro-trends? Time will tell!

    [What we smell like today: Amouage Love Delight, Byredo Animalique]

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  • The Fine & Frenchie Cosmic Cashmere Universe

    The Fine & Frenchie Cosmic Cashmere Universe

    · Smell Ya Later

    We are catching up with a slew of new scents we've been smelling lately, including Kylie Jenner Cosmic, DS & Durga Black Magenta, Donna Karan Cashmere Collection, Fine'ry's shameless dupes, and more.

    Visual things we mention on this non-visual platform:

    Arabelle Sicardi on how Dupe Culture Is Ruining EverythingThe croissant charm necklaceThe new Kacey Musgraves Boy Smells candle

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