75: The 7 Deadly Scents
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 le...
12 Apr 20221h 3min
74: Big Lavender Has Been Lying To Us All
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 sho...
5 Apr 20221h 10min
73: Who's Singing About Perfume?
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 becom...
29 Mar 202252min
72: The Moral Alignment of Y2K Scents
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...
22 Mar 20221h 8min
71: Eau De AI
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 wi...
15 Mar 20221h 18min
70: We're Getting Scent To Bed
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 t...
8 Mar 20221h 19min
69: You Can't Fuck A Fragrance
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 ...
1 Mar 20221h 8min
68: Why Does Everyone Want to Smell Rich?
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...
22 Feb 20221h 4min
