200: Mist-flation for the caramel-curious

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, brand ...

12 Sep 202353min

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 co-fo...

5 Sep 20231h 3min

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 set, g...

29 Aug 20231h 16min

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 very coo...

22 Aug 20231h 11min

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 the ar...

15 Aug 20231h 13min

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 trends (...

8 Aug 202350min

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 cultivati...

11 Jul 20231h 4min

We have Courtney Rafuse, perfumer and founder of Universal Flowering on to talk about perfume for yearning and the romance of perfumery. [What we smell like today: Korres Saffron Orris,  Universal Flo...

4 Jul 202354min