227: Sniffing too close to the solar accord
An us chat about a week of new smells, featuring this modern, salty, solar fragrance accord that seems to be everywhere now, being humbled by luxury brands, new venture capital-backed fragrances, a li...
31 Mar 42min
226: The most GLORIOUS purple scent we've smelled [feat. Susan Alexandra]
Two NYC icons, Susan Korn, aka Susan Alexandra, and perfumer Marissa Zappa teamed up to create Glorious, the first official scent of Susan Alexandra's jewelry and accessories brand. You know the color...
24 Mar 1h 2min
225: A case against discovery sets 🧐
We're back after a wee break (vacation, life, etc) with a listener question about the pros/cons/whats with plunking down the dollars for a full-size scent vs. taking home a discovery set when in the m...
17 Mar 49min
224: How much can an algorithm 'do' perfumery?
When art & design turn their ambitions toward technology and olfaction, how much does a machine powered by algorithms, AI, or both, challenge an industry known for gatekeeping (and upcharging), and ho...
24 Feb 57min
223: The vineyard making perfume about wine [Feat. Dancing 🍷🍇🕺]
Dancing is a Sonoma vineyard (est. 2022) founded by mother and daughter, Cynthia and Lauren Russell. It's also a perfume brand that makes vineyard-themed scents: smoked wood and forest floor, the grap...
17 Feb 1h 2min
222: A rose by any other name would still smell like a perfume counter probably
Famously, we're not "florals" people, and especially not rose, but... a listener question prompts us to choose the rose. If we had to, these are the ones we'd pick. And for the rest of the hour, we ta...
10 Feb 49min
221: The one job in fragrance that would make us TOO powerful
There's a certain position in the fragrance industry that gets to call the shots, finesse the juice, and influence how fragrances go from brief to shelves — a position that your hosts wished they knew...
3 Feb 1h 3min
220: Does queerness have a scent? [feat. Alloy Studio]
We have Bryson Ammons and Eddie Hodges, founders of Alloy Studio, on this episode to talk about creating an independent fragrance brand in NYC, how creative rules everything they do, and celebrating q...
27 Jan 1h 3min
