Smell Ya Later
Episodes
228: BICHE mode [feat. Alexandra Pauly of Biche]
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While perfume for dogs continues to miss, one pet grooming category — the shampoo and coat conditioner — remained woefully underconsidered. Enter...
227: Sniffing too close to the solar accord
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
226: The most GLORIOUS purple scent we've smelled [feat. Susan Alexandra]
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Two NYC icons, Susan Korn, aka Susan Alexandra, and perfumer Marissa Zappa teamed up to create Glorious, the first official scent of Susan Alexandra'...
225: A case against discovery sets 🧐
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
224: How much can an algorithm 'do' perfumery?
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When art & design turn their ambitions toward technology and olfaction, how much does a machine powered by algorithms, AI, or both, challenge an ...
223: The vineyard making perfume about wine [Feat. Dancing 🍷🍇🕺]
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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-th...
222: A rose by any other name would still smell like a perfume counter probably
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
221: The one job in fragrance that would make us TOO powerful
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 sh...
220: Does queerness have a scent? [feat. Alloy Studio]
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
219: You Asked: Blind buys, stinky roommates, and tacky perfume displays
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We haven't done one of these in a while — it's a listener Q&A episode in which we address your queries about fragrance and non-fragrance relate...
218: Is perfume culture peaking?
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
That's what the rumors (industry insights) say, but based on what we've been seeing, the fraghead community is very much so cooking. [What we smell l...
217: Our Official Scent Predictions for 2026
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are we psychic? According to the history....... not no. Every year, we have a stab at what we can expect to smell in the coming year's forecast, based...
216: Smell Ya Later WRAPPED: our favorite smells from 2025
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every year, we review our favorite smells that launched into the world in the last 12 months, broken down by such innovative categories as "best body ...
215: TASTE!!! [feat. Serviette]
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We speak of brands often, sometimes (often) critically, other times admiringly. One such brand in the latter is Serviette, helmed by Trey Taylor. A cr...
214: Maybe smelling basic isn't that bad 🤷♀️
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Things have gotten too complicated, too niche, too try-hard. Sometimes it's nice when familiar things are done well — as you'll hear in this episode...
213: All we do is GIVE: The 2025 Smell Ya Later gift guide
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Another year, another round of smelly things you can buy for your loved ones, obligatory gift recipients, assigned gift swap honorees, and also just y...
212: How to have the best-smelling hair wash day with Cécred
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are delighted to welcome Robyn Melissa Watkins, Senior VP of Product Development at Cécred (AKA Beyoncé's haircare brand). After a truly Holy shi...
211: 50% Concentration!!!! with Amouage
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Known for exquisitely powerful scent profiles that explore the deepest resins and ambers, the most vibrant florals, and the most complex musks, the Om...
210: Life after smell-maxxing
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ok, we have a lot of smells we're catching up with this week, including newness from Abel, D'Orsay, Bianco Profumo, The Nue Co, d'Annam, LORE, Ellis B...
209: Abel is making fossil fuel-free the new fragrance benchmark
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We have the pleasure of chatting with perfumer Isaac Sinclair on this episode — the only kiwi perfumer (we've heard of) and the olfactive partner fo...
208: Wearing Chris Collins's perfumes will get you Juno🤰
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We have the pleasure of welcoming the enigmatic Chris Collins on this episode. Founder of his eponymous fragrance line, World Of Chris Collins feature...
207: 🕯️Burning Braless👙 with SIDIA
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After smelling the zesty candle collab between SIDIA and Esthetician Sofie Pavitt, we're very pleased to welcome Erin Kleinberg on this episode to cha...
206: Which designer fragrance brand is making our favorite scents these days?
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Well, maybe not these days, but we'll tell you about our faves from the bygone days (2010s) of designer fragrance moments. That, plus we chat about so...
205: The 2025 Smell Ya Later Awards :)
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It happens every year around this time, and somehow we're always surprised even though this is our podcast that we plan and produce entirely ourselves...
204: The Vanilla Skinematic Universe
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
... And other things we've smelled lately, including: Ellis Brooklyn's new Vanilla Salt, Kayali Milky Musk Oud and Chocolate Oud, Orabella Eternal Roo...
203: What do angel numbers smell like? 🪽💫
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you see 222, 333, 444, 555, and 11 11 everywhere, now you can smell them — or at least the interpretation of them via Lake & Skye's popular f...
202: Can people please be normal about pumpkin spice
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Tokkers are at it again, this time selling out a certain indie pumpkin spice-laden perfume in service of... vasodilation? ¯\(ツ)/¯ OK, we gues...
201: Rare Beauty's first perfume looks like that for a reason
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're delighted to welcome Joyce Kim, chief product officer for Rare Beauty, on this episode to talk about how Rare's first eau de parfum was created:...
200: Mist-flation for the caramel-curious
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We have MORE body mists in the world this week. We have perfumes for decades. We have opinions on cheeky scent-naming formats. Catch up with us as we ...
199: Making perfume with the ghost of Eartha Kitt [feat. Harlem Perfume Co]
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We have Teri Johnson of Harlem Candle Co. and Harlem Perfume Co. talking about her historically reverent collection of perfumes inspired by the great ...
198: Perfumes that attract humans vs. perfumes that attract bugs
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Venn diagram of perfumes "for sex" (which let's be real, is all of them) and perfumes that attract bugs might be a near-circle. However, there are...
197: AI can't replace us because we don't know what we're doing
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yes, we heard about the short-lived AI perfume influencer, and we're not worried. But everyone was for a minute there! We're chatting about "work" and...
196: Can you smell the difference between indie and big oil house-made perfumes?
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not to be contentious, but... what do people think "indie" even means? What does mass mean? And is who they're made by indicative of the quality of fr...
195: The Scent of Australia In 6 Stories [Feat. Raconteur] 🇦🇺
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Years ago, Craig Andrade took a candle-making class that became the impetus for a life pivot from being a lawyer to becoming a perfumer. And in studyi...
194: Rite Of Way's lighting accord in a bottle⚡️(feat. Alex Brands)
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We recently met Alex Brands, founder of the new fragrance... brand, Rite Of Way, at our scent swap last month. He gifted us his first scent Outer Real...
193: Honestly what's with all these body mists?
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No, really though? What would a banana, peanut butter, and bread perfume smell like? What's that one fragrance brand Tynan accidentally had been hatin...
192: A Roundabout NYC Perfume Shopping Itinerary
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here's an episode about all the places we like to go smell some good and premium smells in the Big Apple. Also: - We went to the Fragrance Foundatio...
191: Anyway, shout out to billionaires 😮💨💸
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sable went to Miami for too long. Tynan discovers what a buy-out is for Rhode Beauty's M&A. We both went to Nette's Lemon Puff fete. We smell the ...
190: Talking with your hands never smelled so good
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hand sanitizer has a rather unfair reputation — this sticky, medical-smelling goo serves to remind us of a worldwide pandemic, or else the inconveni...
189: What went down at our first scent swap?
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In case you hadn't heard from our last five eps or so, we hosted our first scent swap last week at Talea in Brooklyn. We had 180 RSVPs, 50 swag bags, ...
188: When Rebrands Flop ☹️
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The chat around the frag-o-sphere as of late has been steaming about Boy Smell's big rebrand. It's been called everything from Temu-ified to TikTok-ba...
187: How to smell like a music festival 🏁 [feat. Romy Kowalewski of 27 87]
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Burnt rubber, absinthe, red pepper, fennel — not the most typical notes you'd find in a perfume, but 27 87 has a clever way of incorporating unexpe...
186: How smart homes smell good
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're hosting a Scent Swap at Talea in Williamsburg on May 7th from 6-9 pm. It's free with RSVP. Bring at least one fragrance to swap and enjoy bevs &...
185: The computers are smelling [feat. Christophe Laudamiel of OSMO]
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The fragrance industry is trotting out AI more and more in new creations and creative development, but when it comes to digitizing smells, OSMO is a G...
184: "It's a TikTok rose," and other things we've smelled this week...
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is what happens when we're left to our own devices in front of two hot mics, a bevy of new scents, and no guest 🙃 [What we smell like today: ...
183: A dupe by any other name would smell as [redacted]
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that beneath our noses this whole time, our beloved Bath & Body Works have been releasing their own body mist line of dupery? The col...
182: The magic's in the minimalism feat. Maison Louis Marie
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You know their minimalist packaging and their cozy, comforting scents — perhaps most famous being No. 4 Bois de Balincourt, one of the defining sand...
181: Swipe no more: sniff your way to your next match
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For those tired of swiping on apps, four artists in London have brought you another sensory option for finding a date: smelling your way to a match. T...
180: The blind leading the buys
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We all know perfume collecting is an expensive hobby. Yet blind buys are on the rise, according to this BoF article (but also to anyone who's keyed in...
179: Perfumes to fall in love (or just crush) to ❤️
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We've all been perfume-fished before — someone smells really good, which makes you crush real hard, and then after getting to know them, you realize...
178: What does a movie smell like?
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New year, same us — now with more ( ◡‿◡ *) as you'll notice in our official new look (thanks to photographer Zach Bergren). We're chatting ab...
177: How will PerfumeTok survive this?
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We recorded this ep on the eve of the U.S. TikTok ban, speculating what will become of the fragrance culture (and economy) in a post-TT digital landsc...
176: The State of Scent (What is it?)
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the start of 2025, and what are we smelling? A lot of existential ennui, a lot of apocalyptic uncertainty, a lot of Baccarat Rouge dupes. If...
175: 🔮 2025's Gonna Smell Kooky
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We do this every year: reflect upon what happened in smells this year, while predicting what the next year will bring in our scented economy. So far, ...
174: Smell Ya Later's 2024, Wrapped
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AKA Our most-worn, most-talked-about, most loved scents released in 2024. [What we smell like today: Dauphinette Poisonoud, Snif No Noses Inc Naugh...
173: A highly specific scented gift guide for any non-random individual in your life
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What do you get your college-aged girl relative, boy roommate, tech bro with questionable hygiene, situationship, hot mom, and anxious wellness-pilled...
172: Mist Connections with Sol De Janeiro
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The smell that launched a thousand ships, if there was one, it would probably be wafting from some maiden absolutely doused in any cheirosa of choice ...
171: What Does The Amazon Smell Like? [feat. Francisco Costa]
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aroma is the singular fragrance of Costa Brazil, one recognizable by its wooden box "bottle" and unforgettable by its deeply resinous and earthy... ar...
170: Can you ever fully dissociate your ex's fragrance from memory?
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
...And other listener queries. We are catching up at SYL HQ with a few hotline queries, including what scented laundry detergent is actually good for,...
169: Chicago Smells F*cking Terrific (feat. Bianco Profumo)
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We have Mark and Nick Holmes, the father & son duo of Bianco Profumo — a new Chicago-based fragrance brand that captures the Italian-Americana o...
168: What Does Attachment Theory Smell Like?
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eleasium's mystically oceanic and intuition-formed debut scent is a single perfume oil inspired by dark, cold water, pomegranates, mermaids, seashells...
167: 🕯️Getting A Clue💡 with Laura Oberwetter of Clue Perfumery
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Classic gameboard game turned film, and now perfume brand, Clue Perfumery is such a novel take on the smells of everyday surroundings: the forest floo...
166: Amphora Parfums Will Cure Your Hottness Fatigue
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We have Noah Virgile of Amphora Parfums on this episode to talk about their breakout debut collection that we've personally fallen for, taking perfume...
165: ✨🏆 The 2024 Smell Ya Later Awards 🏆✨
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Every year we concoct the most unique, intriguing, clever, and correct awards categories for smells and scents in the Smell Ya Later universe. This ye...
164: Bringing Ceremony Back To Scent [feat Richard Christiansen of Flamingo Estate]
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Before the tomato-ssance, there was Flamingo Estate. Richard Christiansen's humble Los Angeles farm is where the vegetal scent trend gained the luxury...
163: Stéle Ya Later 🪽 [feat. Jake & Matt Belanger]
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
162: The Perfume You Can Smell Only When It's In Season [feat. April Gargiulo of Vintner's Daughter]
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 perf...
161: apom is a pom is a pom
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
160: "brat" scents for when you want to party but are in the midst of an existential crisis
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Vengean...
159: The Perfume Room Crossover Episode (feat. Emma Vernon)
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
158: "Beauty is crazy" AKA The Die Hot With A Vengeance special interview episode
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
157: Die Hot With A Vengeance: The Perfume! (feat. Joey Rosin)
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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, J...
156: The Lube Episode (With GoodParts)
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Things we are talking about in this episode: How all of Miami smells like BR540. Morning Swood. Elorea's new fragrance collection: Timeless Legacy....
155: On The Brink Of Glossier They/Them
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A hangtime discussing the BBC documentary about child labor in the Egyptian jasmine supply chain, scented lip balms are everywhere, normalizing not ha...
154: Ellis Brooklyn is a JUICE Brand feat. Bee Shapiro
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
153: What would a horny librarian smell like?
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
152: Not A Podcast (feat. Romano Ricci of Juliette Has A Gun)
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Perfum...
151: The Tortured Perfume Department
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 unc...
150: Le Monde that launched a thousand Gourmands
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Fragran...
149: Chasing Chanel No.5's Ghost with Arabelle Sicardi
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
148: Too Stressed For Ouds
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tynan is too stressed to wear ouds, and Sable can't decide: cylindrical or rectangular? Also feat. extensive yapping about recent smells we've smell...
147: These Scents Are Moving In Silence: Are Seasonal Scent Over?
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
146: The Fine & Frenchie Cosmic Cashmere Universe
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Cash...
145: Enough With These Apostrophes
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A little chit-chat about scents we've been experiencing lately, including but not Limited Too™: New Fine'ry launches in Target A Flowerbomb flank...
144: The Deodorant Goes All Over Your Entire Body
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Once again we are talking about body odor and all the agents of its disguise we have at our disposal, with cosmetic chemist and co-founder of Hume Sup...
143: What Is The Scent Of Sexy™?
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The scent of Sexy™ as far as we the people know it in the mainstream has been delivered by Victoria's Secret. We have Adriana Medina, VP Perfumer at...
142: To Each Their...Something
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's January. It's brick. Beauty consumerism has us in its dopamine-laced grip. It might be time to reject transparency and embrace gatekeeping. Best ...
141: What Would Gumamina Do?
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two of our favorite contemporary independent perfumers Marissa Zappas and Courtney Rafuse (of Universal Flowering) have teamed up to create Gumamina, ...
140: Perfume Is About To Get Weirder In 2024 🔮🗓️
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Peanut perfume, nuclear florals, textile accords, spiritual smells — these are a few directions perfume may be going in 2024 and beyond. Some of our...
139: Smell Ya Later WRAPPED: 2023
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's our version of Spotify's Wrapped, featuring our most worn smells, most mentioned brands and scents, genres, artists (perfumers), and scents of th...
138: You can keep your little juices
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
137: It's Giving Guide: Our 2023 Scent Gift Guide
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Featuring a bunch of scented gifts that you will probably just end up getting for yourself. But that's up to you. Find more info, episodes, and mer...
136: It Was The Bees All Along, feat. Guerlain Perfumer Delphine Jelk
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guerlain perfumer Delphine Jelk joins us in this episode to chat about the "Guerlainade" way of perfumery, the importance of bees to fragrance, the le...
135: In Our Prednisone Era
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 cont...
134: The Nostalgia-core Of Ourside
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We interview Keta Burke-Williams, founder of Ourside, a NYC-based fragrance brand by outsiders for outsiders. Episode rundown: ~ 1:00 Sable still ca...
133: What Does A Ghost Smell Like?
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 e...
132: From DIY To DedCool
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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'...
131: The Third Maybe Annual Smell Ya Later Awards
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 fl...
130: From Checkmate To Soulmate with Mind Games
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
129: Scent Is A Self-Love Thing (✿♥‿♥✿) feat. Steph Stone
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 fr...