Smell Ya Later
Episodes
128: Lessons In Romance With Régime Des Fleurs
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 roma...
127: Getting The MEMO
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have John Molloy, co-founder of MEMO Paris, Floraiku, and Hermetica, to regale us with the joys of creative partnership, the intricacies of creatin...
126: Flop-onomics Report 2023
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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-wor...
125: What Are Your Fragrance Beige Flags?
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 episod...
124: Perfume For Yearning feat. Universal Flowering
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have Courtney Rafuse, perfumer and founder of Universal Flowering on to talk about perfume for yearning and the romance of perfumery. [What we smel...
123: The Fragrance Brand With A History Lesson In Every Bottle, Feat. Arquiste
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have Carlos Huber of Arquiste on this episode to chat about the historical lore of his scent creations, making hotels smell so expensive, and being...
122: What Perfume Would You Get Tattooed On Yourself?
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A lovely listener and tattoo artist tagged us in a photo of a Mugler Angel bottle she tatted on a client, which prompted (half of) us (Tynan has a bot...
121: The Best Non-Visual Compliments
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The best compliments are ones where you feel understood, known, and sometimes maybe a little too seen. This is where fragrance serves as a homing beac...
120: If You're Gonna Do One Thing This Summer, It's Smell Me
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are exploring "beast mode" fragrances as a concept, as a way of wearing scent, and as a trigger. It could very well be the antithesis of summer fra...
119: Fragrance Has Always been Quiet Luxury
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
All this chit-chat about quiet luxury is skipping fragrance, which one could argue has always been quiet luxury. Your hosts go on about what luxury is...
118: The Santal Elephant In The Room feat. Perfumer Frank Voelkl
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have the perfumer of the moment, Frank Voelkl on for this benchmark episode of Smell Ya Later. We talk scent trends, signature perfume styles, how ...
117: Make Everyone Around You Suffer
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is the perfume spray threshold? How many sprays do you spray? We asked, we researched (went on Reddit), and we sprayed, all in the interest of Sp...
116: What's The Value Of Viral?
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
OK, look, we haven't seen each other in over a week so this is a lot of catching up in all areas: beauty, personal, taxes, fragrance, professional, fr...
115: How Do You Trademark A Scent?
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We finally lawyered up... to find out how and why scents are trademarked. We'll smell you in court! [What we smell like today: Universal Flowering The...
114: Nothing But Nette
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Carol Han Pyle, founder and poet of our favorite candle brand Nette about what "clean" means when it comes to candles and scent, the poetry...
113: My Way Or The Privé With Armani Fragrance
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are having a nice little convo with Bec Morgan of Armani Fragrances to talk all things Privé, My Way, and the lasting legacy of Acqua Di Gio. [W...
112: Live From NY, It's Smell Ya Later
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A recording of our live show for On Air Fest 2023 at the Wythe Hotel, Feb 24th. Find us at Smellyalater.live (where the merch is) Leave us a messag...
111: Storytelling Through Scent With Imaginary Authors
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
[What we smell like today: Funmi Monet Exalté, Obvious Parfums Un Vanille] Find us at Smellyalater.live (where the merch is) Leave us a message on...
110: The SYL Fragrance Etiquette Guide
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In light of viral articles, this episode is an abbreviated guide to fragrance etiquette according to your hosts. We cover wearing whatever the hell yo...
109: I should text him...
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What smells repel and attract us? What does Love™ smell like vs what love actually smells like to us? Why are so many for men fragrances so bad? Why...
108: No Punk-Ass Perfumes at Joya Studios
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have Frederick Bouchardy of Joya Studios on this episode to talk about all things scent & design, the chaos of building your own studio, and al...
107: The Celebrity Fragrance Of It All
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We go through a broad catalog of the celebrity fragrances we grew up with, and the evolution of the modern celeb fragrance format. Also: A lil catch ...
106: The Gateway To Gourmand: It's The VANILLA-SSANCE
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We said it once (one episode ago) and we will say it again: it is going to be a Gourmand Year. But on its way there, the gateway to gourmand will be a...
105: What Scents Trends Can We Expect For 2023?
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What do our noses have in store for the new year? Lots of new smells, fragrance habits, new nomenclature, where you'll be smelling things, how you'l...
104: Living La Vida LUSH
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
LUSH is perhaps best known for bath bombs with the biggest bloom. However, they also have some of the most unique and memorable fine fragrances -- all...
103: KILIAN Is Writing The Script On Perfume
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by Kilian Hennessy to talk about the world of Kilian Paris, the sensuality and creativity in his perfumery, and what makes a really ico...
102: Our Favorite Perfumes From 2022
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As 2022 Decembers itself away, we reflect upon our favorite fragrances that were launched this year. There were so many! But we have but two noses bet...
101: Imposter Syndrome Is Over & Other Answers
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every December since the start of this pod, (so the last two) we wind down in December with a bi-annual Q&A AMA for our loyal and nosy listeners. ...
100: The Top 100 Best Smells of All Time: Part 2
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing our previous episode (because it's so damn long), here is the second half of our TOP 100 Smells Of All Time (100SOAT) 100th-episode episode...
99: The Top 100 Best Smells Of All Time: Part 1
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For our 100th episode, we're covering 100 of the best smells of all time, in no particular order. This is part 1. [What we smell like today: Stran...
98: Your (Holiday) Scent Siri Is Here
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you give the gift of scent? It's a question we get and answer often... and we're doing it again in this episode. We asked listeners for their s...
97: How About All These Tiny Perfumes?
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In which we list off fragrance discovery sets we like/are good/worth it for you to explore a brand and collect as many tiny smells for your personal c...
96: Eau De Thotumn™
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
[What we smell like today: Byredo Oud Immortel, Ellis Brooklyn Bee] Leave us a message at the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater Find us a...
95: The Bath & Body Works Holiday Fancy Football Candle-Off
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In which we rank in order of what we like, Bath & Body Works' 12 best-selling holiday scented candles. We also address a listener question about...
94: So you want to smell like a salad?
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As this episode title suggests, this is another classic chat, featuring listener voice memo guidance, new smells, October vibes (?), seasonal scents n...
93: The Smell Of Vacation™
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What do the dawn of dial-up Internet, pool floats, and chill, early 90s party tunes have in common? They are the tenets of Vacation Inc, the sunsc...
92: Do you like the smell of LUXURY?
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We thought we had heard the last of what luxury fragrance could be, and then came Aeir. Founded by disciples of the tech, luxury, and designer goods w...
91: The Second Maybe Annual Smell Ya Later Awards
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's the 2022 Second Maybe Annual Smell Ya Later Awards, in which your hosts collect the year's most significant, impressive, iconic, legendary, and p...
90: How It Started, How It's Going
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your hosts go back in time, and then forward, and then back again, and a bit around... to recount how they got into fragrance, with what fragrances an...
89: A MidSummer Scent Catch-up
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A little catch-up convo with the hosts, inventorying our recent scent faves, fave-nots, and what our scents of summer are doing the most (and the leas...
88: Everyone's Fave Fragrance Auntie, Funmi Monet
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode, we're joined by Funmi Monet, TikTok's "fave fragrance auntie" and one of the funniest and most comprehensive fragrance content creators ...
87: Flankers Forever! The Marc Jacobs Daisy Effect w/ Erwan LeBerrigaud
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every six months a new Daisy blooms, by which we mean a flanker of a flanker of Marc Jacobs Fragrances' most popular perfume franchise. We have Erwan ...
86: What Are These Sneaky Scents In Skincare Products?
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scent in beauty products is a touchy subject, but even those that don't have a scent sometimes incorporate aroma molecules to delete their natural odo...
85: One Frag, Two Frag, Red Flag, Green Flag
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's another bi-annual Q&A for your hosts. Things we cover in this mid-2022 edition: how to be a beauty writer do we clean our own homes? red fla...
84: Absolutely VABulous
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Before there was Secretions Magnifique, there were magnificent secretions — that aromatic cocktail made by one's own body-ody-ody and it has been du...
83: Ice Cream Doesn't Have A Scent... Until Now
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that ice cream does not have a scent? Neither did we. Well someone decided to do something about it, I guess, and here we are. Salt &...
82: When Woo Girls Waft By
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Summer officially drops today, and it's party girl season and thusly the party girl scents will soon fill the atmosphere in a cloud of girl-smell, boy...
81: Overheard At The Fragrance Duty-Free
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's vacation season or whatever, which got us thinking about travel scents and the smells of some vacations we've had — you know, all those unfamil...
80: The Fragrance Born From REVENGE
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The mysterious, Canadian fragrance brand Persons Of Interest has a habit of popping up in all kinds of good-smell convos by those in the know. Their n...
79: Wearing Scent (Manipulatively)
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Now that another Memorial Day has been memorialized, that means it's officially summer — the season of skin. And smelling scents on other people's...
78: The Art Gallery You Can Sniff
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you've ever wondered why scent isn't incorporated into other experiential endeavors like cinema, museums, reenactments, or performance itself, yo...
77: Gearing Up For A Scentboi Summer
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a minute (three weeks) but due to unforsmelled circumstances, we took a little-medium break. But now we're back on the very same bullshit th...
76: Silver, Salt, Then Sex Wax
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a jewelry and condiment podcast now. For one episode, at least. We have jewelry designer Jennifer Fisher on to discuss how she is Tynan's favo...
75: The 7 Deadly Scents
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 sme...
74: Big Lavender Has Been Lying To Us All
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 scie...
73: Who's Singing About Perfume?
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One could argue that music and fragrance are parallel art forms, especially when you realize that so much fragrance language borrows from music (notes...
72: The Moral Alignment of Y2K Scents
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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. W...
71: Eau De AI
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
70: We're Getting Scent To Bed
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Gillo...
69: You Can't Fuck A Fragrance
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 be...
68: Why Does Everyone Want to Smell Rich?
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
67: K-fume Is About To Be A Thing
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
South Korea has proved to be a triple threat with K-beauty, K-pop, and K-dramas putting us all in a cultural chokehold within the last decade. And yet...
66: What Does Love Smell Like?
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It takes your hosts 40 whole-ass minutes to answer the goddamn question but they get there. Preceding that, a lot of hot goss: What even is love? Ar...
65: The Angel Legacy: From 'Shit On Shit' To The God Of Gourmands
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mugler Angel is one of the most famous fragrances ever. The iconic star-shaped bottle is instantly recognizable as is its scent — unapologetically s...
64: The Most Intimidating Fragrance Shop In New York
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Deep in the Lower East Side, you will find New York City's own Temple Of Beauty, AKA Aedes Perfumery. The artisanal fragrance boutique has carried som...
63: Our Deepest Italian Emotions
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your spoiled hosts have been holding out on you. We get SO many scents sent (jinx!) to us that we often don't have time to discuss them on the pod wit...
62: Auld Lang Smells: The 2022 Of It All
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's a brand new year, which doesn't actually mean... a thing. BUT we do have our first episode of 2022 kicking off with our made-up scent resolutions...
61: What We Can All Learn From The Yankee Candle Stages of Abstraction
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While we're all dealing with the Omicron of it all, your intrepid hosts insist upon looking ahead — to the future of scent and what it holds. We may...
60: Send In The Clowns
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Another year's end, another opportunity to intimately get to know your hosts with our biannual AMA, in which your hosts answer the most invasive and l...
59: Smell Ya Later, Wrapped
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
End of year lists are here and we are no better than all the other self-appointed clout contenders out there in the mediasphere, so in the spirit of t...
58: Sup, King, You Smell Good
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pals in pod, Emilio Quezada & Evan Shinn, AKA Dewy Dudes join us for our first roundtable on the eau dude scent, king behavior, and the collecti...
57: Jackie Aina Is A FORVR Mood
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whoever said never meet your idols never told Tynan, who has manifested such a meeting with none other than mega influencer and scented candle queen, ...
56: Another Scent-sational Gift Guy: 2021 Edition
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Supply chain who? We're coming at you with another holiday gift guide to charm and delight the olfactory receptors of all those within your blessed ...
55: So You Want to Be a Perfumer...
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What's it like to be a perfumer? Is it like going to Hogwarts School of Whiffcraft & Whiffery? In some ways, yes. And in some ways...not no. Lucki...
54: One Planet's Air Is Another Person's Perfume
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Carbon emissions = bad. Perfume = good. This is the basic math behind Air Company's second product ever: AIR EAU DE PARFUM, a fragrance made from CO2 ...
53: DEATH (To All Of Them) [The Remix]
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's spooky season once again and we're bubbling up this very seasonal episode on THE SMELL OF DEATH from a year ago with neuroscientist and cadaver s...
52: We've Had Enough Of This Scent-less Violence
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Added fragrance in beauty products gets a bad rep these days. But given the likelihood that most products "don't work" anyway, may we at least reap so...
51: The Extreme Intense Pleasure Paradox
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We've been noticing a perfume pattern that suggests a move towards indulgence, intensity, and the extreme. What could it mean? Listen to us trying to ...
50: Reinventing The Wheel With Cloud
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
You asked, and we deliver. Not that wouldn't have thought to do so of our own accord, but it just so happens all our interests and obsessions align wi...
49: The First Maybe Annual Smell Ya Later Awards
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's been one whole American year for Smell Ya Later. 49 episodes later, we've decided to celebrate and commemorate ourselves by foisting our opinio...
48: The Perfume Most Likely To Be Seen In A Wes Anderson Film
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Tynan's cloud kingdom is fully assembled and he still insists that Kim Kardashian would come on this podcast. Sable recounts the trau...
47: Smell This Simulation
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when virtual reality co-ops scent for immersive experiences in intentionally manipulative ways to help people become more capable, more a...
46: I Think I Smell A (Shower) Rat
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why are the richest and famous-est simply not bathing? And why are they running their mouths about it when they should be running their faucets? Your ...
45: Fenty Fumes, Gasoline Meatballs, & Toxic Girlfriend Tips
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There have been some events happening in the world that can be smelled and then thought about: The Fenty ParFUM: What it smells like. What it's made o...
44: Confessions From Behind The Fragrance Counter
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We all remember navigating the mall through the huge beauty floors (because you always had to enter the mall through a department store for some reaso...
43: I Smell Sex And [Redacted]
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The smell of love is not quite the same thing as the scent of lust. The latter is more... slutty for lack of a more polite word. But along all the lin...
42: Scent Sells: How To Sniff Targeted Ads
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So you thought targeted ads would stop at just your eyes and your ears? No, they're coming for your nose as well — in fact, they've been there and...
41: Big News, Gay Rights, and a Bi-Annual Q&A
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Another bi-annual round of AMA Q&As submitted by our dear and loyal SYL listeners. We cover all sorts of topics, including career stuff, beauty pr...
40: The Many Layers of Kayali
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you've watched any beauty YouTube (or Instagram) in the past decade you're likely well aware of Huda Beauty. But the brand's co-founder Mona Kattan...
39: Some Of These Bitches Need The Aluminum
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are discussing Tynan's most loathed topic: deodorant. And in an attempt to talk about anything but this topic, he deftly veers the discussion aroun...
38: Talking SPF: Summer Perfumes & Fragrances (& Sunscreen)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone knows that when you start smelling that sweetly tropical scent of sunscreen on everyone's skin, summer is officially here. But what is that p...
37: The Scent Of Toxic Masculinity
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are certain fragrances that carry connotations of the types of personalities who wear them loud and proud. And for those unfortunate few fragran...
36: It Puts The Perfume On Its Skin
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Skin scents" are a newly trendy fragrance aesthetique that we can all thank/blame the people who brought you 'no-makeup makeup' and con culture. Ju...
35: Cleaning Up "Clean" Fragrance With By Rosie Jane
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Clean” is the biggest beauty buzzword in recent history, but what does it mean? Rosie Jane Johnston of By Rosie Jane joins us to help demystify h...
34: The Aroma Of Our Addictions
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Addictions are the hedonistic and sometimes dangerous expression of our indulgences, so it should be of little surprise that scents are a huge indicat...
33: Why Are We Still Describing Fragrances As OriEnTaL?
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
You may have noticed how the co-hosts of this podcast audibly cringe every time we talk about a fragrance that is marketed as an "oriental" scent. It ...
32: Don't Spray Your Dick
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you apply fragrance? Well, that is a many-pronged question, pondered for many years and with varying degrees of authority on the matter. Tl;d...
31: The Godfather of Smells
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to talk about fragrance, you have to talk to Luca Turin. So we did. The biophysicist and writer wrote the book on fragrance—three actu...
30: Getting Sprung On Seasonal Scents
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are you team switch-up-your-fragrance-for-Spring or are you bad at sports? There are arguments for both and we have them here in this episode. Seasona...
29: Fragrance In Skincare Is Not The Enemy (Unless...)
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So many people are alarmed at the presence of added fragrance and scent in their skincare products. But scent in skincare products is also there for t...