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Smell Ya Later

Two friends from the beauty industry chat about all things scent and smell. Every week, Smell Ya Later explores the myriad ways we interact with the aromas and odors in our lives, the scents seared into our memories, and how scent defines the way we envision our future. Hosted by Tynan Sinks & Sable Yong For more info, check out our website: www.smellyalater.live Follow @smellyalater.mp3 on Instagram for episode updates and maybe memes sometimes. Leave us a voice note at the Smell Ya Later

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42:43

227: Sniffing too close to the solar accord

Smell Ya Later ·

2026/03/31

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 listener voice message about the alleged almond-pocalypse, and, y'know, the general ranting we inevitably do.[What we smell like today: Discotheque Lola At Coatcheck, IRFĒ Marshmallow Musk]🌐 Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smellyalater.live☎️ Leave us a voice message on the SYL Hotline at

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62:17

226: The most GLORIOUS purple scent we've smelled...

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2026/03/24

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 colorful beaded bags and fun charm jewelry on site, and now you can experience the brand's signature playful delight with its first scent. We speak with Susan Korn on this episode about how she started her jewelry and bag boutique in NYC, creating the Glorious perfume and candle, and what it's like having

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49:36

225: A case against discovery sets 🧐

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2026/03/17

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 market for niche fragrances abroad. We also discuss a handful of new scents from D.S. & Durga's Debaser In Bloom, Summer Fridays Sunlit Vanilla, Non-Fiction, Sidia, and more.[What we smell like today: Nonfiction The Beige, SIDIA Midas]🌐 Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smellyalater.live☎️

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57:22

224: How much can an algorithm 'do' perfumery?

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2026/02/24

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 how much does it supplant the craftsmanship and skill of a perfumer? We discuss such iffiness after experiencing a custom scent-making installation that questions, "What if every human could create their own scent?"[What we smell like today: Prada Infusion de Santal Chai, "Forever Yong" made by Sable

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62:08

223: The vineyard making perfume about wine [Feat....

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2026/02/17

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 grapes, and, of course, the vines. We chat with Cynthia and Lauren about how it all came together and how they created their three scents with Frederick Bouchardy of Joya Studios.[What we smell like today: Louis Vuitton Fantasmagory, Zoologist Harvest Mouse]🌐 Find more info, episodes, and merch at

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49:01

222: A rose by any other name would still smell like...

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2026/02/10

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 talk about a lot of new scents we've been smelling lately.[What we smell like today: YSL Babycat, Documents Feather]🌐 Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smellyalater.live☎️ Leave us a voice message on the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater, and we may respond on a future episode.📱 Follow us

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63:57

221: The one job in fragrance that would make us TOO...

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2026/02/03

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 existed during the "figuring out what we wanna be" phase of our academic careers. We can't turn back time, but we can grill said figure: Kyle Ferguson, fragrance evaluator at Givaudan. He's the go-between the client and perfumer, facilitating communication, translating scent directives, and helping to

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63:29

220: Does queerness have a scent? [feat. Alloy Studio]

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2026/01/27

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 queer and black identity via fragrance. We also have an exclusive sniff at their newest releases: Faux and Luster, the duo that makes up their Afro-disiac collection![What we smell like today: Kylie Cosmic Intense, Dancing Gnarly Vines]Shop our 👚 NEW MERCH👕 now available on our website. It's very

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58:39

219: You Asked: Blind buys, stinky roommates, and...

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2026/01/13

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 related things like: how to blind buy "successfully," how to display your perfumes in a non-tacky way, how to tactfully tell someone they stink, where all this perfume hype culture is going, any former guests we'd love to have on again, the most repulsive scent, and more interpersonal anecdotes to further our parasocial relationship![What we smell like today:

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56:05

218: Where is perfume culture even going?

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2026/01/06

Is it peaking? 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 like today: Maison d'Etto Macanudo, Anti Nashi Toro]Shop our 👚 NEW MERCH👕 now available on our website. It's very cute, very cool, and we made it especially for you :) 🌐 Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smellyalater.live☎️ Leave us a voice message on the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater and we may respond on a future

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58:44

217: Our Official Scent Predictions for 2026

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2025/12/23

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 on current trends, emerging trends, the thousands of PR emails we receive trying to make [redacted] happen, and what we've been seeing and smelling on the streets. And most of the time, we are correct! Consider this a free seminar on fragrance marketing and trend forecasting.[What we smell like today: Krigler Velvet Night 76, Maison D'Etto

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61:58

216: Smell Ya Later WRAPPED: our favorite smells from...

Smell Ya Later ·

2025/12/09

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 mist," "Best candle," and "best body product smell..." you get it. Here's a tight, correct list of our favorite new smells born in 2025.[What we smell like today: Imaginary Authors Yesterday Haze, Dancing Scorched Wood] This episode is sponsored by Cécred (hurray!) Use code SMELL20 to enjoy 20% off the Clarifying Shampoo & Scalp Scrub and

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68:56

215: TASTE!!! [feat. Serviette]

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2025/12/02

We speak of brands often, sometimes (often) critically, other times admiringly. One such brand in the latter is Serviette, helmed by Trey Taylor. A creative culmination of his own tastes, education in fashion, and upbringing in the Great North, Serviette explores the tension between class with modern olfactory concepts, and a whole moodboard's worth of far-reaching cultural references.[What we smell like today: Necessaire Olibanum, Maison Crivelli Tubereuse Astrale] This episode is sponsored by

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44:41

214: Maybe smelling basic isn't that bad 🤷‍♀️

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2025/11/25

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, in which we smell through some newness from Billie Eilish and Kayali.[What we smell like today: Rite of Way Rising Sun, John Varvatos Rock Volume 1] This episode is sponsored by Cécred (hurray!) Use code SMELL20 to enjoy 20% off the Clarifying Shampoo & Scalp Scrub and Hydrating Shampoo at Cecred.com. Shop our 👚 NEW MERCH👕 now available

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67:37

213: All we do is GIVE: The 2025 Smell Ya Later gift...

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2025/11/18

Another year, another round of smelly things you can buy for your loved ones, obligatory gift recipients, assigned gift swap honorees, and also just yourself! We have roughly a dozen items that smell nice, abet nice smells, are delicious, and/or can be lit on fire in this episode, as well as an abundant balance of chit-chat about smells we've smelled lately. (So, you know, the usual.)[What we smell like today: Fabbrica Della Musa Dynasty, Mancera Tonka Cola] *This episode is sponsored by Cécred

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59:19

212: How to have the best-smelling hair wash day with...

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2025/11/11

We are delighted to welcome Robyn Melissa Watkins, Senior VP of Product Development at Cécred (AKA Beyoncé's haircare brand). After a truly Holy shit, how does my hair look this good airdried?? moment Sable had when trying the line, we were very excited to discover not only how its signature scent Temple Oud was created, but also the formula development process to create products that can enhance all hair types and their unique needs (obviously, we can only speak for our own hair experiences, but

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68:03

211: 50% Concentration!!!! with Amouage

Smell Ya Later ·

2025/10/28

Known for exquisitely powerful scent profiles that explore the deepest resins and ambers, the most vibrant florals, and the most complex musks, the Omani fragrance brand Amouage has become a regular mention in the perfume social orbit. We have the brand's creative director Renaud Salmon as a guest on this episode, going long on all things Amouage — how they blend raw materials for different expressions, the story behind the conceptual mono-names of the perfumes, and how all facets of the brand come

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54:13

210: Life after smell-maxxing

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2025/10/21

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 Brooklyn, and etcetera...[What we smell like today: D'Orsay Holy Berry, Bianco Profumo Caffè Amaro] Find our 👚BRAND NEW MERCH👕 now available on our website. It's very cute, also very cool, and we made it especially for you :) 🌐 Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smellyalater.live ☎️ Leave us a voice message on the SYL Hotline at

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66:53

209: Abel is making fossil fuel-free the new...

Smell Ya Later ·

2025/10/14

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 for Abel. He tells us about Symrise's upcycling tech that's kind of like the agua fresca of fruit notes, how the "oriental" olfactive family was originally "ambery," and how Abel's directive for creating "natural" fragrance is that none of the ingredients involve fossil fuel derivatives (kind of a first in luxury fine fragrance!). Abel's rebrand launches

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58:04

208: Wearing Chris Collins's perfumes will get you Juno🤰

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2025/10/07

We have the pleasure of welcoming the enigmatic Chris Collins on this episode. Founder of his eponymous fragrance line, World Of Chris Collins features a collection of scents that the fragworld considers very... let's just say [parted lips emoji, wink emoji, sweaty face emoji].He shares his story about collecting Bath & Body Works scents when he was a teen, modeling for Ralph Lauren, and eventually starting his own fragrance brand with some mentorship from "a guy named Kilian." [What we smell

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