Do you smell like an asset or a liability? This week Maddie and Chloe are diversifying their portfolios, consolidating their debts, and leveraging their Guru with Broke Bitch Juice just in time for a very special solo ep about the scent of money. Follow these two from the dregs of Duane Reade, to the annals of Amazon, to the shiny floor of the department store for insider tips on how to best allocate your fragrance funds. Whether you're ready to blow the wad on the smell of laundry with skid mar...
Aug 27, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Grab your beaker and tare your scale because the Nose Candy ladies are back in the lab to talk about the science of scent. This week Maddie and Chloe are joined by genius artist and aroma chemist Sean Raspet to discuss the process of creating a scent on the molecular level, and to sniff through some of Sean's unreleased fragrance molecules. That means they're talking about everything from the scent of seafaring melon, to floral formaldehyde, to eau de air conditioning. Whether you want to smell ...
Aug 20, 2024•1 hr 41 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Ever wonder the perfumes beautiful brunette women wear when they want to freak it? This week the Nose Candy gals are dressed to the nines and sharing the Freakum Frags they pull out when they want to show out. Whether you're back on the dating circuit, baring it all on stage, or just want to feel you puss deep down in your soul, your girls are sharing the scents they wear when the clock strikes freak o'clock. Follow along as Maddie buys a fvck-me frock in Freakonos and gets Naked and Afraid in G...
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 26
While the rest of you have been celebrating brat summer, Team Nose Candy has taken BRAT diet summer international. That means bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast for your gals, who are not only snatched to the gods but suffering from extreme digestive distress! When better than dealing with diverticulitis to discuss the palliative perfumes that soothe the soul (and the GI tract)? Are you on the hunt for a changing table frag? What about a key lime pie scent? Care for a synagogue cookie? Whether...
Aug 02, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Slip into your bunad and prepare to bask in the midnight sun because this week the Nose Candy gals are talking to artist, writer, musician, and iconically Nordic nose Jenny Hval! Listen in as these three discuss the scents of Scandinavia, from cardamom buns to fig fibs to a brand new Swedish fashion frag. Want a perfume that smells like fresh dry cleaning? What about a spritz of cheesy popcorn? Scented rice sound nice? Seize the day, overspray, and anchors away because not even a fjord could sep...
Jul 18, 2024•1 hr 44 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Queue up Aerosmith, slather on some calamine lotion and charge your quartz crystals because it's Pink Friday at Nose Candy HQ. This week Maddie and Chloe are joined by perfumer Marissa Zappas to discuss the character of coral, the funk of fuschia, and the brilliance of blush to finally get to the bottom of what makes a perfume smell pink. Follow along as they sniff through Myspace scents, gas station frags and paint thinner perfumes to pinpoint the pink prototype. Whether you want to smell like ...
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Ever wonder how the hell a perfume is conceived of, composed, and created? This week the Nose Candy gals are offering a peek behind the scented curtain courtesy of DJ, writer, and genius perfumer Maxwell Williams! The creator of UFO Parfums joins team Nose Candy to chat about everything from Santorum scents to bug juice perfume to stage crew frags to fork and knife gourmands. These three marketing matchmakers are putting their heads together to answer the tough questions, namely: was Louis XIV t...
Jun 28, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Season 2Ep. 21
This week ladies are spray-tanned, guru-canned and taking the stand (with perfume on hand) to select the Scent of the Summer. The gals showed up to Nose Candy HQ in matching gay guy uniforms with only one thing on the brain: beach season! That means nonbinary frags, a Blue Crush perfume, and a sunscreen standby with notes of, you guessed it, bug spray. Grab your towel and slip into your slides because this is one wet and wild ep that you won't want to miss! Fragrances Discussed: Tropical Punch b...
Jun 20, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 20
This week the Nose Candy ladies have been practicing gratitude and baditude just in time for a perfume manifestation solo episode. Listen in as Maddie and Chloe tune into the harmony of the universe to discuss the scents they spray when they're calling in the law of attraction. From sex magick to welfare checks to poop perfume to an entire global panini, these two magnetic main characters are casting their lists and raising their frequency for an frag-filled episode that's high vibe and highly i...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 19
This week the girls are gestating, celebrating, and puke-baiting with a very special episode about the perfumes they're selecting when they're Expecting. Who better to discuss the scent of pregnancy than writer, trend forecaster, and glamorously pregnant diva Emily Segal! The Nose Candy gals sat down with the author of Mercury Retrograde (Deluge, 2020) to talk about digital coffee, Baggu barf and the correct pronunciation of the word "midwifery." From Bisquick and orange juice, to expired Flints...
Jun 07, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Pop a microdose, pull a tarot card and crack a Kin because this week the Nose Candy gals are joined by artist and Institute for Art and Olfaction founder Saskia Wilson-Brown to talk about the smell of their all-time favorite city: Los Angeles. Join these three ladies for a slow ride down LA's surface streets where they explore moldy swimsuit musk, eau de art deco, and botox base notes. Want to smell like the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland? What about the Hollywood Farmers Market? Gl...
May 30, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Rosin your bows and tune your harps because this week the Nose Candy ladies are talking about perfumes that smell how music sounds. Your favorite synesthetes took a short break from party rocking to discuss barefoot 70s surfer frags, Southern Comfort scents and barnyard banjo perfumes. What to smell like one of Aesop's fables? What about a freak folk guitar solo? LSD perfume anyone? All that PLUS the ladies host another white smellephant, Maddie makes an epic NIN mix and Chloe's life is changed ...
May 23, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Pull out your thesaurus and moisten your quill because this week Maddie and Chloe are joined by former New York Times perfume critic Chandler Burr to discuss the language of scent. The author sat down with the Nose Candy gals to talk about (how to talk about) everything from synthetic molecules to Joan Didion to Abstract Expressionism to Yankee Candles. Looking for a perfume that smells like a David Hockney painting? What about a Laura Ashley duvet cover? Razorblade rose petals? Grab your scente...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 47 min•Season 2Ep. 15
This week the Nose Candy gals are giving you a sniff behind the scented curtain to see what happens when three divas stop being polite and start getting real. This is the Nose Candy E! True Hollywood Story and who better to join Maddie and Chloe for this heart wrenching docu-drama than podcaster, writer, cultural historian and all around glamour puss Tierney Finster?! The three ladies sat down to discuss the perfumes that scented the motion picture soundtracks of their lives which means bisexual...
May 09, 2024•2 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Calling all Jersey Girls! This week the Nose Candy ladies are joined by actor, writer, filmmaker and New Jersey expert, River Gallo! Listen in as these three discuss the scents of the Garden State, from the smell of rose gold, to chlorine skin, to the hooters breakroom and the Marshalls checkout line. Want to smell like an engaged nurse practitioner? What about a blend of Alizé and St Ives apricot scrub? A Manhattan publisher who moves to Montclair? Stay tuned goomahs, this is one ep you will no...
May 02, 2024•1 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Turn on your lava lamp and queue up Ben Harper because this week the ladies are celebrating the High Holidays. That's right, it's a 420-themed episode coming at you a week late and a dime bag short. Light up with your gals as they discuss their favorite cannabis scents, from the smell of yesterday's outfit to a patchouli contact high to a schwag frag and a pimento perfume. Chloe shares how she got scared straight, Maddie packs a bowl and an attaché case for a meth lab business trip, and both div...
Apr 25, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Get your tissues ready frag heads because this week the ladies are joined by actress, writer, and melodramatic perfume muse Ruby McCollister! Ruby sat down with Chloe and Maddie to talk about the most tragic frags in their collections, from a haunted matinee scent, to the smell of 911, to a ballerina panty perfume and a Great Depression standby. Already crying Fracas-scented tears? Dry your eyes and prime your nose because this is an ep you will not want to miss! Want to get more of Ruby McColli...
Apr 18, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Season 2Ep. 11
This week the gals are joined by none other than hilarious comedian, perfume insider, and star of the upcoming film, Stress Positions, John Early! These three nervous nellies sat down to talk about STRESS scents and sniffed out everything from Post-it glue, Nescafé breath, burning tires, and pick-me perfume. Searching for a Pina Bausch frag, a Pussy Posse scent, or Pat the Bunny dupe? I cannot stress this enough: go listen to the ep! Want even more of the inimitable John Early? Follow him on ins...
Apr 11, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Put your lighters up, because this week your resident pyros are joined by gifted writer, hilario podcaster and loud and proud frag head Carey O'Donnell! Listen in as Carey and the gals inhale the good shit and exhale the bullshit while they gab about their favorite smoke scents, tobacco frags, and cig-coded perfumes. From the hunt for cold fire, to the smell of a class warrior, to the royal family's bid for a graphic design intern, these three are following their noses to bring you the REAL smok...
Apr 04, 2024•1 hr 47 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Our little homesickies are back from their business travel and only want one thing: Mommy! Somebody call Ancestry.com because these two genealogists have been sniffing around the family tree and they want answers, namely: What exactly makes a perfume smell like mommy's milkers? Can you replicate the scent of grandma's soap dish? Is a Millennial MILF a Tommy Girl all grown up? All that plus the best brunch city in North America, dreidel perfume, good soap gone bad, and the most boring film ever m...
Mar 21, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 8
This week the ladies open an uncan of whoop-ass to discuss perfumes that feel a bit... off. Maddie and Chloe are plumbing the depths of the uncanny valley to explore the freakiest gourmands in their collections and get to the bottom of what makes them so strange. From Smart and Final cookie scents, to white chocolate lavender Frappuccinos to almond saltwater taffy to Ludens cherry lozenges, the gals share smells that are easy to love and difficult to understand. Question: did you eat Play Doh as...
Feb 29, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 7
This week the ladies get HELLA NERVOUS and talk with writer, podcaster, and Gravy Train!!!! sex symbol, Heather Jewett! The electroclash pioneer sat down with Maddie and Chloe to talk about fuck me frags, Man Repeller smells, autofiction perfume, and Susan scents. Drunk off power and Guru, these Interesting Women debate The Dress, 90s pricing strategies, new car smell, hacky sack aesthetics, The Red Hat Society and much more. Somebody call The Better Business Bureau because this week the gals ar...
Feb 22, 2024•1 hr 44 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Our little loud mouths are back on their sode box to talk about the most misunderstood genus of the Dead Nettle family: patchouli! It's a veritable Monster's Ball as the ladies crack open Y2K energy drinks, sniff cider scents, call in short kings, and debate the global high-end nail polish monopoly. Chloe shops her closet, Maddie falls back in love with her collection, and the ladies pay homage to a goth icon with the same name as a Costa Mesa mom. Want to smell like a girl who once was a woman?...
Feb 15, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Big day here at Nose Candy HQ: this week the gals are joined by none other than writer, comedian and podcast luminary Lara Marie Schoenhals! Lara, a lifelong perfume enjoyer and iconic candlehead, sat down with Chloe and Maddie to chat about a 90s perfume standby, Gap Grass. Listen in as the gals discuss the difference between mowed astroturf and sexy meadows, the intersection of vagina frags and piss perfume, and (of course) debate the pheromone myth. Want to smell like a grass merkin? What abo...
Feb 08, 2024•1 hr 58 min•Season 2Ep. 4
This week two beautiful immaculate women judge a book by its MFing cover and rate perfumes according to their outsides. Listen along as our little aesthetes share the frags they bought just for the bottle and discuss whether the juice inside stacks up. The GuGu dolls review a Patti LaBelle perfume, ponder a desexualized scent, sniff a frag that smells like Fun Stripe gum, and reveal an iconic Billy Madison bottle. All that plus Chloe's indecent Uber proposal, Maddie's run-in with a pre-Instagram...
Feb 01, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Make room on the casting couch: this week the Nose Candy gals are joined by die hard fraghead, artist, and trend-setting fashion designer Madeleine Kunkle! Maddy sits down with Chloe and Maddie to discuss the topic of Hollywood perfumes, browse "PerfumeCelebritiesWear.com", and decode the difference between celebrity frags and frags worn by celebrities. They're covering everything from Aromatics Elixir-inspired fashion at the Latin Grammys to cupcakes in the locker room to Windex perfume (with a...
Jan 25, 2024•1 hr 43 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Happy New Year little sniffies. This week the ladies are sober, caffeinated, and back in the scented saddle to forecast the biggest perfume trends of 2024. From chock full-o-nuts to anorexic perfumes to uncrustable frags to dusty sap to pissy pee pees, our little oracles are gazing into their crystal balls to see what the f*ck this year will smell like. Smell along as Maddie and Chloe share their research on the ancient tribe of the Los Feliz Wide Brim Hat Girl, threaten to wear rim job perfume ...
Jan 18, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 1
It's party season which means your girls are celebrating their Year of Rest and Manifestation with two ice-cold Gurus and matching two-day hangovers. This week the ladies attend a rave, unpack the Mother God documentary, co-host a perfume white smellephant, and test out a new sound cue in the editing suite. Maddie celebrates her birthday with jell-o shots and a case of amnesia while Chloe shares her white elephant strategy and reveals a celebrity crush. All that plus Muji perfume aesthetics, a n...
Dec 28, 2023•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 30
This week the ladies are living out their piña colada fantasy and going all-inclusive at Sandals Resorts! That's right, they're talking about their favorite vacation frags for fun in the sun, a Vegas strip club, or simply to terrify everyone near you on your flight. Listen as the gals John Cage the house down boots and bravely ask: Are there more than four hot men in Los Feliz? Is it a leap year for cuffing season? What does old lady breath smell like? Is it a perfume or a Gauguin painting? All ...
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 29
It's finally here: The Nose Candy Holiday Gift Guide! The ladies put their persona marketing experience to work to share the perfect prezzies for your nearest and dearest. This week they're hitting all the high notes and that means rubbery rhubarb, grass flavored popsicle, freaked up banana, and (of course) eau de pussÿ. Looks like this year Santa brought a hot, wet, juicy episode of Nose Candy just for you. Now get on your knees and say thank you :) *** Fragrances Discussed: Bath and Body Works...
Dec 07, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 28
