Dirt. Holy Water. Angel Food Cake. Puppy's Breath. Demeter's fragrance library could easily be a word association card game, but far greater than that, they're a catalog of singular scents bottled for your enjoyment and curiosity. One day in the future when the Earth is ruled by hand-slapping robots who have evolved past their AI and every imaginable scent throughout time and history is archived in a library like something out of The Giver (but for smells), Demeter will have already done most th...
Dec 08, 2020•55 min•Ep. 15
It's the most capitalist time of the year! Haha! But honestly how else would we show our nears and dears just how much we care about them if not via material items with indisputable monetary valuations? OK, but for real though, not to brag — these gifts are actually really good. We've outdone ourselves. They're delightful, functional, and they all smell incredible (duh). Like, you COULD just get them for yourself but...look, we're not the boss of you. Your brilliant hosts have curated a gift gui...
Dec 01, 2020•53 min•Ep. 14
This episode features the ultimate anti-aging ingredient: a concentrated dose of Nostalgia. Today we’re taking a trip back to middle school (sorry) with the six GAP Scent fragrances. Yes, THOSE fragrances. We deep dive into six of the originals, pulling apart what makes them so unique, so iconic, and why they’re seared into our collective consciousness. And best of all, we’ll clue you in on how you can get your hands on them (because they never really left). [Fragrances Mentioned: GAP Heaven, Gr...
Nov 24, 2020•49 min•Ep. 13
Commodity was one of the first fragrance brands to launch on the Internet, pioneering the fragrance DTC model. And then, a few years after its launch, it vanished. Quietly, suddenly, tragically. And now... IT'S BACK. The re-founder and CEO Vicken Arslanian joins us to talk about rebooting the beloved brand, breathing new life into it without changing its DNA, and even Commodity 2.0 's debut scent. [ What we smell like today: By Kilian Roses On Ice; By Kilian Angels’ Share] Find more info, episod...
Nov 17, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 12
Dark Rum. Cannabis. Peppermint. No, not the remnants of a hotel room Hunter S. Thompson just checked out of — these are some of the Hall of Fame scents slung by the chic and minimalist lifestyle brand Malin + Goetz. Peek into any shower in a 1BR in Chelsea and chances are you've seen a bottle of Malin + Goetz body products. Chances are you and your S.O. have fought over and then shared said body products, replenishing in equal measure, to keep the bottle count low and the suds plentiful. We talk...
Nov 10, 2020•47 min•Ep. 11
You mean to tell me a boy made this smell?? Matthew Herman, the co-founder of everyone’s favorite candle brand, Boy Smells, joins us to talk about creating the candle brand with his partner David, pivoting from fashion to fragrance (and underwear), what happens when Kacey Musgraves slides into your DMs (the Slow Burn collaboration, that's what) and why a “genderful” lifestyle is so much more enriching than genderless. [Fragrances mentioned: Maya 1, Maya Base, GAP Dream] Find more info, episodes,...
Nov 02, 2020•57 min•Ep. 10
Happy Halloweek, smellheads. For this episode, we're taking you someplace fascinatingly disgusting and morbidly evitable — DEATH. We spoke with writer and neuroscientist Mo Costandi about that certain je ne sais quoi of the bouquet of death as we delve into what exactly remains of your remains once you've embarked onto the afterlife. We also learn about how the stench of death can be helpful in forensic and psychiatric applications. It's a lot!! This is not for the squeamish and it does get grap...
Oct 27, 2020•59 min•Ep. 9
Internet tastemaker, podcast superstar, and candle vlog darling, T. Kyle, joins us to talk candle vlogs, the formative (and homophobic) smells of his teen years growing up in New Jersey, and his most cherished New York City scents. He teaches us the 101 basics of candle lingo and how to stop your expensive candles from burning in that annoyingly wasteful way (you know the one). Binge T. Kyle's candle vlogs here: https://www.youtube.com/c/TKyleMacMahon/videos . [Fragrances mentioned: R.E.M. by Ar...
Oct 20, 2020•43 min•Ep. 8
THE LAST FRONTIER in the customization of beauty…is fragrance. Many have tried, many have failed. And then there came Hawthorne, a brand created to match you with not one, but two custom scents: one for work and one for play. But HOW? In this episode, we grill Phillip Wong and Brian Jeong, co-founders of the brand, about how Hawthorne was created, the algorithmic sorcery involved in matching their customer with two different but complementary scents, and what the future of customization in beaut...
Oct 13, 2020•47 min•Ep. 7
This episode has everything: Satanism, cinnamon-flavored colonialism, misogynistic food groups, and the Hamburglar. We take it upon ourselves to do a two-person roundtable of all things pumpkin spice and its reign over autumn in the North American hemisphere. In this episode, we give you a semi-accurate history of pumpkin spice lore, we talk about what we love about the ubiquitous fall scent, and then shit-talk everything about it that we don't, while calling out all the products that took it up...
Oct 06, 2020•44 min•Ep. 6
It's our episode with the brand that your hosts grew up with, formed our nascent scent-ualities around, and forever have a soft spot in our gummy little hearts for... Bath & Body Works. It was the mall oasis where for less than $20 you could form your identity within clouds of Warm Vanilla Sugar, Sun-Ripened Raspberry, and Juniper Breeze. Chrissy Montera, Associate VP of Marketing at Bath & Body Works joins us on the pod to talk about her impressive tenure at the brand, building the lega...
Sep 29, 2020•52 min•Ep. 5
We've got the D.S. in D.S. & Durga and the brand's perfumer, David Seth Moltz, to Zoom with us about how he and his partner Kavi Moltz went from a musician/waiter and architect (respectively) to create one of the coolest and most unique modern American perfume brands around. David breaks down our favorite scents from the line, scrambles our little bunny brains with some olfactory knowledge, and explains how starting their fragrance brand isn't all that dissimilar from starting a band. Find m...
Sep 22, 2020•51 min•Ep. 4
Welcome to Smell Ya Later's inaugural episode. Your hosts, Tynan and Sable talk about their fragrant backgrounds, why writing about and describing fragrance is so complicated, why they started this smelly podcast, their current TOP THREE SCENTS, and some other stuff, too. It's the first episode, had to get all this housekeeping out of the way first, you know? Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smellyalater.live Leave us a voice message on the SYL Hotline at Speakpipe.com/smellyalater and we ...
Sep 15, 2020•40 min•Ep. 1
Many-something years ago in a megamall complex far, far away... is where some of the most poignant scents of our formative years were found, sprayed, and burrowing into the recesses of our brains to forever timestamp those specific scents for probably ever. We're talking about our most nostalgic scents, name-checking the body splashes we built our identities around, and Tynan goes on a tangential rant about his distaste for deodorant (with some legit deodorant reccs, so it's not without its meri...
Sep 15, 2020•44 min•Ep. 2
This is the Smell Ya Later perfume primer. In our careers as beauty writers and editors, we've sniffed a fair amount of fragrances and learned a fair amount of behind-the-scenes fragrance industry stuff, in general. Are we experts? God, no. But do we know more about perfume than the average mouthbreather? Yes. Here is a brain-dump of all that information so you will never again confidently say "sill-age" when it is indeed "si-yahhzh." Find more info, episodes, and merch at Smellyalater.live Leav...
Sep 15, 2020•55 min•Ep. 3
It's a trailer, so... you kind of get an idea of what Smell Ya Later will be about. Keep up with us on IG @smellyalater.mp3 and find your co-hosts at @tynanbuck and @sabletoothtigre . 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 on Instagram @smellyalater.mp3 Leave a (nice) comment & (5-star) review wherever you stream, and if you feel so inclined, respond t...
Sep 07, 2020•4 min
