Smell Ya Later

243: Creating fragrance's new benchmarks [feat. Nick Axelrod-Welk of Contrapposto]

Nick Axelrod-Welk can be credited with a lot of beauty culture's millennial-charged evolution in the 2010s, having co-founded Into The Gloss, Necessaire, and Homecourt. F

242: What does your everything shower smell like? 🛀 [feat. Emily Ferber]

Perhaps you've heard of Athena Club, one of the millennial-era DTC personal care brands of the 2010s that offered period products, razors, and deodorant. Once fragrance e

241: 👩‍🍳Gourmaybe she's born with it [feat. John Early] 🎭

We have the pleasure and delight of welcoming comedian, director, and actor John Early as a guest on this week's episode to discuss his film Maddie's Secret — AND the fra

240: So, everything's milk now. 🥛

We're catching up with new scents we've been living in for the past couple of months — some of which were embargoed by The Brands, some of which flew under the radar unti

239: Falling back into The Gap Scents (2026 versions)

The Gap re-released its beloved fragrance line, "re-imagined" for today, which, in fragrance-speak, we know to mean reformulated. Formula updates are industry standard fo

238: Does skin color inform our ideas on 'skin scents?' [Feat. Influxious by Funmi Monet!]

A repeat guest is a rare occurrence on Smell Ya Later, but when we heard that fragrance aficionado Funmi Monet had something big in the works, we had to bite. Influxious

237: What went down at Hotel Smell Ya Later? 🏩

We hosted the scent swap of the scentury last week (kidding, but also not kidding) at the Standard Highline, and 115 of you showed up to contribute to the second annual (

236: Fake fans and the Fifis

We would never be flip about attending such illustrious events as a Knicks championship viewing party or the Fragrance Foundation Awards (affectionately known as the Fifi

235: So many mist opportunities...

Not to be boring, but we're talking about body mists again. Particularly body mists from luxury brands that we'd assume have a slightly more restrained strategy with rele

234: You can't just say cologne is genderless

Well, you can, technically. But the collective understanding of cologne is very gendered. So, something to think about... Which, we do! in this yap-centric ep about a bu

233: Not taking scent so seriously [with Sofie Pavitt] 🙂

We chat with everyone's favorite esthetician and acne whisperer, Sofie Pavitt, on this episode. You might recognize her colorful skincare line, Sofie Pavitt Face, from co

232: New mall smell

Slutty teen elixirs, plastic clouds, milky vanillas, musty vanillas, and an impressive new collection from everyone's favorite cloven-footed fashion brand — these are som

231: Smelling like a wolf in chypre's clothing

Seems like fragrance is revisiting a certain kind of scent profile combo dubbed by traditional perfumery as chypre (a scent profile we both keep forgetting about). We sme

230: Is anyone having fun in fragrance?

Sort of, yes, kind of, more than before... It's just us this episode, chatting about some fun new fragrance releases (Vacation's new Orange Gelée collection, Born To Stan

229: Snif passes the test [Feat. Bryan Edwards]

On this week's ep, we have Bryan Edwards, co-founder & CEO of Snif, one of the first brands to kick off the DTC fragrance-buying format. With clever and experimental scen

228: BICHE mode [feat. Alexandra Pauly of Biche]

While perfume for dogs continues to miss, one pet grooming category — the shampoo and coat conditioner — remained woefully underconsidered. Enter Biche, a luxury pet groo

227: Sniffing too close to the solar accord

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 c

226: The most GLORIOUS purple scent we've smelled [feat. Susan Alexandra]

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 accesso

225: A case against discovery sets 🧐

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

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

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 gateke