209: Abel is making fossil fuel-free the new fragrance benchmark
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 today with beautiful new bottles, a brat green packaging update, and some new names for familiar scents.
[What we smell like today: Valentino Born In Roma Ivory, Tocca Laila]
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208: Wearing Chris Collins's perfumes will get you Juno🤰
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 like today: World of Chris Collins Long Kiss Goodnight, Margiela Replica Matcha Meditation]
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207: 🕯️Burning Braless👙 with SIDIA
After smelling the zesty candle collab between SIDIA and Esthetician Sofie Pavitt, we're very pleased to welcome Erin Kleinberg on this episode to chat all things scent in her bodycare and home line, SIDIA, as well as her many endeavors in beauty and fashion media that (little did we realize) we've been interacting with throughout our own careers in beauty media. Small world!
[What we smell like today: Gucci Muschio Di Luce, Alloy Studio Silver haze]
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206: Which designer fragrance brand is making our favorite scents these days?
Well, maybe not these days, but we'll tell you about our faves from the bygone days (2010s) of designer fragrance moments. That, plus we chat about some new department store scents, revisit some newish scents, and wonder what it all means (what else is new?).
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[What we smell like today: Nosu Sain No More, LBTY Vine Thief]
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205: The 2025 Smell Ya Later Awards :)
It happens every year around this time, and somehow we're always surprised even though this is our podcast that we plan and produce entirely ourselves. Please enjoy the 5th annual Smell Ya Later Awards, a collection of extremely biased, not entirely sensical, but entirely 'we mean it' categories of fragrances that we love, support, wonder what's going on with, and wish something more would be going on with...them:
The Honda Award For Best Accord or Note
They Don’t Last But They Won’t Go Away: The Award for Best Body Spray
The Tynan Sinks Award for Biggest Fruit
The Little Treat Award for Best Sweet Fragrance
The Bitch Better Have My Money Award For Most Expensive Fragrance We Liked, Unfortunately
The Sable Yong + Tynan Sinks Award for Best Collab
The “Touch My Body” by Mariah Carey Award for Best Smelling Body Product
The Kris Jenner Award for Note We Want to Get Really Famous
The Sav’ring All My Love For You Award for Best Savory Scent
The Missionary Position Award for Best Vanilla Scent
The “Ladies And Gentlemen, H.E.R.” Award For Best Girl Smell
The “Him??” Award for Best Man Smell
The Pink RAZR Award for Best Y2K Scent
The “This Shit Again?” Award for Best Flanker//The “She’s You, But Stronger” Award for Best Flanker//The REEEMMMIIIXXX 🔊🔊🔊Award for Best Flanker]
The “That Hansel, so hot right now” Award For The Best Scent Launch From A Brand That Jumped On The Bandwagon, Now That Fragrance Is So Hot Right Now
The “When did you get hot?” by Sabrina Carpenter Award For Best Rebrand
[What we smell like today: Belnu Chai Fleur, Memo Paris Madurai]
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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
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Theme song by Pasquale D'Silva; Cover photo by Zach Bergren