197: AI can't replace us because we don't know what we're doing

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] 🌐 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 comment in our Spotify episode prompts and/or a (nice) review wherever you stream (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ only)  

... And other things we've smelled lately, including: Ellis Brooklyn's new Vanilla Salt, Kayali Milky Musk Oud and Chocolate Oud, Orabella Eternal Roots, Phlur Cherry Stem, DS & Durga Cognac Reign, etc etc... [What we smell like today: Kayali Milky Musk Oud, Orto Parisi Brutus] 🌐 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 comment in our Spotify episode prompts and/or a (nice) review wherever you stream (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ only)  

If you see 222, 333, 444, 555, and 11 11 everywhere, now you can smell them — or at least the interpretation of them via Lake & Skye's popular fragrances. Brand founder Courtney Somer joins us this episode to discuss creating the popular 11 11 scent that launched the brand, as well as their new Angel Numbers body mists, which take the concept in a playful and cozy-smelling direction. [What we smell like today: Vyrao Ludeaux, Commodity Milk Orchid] 🌐 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 comment in our Spotify episode prompts and/or a (nice) review wherever you stream (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ only)  

The Tokkers are at it again, this time selling out a certain indie pumpkin spice-laden perfume in service of... vasodilation? ¯\(ツ)/¯ OK, we guess! This week, we combatively chit-chat about very expensive perfumes, very affordable perfumes, and all the basic in-between perfumes (y'know, the usual). And we address a listener question about fall fragrances as they alert us to the unfounded reason people are selling out a certain Tilda Swinton pumpkin spice perfume. (And yeah, pretty sure we're saying "Roja" wrong throughout this episode, but.) [What we smell like today: Roja Isola Sol, Cyklar Sacred Santal] 🌐 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 comment in our Spotify episode prompts and/or a (nice) review wherever you stream (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ only)  

We're delighted to welcome Joyce Kim, chief product officer for Rare Beauty, on this episode to talk about how Rare's first eau de parfum was created: its unique bottle design created in collaboration with hand therapy specialists, the four scent layering balms that dramatically transform the scent, and how an early unintended packaging design feature informed what's possible for accessibility in beauty products. [What we smell like today: Harlem Perfume Co. Billie, Ellis Brooklyn Super Amber] 🌐 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 comment in our Spotify episode prompts and/or a (nice) review wherever you stream (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ only)  

We have MORE body mists in the world this week. We have perfumes for decades. We have opinions on cheeky scent-naming formats. Catch up with us as we (briefly) mention some summer cinematic blockbusters, smell the new Philosophy body mists, argue about how much body mists and 10ml travel EDP vials should cost, and we smell Selena's (Rare Beauty's) new perfume. [What we smell like today: Prada Paradigme, Atelier Materi Iris Ebene] 🌐 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 comment in our Spotify episode prompts and/or a (nice) review wherever you stream (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ only)  

We have Teri Johnson of Harlem Candle Co. and Harlem Perfume Co. talking about her historically reverent collection of perfumes inspired by the great artists of the Harlem Renaissance: Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, Josephine Baker, Duke Ellington, and Eartha Kitt — who's perfume was made in collaboration with her daughter Kitt Shapiro (and whose grandaughter Nora Mae starred in the campaign!). Johnson chats with us about the significance of the Harlem Renaissance, how her candle brand took off during the pandemic, and how Eartha Kitt "oversaw" the formula of her namesake perfume. Also in this EP: We're still blush blind apparently The GAP scents are coming back (even though we already knew they never left) A lightning round sniff test of Harlem Perfume Co's new Sephora-launched fragrances [What we smell like today: Byredy Pulp, Prada Infusion De Rhubarbe] 🌐 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 comment in our Spotify episode prompts and/or a (nice) review wherever you stream (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ only)  

The Venn diagram of perfumes "for sex" (which let's be real, is all of them) and perfumes that attract bugs might be a near-circle. However, there are certain fragrances and fragranced products that could be handy on your next camping trip if you want to avoid attracting either.  Also in this ep: A listener question about the smell of summer Sable is looking for a (non-Internet) creator or fabricator Tynan is looking for... a reason Phlur's M&A is making a great case for divorce Why the hell are Victoria's Secret Dream Angels perfumes so expensive on eBay? (Seriously, I'm asking, though.) [What we smell like today: Guerlain Vetiver Fauve, Henry Rose Dave] 🌐 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 comment in our Spotify episode prompts and/or a (nice) review wherever you stream (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ only)  

Yes, we heard about the short-lived AI perfume influencer, and we're not worried. But everyone was for a minute there! We're chatting about "work" and "jobs," beauty awards being scams, new bananas, the most basic thing about Sable, a listener question about mummies (sort of), what AI is potentially useful for, D.S. & Durga's relaunched tennis scent, etc, etc, etc... [What we smell like today: Kayali Maui In A Bottle Sweet Banana, Victoria's Secret Bare Sueded Vanilla] 🌐 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 comment in our Spotify episode prompts and/or a (nice) review wherever you stream (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ only)  

Not to be contentious, but... what do people think "indie" even means? What does mass mean? And is who they're made by indicative of the quality of fragrance? It's a question making the rounds amongst the fraghead forums, and it's a question that calls for investigation of how our fragrances are being made, who influences their formulas, and what resources are available to whom? Also! How would we downsize our perfume collection (if we had to, which we don't — thank god), in response to a listener's question. Also, also! a few new things we've been smelling this past week :) [What we smell like today: D'orsay Sur Tes Levres, Sarah Baker Pastel Rumours] 🌐 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 comment in our Spotify episode prompts and/or a (nice) review wherever you stream (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ only)