Perfume on the Radio
Exploring our deep and diverse cultural connections with smell, Perfume on the Radio is a monthly show hosted by Saskia Wilson-Brown for The Institute for Art and Olfaction. Each episode takes on a new theme, examining its connections with scent through interviews with perfumers, artists, academics, activists, and so many more. Learn more at perfumeontheradio.com or at artandolfaction.com.
Episodes
24 episodes
Smelling Our Way Through Qatar
Indulge in a bit of armchair travel as Perfume on the Radio visits Doha, in Qatar. This episode explores the culture and smells that a group of people encountered while on a trip to the country with the Qatar America Institute for Culture. Ther...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:16:55
The Quiet Magic of John Steele
Have you ever met a person who had a strange and uncanny sort of magic about them? So it is with John Steele. LIfelong learner and seeker, John is also a purveyor of the strange and the rare, the oddball beauties that our world produces. We’re ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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49:16
CB Hates Perfume?
Veteran perfumer and all around brilliant human Christopher Brosius (Demeter, CB I Hate Perfume) joins us to answer our most pressing question: does he, in fact, hate perfume? Well... yes. But also, not at all.With: Christopher Brosius (...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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59:39
The Automoshow
The vroom-vroom of the engine, the honk-honk of the horn. Cars come with a lot of sounds. They also come with a lot of smells. In this episode, we lean into the gassy side of things and explore the aromatics of these beautiful, belching metal b...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:06:31
The Perfumer's Cat
There is an anecdotal correlation between perfume-making and cat ownership. Perhaps it's the solitary nature of the work that lends itself to humanity's least co-dependent relationship. In this episode we explore the catty side of perfumery.
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:07:21
A Moveable Feast
Mmmm… Donuts. Mmmm… Limburger Cheese? In this episode we quote Camus and Hemingway and their Moveable Feasts to explore retronasal olfaction. Specifically, how smell enhances our favorite activity: feasting on delicious things, whenever and whe...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:13:48
Drink and Be Merry
It’s January and as we all recover from our New Year's Eve hangovers, we can't help but cast our thoughts towards just what, exactly, we imbibed. Do we even remember? In our first episode of season 2, Perfume on the Radio explores the aro...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:01:39
Al Kalima is the Word
This episode explores language and scent - more specifically, the potential relationship between the spoken word, the written word and smell in Arabic. We are joined by two people who deeply engage with the language. Oakland-based educator D...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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58:23
I'll Find You My Precious
The pleasures of the chase. The joy of the discovering. Humans LOVE a challenge - especially one with a treasure at the end of it. Good news for perfume lovers: aromatic materials can be the most challenging and enticing treasures of all. For e...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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1:11:55
Uncharted Territories
In episode 15 of Perfume on the Radio we explore some great unknowns. Three artists and one poet join us to discuss their work with places that we'll never truly know: outer space, the deep ocean, the human mind. GUESTSAudra ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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54:06
Wish You Were Here
In this episode, guest host Minetta Rogers creates a meditation on scent and the postal system: from scratch and sniff stamps to shipping mishaps, mailed expressions of longing and nostalgia, delivery failures and post office robberies, a...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:09:38
The Doors of Perception
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science” said Einstein. And this week we ask ourselves: what lies on the fringes of human awareness? What do we miss when we focus only on t...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:08:30
Smell, Sound and the Wireless, with John Biebel
In episode 12 of Perfume on the Radio, perfumer, writer and artist John Biebel joins us as guest host. Much creative dialog focuses on the cross section of senses, or where sensibilities meet, inform, and guide each other. Such is the case when...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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58:44
A Perfumer's Nature
The sun and the moon, the rain and ocean, the rose and the jasmine: these are just some examples of the phenomenal bounty that nature provides. In this episode we explore what our planet offers us, and how we can respectfully make use of it in ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:05:37
Biologically Speaking, with Heather Cvar
Independent Perfumer and smell enthusiast Heather Cvar joins us as a guest host on this week's episode. Sniffing out of the inner working/ biological side of how we use olfaction for things other than just perfume; from a lover’s underarm, to b...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:00:02
The Music Show, with On the Nose
How do music and scent interrelate? In this episode, we team up with Dana El Masri (On the Nose podcast) to explore facets of musical thinking and the synesthetic connections betw...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:01:50
It's a Man's World
This episode explores concepts of masculinity in scent. And by masculinity, we mean all facets of the gender identification. GUESTS Joshua Smith (Libertine)Miles Regis (Artist)Tom Blunt (Black...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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59:16
Mythical Beasts
In this episode of Perfume on the Radio, we give ourselves license to imagine the most fearsome, entrancing, magical and aromatic beings. Join us to learn all about some fantastical beasts, and meet the people who smell them.GUESTS
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:02:16
The Sissel Show
In episode 6 of Perfume on the Radio, we welcome iconic perfume pioneer Sissel Tolaas for a deep dive into her practice. With Sissel Tolaas (artist)Saskia Wilson-Brown (host)Airing on Los Angeles' Lookout FM on th...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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55:56
The Vice Show
We explore the aromatics (and perceptions) of naughty behavior in an episode that would well have the vice squad scrabbling for their notebooks. Guests:Donna Lipowitz (Lipowitz Smells)James McHugh (USC)Persephenie (Persephen...
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1:01:45
Embodied Aromatics
In the second part of a two part series about scent and class, Artist Anicka Yi, academics Hsuan L. Hsu and Nuri McBride, and entrepreneur Mary Richardson-Lowry join us to discuss our aromatic bodies, our aromatic environment, and how scent pla...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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57:46
The Olfactory Underground
Guest host Maxwell Williams of UFO Parfums leads an aromatic excursion into the techno scene, with Oval, DJ Python, Isabel Lewis and Maria Golovina from Holynose Parfums. Airing on Los Angeles' Lookout FM on the second and fourth Th...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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58:15
Questions of Class
So you want to live like the common people? In the first part of a two part series about scent and class, we explore social structures through perfumery.Host Saskia Wilson-Brown is joined by fashion designer Jake Treddenick, perfum...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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59:58
Location, Location, Location
Ahhh... the sweet smell of home. Our inaugural episode explores how location relates to scent as host Saskia Wilson-Brown speaks to several perfumers and artists that work with real or imagined geographies in their practice. First, perfumers Sp...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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1:06:32
