TOP 5 PODCASTS ABOUT PERFUMES: LISTEN TO TALES OF FRAGRANCE
Do stories of scents and narratives in olfactory senses interest you? Do you love listening to ‘behind the scenes’ of your favourite perfumes or words from the inspiring perfumers and noses themselves?
On a nice morning walk along the jogging track, these five podcasts can give you company through the headsets, inspiring you, and making you smile with information and fun.
- FUME CHAT
A pair of incredible speakers and fragrance enthusiasts on board worth everything noses and scents! Launched in 2018 and dropping truth bombs every Friday on a well-deserved half-hour catch-up, this podcast is a complete Wikipedia on fragrances! Hosted by Nick Gilbert, an expert on fragrances, and Thomas Dunkley, commonly known as the Candy Perfume Boy, the show has guests joining in to have a banter, informal in mode and yet informative in content.
Be it new releases, vintage classics, or sustainable options, the duo entertains you with recommendations and reviews on the perfumes that are doing well in the market. The episode of Filth Battle grabbed a larger audience as they spilled more than knowledge while gossiping with Katie Pukrick, a fellow fume head! I bet, you won’t remove your headsets with a wave of aroma piercing your nose, and a smile from the friends on the table!
- AMERICAN PERFUMER
Spotlights on Dave Kern getting into conversations with perfumers across America, breaking grounds and building niches of their own! The American Perfumer Community is a clan of perfumers only in and around America, putting up their genre of work and fragrance creation over to the globe. The podcast warms listeners with inspiring stories of perfumers who grabbed noses, and motivation that led the creative end up in the glam world of perfumery.
From Yosh Han to Shawn Meher, from John Biebel to Valerie Lee Vitale, from Ken Verspoor to Diane St. Clair, the show has a lot of insights to offer from valiantly different perspectives. Deconstructing paradigms of perfumery with absolutely zero marketing and lending a bottle with ‘explicit sense’ is what the show is all about. A revolution to building essences valuable to the smell, contrary to the world of aroma today, the American Perfumer Podcast is an amazing gig!
- THE SCENT GEEKS
Led by Steve Ward and Chris, the geeks on the show, the stage turns full of life and soul as the two talks about fragrance reviews, news, dramas and even the personal scents they wear at the moment. From the perfume-obsessed couple, the table takes turns weekly to interest the listeners with friendly and humorous takes on scent-related matters. Podcasts immortalizing senses with scent, be it romance or friendship, be it confidence or intelligent perception, these two are the best in town.
Honest recommendations, deep geek stuff on the perfume mixing art, packaging, design enthusiasm, hauls, worth the price buys, and interviews with the top perfumers, it has everything you would want to know about!
- MAKING SCENTS: THE STORY OF PERFUME
What happens behind the bottle is one of the many questions we as perfume enthusiasts are often interested in, and this podcast series on The Forum by BBC Media is a full forty minutes of odyssey unravelling the perfume existence. Hosted by notable BBC reporter Bridget Kendal, incoming guests have their take on ‘what’s happening back stage behind luxurious aromas’. Plug in your earphones and fall into a wonderland of stories regarding fragrances and revelations worth appraisal!
From an incredible critic and scientist Luca Turin to the magic nose Thomas Fontaine, from curator and word expert Lizzie Ostrom to William Tullett, the wide array of incredible personalities crave their inscriptions on the history of scents and the experimental synthetics in creating fine perfumery additions today. Elaborating on how perfumes intend to bring a better mood and has a role in influencing the inspirational humans and its evolution exploding in France, the intakes from this incredible display of information is subtly discussed and debated.
- THE SNIFF PERFUME PODCAST
Hosted by influencer Nicola Thomis, The Sniff reviews perfume tales, their creations and noses, based on real eight principles topped by transparency and authenticity. With a hold of being diverse and contributing to the society of fragrance lovers, Nicola talks with creative leads and incredible perfumers on everything from the wagon, from honest ‘this is great’ or ‘this is terrible’ recommendations to hurdles before a perfumer in setting up a kingdom of their own.
Currently running with 12 episodes on board and on the second season, the notable are reviews with The Fragmental youtuber Chris, and whereabouts on the January Scent Project by John Beibel. Be it a soothing recommendation of calm perfumes to hold your life together or a tensed rollercoaster ride of a creative to build his or her empire, this podcast has it all, drama and decoded information.
Get into the scented listening with these! And yes, we are always on the search for more to join the wagon. Let us know if there any of your favourites to add to the list, drop it down in the comments below!