

Smell Ya Later
Smell Ya Later
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
Hosted by Tynan Sinks & Sable Yong
For more info, check out our website: www.smellyalater.live
Follow @smellyalater.mp3 on Instagram for episode updates and maybe memes sometimes.
Leave us a voice note at the Smell Ya Later Hotline.
Theme song by Pasquale D'Silva; Cover photo by Zach Bergren
Episodes
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Sep 30, 2025 • 58min
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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Sep 23, 2025 • 46min
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?).
We have our 👚BRAND NEW MERCH👕 now available on our website. It's very cute, also very cool, and we made it especially for you :)
[What we smell like today: Nosu Sain No More, LBTY Vine Thief]
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Sep 16, 2025 • 1h 3min
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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Sep 9, 2025 • 53min
204: The Vanilla Skinematic Universe
... 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]
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Sep 2, 2025 • 1h 1min
203: What do angel numbers smell like? 🪽💫
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]
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Aug 26, 2025 • 49min
202: Can people please be normal about pumpkin spice
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]
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Aug 19, 2025 • 1h 4min
201: Rare Beauty's first perfume looks like that for a reason
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]
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Aug 12, 2025 • 52min
200: Mist-flation for the caramel-curious
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]
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Aug 5, 2025 • 1h 4min
199: Making perfume with the ghost of Eartha Kitt [feat. Harlem Perfume Co]
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]
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Jul 29, 2025 • 45min
198: Perfumes that attract humans vs. perfumes that attract bugs
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]
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