Perfume on the Radio
Exploring our deep and diverse cultural connections with smell, Perfume on the Radio is a periodic 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 people who defy categorization.
Learn more at perfumeontheradio.com or at artandolfaction.com.
- Update frequency
- every 23 days
- Average duration
- 63 minutes
- Episodes
- 25
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Field Report from Chile: Indies from the Andes
It’s easy to idealize a place, when you’re just passing through. Having said that, Chile is a remarkable country, full of remarkable perfumers, making remarkable smells.
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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 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 odd…
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, …
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 a…
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 episo…
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: f…
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 …
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 w…
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 cha…
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, th…
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, delive…
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 aware…
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…
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, a…
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 tha…
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 between smelling and hea…
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 Phoeni…
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 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' Lo…