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When it’s more about how things make you feel than performing a function that meet societal expectations? What is the importance and impact of giving space for a fully realised artistic experience?
Australian perfume brand Metascent is reaching out into the fragrance community in a variety of different ways. From creating their own compounds, allowing people to explore making their own perfume, bring scent into art to create a fully immerse experience and taking the Australian fragrance profile into an international context, it’s hard to think of what else they still have left to explore and achieve. In talking with Janelle Donnelly, CEO of Metascent, seeing the way they are thinking about fragrance beyond something that is purely commercial but is also exploratory, make for some really fun pairings. From Australian Historical Fiction to Non fiction books on the language of Cults - we cover a lot of ground.
Fragrances mentioned:
Origin - Aqualis London
Carmelia - Metascent
Gaslight - Metascent
Adrenaline - Metascent
Love Affair - Metascent
Books mentioned:
The Story Thief - Kyra Geddes
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism - Amanda Montell
She Who Became The Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Howard (Translator)
Find more about Metsacent their website: https://metascent.com/
The artworks discussed can be found on their Instagram @metascent
Theme music for the show was created by Raul Sanchez I Jorge. Check out his solo work on Wild Animal Records


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How can we bring out the inherent and intrinsic qualities of each other. What Spaces can we make to come together and offer support to elevate from the mundane?
This episode we are doing something a little bit different. The guest is Guy Vincent - CEO of Dutjahn Sandalwood Oils, an Western Australian supplier of Santalum spicatum. Dutjahn are a 50% traditionally owned company that sustainably farm Sandalwood for international distribution. Guy is a self proclaim ‘Aussie scrapper’ in the world of fine fragrance and has previously work for the Estée Lauder company as head perfumer for the Aveda brand.
As this material is sacred to the indigenous communities, we decided to discussion how Sandalwood performs as a character in the narrative of fragrance - how it can elevate the other materials in a composition,
Fragrances mentioned:
Shalimar - Guerlain
Santal 33 - Le Labo
Portrait of a Lady - Frederic Malle (Dominique Ropion)
D’Orange Vert - Hermes
Books mentioned:
Assassin Apprentice - Robin Hobb
Batman: Earth One - Geoff Johns, Gary Frank (Illustrator)
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1) - Rick Riordan
Out of Sight - Elmore Leonard
(and here is the movie trailer in case you need to remember the film)
Find more about Dutjhan Sandalwood Oils On their website: https://www.dutjahn.com/
Theme music for the show was created by Raul Sanchez I Jorge. Check out his solo work on Wild Animal Records

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Sometimes it takes two episodes to get to the heart of a topic. Sometimes people just really enjoy literary critique and fragrant tangents
This is part two of what started off as a simple idea that unfurled into a three hour long discussion of scent, grief, love longing - all woven into the discussion of Annihilation. The guest is the wonderful Nuri Mc Bride who explores the intersection of olfaction and death rituals at the Death/Scent project, as well as  being co-editor of the community-focus scent culture journal Alabastron, the first edition of which is now available if you would like to find yourself a copy. If you have not has a listen to Part 1, I really recommend listen to that first before embarking on this episode.
Fragrances mentioned:
Orris Tattoo - Parle Moi Parfum
Koala - Zoologist
Squid - Zoologist
Bat - Zoologist 
Gypsy water - Byredo
Books mentioned:
Seven Skins of Esther Wilding - Holly Ringland
100 Love Sonnets (Cien Sonetos de Amor) - Pablo Neruda (Poem: XVII - I do not love you)
Find Nuri McBride on Instagram or on their website.
Theme music for the show was created by Raul Sanchez I Jorge. Check out his solo work on Wild Animal Records

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The topic of grief is huge. As is love. Intertwining both is a sense of longing. Tackling these topics requires many experiences and expressions of self exploration.
There is no one that I would like to embark on this topic more than Nuri McBride - perfumer, community educator, and writer. Nuri explores the intersection of olfaction and death rituals at the Death/Scent project, writes about fragrance history in her monthly newsletter, Aromatica de Profundis. As well as being co-editor of the community-focus scent culture journal Alabastron, the first edition of which is now available if you would like to find yourself a copy. Nuri was also program curator for the Scent & Society lecture series at the Institute for Art and Olfaction. This is part 1 of a long and winding conversation that covers what it’s like to be a perfumer, some of the trials and tribulations of the industry, as well as the important role that scent can play in rituals that help us process emotions around loss and longing
Fragrances mentioned:
Kouros - Yves Saint Laurent
Attendre & Espérer - P.Frapin & Cie
Fig Porn - Born to Stand Out
Steamed Rainbow - DS & Durga
Books mentioned:
The Foul and the Fragrant - Alain Corbin
Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle
Find Nuri McBride on Instagram or on their website.

Theme music for the show was created by Raul Sanchez I Jorge. Check out his solo work on Wild Animal Records
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Sometimes the act of placing a perfume affords a little moment of intimacy with one’s self and celebration of memories.
In talking with Sondrine Kehoe, perfumer and founder of the independent artisanal fragrance house Cygnet Perfumery, the Podcast explores intimacies - how they can enrich one’s life, how a celebration of these moments can take many forms and what it can look like when we miss the mark for these moments of connection. Through out the podcast we discuss and pair with Cygnet’s heirloom collection and Sondrine’s experiences that went into creating these scents. Cygnet perfumery is based on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia.
Fragrances mentioned:
Forrest Essentials - Cologne Intense: Madurai Jasmine  
Antiquarian
Primaveral
Conifer
Nocturne
Vigneron
Plein Air
Youth Dew - Etsee Lauder
Books mentioned:
People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
The Complete Poems - Emily Dickinson (Poem - A Light Exists in Spring)
A Thousand Mornings - Mary Oliver (Poem - When I’m Among The Trees)
Swimming in the Dark - Tomasz Jedrowski
The Grief Nurse - Angie Spoto
The Masterpiece - Emile Zola 
The Signature of All Things - Elizabeth Gilbert
Find Cygnet Perfumery on Instagram or on their website.
Theme music for the show was created by Raul Sanchez I Jorge. Check out his solo work on Wild Animal Records

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Part 2: when the pairing process is finally complete. Uncovering classic literature with a twist and thinking a little outside the box.
Following on from our deep dive into Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi, Suzy and Clare discuss a multitude of text and olfactory experience. From literary cannon to fantasy that makes you view the world a little differently, an array of experiences are covered. Suzy is a multi-award winning fragrance writer, currently writing for The Perfume Society’s magazine ‘The Scented Letter’ and co-host of the wonderful fragrance podcast ‘On the Scent’. If you haven’t had a chance to listen to Part 1, please indulge. We hope you enjoy Part 2 as much as we did recording it.
Fragrances mentioned:
Ormonde Jayne - Woman
Musc Ravageur - Fredrick Malle by Maurice Roucel
Paloma Picasso - Paloma Picasso
Ingenious Ginger - Goldfield & Banks
Silky Woods Elixir - Goldfield & Banks
Books mentioned:
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
A Scandal In Bohemia - Arthur Conan Doyle
A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
(The performance of this book can be found in full on Youtube. The actress is Eileen Atkins)
The Garden Party: A Novel - Grace Dane Mazur
Uprooted - Naomi Novak
Find Suzy on Instagram, listen to her via the On the Scent Podcast, sign up to read The Scented Letter.
Theme music for the show was created by Raul Sanchez I Jorge. Check out his solo work on Wild Animal Records


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