Shows
Friends With DeficitsScents and Sensitivity – A Conversation with Miss Layla of fūm fragrancesMiss Layla is an interdisciplinary artist and self-taught perfumer based in L.A. Her interest in fragrance and olfactive endeavors began as a small child when she learned how to cook and “taste shapes”. Later in life, Layla came to know that she had synesthesia, which she harnesses to her advantage when formulating perfume. After contracting COVID-19, she developed chemical sensitivities linked to auto-immune conditions and chronic inflammation. Her purpose and sense of identity is distorted and she struggles to relate to the world she once knew. Miss Layla’s work: www.fumfragrances.com...2024-06-171h 30
Nose CandyEp. 47: City of (Mugler) Angels (feat. Saskia Wilson-Brown)Pop a microdose, pull a tarot card and crack a Kin because this week the Nose Candy gals are joined by artist and Institute for Art and Olfaction founder Saskia Wilson-Brown to talk about the smell of their all-time favorite city: Los Angeles. Join these three ladies for a slow ride down LA's surface streets where they explore moldy swimsuit musk, eau de art deco, and botox base notes. Want to smell like the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland? What about the Hollywood Farmers Market? Gloria Swanson's snail trail? These three are saying it, spraying it, and...2024-05-301h 50
A Friend of Mine by OAK MagazineArt and resilience with multisensory artist Cara-Ann SimpsonIn 2017, Queensland artist and curator, Cara-Ann Simpson spent almost a year in hospital with a severe brain infection. She was later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and neurosarcoidosis. Cara-Ann had to relearn to walk and speak clearly. Creativity gave her back a sense of belonging.At the rehab centre, Cara-Ann’s partner, Michael, would take her into the gardens where she would pick flowers and then arrange them in plastic cups back in her room. This was the beginning of her way back to art practice, and of regaining hope for a future.The practice followed he...2024-01-2236 min
Pep TalkSaskia Wilson-Brown - The Institute of Art and OlfactionI had the great pleasure to chat with the founder and director of https://artandolfaction.com/ - Saskia Wilson-Brown
Mentioned: Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwN9kZbRvg8&pp=ygUmc2NlbnQgcmF2ZSBuZXcgdmFyaWF0aW9ucyBvbiBzY2VudCBhcnQ%3D
Book - https://www.amazon.com.au/Emperor-Scent-Story-Perfume-Obsession/dp/0375759816
Perfumes -
https://www.parfumo.com/Perfumes/Comme_des_Garons/Wonderwood
https://www.parfumo.com/Perfumes/Kyse_Perfumes/frangipane-al-pistacchio
https://www.parfumo.com/Perfumes/Nasomatto/Duro2023-09-2742 min
On The ScentOn the Scent with Amanda Beadle from BedeauxIn this week’s episode we’re thrilled to be joined by the wonderful Amanda Beadle, perfumer and founder of British niche fragrance house @bedeauxx.We’ll be finding out the fragrances that have shaped Amanda’s life, discovering how she became interested in perfumery and started her own house, and what it was like winning a prestigious Art & Olfaction award…This was SUCH an inspiring and joyful interview – Amanda is a brilliant artist alongside the creativity expressed in her fragrances. Those of you who attended our live event in December will have got to try the incredib...2023-02-0242 min
Why Am I PodcastWhy Am I Saskia Wilson-BrownHey everybody, I’m Greg Sowell and this is Why Am I, a podcast where I talk to interesting people and try to trace a path to where they find themselves today. My guest this go around is Saskia Wilson-Brown. Saskia has been in and around TV production for some time, even being part of the Silver Lake Film Festival in LA. She’s also a great podcaster, and BTW has founded and runs the Institute of Art and Olfaction. More than that she’s a driven artist that tears walls down so that people can connect with each other and...2022-06-191h 25
An Aromatic LifeDemocratizing Scent with Saskia Wilson-Brown#51: In this episode, Frauke sits down with The Institute for Art and Olfaction director and founder Saskia Wilson-Brown to discuss the democratization of scent. Saskia takes us through her early years living with a Cuban father and British mother, reveals how traveling a lot shaped who she is, and shares how her relationship to smell really changed in her teenage years going to school in Paris (hint, it involves supermodels). She also explains what brought her to finally settle down in Los Angeles and eventually start the IAO. Saskia discusses what she believes people get wrong about the sense o...2022-05-0555 min
Good Mourning, Nancy PodcastGhost Host Ep. 3: PERFUME - The Story of a Murderer (2006) w/Kate SculleyTrigger warning: We discuss serial killers, choking, and cannibalism later on in the episode.
Greetings, Ghosts and Ghouls! GMN is back...well...kinda! Abbey is still on maternity leave but Gracie has a "ghost" host this week! Kate MF Sculley! This week they're talking about the beautifully problematic thriller, Perfume (2006)!
Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com
BLM: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
TLM: translifeline.org/donate/
Resources:
The Scent of a Woman: Perfect Misogyny in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Heather Addison
https://www.google.com/amp/s/brightlightsfilm.com/the-scent-of-a-woman-perfect-misogyny-in-perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer/amp/
Perfume: The Story...2021-09-301h 13