Today - Thursday the 6th of May - is the final day of our Kickstarter - we’re more than double our goal thanks to your amazing support. So obviously if you’ve not backed yet this is the time, thomasclipper.com/atlantic. You have until 9PM UK time - go go go, thank you!

Instead of talking about Atlantic or Kickstarter today, we’re going to take a step back and talk a bit about how important scent is in culture by exploring two of our favourite books on scent.

So pull up a glass, pour yourself a chair and welcome to the first - perhaps only! - edition of the Thomas Clipper book club...

With the Kickstarter campaign to launch Atlantic midway through (back the campaign here!), in this episode we decide to explore a terrifying / exciting experiment. So, dear listeners, this week's Behind The Fragrance was recorded live on Instagram TV in front of a live Instagram audience. No script (well there was one, but we went rogue...), no canned laughter... but there will be a few references to the comments that came up from those watching live!

In this episode we cover what's been going on at Thomas Clipper HQ since the beginning of the campaign - how we're getting on and how it compares to previous campaigns. Enjoy!

First things first! Just moments ago our Kickstarter launched - you can follow along, share and back the project at this link until the campaign ends in three short weeks on the 13th May. In the first few days we've got some amazing offers for you, so jump in!

To celebrate the launch we've invited 7 experts in men's style, scent and lifestyle to comment on their take on the way fragrance has changed during the pandemic, what they're feeling optimistic about in 2021, and what they think of the hand-filled vials of Atlantic that we had shipped to them last week.

Enjoy! And back the project here!

It's a big day, Thursday 22nd April 2021... we're launching Atlantic on Kickstarter! If you're new to Kickstarter, it's a brilliant way for customers to pre-order new art and products to help fund their production. In short: it helps small businesses like us to get things made! So from next Thursday at 9AM UK time, you'll be able to be one of the first people in the world to pre-order Atlantic. Exciting stuff indeed - with your help, it's coming to life...

In this week's episode we go into our three favourite Kickstarters of all time. From Amadeus to Atlantic, via the Statue of Liberty. One of these worth mentioning is the fantastic 'The Road Goes Both Ways' by Solomon's Hollow. Check it out on Spotify. It was created via Kickstarter some years ago and is our theme music. Have a listen, it's brilliant.

How can you make your aftershave last longer? What's the difference between perfume and cologne? In this episode we separate fact from fiction and (hopefully) leave you feeling more confident than ever about choosing your next fragrance.

Packaging design for a fragrance is as important as sleeve art for an LP. It helps prepare you for what you're about to experience. So it's with a great deal of excitement that we're introducing the amazing This Northern Boy who's collaborating with us to create original art for Atlantic.

The conversation covers imaginary worlds, escapism and of course our promised Atlantic Island Discs where Stu, Antonio, Matt and Rob aka This Northern Boy share the songs that we think capture the positivity, optimism and depth of the new Thomas Clipper fragrance.

Have a listen to the full Atlantic playlist, including the songs we mentioned in the podcast, here at thomasclipper.com/atlanticplaylist.

We’re back with another episode of Behind The Fragrance, the podcast where we let you into the development of the newest aftershave in our range: Atlantic.

This week we’re opening up the first prototypes and selecting our favourites. By the end of this episode we’ll be down to our top two. We’ll begin with the unboxing...

Hello! We're Matt and Antonio. We're the founders of Thomas Clipper, an independent men’s cologne business based in London.

If you’re interested in why scent is so important, how new men’s colognes are created and how a small business brings a new product to market, this weekly podcast is for you.

That’s because we’re embarking on the development our newest fragrance - Atlantic. As we’re recording this we’ve got no idea what its exact scent profile is, no idea what it looks like and only the faintest idea of how and when it’s going to launch.

But in this series we’re going to be letting you into how we get from here, to launch (whenever that is). We’ll share what goes into a fragrance brief, how modern scent is made, what we look for when developing a new cologne and how scent shapes culture.

This week we're asking 'why is scent important' (this New York Times article mentioned in the podcast is worth a read), 'what's a nose' (bear with us) and whether we should call the podcast 'Fragonomics' (we should, but we didn't).  Thanks for joining us!