This week on Tasteland, Daisy and Francis are joined by comedy, culture, and perfume writer, Carly Silverman. Carly is also a TV and video producer, and host of the new podcast Smell That Movie.

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Carly

• Smell That Movie
• Twitter/X
• Instagram

Links & References

• Dirt / Greta Rainbow: Where will the next literary movement come from?
• Cosmo / Carly Silverman: The PerfumeTok influencers have got it all wrong
• Substack / Kyla Scanlon: The most valuable commodity is friction

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Timestamps

00:00 Introducing Carly Silverman

00:56 The sign of a good party

03:35 Literary movement = scene + genre

07:09 We're back to selling out

11:41 Smell that movie

17:32 The Talented Mr. Zierer

22:07 Aesthetic perfumes go against the idea of humanity

27:19 Smell and friction

34:18 The great fragrance and culture writers

35:41 What does the internet smell like?

41:25 What book do you want to smell like?

45:44 Nostalgic summer camp smells

53:37 From letterboxd to podcast

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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers.