Ahhh... the sweet smell of home. Our inaugural episode explores how location relates to scent as host Saskia Wilson-Brown speaks to several perfumers and artists that work with real or imagined geographies in their practice. First, perfumers Spyros Drosopoulos (Baruti Perfumes), Dana El Masri (Jazmin Saraï) and Frank Bloem (The Snifferoo) talk about scent in relation to culture and location. Dr. Kate McLean then joins us to discuss her pioneering work mapping smells in cities, followed by perfumers Terees Western (FragranTed) and  Ashley Eden Kessler (Studio Sentir) talking about how smell relates to their experience of the city. We’ll close out the program with some field reports: Donna Lipowitz (Lipowitz Smells) will share a poem about jasmine, and Refugio Jimenez (Arcane Chemistry)discusses a smell memory of his childhood in Arizona.

Take a deep breath, close your eyes, and think about what you smell. It's placemaking, at its most aromatic.

Airing on Los Angeles' Lookout FM on the second and fourth Thursday of every month and as a podcast thereafter, Perfume on the Radio is a radio show about scent culture, perfumery and olfactory art produced by the Institute for Art and Olfaction. Learn more at perfumeontheradio.com


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EPISODE CREDITS:
Perfume in the Radio is produced by The Institute for Art and Olfaction. Special thanks to Cameron at Lookout.fm, Ale at dublab and Minetta Rogers at IAO.

Music: Sz. 56 - II. Braul. Allegro (For Recorders - Papalin), Romanian Folk Dances, by Béla Bartók - Public domain: Courtesy of musopen.org; The Nutcracker Suite - Act I, No. 6, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Public domain: Courtesy of musopen.org; Enta Oumry, by Umm Kulthum - Used in compliance with Fair Use; Le Beirut, by Fairuz - Used in compliance with Fair Use; The Nutcracker Suite - Act II, No.12, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Public domain: Courtesy of musopen.org; Nocturne in B major, Op. 9 No. 3, by Frédéric Chopin - Public domain: Courtesy of musopen.org; Peer Gynt Suite no. 1, Op. 46, by Edvard Grieg - Public domain: Courtesy of musopen.org; Perfume on the Radio title song composed by Maxwell Williams.

Sound Effects: Location noise by apolloaiello, Pt 1 Birds Singing along the road.wav by silver887,  Ice Cream Truck by d78productions, CoffePotSequenceMrCoffeeMakerDec2012.wav by kvgarlic, Lightrain.mp3 by babuababua
Cat Meow (short) by skymary, crackling and popping night time fire.wav by natemarler
Costa Rica Rainforest by RTB45, Tree Rustle 1.aif by le_abbaye_Noirlac, Wind and Rain in Iceland_48Khz_Ms by bashrambali