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Experience the intersection of storytelling and scent on the Paperback Perfumes Podcast. Each episode invites guests to share their perspectives and creative journeys, often sparking fresh reading inspiration or new ways of thinking about fragrance. My hope is that these conversations resonate with your own experiences and open the door to discoveries you haven’t encountered yet.

Episode 50- Two Different Types
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Episode 50- Two Different Types

This episode’s guest is Thomas Dunckley — fragrance expert, six-time Jasmine Award winner, and the voice behind the much-loved blog The Candy Perfume Boy. Thomas has made it his mission to make perfume accessible, joyful, and free from snobbery through his podcast Making Scents Make Sense.

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Episode 12 - Secundus: Grief, Love and Longing
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Episode 12 - Secundus: Grief, Love and Longing

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

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Episode 11 - Primer: Grief, Love and Longing
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Episode 11 - Primer: Grief, Love and Longing

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.

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