Episodes
Start preening your Pinterest and refining your registry fragheads, this week the ladies are joined by fan fave Nose Candy guest Steve Gontarski to talk all about wedding perfumes! You may know Steve from his genius Tik Toks, ubiquity on the Luckyscent instagram, and as the manager of Scent Bar LA, but did you know he's also mawwied? The LA perfume icon sat down with the gals to talk about the scent he wore on his wedding day and graciously allowed the ladies to design their own fantasy...
Published 11/20/24
Published 11/20/24
Dust off your top hat and pull out your white rabbit because this week your favorite mentalists are discussing perfect perfume illusions. Maddie and Chloe both brought along olfactory evidence of perfumers' sleight of hand, which means a warm hair scent, a Frou Frou frag and a reincarnated rose. Are you ready to suspend disbelief, embrace illusion, and experience the mind-bending mentalism of perfume magic? This is one fabulous feat of fragrance endurance you will not want to miss! Fragrances...
Published 11/13/24
This week your gals are going nuts for a petroleum perfume, bananas for a thai food frag, and losing their senses over the smell of Hot Dog on a Stick. That's right, Maddie and Chloe are sliding off their straight jackets to share the unhinged perfumes in their collections that are juuuust crazy enough to work. That means everything from sneaky balene, to Mother's Day milkshakes to Blue Velvet burglaries. All that PLUS Maddie overcomes her social media addiction, Chloe adds a stack of titles...
Published 11/06/24
Calling all corpses! It's almost fright night at Nose Candy HQ, and Maddie and Chloe are celebrating the only way they know how: by spraying the sepulchral scent of death. This week your favorite tricks are treating you with a Memento Mori special episode just in time for All Hallows Eve. That means the deathly scent of a funeral pyre, haunted potpourri in a wicker basket, devastating natural disasters, ghoulish grape markers and much more! Whether you're dead and decaying, living and giving,...
Published 10/31/24
Looking for a blueprint to become famous on TikTok? Don't turn that dial: this week the Nose Candy ladies are joined by Los Angeles' sexiest content creator slash reptile enthusiast Marc Sebastian! Marc sat down with Maddie and Chloe to discuss TikTok perfume trends, Oreo events, shoplifting from Abercrombie, vintage vinegar, and the social ramifications of chronic face blindness. Follow along as they sniff through a Titanic scent, a Play Dough perfume, and two unreleased Chanel frags (hello...
Published 10/23/24
What's my motivation? This week the Nose Candy gals are going Inside the Actor's Studio with the brilliant and hilarious comedian, actress, and podcaster Kate Berlant! Kate sat down with Maddie and Chloe for a table read about their favorite Method Acting perfumes, or the scents they spray to get into character. Listen in as these three go off book to discuss perfume for chronic migraines, curly hair scent sensitivity, fragrance gatekeeping, and perfume shopping at the furniture store. Would...
Published 10/16/24
This week your gals are hushed, brushed. tapped, and tucked in for an Nose Candy ASMR episode about fragrances that WHISPER. That means Maddie and Chloe are finally piping down to share the scents in their collections that speak volumes... at the quietest volume possible. Follow along as they sniff a Molecule 01 for girls, a Frederic Fekkai frag, a desperation musk, and a Larry Gagosian perfume. All that PLUS answers to the week's toughest questions, including: is astrology a smartphone-based...
Published 10/09/24
This week your gals are blessed, buzzed, and beaming brighter than the Northern Lights; artist and creative director of Andrea Maack Perfumes Andrea Maack is in the building! The chicest woman in Iceland sat down with Maddie and Chloe to talk about smells that project Wellness, which meant sampling a Four Seasons fragrance, a hand soap scent, eau de equinox, and a poppers perfume. Whether you're slugging colloidal silver, crazy for cryotherapy, addicted to acupuncture, or fit as a fiddle,...
Published 10/02/24
Oh, you think you know freshies? Think again frag hag. This week the Nose Candy ladies are getting wet and wild for a clean-themed episode all about the scintillating scent of the shower. Looking to smell like a guido at 1 OAK? What about a piece of Milanese man meat? A department store diva or an old money motha? Whether you're doing it dirty and want to clean up or are freaky and fresh and want to feel filthy, this is one squeaky, sudsy, steamy episode you will not want to...
Published 09/25/24
This week Maddie and Chloe find themselves on two different coasts, but that won't stop these bloodhounds from putting their noses where they don't belong. Follow along as our two little improvisers say "yes, and" and apply the Nose Candy perfume rating system to a suite of completely random household objects! Whether you like huffing paint, smelling pens or sniffing glue, this noxious little ep will leave you short of breath and high on life!  (Reminder: Maddie and Chloe are NOT role models....
Published 09/18/24
BIG NEWS! Your favorite lil stinkers launched a Patreon! This is a short preview of a bonus episode that's available in full on Patreon. Subscribers will get main eps a day early, weekly bonus content, and more! !!! www.patreon.com/nosecandy !!! *** Okay you little spendthrifts: think you can sniff out a drugstore cheapie from a top shelf nichie? For this bonus episode Chloe puts Maddie to the test, asking her to guess the price range for a selection of secret frags. Listen in as they discuss...
Published 09/12/24
Put your deuces up and get ready to spice up your life because this week your favorite gender separatists are subverting the dominant paradigm to talk about must-have girl power scents. Listen in as Maddie and Chloe tie on their pink pussy hats to sniff a hyper-femme floriental, a lesbian-coded powder puss frag, and a perfume that smells like a porno. These two are closing their legs (finally) and widening the gender gap just in time for a no-boys-allowed episode you will not want to...
Published 09/10/24
This week the Nose Candy gals are joined by White Smellephant collaborator and bestie Abdi Taslimi to talk about the smell of sweat, the perfume of pussy juice, the bouquet of blood, and the stink of shit. The genius artist working in perfume sat down with Maddie and Chloe to Let The Bodies Hit The Floor, sharing their favorite scents that recall the beautiful rainbow of human secretions. Whether you're looking to smell like a barnyard, a bellybutton, baby batter, bile, or simply a butthole,...
Published 09/03/24
Do you smell like an asset or a liability? This week Maddie and Chloe are diversifying their portfolios, consolidating their debts, and leveraging their Guru with Broke Bitch Juice just in time for a very special solo ep about the scent of money. Follow these two from the dregs of Duane Reade, to the annals of Amazon, to the shiny floor of the department store for insider tips on how to best allocate your fragrance funds. Whether you're ready to blow the wad on the smell of laundry with skid...
Published 08/27/24
Grab your beaker and tare your scale because the Nose Candy ladies are back in the lab to talk about the science of scent. This week Maddie and Chloe are joined by genius artist and aroma chemist Sean Raspet to discuss the process of creating a scent on the molecular level, and to sniff through some of Sean's unreleased fragrance molecules. That means they're talking about everything from the scent of seafaring melon, to floral formaldehyde, to eau de air conditioning. Whether you want to...
Published 08/20/24
Ever wonder the perfumes beautiful brunette women wear when they want to freak it? This week the Nose Candy gals are dressed to the nines and sharing the Freakum Frags they pull out when they want to show out. Whether you're back on the dating circuit, baring it all on stage, or just want to feel you puss deep down in your soul, your girls are sharing the scents they wear when the clock strikes freak o'clock. Follow along as Maddie buys a fvck-me frock in Freakonos and gets Naked and Afraid...
Published 08/09/24
While the rest of you have been celebrating brat summer, Team Nose Candy has taken BRAT diet summer international. That means bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast for your gals, who are not only snatched to the gods but suffering from extreme digestive distress! When better than dealing with diverticulitis to discuss the palliative perfumes that soothe the soul (and the GI tract)? Are you on the hunt for a changing table frag? What about a key lime pie scent? Care for a synagogue cookie?...
Published 08/02/24
Slip into your bunad and prepare to bask in the midnight sun because this week the Nose Candy gals are talking to artist, writer, musician, and iconically Nordic nose Jenny Hval! Listen in as these three discuss the scents of Scandinavia, from cardamom buns to fig fibs to a brand new Swedish fashion frag. Want a perfume that smells like fresh dry cleaning? What about a spritz of cheesy popcorn? Scented rice sound nice? Seize the day, overspray, and anchors away because not even a fjord could...
Published 07/18/24
Queue up Aerosmith, slather on some calamine lotion and charge your quartz crystals because it's Pink Friday at Nose Candy HQ. This week Maddie and Chloe are joined by perfumer Marissa Zappas to discuss the character of coral,  the funk of fuschia, and the brilliance of blush to finally get to the bottom of what makes a perfume smell pink. Follow along as they sniff through Myspace scents, gas station frags and paint thinner perfumes to pinpoint the pink prototype. Whether you want to smell...
Published 07/11/24
Calling all fragheads!! Please join the Nose Candy gals this Saturday July 6th at 5:30 pm at Murmurs gallery for our first ever public perfume exchange! Tickets: https://withfriends.co/event/20297932/nose_candy_scent_swap Where: Murmurs 1411 Newton St. Los Angeles When: July 6, 2024 from 5:30-8:30 pm. The swap and raffle begins promptly at 7pm. Have you ever been gifted a perfume that just didn’t suit you? Or blind bought a fragrance that left you with fragrets? The Nose Candy Scent Swap is...
Published 07/05/24
Ever wonder how the hell a perfume is conceived of, composed, and created? This week the Nose Candy gals are offering a peek behind the scented curtain courtesy of DJ, writer, and genius perfumer Maxwell Williams! The creator of UFO Parfums joins team Nose Candy to chat about everything from Santorum scents to bug juice perfume to stage crew frags to fork and knife gourmands. These three marketing matchmakers are putting their heads together to answer the tough questions, namely: was Louis...
Published 06/28/24
This week ladies are spray-tanned, guru-canned and taking the stand (with perfume on hand) to select the Scent of the Summer. The gals showed up to Nose Candy HQ in matching gay guy uniforms with only one thing on the brain: beach season! That means nonbinary frags, a Blue Crush perfume, and a sunscreen standby with notes of, you guessed it, bug spray. Grab your towel and slip into your slides because this is one wet and wild ep that you won't want to miss! Fragrances Discussed: Tropical...
Published 06/20/24
This week the Nose Candy ladies have been practicing gratitude and baditude just in time for a perfume manifestation solo episode. Listen in as Maddie and Chloe tune into the harmony of the universe to discuss the scents they spray when they're calling in the law of attraction. From sex magick to welfare checks to poop perfume to an entire global panini, these two magnetic main characters are casting their lists and raising their frequency for an frag-filled episode that's high vibe and...
Published 06/14/24
This week the girls are gestating, celebrating, and puke-baiting with a very special episode about the perfumes they're selecting when they're Expecting. Who better to discuss the scent of pregnancy than writer, trend forecaster, and glamorously pregnant diva Emily Segal! The Nose Candy gals sat down with the author of Mercury Retrograde (Deluge, 2020) to talk about digital coffee, Baggu barf and the correct pronunciation of the word "midwifery." From Bisquick and orange juice, to expired...
Published 06/07/24