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Nicola Bonn and Suzy Nightingale founded the ‘On The Scent’ podcast in 2021, and were named among The Sunday Times’s ‘Top British Scentfluencers.’ Nicola and Suzy love nothing better than sharing their passion for fragrance with the world, and their annual ‘On The Scent Live’ event is one of the most exciting date in the fragrance calendar. (Watch our EVENTS page for news of upcoming appearances by Nicola and Suzy.)
As one listener commented on Apple Podcasts about this five-star podcast, ‘Suzy and Nicola enchant and entice. They take you on perfumed journeys with their stories. Sensual, funny and sometimes sad stories that you will never want to stop… Beware, however: this is highly addictive stuff. You will want to smell every perfume they discuss and might become obsessed with seeking them out and buying them…’
Season 7 • Episode 39: On The Scent Re-visits Sali Hughes
While Suzy and Nicola are on a short pod-pause (as Nicola’s been on holiday), we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to revisit one of our all-time classic episodes, with Sali Hughes - well known for her brilliant ‘Perfume Diaries’ series on Instagram, and for being a fellow fragrance fanatic. In this emotionally-revealing journey, we discover exactly where her love of perfume first began, and the signature scents she’ll never be without…
Season 7 • Episode 38: Barnes Fragrance Fair Recap and What We Can’t Stop Sniffing
Wowie! Suzy & Nicola have so many excellent fragrances to get their noses around in this episode, it was difficult to know where to begin. But with so many to explore they started with a recap of the recent barnstorming success of Barnes Fragrance Fair... Talking through Suzy’s choices for her sold-out talk with Alice du Parcq, Nicola also goes through the scents she’s wearing on repeat right now…
Season 7 • Episode 37: Hello sunshine & hope!
Currently, Suzy and Nicola are loving (and living for) those glorious moments of sunshine lifting our spirits. However, if you’re experiencing grey skies where you are (either metaphysically or meteorologically), they share some favourite fragrances to chase the blues away.
Season 7 • Episode 36: Classic Scents Remixed & Reinvented
This week, Suzy Nightingale and Nicola Bonn ask: have you noticed how new versions of classic perfumes are emerging – sometimes paying direct homage to the original with the OG DNA still very much present, but perhaps given a little twist? Other iterations may veer completely off the traditional path and take a whole new direction, garnering new fans who didn’t vibe with the initial scent, but adore the contemporary innovation...
Season 7 • Episode 35: Our Magazine Launch Party & What We’ve Been Wearing
Suzy and Nicola attended the most incredible party thrown for @onthescentmedia by Glorious Brands and Muse Communications - a room filled with movers and shakers of the scent scene, from press, PR and brands alike. All were there to celebrate the official launch of On The Scent Magazine - and somehow, with all their love and support - it suddenly felt real!
Season 7 • Episode 8: What Would Marie Antoinette Smell Like?
The Jasmine Award-winning episode in which Nicola Bonn and Suzy Nightingale interview Tasha Marks, the artist tasked with recreating the scents of Marie Antoinette’s reign, for the V&A’s blockbuster exhibition, ‘Marie Antoinette Style.’ And listen out for recommendations of fragrances the infamous queen might wear today…
Season 7 • Episode 34: Our latest ‘must-sniffs’!
Suzy Nightingale and Nicola Bon are rhapsodising about some of the incredible fragrances they’ve got our noses on lately (and beautiful new stores we’ve discovered while out and about) in this episode – so jam-packed with perfumes they’re telling each other about that there’ll have to be a Part Two to fit them all in. It’s been SUCH a busy time for launches and exciting newness in the fragrance world. Indeed, during the recording of this episode, Nicola got so excited by Suzy’s descriptions of a new (and affordable!) niche brand that she purchased their discovery set to try for herself…
Season 7 • Episode 33: Scenting Cosy Mysteries & Seeking Refillable Candles
From a listener’s mystery novel set in a perfume shop, refillable candles, a handsome man holding a bouquet by a fireside and where to find vintage fragrance posters — this episode is a veritably bulging postbag of perfume-matching pondering!
Season 7 • Episode 32: Finding Your Perfume Identity and Scenting a Wedding
How do you discover which fragrances evoke your personality, or find those perfumes that portray the character you’d like to be, rather than how you happen to feel that day? In this episode we reply to a listener’s email asking for help finding her perfect perfume(s), and discuss how we went about discovering our own perfume identities.
Then, Suzy Nightingale and Nicola Bonn answer another listener’s question about scenting a wedding (including how to find fragrances evoking the evening, and the practicalities of perfuming an event)…
Season 7 • Episode 31: ‘On The Scent’ Magazine with Jo Fairley
In this week’s episode we welcome back guest Jo Fairley, editor of ‘On The Scent’ who explains why the magazine was so important to launch, what you can expect to read in the first issue, and why fragrance is continuing to absolutely bloom and blossom.
Season 7 • Episode 30: Beyond the Bottle – Space NK’s new scents
Immersive perfume spaces are popping up all over the place lately, and Space NK recently invited people to step into an olfactive art gallery, featuring some of the hottest new fragrance launches around. Here’s what Suzy Nightingale and Nicola Bonn tried (and loved the most)…
Season 7 • Episode 29: All About Layering
In some Middle Eastern cultures, people often layer up to SEVEN fragrances at a time. And sometimes many more! So podcast hosts Suzy Nightingale and Nicola Bonn say: never be afraid to play with perfume. (The wonderful thing about fragrance is there is no right or wrong: if you like something, then it’s right. If you don’t, you can wash it off. It’s not a tattoo, after all.)
Season 7 • Episode 28: Misty Spring/Cosiness + Perfume Prescriptions
This week this podcast aired was a curious mix of in-between weather: oddly misty days with some areas of the UK looking distinctly Dickensian as ‘pea-souper’ fogs rolled in, though spring sunshine tried to peek through. Other days it felt almost autumnal again - chilly enough to crave our cosier clothes (and fragrances!) again. Here are Nicola and Suzy’s perfume picks and prescriptions…
Season 7 • Episode 27: Fragrances To Make Us Feel Better When Times Are Uncertain
With the world feeling a bit uncertain at the moment we wanted to talk about some of the fragrances that help us feel better – including Creed Wild Vetiver, Jo Malone London English Pear & Sweet Pea and Maya Njie Aethi Opum, among other soothing scents…
Season 7 • Episode 26: Boutique openings, Moroccan souk dreams & smoky-sweet tobacco
Podcast hosts Suzy Nightingale and Nicola Bonn are talking new London perfume destinations and prescribing scents that whisk you straight to the medina or wrap you in a sensuous tobacco haze.
Suzy visited the brand-new Nishane boutique in London’s Mayfair, sharing why she’s so glad this Istanbul-born house has a home on Maddox Street.
Season 7 • Episode 25: A Scent-Lover’s Shout-out & Perfect Perfume Prescriptions
Dipping deep into the postbag for this week’s episode we (Suzy Nightingale and Nicola Bonn) are celebrating the strength of one of our listeners, Amy, and rejoicing in the perfect perfume found for a listener for her anniversary trip to Bruges.
Aaron’s moved to Mexico City and is seeking scents to stand up to the heat, and Louise is looking for bone-dry forest smells to remind her of home in the peak of summer. Suzanne, meanwhile, is craving watercolour spring florals for a sense of hopefulness we could all do with right now...
Season 7 • Episode 24: More Prescriptions Galore!
Delving into the postbag, Suzy Nightingale and Nicola Bonn make scented recommendations for listeners that include Éditions de Parfums Frédéric Malle Dans Tes Bras, MEMO Paris Sherwood, Narciso Rodriguez For Her Pure Musc Blanc and Jeroboam Origino…
Season 7 • Episode 23: Scenting Emily in Paris
In this week’s episode of the podcast, we’re picking perfect perfumes for the cast of Emily in Paris (well, Rome, actually – the setting for Season Five). As the show progresses, we see all manner of complicated liaisons, along with a general theme of growth, glamour, ambition, & escapism. Here’s how we’d scent it!
Suzy suspects the fictional house of Muratorio in the show takes inspiration from Brunello Cucinelli. The designer set out to reinvent Italian luxury, marrying craft with conscience. Based in Solomeo, the restored Umbrian village now stands as the heart of his brand — a symbol of beauty, ethics, and enduring craftsmanship.
Season 7 • Episode 22: What We’re Wearing, Fragrance for a Novelist and Sniffing Saville Row
In this episode we (Suzy Nightingale and Nicola Bonn) chat about the fragrances that are giving us joy at the moment.
We also have some new brands to introduce you to, an amazing listener prescription and lots more. Fragrances mentioned include… Ode Ona Carte Blanche • Chloe Atelier des Fleurs - Les Pins • This Works Own Time • Saville Row Private Collection: • Bucula and Tela • Guerlain Absolus Allegoria Tabac Sahara • Sabrina Carpenter Sweet Tooth Caramel Dream • Beaufort London Vie et Armis • Fantôme Vassago • Rubini Nuvolari
Season 7 • Episode 21: Jazzy Fun at Diptyque and the Incredible Power of Shalimar
In this week's episode we're talking about a wonderful experience at Maison de Diptyque in celebration of their jazz club inspired fragrance Orpheon.
We're also updating you on some fabulous new fragrance launches and we're answering a perfume prescription that gets Suzy thinking about bracing seaside walks in Cornwall.
Finally we have the most powerful message to read out from a listener who is using Shalimar to empower her on protests.
Fragrances mentioned include… Diptyque Orphéon • Jo Malone Labdanum Amber Cologne Intense • Fine Scents Joie de Sannes • Amouage Remain • Sarah Baker Atlante • Ruth Mastenbroek Marlin • Perfumer H Salt • Coach Blue and (of course) Shalimar…