About this podcast
Welcome to Paperback Perfumes! The host Clare Presser is a Librarian with a fascination for fragrances and their capacity to evokes memories and experiences through the activation of the olfactory system. In this podcast she chats with guests about their connections with scents and stories through the pairing of perfumes and literary texts. Think of it as reader’s advisory for fragrance lovers, or fragrance recommendation for bibilophiles - whichever experience is your first priority. It’s fun exercise that allows a lovely discussion around people’s personal interpretation of experience, scent, and story Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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- Potions and Poppets · 47 min · Season 3 Episode 91“Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of earth’s greenings. Now, think.” - Hildegard of Bingen As the thin veil of Samhain floats by on the northern…
- Remember Me · 1 h 9 min · Season 3 Episode 90“Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. And books. Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a…
- The Guest Book · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 89"Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains." -Diane Ackerman…
- Haunting Love · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 88"Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love…
- Secular · 50 min · Season 3 Episode 87“In the secular night you wander around alone in your house. It’s Two-Thirty” - Margaret Atwood, In the Secular Night Regina Mamou is a research-based installation artist whose…
- Diaspora · 43 min · Season 3 Episode 86“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” ― Lois Lowry, The Giver Bawo Ijirigho is the founder and…
- Mermen · 55 min · Season 3 Episode 85“There I was, a woman on the rocks by the ocean, wrapped in a blanket, waiting for the return of her lover. Everything I knew about art would say that I was a painting. I was…
- Makeup and Murder · 1 h 3 min · Season 3 Episode 84“At a small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction—it fascinated rather than repelled.” ― Agatha…
- The Sublime and the Absurd · 1 h 17 min · Season 3 Episode 83“Was I starting to feel evil? Yes, now I was worrying I'd be turned to the dark side by too much crochet.” ― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education In this episode, I have an…
- Finding Language · 51 min · Season 3 Episode 82“These empires, however, have no power of the language of scent. Scent in situ resides outside of oppressive systems. Despite a massive market valuation for scented products, the…
- Subversion · 58 min · Season 3 Episode 81“Perfume is a language whose speech is worth learning and unpacking as one would a poem, book, or film. Scent is a path to getting closer to our senses, to instinct, and to our…
- On The Scent · 58 min · Season 3 Episode 80“There is a type of person who starts to GLOW FROM WITHIN when talking about perfumery…” - Pia Long, Excerpt from ‘Demo Accords’, featured in ‘On The Scent’ magazine, Issue 1…
- Coffee and Conversation · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 79“If you could go back, who would you want to meet?” ― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold Delphine McPhilimey brings a quiet, intentional artistry to the world of…
- A Beautiful Grimoire · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 78“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Grimoire Perfumes founder Troy…
- Gourmet · 59 min · Season 3 Episode 77“Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. Then…
- Enfleurage · 1 h 9 min · Season 3 Episode 76“For Man is held by everything he holds. Release your grip on things if you would not be in their grip.” ― Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery…
- Linked to the Land · 1 h 16 min · Season 3 Episode 75“Remember. This is your story, no matter what history will claim or what songs people sing. And it’s no one’s place to stop you from telling it.” ― Lucy Holland, Sistersong In…
- Wuthering Fights · 1 h 14 min · Season 3 Episode 74“Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on…
- About Alice · 1 h 4 min · Season 3 Episode 73“All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to…
- The Importance of Hygiene · 59 min · Season 3 Episode 72“Because the middle classes and the nouveaux riches welcomed gas, water closets and piped-in water, the upper classes drew back. Many a denizen of a sprawling, stony-cold country…
