Wish You Were Here

Perfume on the Radio

Aug 20 2021 • 1 hr 9 mins

In this episode, guest host Minetta Rogers creates a meditation on scent and the postal system: from scratch and sniff stamps to shipping mishaps, mailed expressions of  longing and nostalgia, delivery failures and post office robberies, all the frustrations and endeavors of getting a letter from point A to point B.

GUESTS
Jas Brooks (Academic)
Regina Mamou and Lara Salmon from Research for the Bermuda Triangle (Artists)
Emmitt James (Musician)
Donna Lipowitz (Perfumer)
Hosted by Minetta Rogers (the Institute for Art and Olfaction)

CREDITS
Perfume in the Radio is produced by The Institute for Art and Olfaction for lookout.fm. Our theme music was composed by Maxwell Williams and Darian Zahedi.

SONGS
'Smell Good Mail'by Emmitt James
'Morse Code Mail' by Emmitt James
Both songs commissioned for this episode.

'Moonrise' by Darian Zahedi
Perfume on the Radio theme music by Maxwell Williams

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