What book would you choose?

Experience a blend of storytelling and scent on the Paperback Perfumes Podcast! Discover a unique literary adventure where guests share their own perspectives and stories, sparking new book recommendations or future scent experiences. Hopefully these episodes evoke memories of your own and open a window into a world of something new.

Episode 31 - Part 2: Meaning & Mystery
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Episode 31 - Part 2: Meaning & Mystery

Let’s catch up with the second part of the red string, photo board and many drawing pins that is pulling together two more text and a few more fragrances with Nuri McBride

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Episode 30 - Part 1: Death & Rituals
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Episode 30 - Part 1: Death & Rituals

How can one truly discuss the intricate topics of fragrance, death, and rituals without the invaluable insights of Nuri McBride? It seems only fitting that we take this opportunity to ‘resurrect’ a former guest who has made significant contributions to the conversation.

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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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