It’s easy to idealize a place, when you’re just passing through. Having said that, Chile is a remarkable country, full of remarkable perfumers, making remarkable smells.

Perfume on the Radio is back after a long hiatus, and we are resurfacing with a field report about the indie perfume scene in the delightful South American country. It’s the indies, in the Andes!

With

Alejandro Soto Rodríguez (Segundo Secretario y Cónsul de Chile en San Salvador)

Claudia Escobar Reyes (perfume evaluator)

David Muggioli (President, Fundación Chilena del Perfume | Andes Aromas)

David Santiago (Perfumer, Santiago David Parfums)

Eduardo Alonzo (Jefe técnico y de integración regional CENPROMYPE/SICA)

Osvaldo Cruz (co-founder Cruz y Valencia)

Andrés Gonzales and Raúl Toval (Santiago Perfumes)

Host: Saskia Wilson-Brown (The Institute for Art and Olfaction)

This is the first episode in a 2-part series. The second episode will air in October, 2025.

Indulge in a bit of armchair travel as Perfume on the Radio visits Doha, in Qatar. This episode explores the culture and smells that a group of people encountered while on a trip to the country with the Qatar America Institute for Culture. There's incense, there's perfume, there's art, and, yes, there are cats.

In order of appearance: Fatima Al-Dosari (Qatar America Institute for Culture), Razwan Ul-Haq (Calligrapher), Micah Anderson (Oudimentary), Rubia Chaudri (Perfumer), Regina Mamou (Artist), and hosted by Saskia Wilson-Brown

Episode thanks: Qatar America Institute for Culture, Jawad Khawaja (Oudimentary)
Credits: Muhammad Abdul-Salam, Qalbak Sakhar, courtesy of Qatar Digital Library; Sallām, Najāḥ: Yā Rīm Wādī Thaqīf, courtesy of Qatar Digital Library; Freska by KA, on Premiumbeat.com; A 1950s Romance by Jonathan Boyle on Premiumbeat.com; Qatar airlines - landing and announcements from inside aircraft.mp3 by evsecrets on freesound.com; DubaiDepartures.mp3, by acclivity on freesound.com; Emmitt James, music composition; Eau (Maxwell Williams), sound composition.

Perfume on the Radio is produced by The Institute for Art and Olfaction, a non-profit devoted to experimentation and access in the field of perfumery.

Have you ever met a person who had a strange and uncanny sort of magic about them? So it is with John Steele. LIfelong learner and seeker, John is also a purveyor of the strange and the rare, the oddball beauties that our world produces. We’re talking, here, about aromatics.

Perform on the Radio returns with a long overdue episode, which we’re calling The Quiet Magic of John Steele.

With: John Steele, Lifetree Aromatix
Hosted by Saskia Wilson-Brown

Perfume in the Radio is produced by The Institute for Art and Olfaction.

Credits: Jake Brady (editor), Emmitt James (music composition), Maxwell Williams (sound composition), Music: Paradise Lagoon (Premium Beat)