On The Scent

On The Scent is hosted by Nicola Bonn, a UK beauty broadcaster and columnist, and Suzy Nightingale, an award-winning fragrance journalist. The pitch is explicitly anti-snob: strip out perfume gatekeeping and make scent accessible to newcomers and obsessives alike, mixing listener 'prescriptions' (personalised recommendations sent in by the audience), reviews of new launches, and interviews with perfumers and brand founders.

Verified live on 6 July 2026, the show is genuinely active rather than coasting: it is into Season 8, with Episode 3 published that same day, Episode 2 on 30 June, and Episode 1 on 22 June, following a two-part Season 7 special revisiting perfumer Alice du Parcq in mid-June. Recent runs have covered affordable-fragrance roundups, bespoke Floris, Chanel's symbolism, and a review of the newly relaunched Chanel No 5 Eau de Toilette - a working cadence of roughly one episode a week. It is distributed via Captivate and syndicated to Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Global Player, and gets recurring coverage from The Perfume Society, a sign of standing within the UK fragrance press.

On trust: both hosts have real, checkable journalism credentials rather than being pure influencers, and the show's own framing (prescriptions over snobbery) matches its actual content. The trade-off is that it is a recommendations-and-chat format rather than a deep technical or trade-history show, so listeners after perfumer-level formulation detail will want a more specialist source. For a UK reader who wants a current, reliable weekly fragrance listen with real journalistic grounding, this is the strongest verified option in this batch.