Scent Swap Nose Candy
Please join us for the second annual ๐ฉ๐๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐น๐ ๐ฎ๐ธ๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ with Maddie Phinney and Chloe Coover of Nose Candy Podcast at Murmurs Gallery. The event is presented in partnership with the Institute for Art and Olfaction as part of Los Angeles Scent Week.
Have you ever been gifted a perfume that just didnโt suit you? Or blind bought a fragrance that left you with fragrets? The Nose Candy Scent Swap is your chance to finally turn that trash into Trรฉsor!
Join us with a bottle of perfume youโre over, at least ยฝ full, to trade for one you canโt live without. Guests are invited to sniff and sample between refreshments, with a Scent Swap at 7:30pm that will take the form of a โWhite Smellephantโ designed by the Nose Candy gals in collaboration with perfumer Abdi Taslimi.
Entry requirement: One bottle of perfume at least 1/2 full Each ticket automatically enters you in a raffle to win surprise items! Online tickets limited & non-refundable.
Where: Murmurs 1411 Newton St. Los Angeles
When: June 1, 2025 from 6:00-9:00 pm. The swap and raffle begins promptly at 7:30pm.
ABOUT NOSE CANDY PODCAST
Perfume is having a moment. From unhinged Fragrantica reviews to blind buy fragrets to perfumes that smell like spreadsheets, professional gab queens Maddie Phinney and Chloe Coover are hitting every top, middle, and bottom note to sniff out the wheat from the scented chaff.
Listen in as our little aesthetes rate and discuss new fragrances alongside world-famous celebrity guests like John Early and Kate Berlant and perfume heavyweights like Chandler Burr, Marissa Zappas and Andrea Maack. Prime your nose and your pocketbook because these episodes will leave you with a bulging perfume vocabulary and a lengthy fragrance wishlist.
Maddie Phinney is a writer and perfumer based in Los Angeles. She has bylines in BOMB, V Magazine, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, and elsewhere. She co-hosts Nose Candy, regularly guests on other podcasts, and is a 2025 Art and Olfaction Awards Judge. You can read her writing at perfumeenjoyer.substack.com (http://perfumeenjoyer.substack.com/).
Chloe Coover co-hosts Nose Candy, regularly guests on other podcasts, and is a 2025 Art and Olfaction Awards Judge. She is a visual artist, editor, elusive chanteuse, writer, pop cultural anthropologist, doll, diva, glam advocate, occasional model-actress, and quadruple Leo.
