Our annual end-of-year post-mortem episode is here, and boy do we have feelings about this past year! Hear Kate, Pam, and Brian try to make sense of life in 2025 with their singular song selections. Plus, we talk about Bay happenings that gave us hope, and in honor of Select Five's fifth anniversary, we shout out some of the amazing things our past guests have accomplished this year.
Select Five 2025 Selections:
Little Simz - Free/2025 (Brian's pick)
Natural Information Society - Perseverance Flow/2025 (Pam's pick)
Grateful Dead - Touch of Gray/1987 (Kate's Selection)
Jwalt - Ballers Ballad/2025
Tower of Power - So Very Hard To Go/1973
Listen to our playlist to hear the songs we talked about plus many others we loved in 2025
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Our annual end-of-year post-mortem episode is here, and boy do we have feelings about this past year! Hear Kate, Pam, and Brian try to make sense of life in 2025 with their singular song selections. Plus, we talk about Bay happenings that gave us hope, and in honor of Select Five's fifth anniversary, we shout out some of the amazing things our past guests have accomplished this year.
Select Five 2025 Selections:
Little Simz - Free/2025 (Brian's pick)
Natural Information Society - Perseverance Flow/2025 (Pam's pick)
Grateful Dead - Touch of Gray/1987 (Kate's Selection)
Jwalt - Ballers Ballad/2025
Tower of Power - So Very Hard To Go/1973
Listen to our playlist to hear the songs we talked about plus many others we loved in 2025
Ep. 25: Saskia Wilson-Brown's Journey Through Scent in Five Songs
Select Five
46 minutes 29 seconds
2 years ago
Ep. 25: Saskia Wilson-Brown's Journey Through Scent in Five Songs
How do you turn a song into a scent? And what does music teach us about scent-making and its history? We take a deep dive into these questions with Saskia Wilson-Brown, whose mission is to disrupt, decolonize, and democratize perfumery. Saskia, who is Bay Area-bred, is the founder and executive director of the Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles, a nonprofit art studio that makes perfumery accessible to all. Listen as she takes us on an aromatic journey through five songs that relate to fragrance-making and its global origins, modern scent practies, and the complex world of naturals versus synthetics.
Saskia's Selections:
1.) Omar Souleyman- "Warni Warni"
2.) Charles Trenet - "La Mer"
3.) MC Solaar - "Nouveau Western"
4.) Otis Redding - "Cigarettes and Coffee"
5.) Mort Garson - “Symphony for a Spider Plant"/Mother Earth's Plantasia
For further listening, check out Saskia's playlist.
Check out Saskia's podcast, Perfume On The Radio
Select Five
Our annual end-of-year post-mortem episode is here, and boy do we have feelings about this past year! Hear Kate, Pam, and Brian try to make sense of life in 2025 with their singular song selections. Plus, we talk about Bay happenings that gave us hope, and in honor of Select Five's fifth anniversary, we shout out some of the amazing things our past guests have accomplished this year.
Select Five 2025 Selections:
Little Simz - Free/2025 (Brian's pick)
Natural Information Society - Perseverance Flow/2025 (Pam's pick)
Grateful Dead - Touch of Gray/1987 (Kate's Selection)
Jwalt - Ballers Ballad/2025
Tower of Power - So Very Hard To Go/1973
Listen to our playlist to hear the songs we talked about plus many others we loved in 2025
