The Scent Archive is a perfume history podcast from Immortal Perfumes. Each episode is a deep dive into the history behind a fragrance, a flower, a bottle — the histories that explain why we reach for the things we wear. Hosted by perfume historian and award winning perfumer, JT Siems
The Doctor and the Atomizer: The Country Doctor Behind Perfume’s Most Beautiful Bottles
In a quiet Toledo shed in the late 1880s, country doctor Allen DeVilbiss tinkered with a problem: how to spray treatments into his patients’ throats without cotton swabs. The device he built would eventually find its way onto every dressing table in America — and reshape the way the world wore perfume.
21 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
Pikake and the Princess
This episode follows the story of Princess Ka'iulani — the last Crown Princess of the Kingdom of Hawaii — from the fragrant gardens of her childhood home at 'Āinahau to the halls of the US Capitol, where she fought alone for her people's independence. Along the way, we explore the flowers at the heart of her story: pikake, the jasmine sambac she named after her beloved peacocks, and gardenia, her mother's flower — and what happened to both when the monarchy was gone.
6 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
STORICAL IS NOW THE SCENT ARCHIVE
Storical is becoming something new.
Same voice. Same obsession with the past. But from here on, every story runs through scent — because scent is the detail historians keep leaving out, and it changes everything.
The Scent Archive launches on National Fragrance Day, March 21st. Once a month, a deep dive into a historical figure, an event, an object — and the scent running through it like a hidden thread. From the hull of the Titanic to the French Resistance, from royal courts to poisoners who used perfume as a weapon.
The first episode is about a Hawaiian princess, the peacocks she adored, and why the most delicate flower in Hawaiian perfumery carries a bird's name.
I'll see you in the archive.
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Pikake and the Princess
Published 21 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And then there was the ocean. The old natives along the Waikiki beach loved to tell the story of how the young Ali'i would always swim further out into the breakers than anyone else. She was a splendid swimmer and a surfer from childhood, a princess who went further out than anyone dared follow. […]
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