OFF AIR... EXTRA
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to a Friday special! This week’s bonus episode features fragrance journalist Suzy Nightingale, who got in touch after Fi noticed scents on the Tube were getting stronger. With her superb knowledge, Suzy unlocks the world of fragrance for Jane and Fi...
Suzy Nightingale co-hosts the On The Scent podcast and writes for On The Scent magazine.
There's no episode on Monday as Jane and Fi are off. We'll be back Tuesday.
If you want to contact the show to ask a question and get involved in the conversation then please email us: janeandfi@times.radio
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Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Friday's bonus edition of Offair with Jane and Fee. |
| 0:11.9 | Now, a real treat today. That's what we've got, isn't it? |
| 0:14.2 | Massive treat. All of this started with a conversation about people being too wiffy on the tube. |
| 0:18.7 | We received a beautiful email from centologist, Susie Nightingale. |
| 0:24.7 | So she is the hostess of the On the Sent podcast |
| 0:27.9 | and a magazine of the same name. |
| 0:30.6 | And she devotes her life to the better understanding of smells and perfumes. |
| 0:35.5 | Yeah, and just to say I'm wearing today, |
| 0:39.2 | Joe Malone, Wood Sage and Seaselt. |
| 0:43.5 | Lovely, darling. Can you smell it? |
| 0:45.2 | No. That's because I've put on too much Chanel number five. |
| 0:49.0 | Oh, okay, right. Sorry about that. |
| 0:51.0 | Come on, let's bring in Susie. |
| 0:52.3 | Susie, you're very, very welcome on the podcast. Thank you. She smells fresh. Oh, thank goodness, because the whole thing would absolutely collapse right at the start. If she'd come in and reeked. Sented some very, very bad be a... Just dunk the room now. And it would have been embarrassing. We were so delighted when you emailed the podcast, Susie, |
| 1:11.3 | because all of this started with very, very highly perfume people on tubes. |
| 1:16.8 | And I thought maybe I'd just gone a bit bonkers, or it's a post-COVID thing or something like that. |
| 1:21.4 | But you allayed our fears about that. |
| 1:23.8 | And there is something about modern perfume, isn't that? |
| 1:26.5 | There is, yeah. |
| 1:28.7 | It's getting stronger and stronger all the time i think it's sort of consumer demand lead people want something even in |
| 1:35.0 | washing powders and things you see now it lasts for seven days and you think gosh that's exciting |
| 1:42.4 | and and even on those washing powders they say it's made by French perfumers now, |
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