Weekend edition | 5.31

In case you missed it…

• Em Seely-Katz on the midwestern perfume boom

• A preview of our scent collab with Pearfat and Simple Magic 

• Maya Bakhai joins Tasteland to talk about the state of venture capital

We asked, you answered. What does the internet smell like?

The internet smells how chewing aluminum foil feels

a hot computer burning dust

santal 44 and cigarettes but somewhere out there it smells like fresh air

Old, fried data wires!

Sweat, self-loathing. The air-conditioning in an old mall.

Meta

Maggots

Warm and crispy like an overheated Lenovo fighting for its life; metallic like a blank CD; a whiff of body odor as a paean to 4chan

Clone links we loved this week

• My website is ugly because I made it (good internet)

• The modern townhouse in Brooklyn that has everyone talking (New York Times)

• A24 scales back documentary division (Variety)

• Cigarette summer is cancelled in France (BBC)

• We are all tenderqueers now (Mental Hellth)

• Can SubwayTakes continue scaling? (Vulture)

• Business Insider lays of 21% of staff (The Verge)