Explore every episode of the podcast Afternotes: Niche Perfume and Tales of Death

Before death became a Halloween costume, our ancestors invited the dead to their tables.

Discover the forgotten Baltic traditions of Vėlinės, the spirits known as vėlės, and how modern Halloween transformed our relationship with mortality.

The cruelest way to destroy something is to leave it alive and make it irrelevant.

In the first episode of Afternotes, Vita, founder and perfumer of Necros Fragrance, reads the existential horror novel behind Doll-Like Creature, her first niche perfume.

A story of abandonment, identity, and the disturbing possibility that monsters are more human than those who created them.

What remains of us when nobody remembers we exist?

A gothic novel. A personal confession. A perfume born from both.

Discover the fragrance at http://necrosfragrance.com

What if a perfume began not with a formula, but with a story?

Welcome to AFTERNOTES by NECROS Fragrance, where niche perfumery meets gothic storytelling, dark art, memory, and the beautifully unsettling.

Hosted by Vita Kazlauskaitė, founder and perfumer of NECROS Fragrance, AFTERNOTES takes you behind the creation of unconventional perfumes. From the first words of an unwritten world to the final fragrance on your skin.

Discover the stories that inspire each scent, the experiments that never make it into a bottle, and the strange beauty found in absence, ritual, and memory.

Through intimate storytelling and unfiltered conversations with independent perfumers, artists, and collaborators, we explore the darker, more human side of ultra-niche perfumery.

Some stories are written to be read. Others are made to be worn.

Follow AFTERNOTES. There's a story taking shape. Let's turn the page.