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A Life With Scent

4 scents to uplift your mood

Of all the senses, smell remains the least understood by science, creating a tantalising void for magic and mystery, supposition and speculation. ...

Fragrance

Perfume brings such joy to our lives, it’s only natural to seek to extend it. And with careful storage, it’s entirely possible to help your favour...

Fragrance

As we cautiously but optimistically return to coffee dates, lunches and intimate parties, we’re revelling in the chance to dress up once again. Th...

Fragrance

Beyond simply good manners and basic hygiene, hand washing can quite literally save lives – a lesson that 2020 taught us all too well. But that’s ...

A Life With Scent

Certain scents – warm, radiant, with an effervescent splash of citrus – will forever conjure summer’s brightest days. Others – rich, opulent, a li...

A Life With Scent

Perfumed products – balms, oils, waters – have beguiled humans for millennia, elevating sacred rituals and bringing moments of delight to the ever...

Fragrance

A scented room spray is a quick and effective way to refresh a space; the effect is instant and, if the scent is high quality, it will last a coup...

Fragrance

From the very beginning, each LUMIRA fragrance has taken as its starting point the beauty and wonder of the natural world. But while the collectio...

Collaborations

The desire to capture a place and a moment in time through scent is a centuries-old tradition, but bringing it to fruition can take the perfumer a...

Fragrance

In mythology, no flower features quite so prominently as the rose. Its buds and blooms have inspired painters and poets and sent princes on the ...

Fragrance

When LUMIRA founder Almira Armstrong began planning her luxury Australian fragrance house back in the early 2010s, she had a very clear idea of h...

Fragrance

When LUMIRA founder and creative director Almira Armstrong set about creating Paradiso del Sole in early 2019, she had a very specific memory in ...