A Life With Scent
How to use perfume to complement your spring wardrobe
We’ve always maintained that perfume is the ultimate accessory and finishing point to a well-constructed outfit. With sunnier days ahead in the sou...
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A Life With Scent
Four fragrances for your next outdoor event
There’s no doubt this will be the season of the great outdoors, so give your alfresco lifestyle a glamorous spin with the right fragrance. The fol...
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Fragrance
Making sense of scent families
The human nose is a finely tuned piece of equipment, capable of detecting more than one trillion distinct odours. It’s an impressive feat but one t...
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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. ...
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How to store and care for perfume
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...
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3 popular perfume myths debunked
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...
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3 ways to add luxury to your hand-washing ritual
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 ...
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A Life With Scent
How to layer fragrances to transition to a new season
Certain scents – warm, radiant, with an effervescent splash of citrus – will forever conjure summer’s brightest days. Others – rich, opulent, a li...
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A Life With Scent
3 significant moments in the history of perfume
Perfumed products – balms, oils, waters – have beguiled humans for millennia, elevating sacred rituals and bringing moments of delight to the ever...
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Five ways to use your luxury room spray
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...
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The making of Terra Australis
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...
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The making of Tonic of Gin
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...
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