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The Complete Guide to Caring for A Luxury Candle

You’ve spent time doing your research, carefully selecting a candle that looks chic on a shelf and that has a scent to complement your personal interior style. So it makes sense that once you unpa...

5 Questions to Ask Before Choosing Perfume As a Gift

Selecting a fragrance is a delicate art, one that owes as much to memory and emotion as it does to notes and composition. So too is there an art to gifting perfume – but it’s one that can be learn...

The art of using fragrance to set an intention

The sense of smell is a powerful tool that can be used to evoke emotions, memories, and even intentions. When we inhale a certain scent, it travels through our olfactory nerve directly to the limb...

Three Ways to Enhance Your Evening Ritual Using Scent

As we become increasingly attuned to the role of sleep in supporting health and happiness, the evening ritual has taken on greater prominence. A considered wind-down routine creates a separation b...

Entertaining With Scent This Easter

Whether you’re entertaining at home, planning a long-weekend escape or just recharging the batteries, there’s a scent to complement every mood this Easter.  Good Friday This is traditionally a day...

How To Create Your Scent Persona

There’s no single way to select a scent. Choosing a perfume based on your preferred colour palette makes as much sense as one that conjures up your favourite coastal destination. More simply, you m...

Does Your Home Need A Signature Scent?

Cicero – the ancient Roman philosopher, lawyer and politician – travelled widely but was a homebody at heart. “Where could one settle more pleasantly than in one’s home?” he once asked. (This is al...

How To Build A Holiday Fragrance Wardrobe

There’s a fine art to building a capsule of fragrances to take on your next vacation. No one wants to be stuck with the same scent on repeat day and night, but luggage space is precious and too man...

Three unexpected places to apply perfume

Coco Chanel once famously remarked that a woman should apply perfume “wherever one wants to be kissed”. It was a suitably titillating comment from the designer whose lovers included poets, painters...

Three things to look for when choosing an eco-friendly candle

Having the right home scent is an integral part of creating an environment – but it should never come at the expense of the actual environment. Happily, luxury and sustainability now coexist, which...

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 no reason to consider it one of the many dull but ...

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 little mysterious – seem to create warmth from withi...