Fragrance Reviews
Fragrance and perfume reviews as well as my favourite home fragrance, candles and diffusers. Here you’ll find everything fragrance related including exclusive launches and my top favourites from international best sellers to niche British perfumer finds.
Happ & Stanhns Fragrance
It’s almost not about the fragrance with this brand that is a new Anthropologie ‘own label’ because the packaging is so beautiful. Inspired by young women of the 19th century…
Love Letter Solid Perfume
I was sent this little package a few days ago from The Green-Grocery.co.uk, and I very much like the presentation and the way it is boxed. Inside, the there is a…
Ruth Mastenbroek Fragrance
When I first heard the name for this new fragrance, created by ‘nose’ Ruth Mastenbroek, which is simply titled for its creator, I thought it self-indulgent. After all, she isn’t…
Thierry Mugler Solid Perfume Rings
Love it or loathe it, the scent of Thierry Mugler Angel is one of the most distinctive in perfume history. If you’ve already started compiling a Christmas Wish List, I’d…
Katy Perry Fragrance
Now here’s a subject I never thought I’d be writing about – the Katy Perry perfume launch. Without having smelled Purr (described as a fresh citrus accord of peach nectar and…
Fragrance Fuss: The SCCNFP
If you’ve never heard of the Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non Food Products, otherwise known by the rather boring acronym, SCCNFP, then you’re in good company. Not many…
Fornasetti Scimmie Candle with Otto Fragrance
Completely loving these Fornasetti candles at the wince-making price of £350 – ouch. But, if you’re feeling flush, what you can expect is a fragrance created by nose Oliver Polge…
The Perfume Diaries
Dior DressFerragamo ShoeThe first Shalimar bottle design; complete with mercury laden lid. Eek! Not being madly a perfume person, I was kind of sceptical about being taken on a guided…
The Perfume Diaries
You’ve probably heard all about The Perfume Diaries event at Harrods by now. It’s a one-off fragrance exhibition that for fragrance addicts will be a sensorial spectacle. Along with Estee…
Estee Lauder Compacts & Solid Perfumes And Tom Pecheux Pure Color Extravagant
Christmas Collection Pure Color Extravagant By Tom Pecheux. Year of the Rabbit Powder Compact, £70. Royal Moon Powder Compact, £55. Pleasures Playful Squirrel by Jay Strongwater, £320. I was at…
Idina’s Locket: Jonathan Ward Fragranced Candle
Idina Sackville was born in 1893 into a wealthy aristocratic family. She’s been the subject of several books; fictionalised in The Pursuit Of Love by Nancy Mitford and more recently…
Lanvin Marry Me! Fragrance
I’m sure when this fragrance launches in September that it will become the new way to propose, much like the trend for presenting your intended with a solid silver Love…
Perfumed Stink Bombs from Cire Trudon
I am seriously excited about the Perfumed Stink Bombs from Cire Trudon. The tiny glass phials contain an intense fragrance that will immediately fragrance a room, although I love the…
A Celeb Fragrance With A Difference: Tilda Swinton ‘Like This’
With the exception of SJP ‘Lovely’, which was actually quite nice, I’m not a sleb fragrance fan. It’s just marketing hype and really boring at that. Mostly, they’re knocked out…
Made In Italy Fragrances
Loving these new fragrances exclusive to Harvey Nichols – full name Made in Italy Emotional Olfactive Landscapes, which just about sums it up really. I love Italy and have visited…