Blog
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Smallest Thing, Biggest Difference
I've just got back from a short break — and the smallest thing I packed made the biggest difference.
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Slow Down & Enjoy the Little Things
I've been thinking lately about what truly makes me happy, and it's never the grand gestures.
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Lotions, The quiet overachiever
It's 4pm and someone leans in to ask what you're wearing.
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No-Flame Candle Hack
If it’s too hot to light a candle, place it in direct sunlight on a warm day and let the heat do all the work.
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Where the Best Oud Is Made
Redbourn was named the best place to live in England and Wales. The workbench went up in 2020. We are not saying it was us.
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A fragrance I cannot make
There’s a bottle on my desk, number forty-something, and it’s wrong the same way the last forty have been wrong.
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The five-minute mistake
Opened a bottle, smelt it once, decided it wasn’t for me, moved on — the five-minute mistake nearly everyone makes with fragrance.
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Your Nan's Perfume Is Illegal Now!
The Mitsouko your nan wore, the original Obsession, the Drakkar Noir that filled a room from the next postcode — they’ve all been quietly reformulated.
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Every guest knows the rules.
Don't wear white. Don't out-dress the groom. Nobody warned me about the fifth rule.
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Essentials for Summer
Light and fresh for the heat of the day, long and lasting for the cool of the evening.
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Heat is a gift, mostly.
Heat makes a scent sing, then shout. This week, I'm wearing nothing at all.
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Luggage, glad I lost it.
The airline lost my luggage, and my signature scent with it. Somehow it became the best week of my life.
