I found a suitcase filled with pants and socks! As you do. There seems to be a neverending conveyor belt of boxes and cases that were stowed away in the storage container when we were having the house rebuilt; I thought I'd unpacked them all, but obviously not....
Some utterly delectable perfumes, if you're stuck for a mother's day present this year. The card in the background, by the way, is from Thortful - you can get 50% off your first card order using the code WEB50. Or so it says on my computer when I go to their site -...
Something as dark and decadent as this new fragrance launch could only have come from Alexander McQueen. McQueen Parfum is just brilliant; everything about it has been executed with absolute precision, from the theatrical black glass flacon to the way the...
Strange coincidences aplenty this week, one of them being that I needed an extra "something that smells of violets" for a post and along came - well - something that smells of violets. I have this odd habit, when it comes to compiling blog posts, that I can't just...
This candle shoots straight to the very top of my favourites list; the scent is supremely sexy. I adore Bottega Veneta's Eau de Parfum, but until now have been banned from talking about it here on the website. My friend Alex Byrne (supremo makeup artist...
Pamplemousse Rhubarbe sounds much better than "Grapefruit and Rhubarb", doesn't it? The French version makes me think of a delicious dessert with clouds of light meringue and some kind of tart, brightly-coloured sauce drizzled over the top. Or an amazingly light and...
No sooner had I finished filming my Autumn fragrance video (in which I lamented the number of new perfume launches that I couldn't keep up with) than a package arrived on my doorstep containing yet another new launch. That I couldn't keep up with. I threw my hands...
I've filmed a new fragrance video but parts of it are so incredibly random and silly that I thought I'd do a written accompaniment. I basically came up with this stupid idea that I'd try and describe each of the perfumes using only two words, but things just got out...
Not having been particularly enamoured with any of the previous "Daisy" fragrances from Marc Jacobs (love the bottles, always found the scents to be a bit "young", which I suppose is probably bang-on for the target market) I surprised myself by really liking the new...
The holiday let I lived in during my late pregnancy had the most incredible wildflower garden; I spent hours poking around it and looking at the various plants, though the photos here don't do it justice whatsoever! But anyway, when these Gucci Flora fragrances...
I think that Marni Rose is the absolute bee's knees and so I was very much looking forward to trying out Marni Spice. It didn't disappoint; it had the same sexy, musky kind of undertones that make Marni's other perfumes so pleasing. Sultry, come-hither kinds of...
Some gorgeously fresh and uplifting summer smells; I've put these items into a special box that I'm travelling about with (alongside my amazing body oil from Aurelia) so that I can create beautiful little "scent environments" wherever I go. (I still have two house...