I was very pleasantly surprised by these roller-ball perfumes from Pacifica. Not a brand that I had ever heard of before, but when I posted an Instagram of the Mediterranean Fig scent there were quite a few people who knew of it and wore it. It's a very "clean" fig,...
This woody, mysterious fragrance is my latest beauty obsession. I wear it constantly. It combines a heady, almost exotic rose (not sweet or English-garden-y in the slightest) with really quite powerful sandalwood and a top note of Labdanum Absolute, which comes from...
Um. Have you ever seen a bottle-top prettier? Does this not appeal to the five-to-ten year-old in you? (And the fifteen, twenty-five, fifty, eighty year-old too?) It's a fairy sitting on a flower, for crying out loud! Things just don't get more girly than this! Van...
I don't think I've ever found an Hermès fragrance that I didn't like - for me, they have a special, lingering quality that I remember for years to come. I once spent over an hour sniffing different versions in an airport duty free, somewhere far-flung (Dubai,...
Firstly, I have to say that I would never, ever have picked this fragrance out myself. We all have different things that first "attract" us to a fragrance and I do think that (for me at least) the packaging and the name of the perfume are important elements of that...
If there's just one of my videos that you decide to click "play" on, then do make it this one. It has magical shrinking perfumes, sound effects and fake snow and everything. (If it was a project for GCSE Film Studies (or similar) then it would definitely get...a C or...
I won't lie; these Travalo perfume atomisers could do with being a bit cheaper - especially if you want to have a few of them for different scents - but they are brilliant for people who travel a lot. Even for people who don't travel a lot, actually, because they...
Did you know that the fragrance brand Diptyque started off as a little arty store in Paris, a treasure-trove of wonderful, colourful things? The three friends who opened the boutique used to source and import amazing beauty products from around the world and sell them...
Do you change your fragrance according to the season? I think that I do, subconsciously. When it's warm, I go for lighter, fruitier scents - or even quite twee little florals and colognes. I feel as though you can get away with more in the summer; wafting around in...
I wanted to take some lovely pictures for you, I really did. But it seems that my cat, Mr Bear, has a bit of his (adopted) mother in him, and likes to get in front of the camera. I tried to coax him away with treats, violent threats and his favourite feather stick,...
Oh I tried to take a good photograph of this bottle, but it defeated me. It's very understated, you see, in the flesh. Beautifully designed, but understated. So it just looks like a boring, plain bottle in my photo! Do you know, I hated this fragrance when I first...
A new "Fig-Scented" thing to add to the "Fig-Scented Things" category: the Philosykos range from beautiful luxury fragrance brand Diptyque. Most famous, perhaps, for their gorgeous candles and room sprays, Diptyque also have quite a broad range of scents and body...