OMG. OK, so this was pretty exciting. I’d read Jane’s review yesterday of the Aromatics in White candle and was twitching as I knew my Aromatics in Black was just around the corner. Turns out I’d missed delivery of it at the beginning of the week and it was the parcel being redelivered today – darn Royal...
Wrapped in citrus and wood barks, the orange blossom weaves a painter’s dream from which escapes the pale curl of smoke from a narghile. Like an orientalist painting, furiously romantic, the vigorous scent of the cade and the solar splinter of citrus fruits spring out like a thin steel blade in silky shadow of vanilla....
It’s been a good while since I got myself a Jo Malone candle. I think the last was when I was still working for ELC over 3 years ago and got the giant 4 wick Orange Blossom on staff discount. So Jo Malone London Incense & Embers Scented Candle was a delightful welcome back to the...
As a big Cire Trudon fan and a long standing speaker of Spanish, Batolomé ticked all the right boxes before even opening its pale blue and red labelled box. The story behind Cire Trudon Bartolomé takes us back to the days of Christopher Columbus, an era when Spain ruled the waves with their fearsome Armada....
I love Verbena; love, love, love it. It reminds me of being a kid as we always used to have the hand soap in the bathrooms. It’s fresh, it’s authentic, it’s light and boy does it pack in the citrus. Aloysia citrodora, or lemon verbena is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family...
It’s safe to say I’m now a pretty big fan of Cire Trudon. The scents are just intoxicating and their fragrance throw is something out of this world. Seriously, I can have one on in the kitchen and still catch a sniff in the upstairs’ en-suite. Solis Rex is my favourite so far and has...
Barnaba Fornasetti has created a truly beautiful living piece featuring the timeless artwork of his father Piero Fornasetti and housing the beautiful fragrance, Otto, created by Olivier Polge. My love of home fragrance has brought me to some interesting places and this is truly something special. Even when the candle has finished, I will still...
Often a slave given as a gift to the Turkish sultan, the Odalisque served as maid to the harem but if of exceptional beauty and talent, she would be trained as a possible concubine. A candle with a passionate and seductive aroma, orange blossom, lemon and orange oils weave in and out of a base...
Whilst visiting London I was luck enough to meet up with the @PerfuMr himself, Jason Waterworth, the PR Director of United Perfumes who look after a whole armada of enchantingly luxurious fragrance brands. He showed me around the store of one of their brands, Cire Trudon, playing home to their fabulous candles and living fragrances....
