Five of The Best Beauty Advent Calendars for 2016
Sometimes a stamp-sized piece of chocolate simply won’t do…
5 Of The Best…Niche Fragrance Innovations
The heady world of fragrance is a complex jungle. Beneath the industry’s shiny facade of mass-produced, label-associated flacons lies an art form as richly steeped in history as any other. Today, the niche and the cult are blossoming, with exemplary new brands...
Rebalance After Fashion Week With Mila’s Calming Scents
This week at PHOENIX Towers we’re indulging ourselves in a little post-LFW relaxation, courtesy of new niche home fragrance brand Mila. Mila’s unique appeal lies in the fact that its fragrances seamlessly blend into your home surroundings, rather than smacking...
PHOENIX Loves | Supercool Concept Store Odin’s Perfume
Until recently, if you couldn’t manage a trip to New York’s designer lifestyle concept stores Odin – where effortlessly cool customers are treated as friends, as likely to pop in to say hi or hang out as browse their eccentric wares – it used...
Kings Of Fragrance Byredo Craft A New Bouquet
Since their inception 7 years ago, Stockholm-based perfumers Byredo have reigned as the leaders of the cult fragrance scene. This success is largely owed to the genuine originality of each scent – it has always proved impossible to provide a ‘smells like’...
Smell Better Than Everyone Else With 4160 Tuesdays
“If we live until we’re 80, we have 4160 Tuesdays. That’s all. Let’s not waste them.” This is the ethos and driving force behind London perfumer Sarah McCartney’s artisanal fragrance house 4160 Tuesdays. From studying maths,...