by Hannah Kane | Sep 11, 2015 | Beauty
Puttin’ on the spritz Summer holidays might be over, but that’s no reason to stop travelling – with your nose. Whether you use vetiver to conjure memories of sunny days in the garden, or amber to evoke an exotic souk, the right perfume can act as a Proustian...
by Hannah Kane | Oct 10, 2014 | Beauty
Suzy Nightingale is recruiting perfume missionaries Could you, hand on heart, give an accurate description of what constitutes a ‘Chypre’ perfume? Could you name what family your favourite fragrance belongs to? How about a definition of the difference between an Eau...
by Hannah Kane | Jul 22, 2014 | Beauty
Not perhaps the most obvious theme for a late-summer perfume launch; Death, Decay & Renewal showcases Gorilla Perfume’s latest collection in the form of a gallery presentation at The Vinyl Factory – a subterranean lair beneath Phonica Records on Poland Street....
by Hannah Kane | Jul 9, 2014 | Beauty
Find out what happens when the potency of perfume and the richness of colour unite… It may seem peculiar to launch two new perfumes at The National Gallery, especially when the exhibition tied to the launch is called Making Colour – paintings gathered...
by Hannah Kane | Jun 17, 2014 | Beauty
Danielle Ryan Launches Roads Fragrances As the daughter of an aviation-obsessed family who launched Ryanair, you may have expected that Danielle Ryan would follow in the jet-stream and be all about aeroplanes by now. Not so. She may spend half her life flying from...
by Hannah Kane | May 22, 2014 | Beauty
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...
by Hannah Kane | Apr 16, 2014 | Beauty
Ever since she was presented with a bottle of strawberry-scented perfume on her fourth birthday, a bottle which was swiftly confiscated after she poured it over herself “and possibly tasted some of it”, Odette Toilette has been fascinated by fragrance. A burgeoning...
by Hannah Kane | Apr 3, 2014 | Beauty
Having been led by his nose all his life, the self-proclaimed ‘perfumed ponce’ and forthcoming resident of Downton Abbey Richard E Grant began the official launch party for his debut fragrance by explaining that the idea for the scent popped into his head...
by Hannah Kane | Aug 31, 2013 | Beauty
Independent perfumer Tom Daxon is a breath of fresh air In a world drowning under the sickly scents of mass-manufactured big-brands fragrances, a niche perfume is something to be cherished. A signature scent should personify the wearer, not the famous face on the box....