GINGER!!!!! Five O’Clock Au Gingembre by Serge Lutens (2008) + Un Crime...
The first real cold has hit and I am putting ginger in my tea for that extra wall-tightening glow in the stomach. Grated fresh ginger, brewed with some ceylon leaves and milk: a lovely way to warm up...
View ArticleCranky floral chypre: FAROUCHE by NINA RICCI (1974)
Politics and fashion obviously influence all fragrance houses, so while the fifties perfumes tended to scream ‘madam’; the sixties ‘young and beautiful’ and the eighties ‘sex and power’, the...
View ArticleO The Virtues: ORIGINAL VETIVER by CREED (2004) + SIGNORICCI by NINA RICCI...
A bright winter’s morning. The bathroom of a stately home. On the washbasin lies a pristine bar of soap. It is the most perfect soap imaginable; a hard, impenetrable, triple-milled yellow...
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