WISTERIA

WISTERIA

I’ve realised rather late in life that it can take me some time to notice things that are blindingly obvious to others. Cass’s Blog with Jonathan’s comments in manly blue and Georgie’s comments in a fitting and fetching shade of ginger and...
FRAGRANCE COMBINING

FRAGRANCE COMBINING

Be your own perfumer… It’s easy. And fun. Like finger-painting with smells! Fragrance combining isn’t new, but it’s more typically something you do with perfume; layering a fragrance with its complementary body lotion, for example, or two different perfumes worn...
MISTELA

MISTELA

I need to give you a good deal of context for this.  It’s a new fragrance and it’s an absolute beauty but we would never have come up with the concept without all the lovely context.  So, bear with me, or if you prefer, hold the line,...
AUGUST SUNSET

AUGUST SUNSET

August’s heavenly spectacle I always used to think that summer on our mountain starts on the 1st of June – despite the entertaining local saying that summer starts on 40th May hasta el cuarenta de mayo, no quites el sayo – loosely: don’t put your...
INTRODUCING CASSANDRA

INTRODUCING CASSANDRA

First written in 2014 OK, so how did I get here?  I was born, I went to school, whatever… I don’t remember thinking about it much until I found myself at Trinity College, Dublin University, in October 1981, knowing precisely no-one, and wondering how to ‘be’....
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