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Notes: Magnolia, rose, kumquat, cocoa, pink pepper, tonka, labdanu, benzoin, styrax, cistus An irresistible amber to smell totally gorgeous!

Autumn, a London cottage garden in the 1920s, the last of the roses, blackcurrants and raspberries, apples ripening, tobacco and a warm wooden shed.

Burnt Cedar Rainbow Doves is one of the strangest and most beautiful fragrances we've created. Our London Craft Week collaboration with The Beaumont Hotel involved reading Lord Berners'...

Centrepiece is a smooth, sophisticated fragrance that blends its elements so that no particular note stands out. If you try, you'll detect the honey, frangipani flower and cedarwood, underlain...

A gold bottle of creamy custardness with notes of crumble and a tiny bit of fresh leaf tobacco. Tobacco adds richness and depth like to a fragrance which might otherwise be a little bit too sweet and...

In 2020, perfumer Sarah McCartney asked her Facebook Group - 4160Tuesdays News - what their ideal fragrance would be. What would they have made if they won the lottery? Sarah Jackson suggested the...

Perfumer Sarah McCartney was set on creating the green aroma of a festival field - a small festival, with freshly-cut grass and wildflowers, not a big noisy one with lots of mud. Although dandelions...

The scent of hope and optimism.  For London 1969, I made three blends: Hyde Park, King's Road and Soho.  Hyde Park is open, light, sunny, smooth and uses the new - at the time - synthetic...

Notes: Lemon, mandarin, mandora, clementine, magnolia flowers, magnolia leaves, sandalwood, bergamot, oakmoss, musks, styrax, patchouli

The Rhubarb & Custard fragrance we all dreamed of. It's named 1:29, not after a train timetable, but because it's 1 part Rhubarb & Citrus Cologne to 29 parts Vanilla Custard; this turned out...

Saltburn is a small town at the very top right-hand corner of Yorkshire, where perfumer Sarah McCartney was born. It was built in Victorian times, the vision and project of a Liberal MP, railway...

"I met Lila das Gupta, the Spanish-Indian founder of Perfume Lovers’ London and Basenotes writer, at a one-day course with Karen Gilbert on synthetic materials. Lila was working on her...