"What happened was that we spent a week in the Hoxton Hotel courtyard in spring 2013, making The Gin Garden scent with gin botanicals and a lovely smooth base for them to blend with. A couple of people,  including our visiting Tatler journalist, fell in love with the base. The name came from one of the comments about it. So we thought it would be a good idea to bottle it the way it is. So we did. The idea was to make a gentle, unassuming blend of background scents that wouldn't try to steal the limelight from the more individual gin botanicals. We have a dash of bergamot - a nice quiet citrus - and a soft hint of creamy vanilla. Then there's some velvety smooth woods and (non-animal) musk and ambergris floating around. That's it, really. Even Mary, my hairdresser, likes it, and she's very hard to please." Sarah McCartney