Blog
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No-Flame Candle Hack
If it’s too hot to light a candle, place it in direct sunlight on a warm day and let the heat do all the work.
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Where the Best Oud Is Made
Redbourn was named the best place to live in England and Wales. The workbench went up in 2020. We are not saying it was us.
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A fragrance I cannot make
There’s a bottle on my desk, number forty-something, and it’s wrong the same way the last forty have been wrong.
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The five-minute mistake
Opened a bottle, smelt it once, decided it wasn’t for me, moved on — the five-minute mistake nearly everyone makes with fragrance.
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Your Nan's Perfume Is Illegal Now!
The Mitsouko your nan wore, the original Obsession, the Drakkar Noir that filled a room from the next postcode — they’ve all been quietly reformulated.
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Every guest knows the rules.
Don't wear white. Don't out-dress the groom. Nobody warned me about the fifth rule.
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Essentials for Summer
Light and fresh for the heat of the day, long and lasting for the cool of the evening.
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Heat is a gift, mostly.
Heat makes a scent sing, then shout. This week, I'm wearing nothing at all.
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Luggage, glad I lost it.
The airline lost my luggage, and my signature scent with it. Somehow it became the best week of my life.
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Eight ways to layer your Oud.
Your Discovery Collection is secretly a layering wardrobe. Here's how to wear it.
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Most of our perfumes, you'll never smell.
There's a shelf at the back of our workshop you'll never see — rows of small amber jars, perfumes that never got to exist.
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The smell of rain.
You know it before you see it — that earthy smell just before the first drops fall.
