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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.
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Mother's Day, the Oud Way
A Thoughtful Attention for Mother’s Day Like a guiding light in childhood, the poems that our parents whispered to us shaped our imagination and formed...
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Sick or just "Nose Blind"?
With the "super flu" doing the rounds, I had a moment of panic. I thought I lost my sense of smell, or was I just...
