Category: Fragrance

Fragrance Home
1st December 2014

Miller Harris Rose en Noir Candle

U It’s the first of December, and in Lippie-land, that means candles.  Christmas is coming, the nights are drawing in, the weather is getting colder, and tradition is all.  We don’t bother with a tree, but we do have candles on every available surface in Lippie Mansions.  Over the next week or so we’ll be bringing you our picks of the best candles for Christmas […]

Fragrance Uncategorized
21st November 2014

It’s Christmas!

Well, nearly … To the left: Candles of Christmas future.  To the right: Candles of Christmas past And Christmas at Lippie Mansions means candles.  LOADS of them. Coming up over the next few weeks we’ll be featuring candles from Cire Trudon, Neom, Elemis, Ormonde Jayne, Rachel Vosper, SpaceNK, Miller Harris, Fornasetti and much more besides. How do you guys get ready for Christmas? This post: It’s […]

Fragrance Uncategorized
24th September 2014

Tauer Perfumes: Sotta La Luna Gardenia Review

By Laurin Spending one’s Saturday afternoons poking around perfume blogs and websites brings one to a small and perhaps completely obvious conclusion. Many perfumers and perfume lovers alike are also gardeners. This makes sense when I think of it, that a love of fragrance might be born out of a love of nature and the bounty of odours within. Or perhaps having a living reference […]

Fragrance Uncategorized
11th September 2014

On anosmia and other stuff.

By Get Lippie The sharp-eyed amongst you might have noticed that I’ve been doing fewer perfume reviews than usual, and for that I have to apologise.  I’m ill.  I’ve been ill for a while now, and whilst it’s nothing life-threatening (or even anything painful for that matter), it has been life-changing. It began inauspiciously – as these things tend to – with a severe cold […]

Fragrance Uncategorized
9th September 2014

Guerlain L’Homme Ideal

I have said this before of Guerlain, but they really don’t like to rush fragrances out. It’s been nigh on 6 years since they released a men’s fragrance. I may be overstepping the mark here, but I often feel Guerlain doesn’t get a fair slice of attention, and this really is a shame. Guerlain, despite having been around since the dawn of time it seems, […]

Fragrance Uncategorized
24th June 2014

Anubis by Papillon Artisan Perfumes

By LaurinGenerally speaking, I’m quite happy to live in 2014. I do have the occasional fit of Mad Men-inspired melancholy, but although I’d be quite happy to have regular access to 60’s style hair and music, I’m decidedly less keen on 60’s style access to contraception and career opportunities. So despite its aesthetic deficiencies and frankly appalling lack of whiskey decanters in offices, I remain gladly […]

Fragrance Uncategorized
17th June 2014

Fruity Florals Worth Your Time and Skin

  By Laurin I’ll come clean – I think most fruity florals smell like shampoo*. In the minds of many a perfume lover, “fruity floral” is a byword for bland, safe and indistinct. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with them exactly, it’s just that to me, they’re the fragrant equivalent of settling for a semi-detached house in Bromley when you had your heart set […]

Fragrance Uncategorized
12th June 2014

Miller Harris Summer Collection – Le Petit Grain, Tangerine Vert and Citron Citron

  The Team recently popped along to the Miller Harris Boutique in Belgravia, to see their beautiful new “Symphony of Colour” summer collaboration with Cyril Destrade.  A re-release of three of their well-known citrus-based fragrances, with new limited edition water-coloured packaging, here’s the team’s thoughts on the fragrances themselves.   Petit  Grain by Tindara Some of you may have noticed I have an unusual name. […]

Fragrance Uncategorized
24th April 2014

Cheap Smells (or how to smell good without breaking the bank …)

By Laurin I recently overheard someone dismiss a wonderful early 90’s commercial blockbuster fragrance with a wave of the hand and a dismissive, “It’s a bit…high street for me.” House rules prevent me swearing on this blog, so I am unable to repeat my exact thoughts. However, I would like to offer the following observation: “Your MUM’S a bit high street.” Nobody wants to be […]

Fragrance Uncategorized
14th April 2014

The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier

 By Get Lippie To say I don’t really “do” fashion would be a mild understatement.  I simply don’t “get” fashion.  Part of this is because I’m what is euphemistically known as “plus size”, of course, but mostly it’s down to the fact that high fashion isn’t really useful to those of us who either don’t earn millions of pounds or, aren’t six feet tall, or […]

Fragrance Uncategorized
26th March 2014

Muji Aroma Diffuser

 By Get Lippie I genuinely don’t know what happens to me when I get into a branch of Muji. I’ll get an inkling earlier in the day, a little voice in the back of my head saying something like “You need to tidy up, freak”, and I know that at some point later on in the day I’m going to end up wandering around Muji, […]

Fragrance Uncategorized
25th March 2014

Aveda Pure-formance Aroma Spray For Men

 By Luke   I am a bit of a massive fragrance freak, which until recently I referred to as a fumehead until someone mistook that for meaning crack smoker.  The blogosphere is full of them to varying degrees of expertise. You have your serious perfume heads, with their in depth and rather lofty descriptions, right down to the ‘I liked this, it’s nice’ clan. All […]