All posts tagged: Fragrance

I haven’t had a signature scent for 20 years

I haven’t had a signature scent for 20 years

Published by Daniella Wilson

Growing up, I was obsessed with the idea of a signature scent. I wanted a perfume that people would smell and instantly think of me. At 14, I found it in Giorgio Armani’s Sensi (after I dabbled in the teen staples of Ghost and Anna Sui’s Sui Dreams). I wore it exclusively for years until it was discontinued when I was at university. After that, I abandoned hope of a signature scent; nothing was as ‘me’ as the warm, amber notes of Sensi, so instead I swapped my perfumes daily – helped along hugely by my role as a beauty journalist, which meant I had access to an endless supply of scents. Some of the scents in my collection, which I switched around daily until recently Though I had several scents I wore frequently (Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb and Tom Ford Black Orchid), I never imagined I’d find a signature scent again – until this summer. My new signature scent: introducing Guerlain L’Heure Bleue Eau de Parfum One morning in July, in a penthouse in …

Why Lady Liz Astor launched a new business at 76

Why Lady Liz Astor launched a new business at 76

Published by Daniella Wilson

At 76, she has just launched her own perfume line, Liz Astor Fragrances, inspired by her lifelong love of nature, florals and fragrance. Growing up in Norfolk as the original “toffee heiress” and daughter of the late Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax, whose family ran the confectionery business that created Quality Street chocolates, Liz has lived a fascinating life.  © Natalya ChagrinLady Liz Astor has released a line of perfumes at the age of 76 She modelled in her younger years and has travelled extensively, written books and campaigned tirelessly for autism awareness after her youngest daughter, Olivia, was diagnosed with autism, dyspraxia and a learning disability aged four. Liz, who has been married three times, met her third husband, John Astor, through a mutual friend when she was 40. They married in 1990 and bought “this lovely rambling farmhouse about six miles from Hever and did it up together”, Liz tells hello! in this exclusive interview.  The couple have two children, Charles, 35, and Olivia, 33. Liz also has a daughter Natalya, 45, from her second …

The Fragrance of Aliveness: A Leader’s Way In

The Fragrance of Aliveness: A Leader’s Way In

Published by Jenni Sidey

The other day, a leader I’d worked with for some time came into our coaching session and said, “I feel numb, so numb. I feel nothing. I’m so overwhelmed.” So, I asked: “If this numbness were a scent, what would it smell like? Don’t think. What’s the scent—the first thing that comes in?” She closed her eyes. “A cave. Deep underground. Cold stone, dripping in the dark—stalactites and stalagmites reaching toward each other for a thousand years, never quite touching. There’s a sky up there somewhere. I just can’t feel it. It’s like wet limestone. The smell of a place the sun has never reached. Something shifted. A leader spends her life searching for a way forward. What this one had lost was the way in—and only our senses can lead us there. So, I asked her to smell. Why Scent, and Not Words? We have almost no language for smell. We name a color or a sound—crimson, shrill—but a scent we can only point at: like rain, like jasmine. “Smell is the mute sense, …

The Fyre Festival Wanted What YSL’s Opium Launch Party Had

The Fyre Festival Wanted What YSL’s Opium Launch Party Had

Published by Sam Flores

The copy was just as seductive. “An Immersive Music Festival… On a Remote and Private Island in the Exumas… The Best in Food, Art, Music and Adventure… Once Owned by Pablo Escobar… On the Boundaries of the Impossible…” The fantasy sold itself. The notorious promotional video for Fyre Festival went live across Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook at 5 p.m. on December 12th, 2016. For many, it was love at first click. “You were like ‘Whoa, what is this?” the manager of a famous rapper later told Vanity Fair’s Bryan Burrough. “It’s one of the greatest social media campaigns I’ve ever seen.” This was due in large part to the women in the video. They weren’t just beautiful; they were famously beautiful. Together, Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski, Chanel Iman, Hailey Bieber (then Baldwin), and Elsa Hosk formed a particularly gorgeous wing of what Fyre Festival cofounder Billy McFarland called his “Fyre Starters”—a reported network of over 400 models, athletes, DJs, and influencers recruited for their enormous social media followings. Their mission was simple: promote a music …

Fragrance and Oil – OpentheWord.org

Fragrance and Oil – OpentheWord.org

Published by Sam Flores

Credit Christin Hume, unsplash.com By Helene Rudolph Fragrance’s Purpose and Role My desire is for you to find and discern with joy in the emotions of your spirit, the “fragrances of God” which are to emanate from your own life. “But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him. For we are to God the aroma of Christ….” (II Cor. 2:14 -15a) For the Bride of Messiah, it is not enough to be clean and clothed in righteousness only; but also to be fragrant.  We saw in our opening verse that the knowledge of Yeshua (Jesus) is fragrant. Paul states in Phil 3:10, “…that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings.” This knowledge is thus perfumed with the varied scents of dying to self and the glories of resurrection life. Anointing releases fragrance Ancient perfumes were oil based, therefore in order to smell good one needed to be anointed.  …

It Turns Out Changing Your Home Fragrance Can Significantly Boost Your Mood

It Turns Out Changing Your Home Fragrance Can Significantly Boost Your Mood

Published by Sam Flores

Partylite We hope you love the products we recommend! All of them were independently selected by our editors. Just so you know, HuffPost UK may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page if you decide to shop from them. Oh, and FYI — prices are accurate and items in stock as of time of publication. If there’s one thing the rise of the wellness industry has taught us, it’s that there are a million and one ways to influence your mood. You could start going for daily runs, each kimchi and other ferments to transform your gut health, or even meditate before bed. Now, admittedly, those things are time-consuming, expensive, and, frankly, require way too much effort. While there are a whole host of different ways to reconnect with your senses and sink into your body, one that’s often ignored is scent. There is plenty of research that shows that scent has a direct impact on our nervous system, and therefore our mood. You might already put your …

This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn’t changed in a almost half century

This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn’t changed in a almost half century

Published by skeptic

Fragrance tech company Patina says it has raised $2 million in funding investors, including Betaworks and True Ventures.  The company focuses on creating new scent molecules using advanced molecular design, machine learning, and scent research. Today, most of the scent molecules used in consumer products are created by a small number of specialized labs, which then sell those molecules to fragrance houses or cosmetics companies — the brands that ultimately turn them into perfumes, candles, or flavored products. Patina is trying to shake that up, entering an area that has seen little innovation in the past half century. The company was founded by Sean Raspet and Laura Sisson. Raspet is an artist and perfumer who, over time, developed an obsession with human senses and began creating new scent and flavor molecules as a creative pursuit. Sisson, meanwhile, came from a background in food and software engineering, and became obsessed with human senses after discovering an entire scientific field dedicated to modeling them. The two met, naturally, at a scent art gallery in New York in …

The 2026 Limited Edition Fragrance GQ Box Has Our Best-Smelling Picks Yet

The 2026 Limited Edition Fragrance GQ Box Has Our Best-Smelling Picks Yet

Published by Jenni Sidey

If you’ve ever gone looking for a new fragrance and left more confused than when you started, welcome. We’ve been there—and we know you need to sample a few candidates for a new cologne before you land on a favorite. So we did what GQ editors do best: we obsessively tested, debated, and ultimately narrowed the field to five standout scents we couldn’t stop coming back to. Here, we’ve put them all together in one place: The 2026 GQ Limited Edition Fragrance Box. Here’s the best part: The 2026 GQ Limited Edition Fragrance Box is worth $289, but subscribers can pick it up for just $50. As you might expect, though, quantities are limited (like, really limited), so we’d suggest acting on this intel sooner than later—most of our fragrance boxes have sold out in hours. If you haven’t subscribed to the GQ Box yet, here’s the gist: every quarter, your friendly neighborhood GQ editors try dozens of products, cherry-pick our absolute favorites, and curate a grab-bag (or, uh, grab-box) of the gear, gadgets, and …

It Turns Out Changing Your Home Fragrance Can Significantly Boost Your Mood

This £12 'Science-Backed' Hack Proves Your Home Fragrance Can Boost Your Mood

Published by Sam Flores

Partylite We hope you love the products we recommend! All of them were independently selected by our editors. Just so you know, HuffPost UK may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page if you decide to shop from them. Oh, and FYI — prices are accurate and items in stock as of time of publication. If there’s one thing the rise of the wellness industry has taught us, it’s that there are a million and one ways to influence your mood. You could start going for daily runs, each kimchi and other ferments to transform your gut health, or even meditate before bed. Now, admittedly, those things are time-consuming, expensive, and, frankly, require way too much effort. While there are a whole host of different ways to reconnect with your senses and sink into your body, one that’s often ignored is scent. There is plenty of research that shows that scent has a direct impact on our nervous system, and therefore our mood. You might already put your …

‘Me-time’ fragrances are trending – and their wearers are not interested in statements or seduction

‘Me-time’ fragrances are trending – and their wearers are not interested in statements or seduction

Published by Daniella Wilson

Here’s a new step to consider including in your evening cleansing routine: fragrance. Not one that’s about preparing you for sleep – this trend is not about pillow sprays – but one that helps to ground you in your evening and your own work-free time. This is about quite literally washing off the stresses of day when you get home and then using a perfume as a way to help to make a conscious mood shift. Bid welcome to the rise of Me Moments fragrances, spritzes that aren’t about armour or anyone else’s perceptions or expectations, that aren’t about pitching a specific mood, but simply about centring into yourself, harnessing your own equilibrium.     The shift from statement to self-soothing   Self soothing is the new seduction It’s a trend within a trend because it’s pegged to the rise of the clean skin girl aesthetic (dewy, glowy skin and a ‘no makeup’ look).  Now the growth of associated “clean girl scents reflect the pace of modern life, with fragrance becoming part of a personal …