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Come join my new bookclub - ScentSational Books

Come join my new bookclub - ScentSational Books

Friends and colleagues will testify to my love of books and my extensive collection (no, it is not called hoarding, tsk!). Although a professional hazard (or benefit!) I have a vast perfume sample and essential oil collection together with a generous range of smell-related books. In addition to non-fiction titles, I have always loved reading fiction that weaves rich olfactory language through the story or uses scent and our sense of smell as a hook.

I have long wanted to combine these two passions and offer a bookclub, Covid kind of threw me a curveball and my plans were derailed, but no longer, nooooooo.

So, without further ado, please welcome an immersive, sensory inspired reading experience, my book club is here - trumpets please :

ScentSational Books

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Where scent meets story! More than a bookclub,

Summer Scentsations - Natural Perfumery workshops

Summer Scentsations - Natural Perfumery workshops

After my sojourn in Northumberland at Dilston Physic Garden, I have two Natural Perfumery classes in London this Summer.  Come and join me!

A Spice Odyssey at Kew Gardens

A Spice Odyssey at Kew Gardens

This year the Kew Summer Festival is celebrating the mysterious, exotic and fragrant world of SPICES.

Autumn skincare workshops

Autumn skincare workshops

Doesn't this picture just make you want to pull on your boots and KICK up those leaves with unabashed glee!!

October Perfume Events - Ghosts, Grasses + Gogol

October Perfume Events - Ghosts, Grasses + Gogol

Another week, another tempting array of olfactory adventures to drag me away from my desk and Accounts (argggg): 

Sunflowers, Carrots and Cocktails - A week of botanical inspiration

Sunflowers, Carrots and Cocktails - A week of botanical inspiration

I think I have rather overbooked my diary this month!  London is the cultural + social equivalent of Wonka's chocolate factory, there is a smorgasbord of events for every taste, inclination and budget.

Fragrances of the Georgian Court

Fragrances of the Georgian Court

It was lovely to revisit Hampton Court Palace this year to provide an afternoon workshop as part of their ‘Secrets of the Royal Bedchamber’ Exhibition.