• Luxury Gadgets — Summer ’25

    Luxury Gadgets — Summer ’25

    It has always occurred to me that analog would some day prevail. The best outcome is a welcome alliance between classic design principles and modern innovations. Inspiring a life of quality and readiness, this selection of gadgets will refine the way you explore the senses, from the keeping of time to the sharpness of studio…

  • Manuel Mathieu presents Archipelago

    Manuel Mathieu presents Archipelago

    The olfactory is perhaps our most mystical sense. Everyone has been transported or transcended to a profound place or feeling by a nostalgic scent. It’s so affecting because it is typically unannounced, always invisible and yet so psychologically tangible. Scents are also incredibly difficult to attach to other mediums, with scratch ‘n sniff still being…

  • Fragrance — Summer ’24

    Fragrance — Summer ’24

    It’s summer time, that time of year where clouds are your friend, offering you temporary respite when the sun is at peak potency. Here are a selection of scents to keep you—and your home—adequately fragranced, regardless of cloud cover. No.4 Bois de Balincourt by Maison Louis Marie “Inspired by co-founder Marie’s family home called Balincourt,…

  • Fragrance — Spring ’24

    Fragrance — Spring ’24

    The renewal of hope, Spring is nature’s reminder that things are growing. Peruse our garden of scents below and choose your flower.       Dirty Rice by BORNTOSTANDOUT “This unconventional, powdery scent has nudges of spice, nested in aromatic basmati rice.” ☟ KEY NOTES Milk Accord, Peony, Rice & Musk   SHOP NOW  …

  • Valentine’s Gifting — 2024

    Valentine’s Gifting — 2024

    The task is not to find a gift you think has meaning, but a gift that helps someone realise their meaning to you. Below are some gifting suggestions, peruse and enjoy.   Good timing G-SHOCK Ref. 5600 by Ben Clymer “A tribute to the Hodinkee community by none other than Ben Clymer—the guy who started…

  • Fragrance — Autumn ’23

    Fragrance — Autumn ’23

    The season that shows us beauty in transition; nature’s painting takes place before us in full view. Golden colours and darkening aromas. DIGITAL DAZE by ROADS “Inspired by human interaction with the fresh + fast digital universe.” ☟ KEY NOTES  Pink Pepper, Peony & Kashmir Fusion   SHOP NOW Ganymede by Marc-Antoine Barrois “Dreamed souvenir…

  • Home life — Autumn ’23

    Home life — Autumn ’23

    Autumn is here—but fear not, life at home can be inspiring. Here is a selection of ways to embellish your home life.   Sunseeker Candle by Paul Smith “Sunseeker calls to mind sunshine, joy and happiness using the fragrance notes of Italian Bergamot, mandarin, basil and musk.” ☟ ABOUT The wax is housed in a…

  • Fragrance — Summer ’23

    Fragrance — Summer ’23

    It isn’t summer everywhere, but where it is, we invite you to enjoy it. Here are some magical scents to embellish the season. Impression Cedarwood Heart by Ostens “Instantly evokes a sense of nostalgia and grown-up glamour.” ☟ KEY NOTES  Violet Leaf Absolute, Orris Concrete & Cedarwood Heart Virginia   SHOP NOW I AM DANCE…

  • Father’s Day — 2023

    Father’s Day — 2023

    The mysterious and forgotten art of buying gifts for one of the most auspicious figures in our lives.   Hard-Edge Lighter by Tsubota Pearl “Initially released in 1999, the Hard-Edge Lighter has been an iconic staple of mods, rockers, crybabies, high-power boardroom executives, sous-chefs, or anyone with discerning taste.” ☟ ABOUT Founded in 1952 in…

  • Forte_Forte + Acqua di Parma

    Forte_Forte + Acqua di Parma

    Together with Acqua Di Parma, forte_forte invites you to the impossibly elegant beachside setting of Forte Di Marmi to immerse yourself in their new capsule. Both symbols of timeless Italian summer, the pioneering fashion house founded by Giada and Paulo Forte, is to be beset with scents as established as the season itself. It’s fitting…

  • D’OTTO — Artistic Fragrance

    D’OTTO — Artistic Fragrance

    Embracing the notion of fragrance as a liquid artform rather than a trivial embellishment is not necessarily a new concept, but in that pursuit there are indeed many, many levels of accomplishment. Italian fragrance brand D’OTTO are a new arrival, but certainly no pretenders, ticking pretty much every box you can as a fragrance brand.…

  • Car Diffuser — by Acqua di Parma + Poltrona Frau

    Car Diffuser — by Acqua di Parma + Poltrona Frau

    It’s hard to get excited by the car fragrance options on the marketplace. Just as your choice in fragrance is seen as an extension of self, so is your choice of car, and as such it comes as great surprise to me that there has been such a dearth of options in the car fragrance…

  • Niceties — L’Homme à la Rose by Maison Francis Kurkdjian

    Niceties — L’Homme à la Rose by Maison Francis Kurkdjian

    When you think of a rose what comes to mind? For most it’s a delicate concentric flower composed of a symphonic overlapping array of petals. Subtly fragrant when brought to the nose, its colour to the eye is visually reflective of its namesake. And while that is for the main what typifies what we know…

  • Niceties — gloved by Tom Daxon

    Niceties — gloved by Tom Daxon

    Tumbling from the warm hills of the French Riviera to the aromatic region of Grasse, comes the award wining fragrance house Tom Daxon, with the launch of ‘gloved’.  A stencil cut by the shadows cast by Tom’s mother, Dale, a chemist and the creative mastermind behind the Molton Brown brand, comes the new hand care…