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Welcome to my perfume hub full of practical advice, long reads, event save-the-dates and shopping guides compiled by moi, Alice du Parcq, an award-winning fragrance writer/presenter with 20+ years in the industry. It's great to have you here!
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My day on counter at L’OCCITANE (opens the original)
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If you’re in London on Wednesday 30th September, I’ll be ‘en residence’ all day and evening at the L’OCCITANE Boutique in Battersea Power Station. Come and see me!<img alt="" clas
It’s never just a candle (opens the original)
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Strictly + Bake Off + brisk mornings and evenings = cosy Autumn candle season and I posted a big edit on Saturday of some lovely new and not-new ones that I’ve been burning and enjoying these past couple of weeks. I just wanted to remind you of two things: Your scented candle needn’t cost an arm and a leg. More on this below.When I step back and look at the bigger picture, it’s not actually about the candle. It’s the tiny, simple ritual of lighting it that has rather a
Joyful treats that have got me through the house-move chaos (opens the original)
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I’m not going to spend my precious Substack space whingeing about the house move, the dead mice under the rotting fridge, the mountains of mess in every corner, no curtains, the complete lack of stability and routine for someone with deep-set control issues, or parenting anxious kids who feel as utterly discombobulated as I do. We have moved into an incredible home that we will be in forever (because I’m never moving again. EVER), which will keep us safe through thick and thin, and for that I am
I am not your perfume news conveyor belt (opens the original)
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When I packed my perfume collection ahead of my house move last month, what I thought would be a tedious task became an acute laser beam of illuminating clarity in how I want to work within the life I actually live, rather than the one people expect of me. Read more
The suncreams, perfumes and candles I've packed for my holiday (opens the original)
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We don’t travel that much as a family; we actually really enjoy being at home during our snippets of time off, enjoying our space, garden, friends and fam, and living small and simply without uniforms and alarms. The only true hols we take are in either Easter or May half-term with friends to Devon or Norfolk, and then… cue circus tannoy… The Big Summer Disappearing Act. John works over Christmas at hospital so that he can accrue enough annual leave (and colleague decency) to take three weeks of
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