I mentioned Marni Rose in my fragrance video a few weeks ago but at that time couldn't find an online stockist. You might be pleased to know, if you were interested in giving this perfume a try, that it's now available at Escentual.com. It's an odd little number, in...
Jo Malone’s Cricket Pavilion & Spritzer Cologne
Of course, Jo Malone's newest fragrance isn't actually called Cricket Pavilion & Spritzer, but I'd like it to be! For me, it's a lazy summer evening in a bottle - if you could imagine that perfect English village (that probably doesn't even exist anymore) then...
The Curious Christmas Gift Guide
Oh, I've been having a right old chortle to myself over some of the stuff I've bought recently. Mouse-statue reading lamps and polar bear side tables and silly little notebooks with owls on them. It's as though the part of my brain responsible for buying things has...
Beauty in Wonderland: Feast Your Eyes
I appear to have developed a penchant for the sort of beauty packaging that looks as though it's come straight from the set of an Alice in Wonderland film. I've become a real sucker for vintage-style perfume bottles, interesting pots, dainty tins, jars with fancy lids...
January Favourites
Excuse my blusher overload in this video - I got rather carried away testing that new Hourglass palette that everyone is raving about. (It's nice, very glowy, not for everyone. God forbid any of the powders catch you around the eye area - it's like putting a spotlight...
Luxury Candle Sets: Not For Sharing
Some great candle sets for you here; but don't think you can start divvying them up into little individual stocking fillers. Oh no. These were not made for sharing: they are little boxes of pure, selfish candle indulgence, each fragrance carefully chosen so that you...
My Christmas Wishlist (The Gift Guide for Girls)
I've sort of restyled my last gift guide video because it occurred to me that I had a million and one things to include in my Gift Guide for Girls, but only some of them were things that I would genuinely be excited to find under the Christmas tree. So this is my pick...
The Candle of the Perfume I’m Banned from Mentioning…
This candle shoots straight to the very top of my favourites list; the scent is supremely sexy. I adore Bottega Veneta's Eau de Parfum, but until now have been banned from talking about it here on the website. My friend Alex Byrne (supremo makeup artist...
Sunday Tittle Tattle: Kitchens, Cats and Serious Candle Envy
1) My friend Lauren has one of the most stylish houses I've ever been to. She seems to have a great eye for creating interiors that are both fashionable and homely at the same time - half Country Living and half White Cube art gallery. Very clever. Anyway, I visited...
Scents for the End of Hibernation: Spring Fragrances 2015
For those of you crawling out of hibernation, having a good old stretch, wanting something fresh and light or sunny and new to scent yourselves with: my pick of the Spring Fragrances 2015. Although I have my year-round perfume favourites (Jo Malone's Oud &...
World Book Day: Some Historical Fiction and a Tudor Rose
Now that's a weird old picture, isn't it? Sorry Jo Malone London, it does absolutely nothing to show off your splendid perfume packaging! But this post was always going to be more about books than fragrance, so in a way, the rather muddled imagery is quite apt. It's...
Ruth’s Annual Candle Video…Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone! If you're reading this on Christmas Eve then you'll be feeling very festive no doubt - Christmas Eve is actually my most favourite part of the whole deal. It's just so filled with memories of the excitement that I felt when I was little;...