Carlos Huber of Arquiste, interviewed at Bloom Perfumery
CARLOS HUBER is the Creative Director of Arquiste: a house that creates fragrances inspired by specific moments in history. Carlos Huber visited Bloom Perfumery this spring, to introduce the new Arquiste scent: L’Etrog Acqua.  I was fortunate enough to be invited to meet with him for a one-to-one exploration of the Arquiste line. iBeheld: Your background […]
Barefoot In The Dark: a New Year’s Eve Home Pedicure with Margaret Dabbs and MICRO Pedi
Regular readers will know that I’m not a big fan of Going Out, and I particularly hate leaving the house on New Year’s Eve. This year, my friend T invited me to a party that does sound truly marvellous, and I was tempted – for the first time in 26 years – to actually leave […]
The Perfect Concoction: The Bespoke Shampoo That Is Shots and a Cocktail In One!
Concoction, the custom mix shampoo range that blends the concepts of Chemistry and Cocktail Mixology to astonishingly good effect, launched in Selfridges last week. I’ve been watching twitter feeds blow up with exclamations along the lines of of  ‘So good!’, ‘Amazing!’ and ‘OMG IT REALLY works!’ ever since. This enthusiastic response to Concoction was no […]
Smells Like Teen Spirit
In the early ’80s I (and every other girl I knew) went to The Body Shop. I suspect that anyone between the ages of 9 and 14 must have a very under-developed sense of smell. It would explain why (to this very day) you can smell a Lush shop before you can see it. The […]
