Journal | Stories by Eliza Grace – Page 2

A Capsule Wardrobe of Scent

A Capsule Wardrobe of Scent

How can you curate your fragrance collection to reflect the changing season? At this time of the year, we’re folding away our frocks and bringing ...

Scent, Sex Scenes and Success by Melanie Cantor

'It’s a book about hope, friendship and finding your voice'

Stories of Scent

This week we share some of your stories of the ways in which scent has informed your journey. What does happiness smell like? Is there an aroma ...

Mind Your Nose

With Mental Health Awareness Week around the corner, we are looking at the connection between scent and emotion. Once upon a time I owned a dressin...

The Smell of Hope

In aid of World Alzheimer’s Month, we look at research into scent and memory and some aromas that might bring comfort. I found the bunch of my birt...

Don't Grow Up, Only Down

In honour of Roald Dahl Day, we pay homage to the scents that linger long after the book is closed. There is a small polystyrene-clad replica of R...

Writing That Stinks

Pick up a smelly paperback for National Read a Book Day. My mother read me The Hobbit when I was 11 years old. She did all the voices and when I w...

Is Natural Always Best?

A conversation on the value of synthetics in perfumery. I am not sure who first came up with the idea of harvesting the secretions of a civet c...

Let's Talk About Scent, Baby

What scents make you emotional? My eldest son has been in a hurry since birth. He arrived two days early, mid nail-varnish removal and my husband b...

Sample Your Scent

How do you know when you’ve found ‘The One’? “Look smart and treat this as a serious business.” This was the advice my grandmother gave as we appro...

STORIES From Belfast: Finding Forever at The Merchant Hotel

Belfast’s Five Star hotel is the last word in opulence. I knew he was going to propose the moment he lifted his coffee cup to meet mine and toasted...

What Shape Is A Smell? written by Award Winning Beauty Editor, Caroline Brien.

Scent and Synaesthesia by Award Winning Beauty Editor, Caroline Brien. When someone describes a fragrance as sparkling, you will, most likely, be a...

He Loves me, He Loves me Not...

Jasmine sings to me, its notes climbing like the vine in my memory. It was not until I had time to kill beneath a jasmine vine that I felt the tug...