Butterfly Bushes
I did a post a while back about single blooms. It all looked quite minimal and pretty tasteful, I think. My current favourite flowers are the complete opposite of that: hydrangeas are big, opulent and look best in huge bunches – or in their natural form, as ..
How to Feel Sophisticated in 30 Minutes
I was very dismissive of short stories until I gave birth. It was, however, not the experience of labour that changed my preferences, but the ensuing sleeping schedule of my daughter. For a couple of months, I was quite incapable of tackling a novel, but the..
The Afternoon of a Faun by Etat Libre d’Orange
Many niche perfume companies follow a similar strategy: they have a collection featuring their take on the main perfume notes like jasmine and vetiver and vanilla. And so they have scents called Jasmine and Vetiver and Vanilla. Or if they are feeling adventu..
Charlotte Tilbury Bathing Beauty Bag
I have never understood the thinking that everyday things don’t need to be nice. If anything, it’s more important to enjoy stuff you use or wear or are surrounded by every day, rather than things meant for special occasions (I’m suspicious of this notion of ..
A Dress to Impress
I’m a great believer in dresses. Not because I think women should wear dresses because they are women and real women wear dresses, but because I find them very efficient. You put a dress on, you are dressed. I also like the clean, unfussy line a dress can gi..
Everything Cardamom
There are very few things in life I’m absolutely certain about, but I know for a fact that cardamom is the best spice. It just is. I have never been in a situation that could not have been improved by a little cardamom and I have in fact personally improved ..
10+ Wonderful-Smelling Shower Gels
My obsessions can be very specific. For example, I don’t own any scented body lotions – except for The Body Shop Italian Fig that I bought by mistake – but I do have extensive experience with scented shower gels. I enjoy that burst of scent you get when usin..
How To Outsmart Fashion
If you are one of those people who never feels tempted to buy things you don’t need or cannot afford and have built your wardrobe according to the principles of rationality and practicality, I salute you. You have no need to read further, unless you have an ..
Suqqu Brow Pen in Green Moss
All these hours spent on beauty blogs have given me two pieces of ultimate wisdom: 1) dry and dehydrated skin are not the same (I have covered this one extensively already) and 2) never use a brow product with any red in it – instantly dismissing most brown ..
Looking Like a Boy
I’ve been looking like a boy recently. (Although I’m probably flattering myself – considering the facts, I should say I’ve been looking like a middle-aged man, but for the purposes of this post, let’s stick with boy, shall we?) This is the result of the conv..