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Autumn Edit: Fragrances
Suddenly, autumn is here – not just de jure, but also de facto. It was still 27 degrees on Wednesday, now it’s barely ten and raining hard. So it seems the right moment to start with my autumn edits, they no longer feel disconnected from reality. I’m in fact..
An Easy Rhubarb, Almond and Sour Cream Cake (and Rhubarb Perfume!)
Baking used to be that one are of my life where I carefully followed instructions – unlike cooking in general, where you can often improvise pretty freely, baking requires precision. So unless you know exactly what you’re doing, sticking to the recipe is a g..
Three Iris Fragrances I’d Rescue from a Burning House
Iris is perfume shorthand for elegant. Although it’s a flower, this note in perfume is not really floral – its source is the iris root that produces the ridiculously rare and expensive iris/orris butter used in fragrances. To me, the mood of iris has more in..