My internet connection is now up and running again after 3 weeks of temperamental hissy fits …hurrah! So to celebrate, here is an edifying poem on a perfume theme in honour of National Poetry Day.
Scent & Architecture: Evocative structures
An extract from Daniel Defoe‘s Journal of the Plague Year, 1722, is quoted in the book and he wrote: “If we came to go into a church when it was anything full of people, there would be...
The smell of liquid gold for an Olympian
Stench and the City
I spotted this hilarious photo in The Metro, the nose sculpture was picked to promote the The London Dungeons' 'Stinky Summer' exhibition.
It's 'National Book Lover's Day'
Led by the Nose - 'The Seven Noses of Soho' Walk
In the forests of Sweden
A friend provided me an inspiration for a blend the other week, she has spent many memorable breaks inSweden and loved the smell of the forests, with their cool, resinous, coniferous aromas.