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Choosing Clean Home Scent Without Sacrificing Luxury
A clean home scent is about more than covering up smells. It is about rooms that feel calm, safe and beautiful, where the air you breathe has been chosen as carefully as the furniture. Throw the windows open in high summer and scent drifts from…
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Green Tea In Perfumery: Pure Serenity & Fresh Clarity
Green tea in perfumery offers a crisp, clean, and subtly bitter or herbaceous aroma, providing a soothing, uplifting, and gender neutral scent that is often paired with citrus or florals for a revitalising feel. It evokes a sense of calm yet modern sophistication through the…
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Pink Lavender In Perfumes: A Soft Floral Twist On Aromatic Calm
Pink lavender refers to specific varieties of the herb plant, primarily English lavender (Lavandula angustifolia), which produce soft, rose pink flowers instead of the standard purple. These plants offer a gentler flower colour for gardens while keeping that classic fragrance and ease of care. Widely…
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Mint In Fragrance: Cool Crisp and Invigorating
Mint refers to a popular aromatic herb (from the genus mentha) known for its refreshing flavour, used in cooking, drinks, and remedies for digestion. However, it can also mean something excellent in slang, a place where money is made at a coin mint, or even…
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Magnolia in Perfumes: Creamy Citrus Floral Grace
Magnolia in perfume has a way of appearing quietly. It does not rush forward or dominate the senses. Instead, magnolia settles into a fragrance with a soft, creamy floral glow that sits somewhere between citrus freshness and smooth petals. There is brightness, but it is…
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Rosewood In Perfumery: Silky Woods With Floral Nuance
Rosewood in perfumery offers a soft, sweet, woody and lightly floral scent, with gentle citrus and spicy nuances. It adds warmth, depth and a sense of quiet luxury, and is valued for its uplifting yet grounding aroma that blends easily with other notes. As traditional…
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Melon in Fragrance: Juicy Freshness with Watery Sweetness
Melon in fragrance offers a fresh, juicy, sweet, and watery scent, most often created using synthetic materials such as calone to suggest its cooling, aquatic character. This makes it well-suited to light, summer, or clean perfumes, where it pairs naturally with citrus, florals, and aquatic…
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Orris in Perfumery: Powdered Elegance and Velvet Root
Orris refers essentially to the dried and ground rhizomes (the underground stems) of certain iris species, most notably Iris germanica and Iris pallida. It is highly valued in the perfume and spirits industries for its distinct powdery, violet, and earthy aroma, serving as a natural…
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Pink Peppercorn In Fragrance: Bright Buzzy Spice
Pink peppercorns are the dried, sweet, and mildly spicy berries of the Peruvian pepper tree or Brazilian pepper tree, rather than true peppercorns. They offer a fruity, slightly citrus note to dishes such as fish, salads, sauces, and even desserts or cocktails, and are valued…
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New Year, New Fragrance: Finding The Scent That Defines The New You
The start of a new year has a way of making people pause, even if only briefly. It is often the smaller details that come into focus first, the everyday things that quietly shape how life feels. Fragrance sits firmly in that category. A scent…
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Happy New Year & Poems
We would like to wish All of our customers, partners, friends and family a very Happy New Year. May we all treasure the people and times that we have in our lives. Wishing you the very best of Health, Happiness and Successes in the New…
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Baies Rose In Fragrances: Rosy Pepper Sparkle
Baies Rose, or pink peppercorn, is utilised as both a culinary spice with a sweet, fruity, and subtly peppery taste and a favoured note in perfumery for its vibrant, spicy, and fresh floral scent. It is not a true pepper but a berry related to…
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Persimmon in Fragrance: Velvet Fruit with Subtle Sweetness
A persimmon is a sweet, edible orange fruit from the Diospyros genus, frequently referred to as kaki or Sharon fruit, known for its honey-like flavour and jelly texture when ripe (though firm varieties also exist). Popular in winter, these fruits are rich in fibre, minerals,…
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Iconic Christmas Carols and Their Christian Origins
For many of us, Christmas doesn’t really begin until the carols start. You hear them drifting through town centres, playing quietly in the background of school halls, or filling churches in the days leading up to Christmas Eve. Sometimes they’re sung loudly and joyfully; other…
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Dried Fig in Fragrance: Sun-Warmed Sweetness and Green Woods
Dried fig in fragrance provides a complex, warm, sweet, and earthy aroma, blending honeyed fruitiness with the green, milky, and woody elements of the leaves and sap. This creates rich, comforting, or fresh Mediterranean vibes and is frequently used in gourmand and amber perfumes alongside…
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Clove in Perfumes: Warm Spice with Vintage Attraction
Clove in perfumery provides a potent, warm, spicy, and subtly sweet aroma, adding depth, richness, and an exotic touch. It is often used as a middle or base note to complement florals, woods, and other spices like cinnamon for cosy, amber, or festive scents, thanks…
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Cinnamon in Perfumery: Sweet Heat and Spiced Depth
Cinnamon is a highly fragrant, warm, and naturally sweet spice derived from the inner bark of trees belonging to the Cinnamomum genus. It is primarily used in baking, desserts, seasonal drinks (such as mulled wine and hot chocolate), and various savoury dishes worldwide due to…
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Chestnut in Perfumes: Roasted Warmth and Gourmand Comfort
A chestnut is an edible brown nut that grows on trees belonging to the genus Castanea. It sits inside a sharply spiked shell and has been gathered, cooked and eaten for centuries. In the English language, chestnut works as both a noun and a description.…
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Cranberry in Fragrance: Bright, Tart Red Spark
Cranberry is a tart, bright-red berry originating from low, woody, evergreen plants native to North America. They are widely recognised for their common use in sauces (particularly served alongside turkey), beverages such as juices, and a variety of baked goods, supplying notable antioxidants and Vitamin…
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Pomegranate in Home Fragrance: Ruby-Toned Tart Sweetness
Pomegranate is a fruit that attracts attention even before you taste it. Its deep red skin, round fruit shape and clusters of juicy seeds give it a jewel-like appearance. When you open it, the bright pomegranate arils shine beneath the thick leathery skin. The scent…
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Copahu Balm in Perfumery: Golden Resin and Silky Warmth
Also referred to as Copaiba Balsam or Copaiba oil, Copahu balm is a natural oleoresin harvested from the trunk of the South American Copaifera copaiba tree. It has historically been utilised for its powerful analgesic (pain-relieving), antiseptic, and anti-inflammatory qualities. Copahu balm is drop-drawn from…
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Ginger Flower in Perfumes: Spicy Floral Radiance
Ginger flower refers to the showy and often fragrant blooms from the ginger plant family (Zingiberaceae), such as the popular, White Ginger Lily (Hedychium coronarium) or the vibrant orange/red varieties (Hedychium coccineum). These sought-after flowers are prized for adding tropical height and delightful scent to…
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Olive in Fragrance: Mediterranean Green and Savoury Nuance
An olive is the small, oval fruit of the evergreen olive tree (Olea europaea), a staple of Mediterranean culture and cuisine, widely utilised for both table food and the production of valuable olive oil. The tree itself is highly drought-tolerant and grows globally, often symbolising…
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Olive Leaf in Fragrances: Silvery-Green, Herbal Freshness
The olive leaf comes directly from the olive tree (Olea europaea) and is widely utilised in modern supplements, teas, and concentrated extracts as a natural food additive due to its remarkably potent antioxidant properties. This efficacy is primarily attributed to its high concentration of polyphenols,…
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Orange Slice in Fragrance: Zesty Citrus Spark
The term ‘orange slice‘ typically refers to a wedge or segment of a fresh orange, a candied or dried citrus confection, or a specific type of ancient flint tool. Fresh orange slices are a popular, healthy fruit snack, whereas candied and dried orange slices are…
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Dark Cassis in Perfumes: Inky Berry Bite and Green Tartness
“Dark cassis” most often refers to Crème de Cassis, a rich, dark red liqueur crafted from blackcurrants, popular in cocktails or sipped on its own. The term can also describe flavoured products such as dark chocolate with cassis, as well as fragrances and scented items…
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Dear Reader,
Welcome to the perfume blog by PAIRFUM London.
We were asked recently by a journalist in an interview this question:
“What is your favourite part when it comes to blogging?”
The first answer that sprang to mind was ‘perfume’. We love it, we love writing about it and we enjoy sharing our passion for it!
Are we biased? Of course we are, … how can you be objective about perfume when it is all about passion and experiences. This is personal.
We know that people ‘love’ wearing / using perfume in their homes and they ‘love’ discovering their favourite scent, it becomes their aerial signature !
It has been proven that we create our world around us. We use our interior landscape to create the homes we wish to live in. This also includes our outside spaces, from gardens to a window box.
Within this interior/exterior world (Our World), ‘olfaction’ or as we know it ‘our sense of smell’, is the oldest sense. It keeps us safe, creates memories and makes us happy.
For us, perfume, the sense of smell and homes & interiors are intrinsically linked, like ‘Love & Marriage’ or a ‘Horse & Carriage’, … you can’t have one without the other.
So, … in a ‘nutshell’ (and that is a beautifully fragranced nutshell), what is the best part of blogging?
We love it, we love sharing, learning, listening and discussing.
Huib xx
P.S. ( God bless who ever invented ‘blogging’ )
More about the PAIRFUM Blog
This is a specialist news & perfume blog that combines and covers the following subjects:
– a home fragrance blog,
– a perfume blog,
– a bath, body and skin care blog, and
– anything about ‘making scents’ generally.
The PAIRFUM blog provides fragrance enthusiasts with a rich source of insights into the world of perfumery.
The blog is written / curated by Huib Maat, a perfumer and expert recognised as one of the world’s leading inventors in fragrance.
Perfume Blog
Everything in connection with perfume, fragrance, scent and perfumery is at the core of this fragrance blog:
– from couture perfume, especially natural fragrance and organic scents
– to eau de parfum, eau de toilette and eau de cologne
– either as a perfume spray, solid perfume or pulse roll-on parfums
– it touches on ingredients, for example spices, flowers and plants, natural and/or organic essential oils, perfumery oils and candle waxes, …
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This is the definitive home fragrance blog, with specialist posts about home fragrance in its many forms:
– reed diffuser and reed diffusers but also reed diffuser refill and diffuser refill oil
– luxury scented candles, scented candles in general and specifically soy wax scented candles or natural candles
– the blog also speaks about natural room spray
– long-lasting and natural wardrobe sachet
– natural botanicals for the home
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Bath, Body and Skin Care is another major subject for this blog:
– scented lotions and creams, such as body lotion, hand lotion, hand cream, body creme
– creams for the face
– fragrance washes in the form of hand wash, body wash, foam bath, foaming bath oil, shower gel
– natural soap and beauty soap, both large soap and guest soap
– skin care actives and beauty routines
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Last but not least, here are additional topics that this blog covers:
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– we write about your home, beautiful interior design & decor, architecture & interesting house, …
– and finally, articles about Britain, London, the Queen and Royal Family, …
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