This warm, Oriental Spicy Fragrance opens with the top notes of Pink Pepper, Orange Blossom and Crisp Pear. The Heart of the Fragrance is a modern blend of rich & dark Coffee with the elegance of Jasmin. The elegant finale is a sophisticated base of Vanilla aged in Oak, Patchouli and Cedar.
One of the easiest ways to set yourself up for a great night’s sleep is to pay attention to your sleep hygiene.
Good sleep hygiene requires you to both have a regular routine and an optimised environment to facilitate healthy, uninterrupted sleep. Many steps can be taken to achieve the perfect sleep. While you should ensure that your bedroom is comfortable as well as free from distractions, a commitment to a calming and relaxing nightly routine and sleep schedule is also essential.
Your sleep hygiene can also be improved by creating other healthy habits throughout the day.
Tip 1: Go To Bed At The Same Time Every Night
For those with a more hectic lifestyle, it can become more difficult to be pinpoint accurate with your bed time. This effect is compounded as your biological clock is fantastically conditioned to anticipate sleep as the sun sets and everyday dusk arrives either slightly earlier or later than the night before.
However, it is vital that you keep to your sleeping routine with military precision, even if you find yourself waking up in what might feel the middle of the night.
Tip 2: Avoid The ‘Snooze’ Button At All Costs
Moving on from our first tip, even if you are in complete darkness, the snooze button should not be an option, should you want to regularly sleep well at night.
In fact, consistently oversleeping is not only poor sleep hygiene, but it has a strong causational correlation with depression, diabetes, fatigue and heart disease.
Especially when the clocks are wound back you may be tempted to sneak in an extra hour, but we would advise against it.
Tip 3: Enjoy The Sun – Whenever You Can
Sunlight is essential in preserving and maintaining not only your metal but also your physical health.
This isn’t to say that you have to walk around with a sun lounger, a simple stroll or jog would be perfect. The exposure to the sun and the wind can not only provide a new perspective, but the Vitamin D3 your skin will produce is something that many people lack despite it being an invaluable micronutrient.
In regards to your sleep, as our bodies are designed for you to be asleep at night, we are equally very much configured to be active during the daylight hours.
Try to work with your body clock, not against it when it comes to sunlight.
Tip 4: Avoid Screen Time Before Bed
Disconnect Electronic Devices!
Try to create 30-60 minutes of buffering time without any electronic devices. Phones, tablets, and laptops cause mental stimulation that is difficult to shut down. The screens also produce blue light, which can reduce melatonin production.
If your partner or roommate is less cooperative and still has their screens activated, then you may also want to invest in a sleep mask for your eyes.
Our bonus tip: you way wish to lightly scent your sleep mask using our pillow spray for a more calming experience.
Tip 5: Reduce Your Alcohol And Caffeine Consumption
If you wish to maintain your sleep hygiene, we recommend you moderate your consumption of alcohol and caffeine before you got to bed.
You may fall asleep quicker with alcohol, but you won’t sleep as well. It is best to stick to less intense levels of drinking, or even better, to avoid it alltogether in the evening to prevent your sleep getting disrupted.
As for caffeine, you are likely aware that it is a stimulant, rather than a relaxant. Try to avoid consuming it later in the day and especially just before you go to bed.
It is also worth noting that if you are drinking large amounts of coffee to start or get through the day, a far better solution could be found in simply improving the quality of your sleep.
Tip 6: Keep It Fresh When It Comes To Sleep Hygiene
After many months of lockdown and many more hours spent indoors during the summer months, it is important to optimise your living spaces, particularly your bedroom for a better night’s sleep.
You may wish to buy a fresh throw, add new cushions and pillows or purchase a new pair of bedsheets.
On the other hand, we would very much like to recommend that you should also try a deep sleep pillow spray. They are perfect for lightly scenting your pillows but also ideal for your linens and bed sheets.
Your sense of smell is much more potent than your sight and the perfect fragrance can set the scene for a perfect night’s sleep.
More Advice For Excellent Sleep Hygiene
There are many other tips to improve your sleep hygiene:
Avoid napping during the day, where possible.
Don’t eat before you go to bed.
Create calming aromas with a linen spray
Soak in a bath as part of your nightly routine or as a wind down from a more hectic day.
Wear socks when you go to bed. Warm feet send a signal to your body & head that it is bedtime, according to the National Sleep Foundation.
Learn a meditation technique you can practice while lying in bed, such as Autogenic Training.
Now you are much more equipped with the techniques for a good night sleep, there is nothing left to say other than …
We were delighted when we were nominated for the LiveWire Innovation & Excellence Awards 2021.
Today we are excited to announce that we have won the title of Perfumery House of the Year
During the awards process, over 90,000 businesses and corporate professionals, magazine contributors and the subscribers of CorporateLiveWire.com nominated companies & individuals which they felt were deserving of recognition based on factors such as service, innovation, experience, sustainability and other key criteria.
We oppose the UK Government’s decision to allow the use of neonicotinoid thiamethoxam, a pesticide known to kill pollinators and bees in particular.
Their use was effectively banned in 2018 after various studies demonstrated how they decimate the bee population. They also lead to a loss of birds due to a reduction in the insect populations.
Here are links to articles with more information on the subject:
Without pollinators, there is, however, no movement of pollen.
A pollinator is anything that helps carry pollen from the male part of the flower (stamen) to the female part of the same or another flower (stigma). The movement of pollen must occur for a plant to become fertilized and produce fruits, seeds and young plants.
Without this fertilisation we cannot produce natural perfumes.
What is the Impact of Pollinators?
A third of everything we eat exists because of the work a pollinators, such as fruits, vegetables and seeds. Pollinators also support the habitat and food of animals.
At least 75 percent of all the flowering plants on earth are pollinated by insects and animals! Plants which help to stabilize our soil, clean our air, supply oxygen and support wildlife. The health of our ecosystems depends on pollinators.
Just in the US, honey bees pollinated $19 billion worth of crops in 2010 and the pollination by other insects contributed to just under $10 billion of crops.
As we remain confined to our homes for weeks on end, we are beginning to yearn for the natural freedom to go outside and to make an appearance in society. On those rare occasions that we do venture outside many of us will have our faces covered. How will this new world affect perfume trends? How will we use fragrances? How will perfume brands be able to tackle these issues ?
While makeup or even our faces may no longer allow us to express our personality or emotions, perhaps our best alternative comes in the form of perfume. To overcome any garments we may be wearing as a precaution after the lockdown, perfumeries will look to experiment with different perfume strengths and intensities.
In this article we will explore how perfume brands can take advantage of this and provide us with new innovative ways of presenting ourselves to society.
What role will perfume have and how will perfume trends change we move forward post-lockdown?
Once before, perfumes were a trigger to sparking desires and curiosity in others where we could explore ourselves, our overall wellbeing and even ourselves. In a post-lockdown world perfume can return to being a means to enhance our emotions.
How can perfume brands move away from simply offering a “standardisation of fragrances?
Fragrances naturally have their own strengths and virtues that can influence our overall wellbeing and how we feel physically and mentally. If perfumes contain fragrances that have the allow us to express ourselves the way nature intended, the soothing and energizing effects on our mood would be irrefutable.
Memories of reassurance and intimacy can be invoked through particular vibrations that are generated from different aromas. During the development of new perfume, the creative strategy must be focused on the fragrance at its heart.
It is also likely that boutique perfumes or niche perfume will becomes more available to the consumer.
How can a fragrance stand out without having to be bespoke ?
The characteristics that lead to a perfume becoming unique are as distinctive as they are numerous. The best perfumes contain essences with a variety and a range of powers.
They can invoke regressive nostalgia and intimacy or they can portray astonishing radiance.
The problem perfume brands face is proposing signature and ‘true’ perfumes by following their creative intuition rather than solely depending on industry trends.
In the art of perfumery, the trick is to experiment with combinations such as floral bouquets and over-dosing ingredients; all the while, ensuring that beautiful materials are chosen.
When it comes to perfume it is advisable to focus your attention on fragrances that resemble nature while still remaining addictive and reassuring.
Rather than simply using aromas to aid their packaging and branding, the best fragrance houses have their perfumes at the heart of the business model.
How can perfume brands ensure their fragrances stand out while consumer behaviour and perfume trends are changing ?
Since the lockdown, the fact that perfume bouquets reveal emotions and reflect personality has become much more apparent to the consumer.
It is likely that perfume brands will include exclusive and original perfumes within their collections and invite the consumer to experiment with doses to explore the effects that new spices have on themselves and those around them.
It is very possible that many perfumery houses will create hybrids between their existing ranges of perfumes and other aromatic ingredients such a soliflore essence, perhaps even several notes.
The consumer has become much more sensitive to fragrance since they have been confined during the lockdown.
Therefore, there is a need for fragrance houses to rediscover their love and passion for perfuming.
Perfume brands will also need to look at other factors such as our activity, times we are outside and our relationships with others as well as ourselves.
One such example to consider would be that fragrances become much more powerful through movement. How much we move will depend on the potency required from the applied perfume.
The Perfume industry will change forever but what will remain the same for perfume brands ?
One part of the business which perfumery houses may change will be the packaging. They will become much more responsible and document their own unique convictions, generosity and even history on bottles and packaging.
But while many things will change, core principles such as the commitment to sustainability and transparency will continue.
Magnificent Magnolias blooming in Great Windsor Park in Spring offer a spectacular sight.
The Valley Gardens, together with The Savill Garden, provide a home to a National Collection of Magnolia trees. Here are some examples:
On leaving the Savill building, visitors are welcomed to a fantastic show by a mature Magnolia loebneri ‘Merrill’, covered in ice-white flowers.
In a far corner of the garden, close to the summer house, is a Magnolia sprengeri ‘Eric Savill’, with large, bold pink flowers.
The Valley Gardens features a glorious collection of rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias and magnolias, best viewed in the spring from the top of the valley, with views down to Virginia Water.
About Magnolia
The magnolia family can count approx 200 species mainly found in two regions:
Asia, and
the Americas.
The Magnolia tree was named after Pierre Magnol, the French botanist behind the current nomenclature of botanical classification.
Magnificent Magnolias are significant flowers in Chinese and Japanese culture, and has been cultivated for centuries.
The ‘Magnolia Virginiana’ species (from Virginia) was the first Magnolia to be introduced into Europe. In 1687, it was sent across John Banister, an English missionary and naturalist, to Henry Compton, English bishop and a passionate gardener.
Shortly afterwards, Europe was introduced to Chinese Magnolias (Magnolia Denudata and Liliflora).
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the beautiful Star Magnolia (Stellata) from Japan was planted in Europe.
The “queen of Magnolias”, the pink Magnolia Campbellii from the Himalaya, was discovered at the beginning of the last century.
It is believed that Magnolia is one of the oldest plants, the Dinosaurs probably saw Magnolias blooming.
Magnificent Magnolias in Perfumery
Magnolia flowers (Magnolia Grandiflora) frequently have a fragrance. Their perfume is fresh, floral and creamy sweet with hints of waxy citrus.
Magnolia is a popular ingredient in floral perfume accords and there have been notable fragrances where Magnolia is the main floral ingredient.
Here are some of these fragrances that focus on Magnolia and its various olfactive facettes:
When reviewing these notes, you will notice one commonality in that they interpret the freshness of Magnolia in different ways: some use the freshness of white flowers, others incorporate citrus and again others use fruity nuances.
Here at Pairfum London we have built our fragrance “Magnlias in Bloom” around the white flowers of Magnolia, Lily and Geranium with the sweet freshness typical of Magnolia Grandiflora coming from the more modern notes of ozone and watermelon, rather than citrus. “Magnolias in Bloom” is available in our online boutique in many different Home Fragrance products (candles, diffusers, sprays, …).
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