30/05/2026
A week of roses. 🌹
We have just returned from Simppar, the international exhibition of raw materials for perfumery, where we met growers and suppliers and spent long days smelling beautiful oils and extracts from around the world, exquisite cinnamon from Sri Lanka, sparkling lavender from Nyons, and a wonderful vanilla extract from Madagascar that I would love to use in Gorse.
In Grasse, Marianne brought us to smell the luminous rosa centifolia flowers that we use in our Wild Rose perfume. Oceans of petals waiting to be picked and distilled, magic! 🌿
On returning home, we found our own roses in full bloom, the wild burnet rose, inspiration for Wild Rose perfume, and the apothecary roses, rosa gallica, which we planted at the Perfumery nearly thirty years ago.