There’s something about scent that lingers longer than the moment itself — like a grandmother’s dressing table in childhood memory, where beauty becomes ritual, and memory is formed in layers. At last month’s International Women’s Day breakfast hosted at The Ivy Club Loft in partnership with Yardley London, the conversation centred on legacy in its mostContinue reading “The Scent of Legacy: Fragrance, Memory and 256 Years of Yardley London | My Soho Times”
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Scent and the City: London’s Perfumed Legacy | My Soho Times
Almost as long as there has been human civilisation, there has been perfume. Its history stretches back thousands of years — the word itself is derived from the Latin perfumare, meaning “to smoke through”, a nod to the burning of aromatic materials in ritual and reverence. The practice of crushing flowers, resins and oils to conjureContinue reading “Scent and the City: London’s Perfumed Legacy | My Soho Times”
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