The Journal
Occasional writing on travel, considered design, and the way a scent fixes a journey in the memory long after the journey has ended.
The Art of Everyday Luxury
Everyday luxury is rarely about expense. It lives in attention: the order of a morning, the feel of a well-made object, the atmosphere of a room you return to.
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Fragrance Guide
The right car fragrance is not the strongest or the most fashionable. It is the one that makes the space feel like yours, from the first minute of a drive to the last.
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Route Notes
Forty-eight hairpins before the valley wakes. At altitude the air is thin and cold, and bergamot behaves differently in it — brighter, shorter, almost brittle. We took Black Ice for the ascent and found it had been composed, unknowingly, for exactly this.
Essay
Why the scent of warm leather returns us, unbidden, to a summer we did not choose to remember. A short study of the olfactory bulb, its unusual proximity to the seat of memory, and what perfumers quietly do with that fact.
Itinerary
A coastal grand tour by way of mountain roads and a farmhouse with no address that serves one dish. Three days, no motorway, and a boot packed with rather less than one imagines is necessary.
