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Christmas Candles Ah, Christmas candles. Such a lovely idea, so tricky to get right. They either make you want to snuggle under a blanket with a cup of mulled wine, highlighting the Radio Times while you attempt the descant to ‘Oh Come All Ye Faithful’, or climb up your nose and punch your sinuses like the wrong end of the household cleaning aisle in the supermarket.   I’d fully intended today to write about Rituals’ winter limited edition Sacred Fire...
Nars The Vault Close your eyes, take a deep breath and imagine someone loved you enough to give you a sleek, black, futuristic, velvet lined case full of Nars Audacious lipsticks and corresponding nail polishes. Well, François Nars does, although you might have to pop £330 in the post to him first. I’ll assure you that the lipsticks are incredible, pigmented, silken wonders, because you won’t want to actually use them and risk soiling their crisp pointy perfection or getting...
Sam Farmer Toiletries Ah, the teenage years. A tricky time of trying to assert personal identity through the use of over enthusiastically applied, aggressively scented grooming products. Maybe the confusing fog of painfully pungent antiperspirant sprays and stomach-churning faux-florals is a necessary a rite of passage for the burgeoning teenager, but it seems an apt time for an alternative.   Sam Farmer’s products were created by a proactive father specifically to fill a gap in the market for decent, unisex...