Past Perfumes

Exactly how many fragrances Sarah has created is unknown, and we think it will always remain so. Many are still available in our Current Collection and some are hidden away, but still accessible in our Vault. There are however, some that we no longer sell, mostly because some materials become unavailable. 

Here you will find descriptions of these fragrances, and comments from our fabulous customers, in case one of our lovely retailers still has them available, or you come across them in some ‘hopefully’ reliable corner of the internet. There are a lot, so they're in alphabetical order to help you find what you are looking for, and if we’ve missed one, which we almost certainly have, let us know and we’ll add it.

• Perfume Dialect: Amber woods

• Notes: Bergamot, black pepper, raspberry, iris, sandalwood, amber, labdanum, woods, musks

• Ingredients: Alcohol (denat), Parfum, Citronellol, Geraniol, Linalool, Farnesol, Citral, Limonene.

• Amberama is suitable for vegans.

Woods, amber and a drop or two of raspberry. Amberama is a soft fragrance blend, with a base of resinous balsams. Named partly in honour of a certain 1980s girl group, it is full of fruity fun (but absolutely no banana).

Amberama grew from two seeds we planted, whose fruits intermingled, when we combined early versions of fragrances we'd made for a client into a whole new one.

Both were trials for a woody amber fragrance, and we combined them in our 2018 studio spring clean and found out that together they made a really popular aroma.

We partly named it in honour of a certain 1980s girl group, as it's got the characteristic 4160Tuesdays raspberry heart, full of fruity fun (but absolutely no banana). Its unusual notes are black pepper on top and iris in the centre.

"Such a comforting and warm scent. Sometimes, ambery perfumes (in lack of a better word for it), can get a bit too dense and heavy for my taste, but not this one. The whiffs of raspberry gives a hint of summer and it reminds me about one of my neighbours garden, full of these happy berries." - Lindy-fay

“Amberama, a lovely blend featuring resins and raspberry, fairly bright, rounded out by sandalwood, black pepper, and bergamot. The pleasant insistence of amber and fruit without an overwhelming amount of either, it’s a playful blend that nonetheless should make an impression with each waft. Who else loves this?” Eric Riviello

“Amberama is glorious - lovely raspberry with a hint of incense on me - smooth and warm.” - Karen Sen

“I got a sample of Amberama and I am obsessed! It is beautiful. I never would have thought it would do it for me but do it it does! I can’t stop smelling myself. I probably have one squirt left and it’s all I can think about when I am deciding what to wear in the morning!” - Helen Bonham-Rees

• Perfume Dialect: Fruity floral

• Notes: Grapefruit, tangerine, peach, rose, jasmine, sandalwood, honey, musk, vanilla, red fruits

• Ingredients: Alcohol, Parfum, Limonene, Linalool, Farnesol, Citral.

• Babylon Sunset is not suitable for vegans as it contains honey absolute.

Imagine an armful of roses and jasmine, a sandalwood bowl filled with ripe peaches, tangerines and grapefruits, topped with raspberry sorbet and vanilla ice cream, all drizzled with honey.

Formerly known as Says Alice, Babylon Sunset was first made as a 21st birthday present; it's a fragrance for women, not girls. It was inspired by those magnificent 90s fragrances with aromas like huge bunches of fragrant flowers, rather than the delicately pale pink posies around today. The difference comes from the real rose, jasmine and honey absolutes, and Australian sandalwood oil we use to give it depth and soul, as much as current regulations and our lovely accountant will allow.

It’s one of our least idiosyncratic perfumes – really comparatively normal – until you realise that the sheer extravagance of the ingredients ought to make it completely so ridiculously expensive that it has no right to be there at all.

"Yes, I admit I have a sweet tooth but all the better for appreciating this irresistible scent. The citrus notes are naturally immediately evident along with the honey and berry sweetness. The vanilla, musk and sandalwood become much more evident after the first hour. Sarahs perfume signature is responsible for the initial effervescent quality. It takes me back to being a wee kid and enjoying sherbert dib dabs but there is nothing childish about this lovely fragrance. Suffice to say it's in my top five favourites from this house." - shushkin

“Wore it to Uni today and received several compliments. To me it's sweet, juicy peaches dipped in honey with a hint of vanilla. I want to drink it.” - Monique Boon

“I'm so grateful to have a bottle. Lovely stuff” - Shashi Capurr

“This is one of my favourites, since its first incarnation as Says Alice.” - Lindsay Anne

“Well Babylon Sunset is rather lovely, isn't it? Soft, fruity and powdery. Reminds me a little of Turkish delight (I know - Babylon wasn't in Turkey!).” - Lisa Hitchin

“Oh my! Stunning! This has the same smooth, creamy, deep, oriental, rosy vanilla feeling as I get from Guerlain Habit Rouge, but with added fruits. I especially get a sweet and refreshing tangerine in here, and also a lovely ripe peach note. So comforting and sensual!” - Belinda Erlingsdatter Kjernli

• Perfumery Dialect: Oudh

• Notes: Cedar, white woods, tobacco, oudh, coffee, patchouli

• Ingredients: Alcohol denat, Parfum, Linalool, Benzyl Benzoate, Farnesol, Benzyl Salicylate, Geraniol, Benzyl Alcohol, Eugenol, Isoeugenol

• Black Velvet Cafe is suitable for vegans.

Picture a secluded corner in a subtly lit café, with black velvet furnishings and smooth coffee. We made it with oudh and coffee absolute, woods and musk. Some people smell more oudh, some get coffee, and for some it's a perfect balance. We made it strong, like our espressos.

“Love this one...but 1 spray is enough!” - Becca Nealybob

“Just found a sample of Black Velvet Cafe I’d had for a while. I seem to remember I’d pre-decided I wouldn’t like it. Tried it on today and lo & behold I flippin’ love it.” - Dino Abrams

“Black Velvet Cafe, a fittingly woody coffee blend with notes of cedar, tobacco, oud, patchouli, and coffee absolutes. Cozy and comforting, it’s nonetheless still very dense, superb for standing up to the chilly weather.” - Eric Riviello

“I have (and love) the original, plus a version with added rose, which is even more delightful.” - Ruth Patman

• Notes: Moss, pine trees, earth, wildflowers, the riverbank, the woods and a hint of amber

• Ingredients: Alcohol (denat), Parfum, Evernia furfuracea (Tree Moss), Limonene, Coumarin, Citronellol, Benzyl cinnamate, Cinnamyl alcohol, Geraniol

• Brigadoon is suitable for vegans.

A base of The Sexiest Scent on the Planet blended with moss, pine trees, earth, wildflowers, the riverbank, the woods and a hint of amber.

Brigadoon is named after the musical. It is the scent of a disappearing village in the Scottish Highlands created by adding the scent of Speyside - which Sarah made for a Scottish malt whisky company - to a base of The Sexiest Scent on the Planet. It blends moss, pine trees, earth, wildflowers, the riverbank, the woods and a hint of amber.

“Magic in a bottle - Brigadoon” - Monique Boon

“Brigadoon is simply a masterpiece.” - Julie Grimshaw

“It is without question my favourite fragrance I have purchased from 4160 Tuesdays and rapidly becoming one of my favourites of all time - it soothes my soul.” - Charlie Emma

“My Brigadoon arrived, I couldn't resist being a Scot, I keep sniffing myself, so unusual and reminds me of Outlander the tv series I've been watching 🙂 sexy clansmen and leather and flowers and outdoors. beautifully packaged” - Laura Wilson

“I feel like I am standing on the roof of a castle keep as the storm clouds and mists swirl. It’s a rainy fragrance, but not petrichor like. It’s magical.” - Andrea

Cherry Which? Smells of cherry blossom, fruit, woods and the whole tree. It’s another variant of the original Cherry Who?

Our cherry fragrances were a special request from our Korean partner back in the 2010s. He wanted a fragrance made with his local customers in mind, which reflected their connection with spring blossom and summer fruit. First was Cherry Who? the parfum.

This was one from the collection of all the different variations we made for him to test before deciding on the final version.

Luxury Eau de Parfum, made with natural orris, narcissus, vanilla, hay and sandalwood.

Clouds, the eau de parfum, is made with some natural materials which are just really expensive; they're difficult to extract, or just produced in really small quantities.

Christi, whose whole inspiration for this fragrance you can read in her Facebook group, Eau My Soul, suggested certain fragrance notes which capture the mood of this whole perfume. It has orris butter, vanilla absolute, hay absolute, narcissus absolute, Indian sandalwood essential oil, tonka absolute and citrus fruits for sunshine, including cedar and organic bergamot.

This version is for those of you who can afford to splash out a little.

It also contains some lovely synthetic perfumery materials, which help to bring the best out of the naturals. (These costly complex materials tend to overwhelm each other when they aren't helped along by some beautiful aromachemicals.)

“Clouds parfum is my holy grail scent. I ruined myself buying as much as I could” & “Clouds is so fabulous. Wish I were a millionaire so I could buy it all!” - Tara Katzenbaum

“Wearing “Clouds” on a gloomy, cold, cloudy day. So bewitching.” & “I can’t stop sniffing my wrists when I wear this. It is so fascinating.” - Jacques Pantazes

“It really is like a giant fluffy warm bathrobe of comfort.” - Lindsay Anne

• Notes: Blood orange, hazelnut, clary sage and malt

• Ingredients: Alcohol (denat), Parfum, Linalool, Limonene, Geraniol

• Damn Rebel Bitches is suitable for vegans.

A fragrance in honour of fearsome females! To be worn as a secret weapon for daily rebellion against oppression, with notes of blood orange, hazelnut, clary sage and malt.

Damn Rebel Bitches memorialises real women, in particular the fearsome females of the Jacobite uprising. With wafts of blood orange, hazelnut, clary sage and malt – representing foods foraged by revolutionary women in the Jacobean era, and Dundee marmalade. A scent to wear as your secret weapon for a daily rebellion against oppression. We originally made Damn Rebel Bitches for Reek Perfumes of Edinburgh, but when they closed the perfume house, we still had a store of the concentrate, so we let it out now.

“I got my Rebel Bitches today and I adore it!!!” - Eryn McCee

"I still can’t decide if I’m more a Witch or a Bitch, (I think today I inclined towards the Bitches, but tomorrow it’ll be different) but believe me, you really won’t be disappointed if you get these. They’re lush, dark, changeable and really rather wonderful. Very evocative. Absolutely my taste. Thank you, Sarah.” - Vanessa Heron

“Both are wonderful IMO. Some days I'm a Witch, other days I bring out the Bitch.” - Lindsay Anne

“I have reviewed Damn Rebel Witches and Damn Rebel Bitches. Both wonderful.” - Samantha Scriven

• Notes: honey, honeybush, atlas cedarwood, frangipani, jasmine, vanilla, beeswax, labdanum, musk

• Perfume Dialect: white flowers

• Ingredients: Alcohol, Parfum, Limonene

• Dirty Honey is not suitable for vegans as it contains beeswax absolute.

The scent of Mexican orange blossom in spring, in a London suburb. It smells (to us) like honey that’s dripped into the earth, been trodden on, and scraped back up again - in a good way.

Mexican orange blossom grows in clusters of white flowers, on an evergreen shrub with eight lobed leaves. The scent is so wonderful we always stop in our tracks and stick our noses right in it. It's not a clear, gentle smell though; it's sweet, but it's wicked. It has an intoxicating feel to it. It demands some courage, as perfumes go. It's the kind of fragrance unlikely ever to be brought out by a big brand because it would scare too many people. White flowers look innocent but smell quite the opposite. It's only fair to warn you.

“Dirty Honey is my every day wear this time of year the stream of compliments promises to be neverending!” - Rhiannon Mudaliar

"This is absolutely what it says it is, beeswax, honey, a bit "dirty" via labdanum and with a floral undertone thanks to the jasmine and woods. The beeswax and honey in this smell like the real deal, it's like having a piece of fresh honeycomb with you. Sillage is decent and longevity seems good. Sarah McCartney has worked her perfumery magic again with this." - wakefieldscentguy

• Notes: Vanilla, tonka and cocoa absolutes spiced with black pepper, blood orange, red mandarin, osmanthus, orange blossom

• Perfume Dialect: White flower and vanilla chypre

• Ingredients: Alcohol (denat), Parfum, Limonene, Hydroxycitronellal, Evernia Prunastri (Oak Moss) Extract, Citral, Geraniol.

• Drive Them Wild is not suitable for vegans as it contains ambergris.

A limited edition, inspired by Dolores Del Rio: a white flower, vanilla spice and musk chypre.

Drive Them Wild is a fragrance inspired by Hollywood actress, dancer and legendary beauty Dolores del Rio, (María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López-Negrete) whose second career as a film producer was to launch Mexico’s own film industry.

Elsa Schiaparelli described her as the most complete of the many beautiful women she met. Blood orange, red mandarin, osmanthus and orange blossom dance around a chypre heart, with vanilla, tonka and cocoa absolutes spiced with black pepper.

“Absolutely loving this. I can smell incense and I think it might be the pepper.” - Sally Robinson

“It was very cool and foggy first thing this morning and DTW was equally cool and zen and sort of calming to me. Now the sun's come out and it's also warmed up beautifully. I am really into this fragrance!” - Jenny Owens

“I love Drive Them Wild. Remember that horrible hot summer in 2019? DTW was the only thing that cut through the humidity. It was like an oasis in a desert of hot and bothered-ness.” - Samantha Scriven

“Yesterday needed joy inserted. Although I felt like hiding under the duvet I did put the glad rags on and went to the re opening of my local. I doused myself in my comfort and statement favourite, Drive them wild, and off I went. Not one, not two but three compliments last night on my lovely perfume! There was also some dancing… A pretty miserable day got a lovely ending. Thank you Sarah for creating this beautiful scent!” - Pia Kristmansson

“Drive them wild has arrived, and it's everything I hoped it would be and more! I'm covered in the little sample and the bottle, has been packed in my case for my trip away already.” - Chrissy Barber

• Perfume Dialect: Dark fruity chypre

• Notes: Black cherry, almond, lime, bergamot, cardamom, pink peppercorn, geranium, patchouli, oakmoss, tobacco

• Ingredients: Alcohol, Parfum, Citronellol, Geraniol,Citral, Limonene, Linalool, Evernia Prunastri (Oak Moss) Extract

• Evil Max is suitable for vegans.

A crazy combination of dark cherry, leather, coffee, oakmoss and pepper. A dark fruity chypre.

"I was working with a lovely chap called Max, and when he found that I made perfumes he went all strange and just whispered, “Habit Rouge! Drakar Noir!” It turns out that he was nuts about scents that are loaded with character. So one day Max was joking about not helping me with my computer software and I said “You’re evil, Max,” and he decided it was a perfect name for a fragrance. I made it for him for Christmas." - Sarah

The later version was Evil Max 2, Return to the Bus Depot; we reformulated it to comply with 2013 regulations and make it a little more wearable. All the same the crazy combination of dark cherry, leather, coffee, oakmoss and pepper is a one off.

“It is so differently gorgeous!!!! Yes the cardamon is strong but it works so fantastically well with the deep fruity tones.” - Andrea

”This is my husband's favourite. He's been through around 4 bottles I think! A sexy dark ambery woody cherryish thing.” - Sue Bennett

”Evil Max is my kinda fragrance! Bold opening and interesting development.” - Sarah Faichney

A vintage floral fragrance made for the legendary Gatsby party at London University’s Senate House, with ingredients all used in 1923. It’s like discovering a fresh bottle of a long-lost vintage floral.

It was made in the style of a 1920s floral amber bouquet with materials which were available at that time. It was simultaneously launched and discontinued in true Gatsby Style at the University of London Gatsby Party, which Sophie Ellis Bextor happened to be at.

This fragrance features a base of vanillin, heliotropin, coumarin, bergamot, and musks, with the only changes being the removal of animal materials and their replacement with cruelty-free synthetics.

It has flowers, citrus fruits, woods, and soft balsams. It was inspired by Daisy, one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “careless people”, and smells just like one of the groundbreaking eau de toilettes around in 1923, which we imagine she would have been wearing.

One fragrance aficionado asked if it was one of the long lost Guerlains, recently recreated by Thierry Wasser.

“4160 Tuesdays An Excess of Carelessness was a blind buy that I’ve fallen in love with! It’s a sweet, upbeat amber-floral created with a Gatsby inspiration in mind that feels just right for the scent.” - Jenny Rickhuss

“Excess of Carelessness is one of my very favourites!” & “I absolutely love this one. Sophisticated, subtle, gentle.” - Lindsay Anne

“An Excess of Carelessness. Glorious and sophisticated. It's somewhere between elegant dinner party lady and deliciously soft baby powder.” Marion Anderson

“It’s one of my favourite favourites! So beautiful.” - Andrea

“I love this one. Its one of my favourites. It does smell old fashioned but in a gorgeous way. I get lemony tartness followed by powdery bakewell tarts. It's all soft and fluffy and beautiful” - Annie Sergeant

“Oh good Lord... ”An Excess of Carelessness” May be the best blind buy ever! Sophisticated sweetness and the grown-up floral of a society maven’s corsage. I can’t stop smelling my wrist.” - Charlotte La Spangle

• Ingredients: Alcohol (denat), Parfum, Hydroxycitronellal.

• Freshly Laundered is suitable for vegans.

The aroma of clean laundry dried by a summer breeze, in a cottage garden with a perfect lawn and fragrant flower beds. Made from molecular musks and sumptuous synthetics; originally created for an Olympic gymnast and seen on Piccadilly Lights.

Some of our fragrances are someone else's idea, which we do our best to create. It's always a challenge to imagine what's on another person's mind. When the someone else is a whole marketing team, it can take a while for them all to agree. In this case the whole project was an absolute delight.

Freshly Laundered is a fragrance we made for a washing machine launch. It's a molecular marvel: musks, Iso E Super, Hedione, Ambrox Super and one of the magical lily aromas. It is the cleanest and purest of scents, and not a single drop of essential oil was dripped. That's unusual for us, but it had to be just right for the project, and here it is.

“All three men in my family love Freshly Laundered. Technically it belongs to my youngest, but the others can't resist a quick spritz.” - Eleanor Harries

“I got a sample of this today and it's magical!” - Suzanne Hearsey

“It was my scent of true day yesterday. I love this one! Only problem is that I’ve almost used up my 100ml… A problem that has a solution.” - Pia Kristmansson

• Goodbye Piccadilly is suitable for vegans.

A scent for Suffragettes, first made for London Transport Museum with materials used in 1914: violet, iris, lavender, leather, vanilla and patchouli.

Goodbye Piccadilly is a perfume inspired by the women who took over men’s jobs during WW1.

“I first made this perfume for London Transport Museum’s Friday Late event, Goodbye Piccadilly, in May 2014. It was for a talk about the kind of perfumes that would have been worn at the start of World War 1, so I researched the materials, then couldn’t resist creating small batch of perfume in honour of my Great Aunt Hilda who had worked on the Middlesbrough trams while Uncle Percy was in a prisoner of war camp. The odd thing was that the result smelled exactly like my Aunt's living room when I was a child. It went down so well, I decided to make more.”

Violets and vanilla were quite new in perfumery at the start of the 20th Century, and as they were synthetic (ionones and vanillin) they were available much more widely, and affordable for working women. We also used lavender and patchouli, more traditional materials, and iso butyl quinoline, which was used with patchouli to create the first Russian leather fragrances.

“My favourite! I’m a bit obsessed - I’ve got Batch 1, Batch 2, Batch 3 and a special extra-patchouli version!” - Kath McCarron Humphrey

“Decided, on a whim, to try Goodbye Piccadilly in this (for London) heatwave. It's exceptional; the violet really comes out and blossoms.” - Melissa Jordan

“One of my favourite 4160 Tuesdays! I love it for autumn” - Monique Boon

“One of my top three-I always wear it when I’m feeling like marching!” - Kate Crofts

“The violet and flowers absolutely sing in this heat!” - Rebecca Hall

• Perfume dialect: Gourmand

• Notes: Orange, pink peppercorn, cognac, sandalwood, cedarwood, mushroom, chocolate, coffee, musk

• Ingredients: Alcohol, Parfum, Limonene, Farnesol, Citral

• Inevitable Crimes of Passion is not suitable for vegans as it contains beeswax absolute.

Inevitable Crimes of Passion was inspired by a story Sarah's university friend told her. He was walking around the British Museum following a wonderful fragrance, which he traced to an elegant older woman. (Older than him that is; he was only 17.) Eventually he found the courage to ask her what she was wearing.

The idea that a fragrance might be so beautiful that it would challenge you to do something extraordinary started to grow, and eventually it took shape as the perfume of a Henry James novel. It's not one specific book, but as every one of his stories involves at least one young innocent rich American being seduced by one or more older, impoverished, charming shameless European, it seemed to fit rather nicely with the original (true) tale.

So this is the scent of being invited into the orangery, then to the parlour for cake and coffee, into the drawing room for cognac, then into the cellar never to be seen again. If we had to classify it, we'd say it's an outrageously seductive gourmand.

“I wore this today, definitely one of my all time favourite perfumes!” - Cara Creed

“I’ve fallen in love with Inevitable Crimes of Passion! I found it amongst my samples, and WoW! It’s really great!” - Jennie Covic

“Inevitable Crimes of Passion - How could I go on without this beauty? Gorgeous boozy-fruity opening and I smell a lot of cloves in the early dry down - reminds me of Shazam! a bit. There is a bit of dry coffee/chocolate vibe too. I wonder what else is in it (maybe a hint of oud?) it is intoxicating and I immediately got an order in for a larger bottle while SOTW lasts - what a great choice for the last one!” - Judit Harangozó

“It's an 'Inevitable Crimes of Passion' kind of day... and it's even better than I remember.” - Andy Rouillard

• Perfumery dialect: Floral

• Notes: Yuzu, peach, rose, jasmine, geranium, violet, iris, patchouli, labdanum, opoponax, musk

• Ingredients: Alcohol (denat), Parfum, Benzyl Salicylate, Citral, Citronellol, Geraniol, Eugenol

• Killer Rose is suitable for vegans.

Killer Rose ought to have been made in the 1980s when floral fragrances had no fear. It was a time of big hats, big hair, bright colours, glossy lips, shoulder pads and outstanding scents. They fell out of fashion, washed away by the fresh-light-watery trend.

We love making retro-scents, so we took one of our own rose blends and added it to a rich, smooth 80s style accord that Sarah named Felix Fixer (after her first tango teacher because he was so smooth and strong).

There are fruity notes, a dash of citrus, patchouli, vanilla, woods, even a drop of jasmine sambac, a powdery iris heart, and a bucket load of roses.

“Killer Rose is fabulous. It is glorious, lasts for ages on clothes and the dry down is equally beautiful. I wore it the other day and sprayed in the morning. In the evening I couldn’t work out what the beautiful aroma was.” - Jayne Newark

“So my Killer Rose arrived today (super fast, thank you!) and it is EVERYTHING I hoped for. The name is PERFECT. If Quentin Tarantino had masterminded a rock band - this is what they'd smell like!” - Deborah Murray

“Absolutely gorgeous intoxicating and bold rose. fruity notes, a dash of citrus, patchouli, vanilla, woods, even a drop of jasmine sambac, a powdery iris heart, and a bucket load of roses.” - Dari Dineva

• Notes: basil, peach, blackcurrant, rose, woods, oakmoss, hay, resins

• Perfumery dialect: deep floral chypre

• Ingredients: Alcohol, Parfum, Limonene, Linalool, Evernia Prunastri (Oak Moss) Extract, Farnesol, Coumarin, Geraniol, Benzyl Benzoate, Citral, Eugenol

• Lady Rose Lion (Monkey Unicorn) is now suitable for vegans but previous batches contained honey absolute.

Inspired by the Medieval tapestry series, The Lady and the Unicorn. The tapestry features a forest, a monkey, roses, fruit, a herb lawn, a lion, a lady and her servant, so we used all those elements and it turned out like a 1920s full blooded chypre. It is not for the faint hearted.

This scent started at an intriguing party, a celebration of the five senses, based on the Medieval tapestry series, The Lady and the Unicorn. (You’ll recognise them if you look it up.)

There's a lawn, which would have been herbs not grass in those times, to release fragrance as people walked on it. There are fruit trees but you can't tell what the fruit are, so we used peach aldehyde and buchu - imaginary peaches and blackcurrant wine gums - to represent them (and to feed the mysterious allegorical monkey). We added hay (for the unicorn) and leather for if we wanted to put a saddle on him and ride him, many roses - a servant woman was carrying them - woods, oakmoss and deep balsams. And so it became a magical, moving chypre (which ended up accidentally smelling almost exactly like a vintage chypre. We wouldn't have nailed it better if we'd tried.

It's a fougère in the style of 1910. The clary sage gives it an anise hint.

“On first spray it reminded me of certain sweets but I can't for the life of me place which ones...and then settled into a lovely clean smell, like when your walking behind someone on the street and a breeze blows past and you can smell that gorgeous clean smell and can tell they've just been for a shower.” - Francesca S Smith

“Firstly I fall head over heels with "Monsieur Swann" if someone could tell me the notes it will be great, it's such a great scent which brings me in a happy and safe place !!” - Majdouline El Aasemi

“I quite like it, it is one of those blends I cannot split to figure out ingredients at all 🙂 It gives me freshness in unique style, impression of an old school freshly laundered elegant clothing. Definitely different than other old school frags packed with oakmossy/animalic notes. edit: and yes, I can definitely can imagine Marcel Proust wearing that” - Wojciech Nowak

• Ingredients: Alcohol (denat), Parfum, Alpha isomethylionone, Linalool, Limonene, Geraniol, Citronellol, Benzyl benzoate, Evernia Prunastri (Oak Moss Extract), Citral, Hexyl cinnamal, Benzyl cinnamate

My Eau My! celebrates the glorious days of mid-20th Century fragrance, when ambers and chypres combined to create elegant, rich perfumes. Wear it and you'll already feel dressed up!

We teamed up with the Eau My Soul Facebook group and took the top materials voted for by group members - the top six were orris, benzoin, bergamot, rose, oakmoss and vanilla, After that we voted on the name; My Eau My! won by a good margin.

We have made two different fragrances, the eau de parfum and the parfum; they are both for everyone; the first one is lighter, designed to wear all day and the second is a little deeper, for evenings perhaps.

“Gorgeous, and genius! I really, really hope this one joins the collection” - Jackie Beim

“Beautiful flowers! And it’s a gorgeous fragrance—I absolutely love it!” - Laura Klein

“I can confirm as a big bottle owner that both the parfum and EdP version of My Eau My! are fabulous, and thoroughly recommend” - Deborah Lambden

α - alpha - is a woody-amber made to last. If we had to choose, we'd say that this one is slightly more in the masculine fragrance tradition. α blends well with all seven Our Modern Lives natural fragrances, helping them to last longer and project further.

A long-lasting Eau de Parfum created with hypoallergenic synthetics. It is 100% synthetic in organic grain alcohol, and smells smooth, strong and fabulous.

“What is OML she says... OML Alpha??? she says... OM FREAKING GOD!!! Why have you done this to me. I want it.. NO I NEED this in my life. But then I will need the naturals.. 😬😬. I just cannot stop sniffing myself. It just gets more intense. I'm doomed lol” - Nikki Edwards

“I love OML alpha, I don't understand why it doesn’t get mentioned more often - it’s one of the few fragrances I have that I regularly get asked about when I wear them.” - Ruth Cherry

• Ingredients: Alcohol (denat), Parfum.

β - beta - is a lovely smooth scent, which calmly keeps itself to itself. Wear it on its own for unobtrusive, long-lasting subtlety. It is 100% synthetic in organic grain alcohol and blends wonderfully with all seven Our Modern Lives natural fragrances, helping them to last longer and project further.

We wanted to make a really good, simple, hypoallergenic fragrance in a lovely bottle, so here you are. It's like wearing a light, comforting, fluffy duvet of a fragrance.

“Covered in beta and aquamarine today and I keep getting told I smell incredible. I do!” - Lydia Niziblian

• Perfume Dialect: Rose

• Notes: Apricot, carrot seed, parsnip, rose, frankincense, blackcurrant, patchouli, musk, amber

• Ingredients: Alcohol, Parfum, Citronellol, Geraniol, Linalool, Citral, Limonene, Benzyl Alcohol, Benzyl Benzoate

• Red Queen is suitable for vegans.

A frankincense and fruity rose special edition, the friend and rival of White Queen 2018.

Red Queen was the second in our series of fragrances made for Ҫafleurebon’s birthday. Ҫafleurebon.com is a community dedicated entirely to the niche and indie fragrance community worldwide, run by the indefatigable New Yorker Trekkie and glamour queen Michelyn Camen. “Make me a rose I can love,” she asked, or rather told me.

Red Queen is set within Alice in Wonderland, so it’s a whimsical spiced rose, with hints of Mad Hatter’s tea party and references to the elegantly clad White Rabbit in its carrot seed and parsnip essential oil top notes.

"Features rose, frankincense, labdanum, opoponax, raspberry leaf absolute, musks and bergamot. I find Red Queen smells different on me each time I wear it, ranging from sort of a vampy red wine to a brighter more champagne like raspberry rose. I really like this one a lot!" - eaumysoul

“Red Queen, among the most versatile and easiest to wear in excess of the whole house, “rosy champagne,” as I generally describe it, a blend of rose, incense, raspberry, labdanum, blackcurrant, pepper, and musk, fruity and fresh with some depth and nuance” - Eric Riviello

“Oh yes! It’s one of my power fragrances. Evening or job interview stuff. It makes a statement. A good statement!” - Pia Kristmansson

• Perfume dialect: Aromatic floral

• Notes: Cucumber, lemon, orange, rose, juniper, orris, coriander, musk, white woods

• Ingredients: Alcohol (denat), Parfum, Limonene, Citronellol, Geraniol, Eugenol, Citral.

• Scenthusiasm is suitable for vegans.

We initially made a tiny one off batch of Scenthusiasm for a private creative event organised for a gin company and it turned out ever so slightly gorgeous and went down a storm. It isn't the same as our first ever gin fragrance (it's better.)

Scenshusiasm is made with natural orris (iris) butter, rose absolute, lemon and orange essential oils, cucumber extract, juniper absolute and coriander essential oil. To make it last, boost the scents of the naturals and to smooth them out, we blended it with our favourite simple musk, fresh air and white wood note synthetics.

It's inspired by gin, and has gin notes but mostly it's a floral at heart: rose and iris, with the herbs dancing around it.

• Perfume dialect: Fruity floral

• Notes: Grapefruit, peach, mandarin, rose, jasmine, violet, musk, woods

• Ingredients: Alcohol, Parfum, Limonene, Benzyl Salicylate, Linalool, Evernia Prunastri (Oak Moss) Extract, Citronellol, Geraniol, Citral

• Sex Goddess is suitable for vegans.

Voluptuousness bottled, all the flowers, fruits, musks and woods: rich and lovely. Some of our favourite fragrances come from a moment when someone wonders "what would happen if?..." and in this case it was Aysha wondering what The Sexiest Scent on the Planet would smell like layered with Goddess of Love & Perfume.

The result was a lighter version of Goddess's rich, floral, fruity voluptuousness, with a touch of amber and cedar blended with seductively soft musks. She tried it, fell in love and insisted that we blend some for her.

It reminded us of the kind of 50s fragrances that we thought a Hollywood star would wear, an Ava Gardner kind of fragrance. Put a frock on, and add a spritz of Sex Goddess and throw a vintage tea party.

“A slightly raunchy and absolutely gorgeous amalgam. VERY sexy, with a vintage vibe that gives it a very compelling edge.” & “Oh and Gents...don't let the title scare you off! Just lob off the "dess" and it could just as well be "Sex God" because this puppy is staunchly (to me) unisexual. This scent doesn't pussyfoot around, but strides confidently, totally sure of itself. It's a head-turner in the best sense of the term.” - Ron Hall

“It's one of her best works.” - Victor Wong

“This is lovely, doesn't get talked about much (maybe because it is hard to describe lol) and to me greater than the sum of its parts. I do like both Goddess of love and perfume and sexiest scent on the planet that make it up... but this seems to have a little extra magic /sparkle thrown in.” - El-y Si-a

• Perfumery dialect: Woody citrus gourmand

• Notes: Lemon, orange, Australian sandalwood, rosewood, jasmine, vanilla, honey, musk, benzoin

• Ingredients: Alcohol, Parfum, Limonene, Linalool, Citronellol, Geraniol, Farnesol, Citral, Benzyl Benzoate.

• Sunshine & Pancakes is suitable for vegans.

The scent of sun on your warm skin towards the end of the day on a British beach, when you’re packing up the buckets and spades and walking to the pancake shop.

In perfumers’ terms, Sunshine and Pancakes is difficult to define as there’s nothing else quite like it. It might be an amber fragrance, with its benzoin and vanilla base; it’s soft but not that sweet. It has a heart of rosewood, Australian sandalwood and jasmine to capture the scent of warm skin.

Then the pancakes: lemon and orange and real honey absolute for a fresh, tasty top note that makes you lick your lips. So perhaps it’s a gourmand – a scent that smells of tasty food - but the pancake bit is quite subtle – plus they are British pancakes, the sort with no sugar in the batter.

Oh who are we kidding? Really it’s all about warm bodies. We pretend it’s about pancakes, but it’s about the sensuality of bare sunkissed skin.

“The soft fuzzy feeling one gets when love is served up - that's Sunshine & Pancakes. It's a cozy welcoming warmth.” - Kristy Shelton

“Sunshine and Pancakes to add some cheer to a dreary day!” - Eve Mernar Durak

“Sunshine and Pancakes is delicious. It smells exactly like a honeybush tea that I drink. I know that wasn't the aim, but it's uncanny how similar it is! Thank you Team Tuesdays” - Viv Jones

“It smells like summer!" - Asha Fowells

“Sunshine and Pancakes is such a feel good scent for me - warm, bright and comforting.” - Karen Sen

Time to Draw the Raffle Numbers, with an overdose of vetivert, is our homage to Sir Bradley Wiggins risking his place on the Tour de France podium so Cav could cross the line first.

“I have a sample of this and have fallen in love.” - Linda Lindarella

“It smells of hot tarmac and sun with a bit of oiled bike chain thrown in. A bit like that baking July day in Paris, 7 years ago, when the Yellow Jersey was indeed British for the first time thanks to Sir Bradley Wiggins.” - Corinna Preston

• Perfume Dialect: Fruity amber

• Notes: Honey, bergamot, apricot, hay, vanilla, iris, violets, tobacco, musk, woods

• Ingredients: Alcohol (Denat), Parfum, Alpha-iso-Methylionone, Benzyl Salicylate, Hydroxycitronellol, Coumarin, Citral, Geraniol, Limonene

• Truth Beauty Freedom Love is now suitable for vegans but previous batches contained beeswax absolute.

The spirit of 1860 captured in fragrance. You'll probably smell honey and bergamot, then a blend of tobacco, vanilla, hay, iris, apricot, musk and violet tinted woods.

James Skinner, scarf designer, and Sarah McCartney, our perfumer, collaborated to make a scarf and a fragrance. They met in our studio in West London, to smell different natural and synthetic materials. The result was a collection of aromas which Sarah took as inspiration for the fragrance. She named it Truth Beauty Freedom Love, the rallying cry of the 19th Century Bohemian movement or artists, writers and free thinkers. James illustrated the plants that the materials came from, and the wildlife they support. In the corners of the scarf, he placed the aroma molecules, which cast a perfumer's spell on the blend to transform it from just a mixture of materials into an elegant, wearable fragrance.

"I get a lot of iris from this, on my skin at least. It's quite sweet on first spray but the dry down is definitely iris. Last time I wore it I also got tobacco too, but not today for some odd reason. Not that it matters to me, I love it all the same. This is a new acquisition, I fell for it when I wore the sample. Adore it." - scentspritz

“I always forget how exquisite this is. Sort of fruity iris, but it smells EXPENSIVE in a way that I can't quite articulate. Like walking on very very posh carpet, or the touch of a leather handbag that's way beyond your means.” - Melissa Jordan

“This was my first 4160Tuesdays love. Absolutely beautiful scent, love the apricot and hay notes.” - Sue Bennett

“TBFL is my 4160 favourite!” - Monika Kruesmann

“The honey note really lingers on me and wisps of wood and apricot are notable on me as well as it dries down on my skin. A very comforting perfume.” - Pia Kristmansson

It's fresh air, grass and village pond, and definitely leather.

• Notes: Garden, wine, rose incense, wooden pews, amber, resins of stone

• Ingredients: Alcohol (denat), Parfum, Citronellol, Coumarin, Eugenol, Evernia Prunastri (Oak Moss Extract), Farnesol, Geraniol, Isoeugenol, Limonene, Linalool.

• The Waft from the Loft is suitable for vegans

The church garden, smoothed antique woods, incense infused old stone, red wine and the fragrance of the organ loft in which Wafts from the Loft film their videos. It's made with 42 materials, including woods, balsams and resins, florals, and a hint of greenery.

It's the aroma of a fragrance dowsed organ loft in a 17th Century Wren church in the City of London, plus its garden and a Lebanese red wine.

We set the prices when we first started crowdfunding, and that was before we poured in all the oudh that we owned, the rose, sandalwood, and all the other lovely things. The oudh was a gift from a friend who gave us some of his favourite, which is why The Waft from the Loft remained relatively affordable, considering. We and the Wafts, hope you enjoy it.

“I debated about getting this because I couldn’t really afford it but decided that sometimes you just need to treat yourself. And I’m so glad I did..it’s just wonderful. I’m not great at describing perfumes so I’ll leave that to more knowledgeable folks and just say that I love it and can’t stop sniffing my wrists!” - Lindsay Bown

“Every time you use it, you will feel totally extravagant and naughty and you will smell fabulous. Win, win” - Eleanor Harries

“A marvellous evocation of walking into an older building—damp, woody, resinous, green. It’s uncannily accurate at conjuring that experience, perhaps one more familiar to those in England than the US but nonetheless still fostering quite a strong connection to me” - Eric Riviello

“I just love it! I find it safe and comforting. Don’t care if anyone around me disagrees, but I don’t think they would. It’s so well blended with so many beautiful notes.” - Andrea

“I love this. I love a bit of church and this gives me that churchy hit but also a bit more. It's not just incense, there's a big creaky door that's letting in some lovely breezy fresh air too.” - Samantha Scriven

“It's a beauty! edp is a lot brighter. I love the parfum!” - Montgomery Chang