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Festival Fragrances - Our Shop
Festival Fragrances: inspired by the cleansing herbal colognes Victorian travellers used for a refreshing rub down when water was scarce. Spray them on your clothes and body to smell fabulous all weekend. They're refillable, and bottled in recycled PET so you're allowed to take them with you into festivals.
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Three new Eaux de Toilettes for travelling:
- RRP - Rose Rhubarb Peppermint
- BAL - Blackcurrant Apple Lavender
- MCK - Mandora Cedar Kumquat
Our Festival Fragrances are a modern water-saving take on a 200 year old tradition: bathing with cologne. Arthur McBain - our part time bottler, film-maker and actor - has been filming with Joachin Phoenix for Ridley Scott's Napolean, and that reminded us of Napoleon's two litre a day eau de cologne habit, so first we made a special edition for Arthur to wear when on set; it's due out in 2023 to coincide with the film launch.
Next, we updated the idea to 2022 and created a 1920s-style blend - replacing the animal ingredients of the time with modern cruelty-free synthetics. This is made with oakmoss, labdanum, coumarin, musks, Ambrox Super, bergamot and Hedione. Taking British summer gardens as inspiration, Sarah made RRP - Rose Rhubarb Peppermint and BAL - Blackcurrant Apple Lavender for wearing at UK summer festivals. The third has more of a Mediteranean feel, with mandora from Cyprus, two Moroccan and Mexican cedar woods and Kumquat citrus essential oil. It brings us sunshine on days which lack the actual thing.
We've recommend 100ml for one person per festival, If you're sharing a tent, get the 200ml. We also have one litre tour bus size for £150 so you can top up your spray bottles. Let us know if you need one and we'll fill it for you.
The stunning typography is by our friend Sarah Hyndman at TypeTasting, based on 19th century poster fonts, via 1970s festivals.
Here's RRP, featured in the Independent's top 20 fragrances for summer.