Parfum Le Dance X 4160Tuesdays

There’s a new place to find a selection of 4160Tuesdays’ fragrances, and it’s a rather good one. Parfum Le Dance has just opened a beautiful boutique in Richmond, London, and it’s not your typical perfume shop. No overwhelming walls of designer bottles, no fluorescent-lit department store chaos - just a carefully chosen collection of scents that actually mean something.

Derya Turkan, the founder of Parfum Le Dance, started with an online store, but it seems the world of perfumery kept pulling her in. On March 15th, she took the next step and opened a physical boutique.

She describes Parfum Le Dance as the destination for the art of niche perfumery, which sounds about right. Every fragrance in the shop is there for a reason - not because of a flashy campaign, but because of the way it’s made, the way it smells, and the story it tells.

Our fragrances feel at home there. If you’re in Richmond and fancy a sniff, you’ll find:

The Sexiest Scent on the Planet. Ever (IMHO)

A soft bergamot, white woods, amber, and vanilla scent. After the first waft of lemon meringue pie-like lickability, it has very low sillage, on purpose. You have to get up close to smell it. This is a good thing.

Hammersmith Tea And Biscuits

Imagine wholemeal lemon and ginger biscuits, with toasted hazelnuts and black tea, with oat milk. That’s this. This fragrance was created to symbolise the British way of making friends and getting through a crisis.

Salt Rose

A fragrance inspired by the meeting of fresh water and salt water, where strong-spirited wild roses grow among crushed shells and driftwood.

London 1969

London 1969 is a fragrance that captures the feeling of the city in the Summer of Love. Made using only materials which were available at the time, to create a fragrance that could have existed then. A true unisex citrus.

Sonnet No 1

Fragrant flowers from Shakespeare. To rose - both absolute and essential oil - lavender, beeswax, narcissus and hay absolutes were added. The aromas of lily and violet floating on a bed of white musks. 

A Flame in Your Heart

If all you want is to smell totally gorgeous, this is the amber you need. Magnolia and rose, kumquat and cocoa, pink pepper and tonka harmonising over an inviting quartet of sultry balsams: labdanum, benzoin, styrax and cistus. Irresistible.

Warm Sands Blue Ocean

Suntan lotion, sea air, vanilla, soft woods, white flowers, musk, salt water. An escape to a warm sandy beach, somewhere you can swim in the sea and emerge to dry off in the sunshine: the Mediterranean or the Indian Ocean perhaps.

Tempest Rose

A celebration of confidence, empowerment, and pure entertainment, captured and bottled. The complete burlesque dancer: a sparkling opening act of aldehydes and citrus fruits, beguiled with rich roses, jasmine and iris, revealing musky warm skin.

If you find yourself in Richmond and like your perfume with a bit of personality, Parfum Le Dance is worth a visit.

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