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  1. New kids on the block - our latest scents

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    New kids on the block - our latest scents

    4160Tuesdays latest scents

    There’s often a lot going on around here, and sometimes it’s hard to keep up with it all. That’s perfectly fine – there’s no need to. Drop in and out of the 4160Tuesdays world whenever it suits you.

    However, we’d hate for you to miss one of our new scents that might just be the one ‘made for you’. So here’s a quick update on our latest releases:

    No Mow May

    Our latest green floral amber. Perfect for a wildflower-filled May.

    In the UK, during May, everyone is encouraged to let wildflowers grow to feed new generations of wildlife. Flowers feed the insects, which feed the birds.

    “It’s so beautiful - fresh, bright, summery and restful. Everything I needed on a cold and chore-filled January day.” - Lisa Hitchin

    No Mow May

    Ginger Snap

    Need I say any more? Probably not, but I’m going to, because how can I not talk about this irresistible scent? This is ginger being its best self: warm, spicy, shiny and cheerful, blended with supportive tonka absolute, cinnamon leaf and smooth amber woods.

    Created for Scenthusiasm’s spice month, Sarah managed to get ginger to behave – behave very well, in fact.

    “This blend is so pretty!!! The Ginger with Tonka Abs is quite magical :) ” - Kareema

    Ginger Snap

    Figs in White Chocolate

    Green tea, figs and white chocolate, with the added scent of a creamy woods accord, orris and peaches.

    While experimenting with the green tea materials, Sarah came up with this, and the team decided that this was the aroma, and so it was named. 

    “Figs in white chocolate, what a lovely not too sweet sort-of gourmand. This fragrance captures the ambivalence of figs, sweet fruitiness and a hint of vegetal bitterness, and cushions them in the equally delicate cloud of white chocolate.” - Sylvia Glanville-Hughes

    Figs in White Chocolate perfume - 4160Tuesdays

    Tempest Rose

    A celebration of the best, most confident and powerful version of you, in a bottle. Sparkling aldehydes and citrus fruits, rich roses, jasmine and iris.

    A collaboration scent, Sarah teamed up with Tempest Rose of House of Burlesque to create a burlesque dancer in a bottle.

    “Tempest Rose is unsurprisingly delightful and beautiful” - Eric Riviello

    Tempest Rose

    London Linden

    A beautifully fresh white honey linden blossom fragrance balanced with lilac and elderflower.

    Inspired by the lovely linden trees in London in late spring. Created using natural extracts brought back from Sarah’s last trip to Bulgaria.

    “It's a heavenly summer waft, makes me want to waggle dance like a bee.” - Emily Rose Mackay

    London Linden

    That’s it for the latest additions to the 4160Tuesdays scent wardrobe.

    But there are a few more new arrivals just around the corner, so keep an eye out for part two – coming very soon.

    All the best, 

    Sinead & Team Tuesdays

  2. Parfum Le Dance X 4160Tuesdays

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    Parfum Le Dance X 4160Tuesdays

    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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  3. Want to be a perfumer? It’s more than just playing with pipettes.

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    Want to be a perfumer? It’s more than just playing with pipettes.

    Sarah at work

    In a recent video we shared on YouTube, Sarah and Arthur talked about a few things related to the early days of setting up a perfume business. Their discussion eventually led to the age-old question: What is success?

    Sarah and Arthur may have had slightly different answers – and isn’t that the point? Success looks different for everyone.

    In this video, they also touched on how starting your own perfume business is about much more than sitting around dreaming up wonderful scents, unfortunately. Because for creative folk, that’s the best bit. It’s what most would happily give every minute of the day to, if they could.

    But that’s simply not the reality. Running a creative business is never just about the art.

    This isn’t to put you off. You will have time for creating, crafting, making, and mixing. But you’ll need to fit some other tasks around it too.

    What’s involved in running a perfume business?

    At the start, you’ll need to wear three hats. Big sombrero-sized hats.

    • The visionary hat – the person who can see the big picture and has ideas coming out their ears.
    • The creator hat – ideas are all good and well, but do they work? Can they be created?
    • The organiser hat – you don’t just make a few bottles of perfume and have a business. There’s a lot to be done.

    You’ll need to understand ingredients and the regulations around them, work closely with suppliers and stockists, and keep your customers happy. Then there’s handling orders, packing them nicely, and making sure they’re shipped on time. Add in marketing, customer service, and all the other things that crop up, and your days will be chockablock!

    Perfumery as a hobby, side hustle, or full-time career?

    The question you – and anyone else having a little look around – need to ask is:

    Should it be a hobby, a side hustle, or a full-time career?

    Sarah and Arthur briefly (very briefly) covered some of the things involved in running a perfumery business. If you still can’t shake the idea, and you’re sure you want to spend all your working hours in the world of perfume, it can be done. Sarah’s doing it. But it takes work to build a business you can commit to full-time and still make a comfortable living.

    On the other hand, if legal stuff, accounts, admin and marketing make you feel a little queasy, perhaps the best way to enjoy the beauty of scent is by keeping it as a hobby.

    We should all enjoy hobbies — not everything needs to be all or nothing. Doing a thing simply for the joy of it is rather nice, and not enough of us do that lately. Why not just make perfumery the thing you do for the fun of it?

    If you’re still on the fence, looking for more answers, or sure of what you want but need some guidance to get there, the Scenthusiasm community is the place for you.

    Scenthusiasm is a community Sarah created on Patreon for anyone who wants to learn more about perfume-making, and at the top tier, you can learn about running a perfume business. There are different monthly themes with assignments, Zoom Q&A sessions, and regular posts on anything and everything relating to perfume. 

    If you think Scenthusiasm might just be what you're looking for, you can take a look here. 

    Sarah has also created a self-paced course with all the information you need to start making perfume: a recommended materials list, explainer films on using your equipment and materials, and an in-depth look at 12 popular scent styles - Scenthusiasm School. 

    Take a look at the film to see where their discussion went and find out how soap can even be a sign that you’ve reached the pinnacle of success: Success? A Scenthusiasm strategy chat.

  4. Changing into home fragrances

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    Changing into home fragrances

    In the world of indie and niche perfumery, it goes without saying that scent is deeply personal; it means different things to different people at different times. What one person wears for a big night out on the town might be what someone else spritzes on for a quick drink ‘round the local. That’s the beauty of it.

    And with niche perfume, things can get pretty extreme - one person’s all-time favourite, the scent they couldn’t live without, might be the very same one that someone else can’t bear to be in the same room as.Changing into home fragrances 1

    What’s the scent you change into? 

    But what I’ve been thinking about lately is this: what’s the scent you change into when you get home and want to wind down for the evening?

    Maybe your daytime perfume has faded, so you spray something fresh the moment you walk through the door. Or maybe you wait until after you’ve washed off the day, changed into your comfies, and then spritz it on.

    Give it a try, it’s rather nice

    If this all sounds a bit mad to you - if you think perfume is only for going out, or even just for special occasions, you’re not alone. Up until recently, I wouldn’t have thought of wearing fragrance just to settle down on the sofa. But with the right scent, it turns out to be a rather nice thing to do.

    And if you’re one of those people who has never tried it, I should probably let you know - people have been doing this for a long time. Just like how, the second I walk through the door, I have to get out of my jeans (they’re perfectly fine for the outside world, but the moment I’m home, they feel far too formal), there are people who feel exactly the same about their perfume. They can’t properly relax until they’ve had a little spritz of their home scent.

    So, do you have a home scent? Do you spray it on as soon as you walk in, or wait until you’re showered and in comfy clothes? And if you do, what’s your go-to? Or do you switch it up, depending on the season or your mood?

    For anyone who’s never thought of this before but suddenly quite likes the idea, a great place to start is 4160Tuesdays’ Fairy Queen - a soft, powdery floral celebrating the queen in all of us. Or, if you want something comforting and fresh, there’s also 4160Tuesdays Freshly Laundered, which smells exactly like clean laundry dried by a summer breeze in a cottage garden.

    You can find them here:
    Fairy Queen
    Freshly Laundered

    Take care, 

    Sinead & the 4160Tuesdays Team

  5. From raw materials to perfume bottles; 4160Tuesdays at London Craft Week

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    From raw materials to perfume bottles; 4160Tuesdays at London Craft Week

    London Craft Week returns on 12th–18th May 2025, a city-wide festival where makers open their doors, share their skills, and show how things are really made. Unlike regular fairs and exhibitions, where you see the finished product in all its glory, this is about craftsmanship in action, and we’re part of it again.

    WORKSHOP

    What makes it interesting is the chance to go beyond the finished piece, to see the decisions, the challenges, and the expertise that bring it to life.

    4160Tuesdays at London Craft Week 2025

    London Craft Week is a great fit for 4160Tuesdays because it lets people see what handmade really means. That’s why we’ve chosen to get involved again. Here’s what we’ll be doing:

    An Introduction to Sustainable Scents Workshop

    Sarah will be running sustainable scent making masterclasses at our studio in Hammersmith on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday - two-hour sessions exploring innovative and renewable perfumery materials. Visitors will have a chance to smell some of Sarah’s most interesting materials and leave with a refillable 15ml French glass bottle of their own perfume.

    In these workshops, we’ll be working with upcycled materials and learning how producers are using new methods of extraction and waste upcycling. It’s often assumed that ‘natural’ automatically means ‘better,’ but the reality is more complicated, and we’ll go into that.

    Visit the 4160Tuesdays Studio

    Our studio will also be open from 12pm to 6:30pm, Monday to Friday, for anyone who fancies a visit. Come in, be shown around and invited to have a sniff. Test your nose on some of our more unusual materials. If you’d like to pop by, do send us an email to let us know you’re coming.

    Barnes Fragrance Fair

    Then, on Saturday 17th May, we’ll be back at the Barnes Fragrance Fair, where Sarah will be running more sustainable scent workshops, while the rest of the team exhibits a selection of our scents - including favourites like Hammersmith Tea & Biscuits and The Sexiest Scent on the Planet Ever (IMHO), along with a couple of new fragrances: Barnes 7 Afterparty and Vianne’s Confession, Sarah’s collaboration with author Joanne Harris, inspired by her latest novel, Vianne.

    London Craft Week is a time for makers to show what they do and how they do it, but Barnes Fragrance Fair is a little more special for us - it’s the part that’s solely dedicated to lovers of scent.

    If you’d like to join us for London Craft Week, whether for a workshop or a wander around the studio, we’d be pleased to see you.