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13 February 2013 / 26 April 2024 by Pell Wall | Leave a Comment
A Posy of Violets on Mother’s Day Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday has been celebrated here in Britain for a very long time. Here I’m exploring some of the history of the Day and it’s links with scented flowers. The terms Mother’s Day and Mothering Sunday are used more-or-less interchangeably, but historically they are different […]
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2 May 2012 by Pell Wall | Leave a Comment
What’s actually in the scent of a flower? It’s probably not a question most people ask, but if you’re interested in the answer I’m presenting here a discussion of the components of the scent of hyacinth flowers. Hyacinths in flower in the Pell Wall garden Most of these individual chemicals are available to the perfumer […]
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14 April 2012 by Pell Wall | Leave a Comment
Pell Wall Perfumes has launched a new collection of three fragrances each based on one of the classic Spring flowers of the English country garden. The Spring Flowers Collection Persian Prince is based on Hyacinth Crowdsource is based on Daffodil and Deep Purple is based on Violet
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9 April 2012 by Pell Wall | 1 Comment on Persian Prince – The Spring Flowers Collection – PWP Product
This is a smooth, subtle interpretation of hyacinth – this naturally rather brash flower is here tamed and made easier to wear – in composing this scent I imagined blue hyacinths though even within one colour of flower the scent varies with the variety grown. I couldn’t get the fragrance to go blue without bunging […]
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9 April 2012 by Pell Wall | Leave a Comment
Deep Purple by Pell Wall One of the great classics of perfumery violet perfumes have been popular since the 17th century for the distinctive, sweet, floral aroma. Violet is combined with other scents in many, many fragrances but here I wanted to allow it to shine alone. You’ll recognise immediately the ‘parma violets’ character of the scent, though […]
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I’ve been wanting to capture the scent of daffodils in a fragrance for a while now and the project has proved quite difficult – over a year after I started the research, I’m finally satisfied that I’ve got it right: the key test was when I presented my Mum with a tester of the fragrance […]
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28 February 2012 by Pell Wall | Leave a Comment
This is the third in my series of articles for the Shropshire Magazine on matters perfume, this time featuring an exploration of some of the traditions of Mothering Sunday and the special place of violets in perfumery. You can see a pdf scan of the article as it appeared in the magazine, under the title […]