Our Story
We are a small family business based in South Yorkshire. We are proud of our handmade premium fragrance products. Every product is made with the utmost care and attention to detail. We are passionate about ensuring our customers receive exceptional products using high quality wax blends and fine fragrances sourced from the UK.
 
Our founder Vanessa has always had a keen interest in aromatherapy for wellbeing. As a child, she developed a heightened sense of smell in order to assist her Mum who lost her sense of smell due to an accident in her early life. She then became the nose for two people, describing different scents as colours as a way to communicate the different notes of the fragrance.
 
Vanessa started to make candles for family and friends as a hobby. The positive feedback she received ignited her passion to create a business that would enable her to reach those who share in her love of fragrance.
She wanted to create a collection of products to appeal to a wide range of people. Along with her daughter Lucy, they worked together to distinguish the very best from the fragrance spectrum.
The core Nostalgia and Classics range are inspired by personal memories from places and times gone by. They are characterised by colours and are endearingly named to capture their individuality.
THE PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FRAGRANCE
This is the pleasure of living through the senses.
When we encounter a particular scent the olfactory system triggers a response from the limbic system in the brain that controls our moods and emotions. Scents bypass the thalamus and go straight to the brain's smell centre, known as the olfactory bulb. This is directly connected to the amygdala and hippocampus, which might explain why the smell of something can immediately trigger a detailed memory or even intense emotion.
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This process happens in a matter of seconds and the emotions that are triggered can take us to a world of vivid memories.
Scientists believe that our sense of smell triggers memory more than other senses because those senses do not pass through these areas of the brain.
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Our sense of smell is very individual and unique to each person. The associations we make throughout our lives to different smells will determine if we do or don’t like a particular fragrance.