Your Signature Scent Story: Why One Perfume Is Never Enough
Here’s a thought: maybe your perfume is ready for a little adventure. It’s been loyally spritzed every morning, smelling lovely, perfectly lovely, but perhaps a bit predictably so. It deserves a companion, something to make it sparkle, shift, surprise you again.
That’s where perfume layering comes in: the easiest and most delightful way to make your fragrance feel uniquely yours. It’s like tailoring your favourite dress so it fits just so. A few spritzes and suddenly your scent isn’t just “nice”... it’s personal, alive and entirely you.
That’s exactly why all of our perfumes are designed to be layered. Each one is composed to stand beautifully on its own but also to fall effortlessly in love with another, creating endless possibilities for your own signature scent story.
Layering your scents is a quiet sort of rebellion; why stop at one when you could create your own? It’s like writing your signature in scent, a whispered note that says this is me.
My Little Trick for Pairing Perfumes
When I’m layering I always start by looking for matching fragrance notes; it’s the secret to a perfect pairing. A shared note such as bergamot, pink pepper or sandalwood acts as a bridge, keeping everything harmonious. Without it, you risk chaos. With it, you get magic.
Take Coastal Walks and Eventide. Both share that sparkle of bergamot and the warmth of pink pepper, a meeting of salt air and candlelight. Coastal Walks is all sea breeze, jasmine and sunlit cedarwood; Eventide adds spice and shadow with cinnamon, nutmeg and tonka. Together they smell like golden light hitting the sea at dusk... fresh yet grounded, bright yet brooding.
Or try En Plein Air layered with Coastal Walks. En Plein Air brings that gleam of lemon and rose, all open skies and light, while Coastal Walks adds a soft drift of sandalwood and cedar. It’s the scent of morning mist over water: airy, luminous, quietly addictive.
How to Layer Perfume (Without Overthinking It)
Think of layering like getting dressed. Start with your base scent, the one with depth and warmth; Eventide is perfect for this, all cinnamon, nutmeg and sandalwood. Then add your lighter perfume on top, Coastal Walks or En Plein Air, something fresh, bright, open.
A perfumer’s trick: spritz one perfume on your pulse points and another lightly through your hair or onto a scarf. As you move, the scents mingle and drift... a little conversation in fragrance form, sometimes subtle, sometimes dramatic.
The Beauty of a Signature That’s Yours Alone
Perfume layering isn’t about excess; it’s about expression. It’s how you take something beautiful and make it truly yours. It’s storytelling in scent: part memory, part alchemy, part play.
Perfume should never sit quietly. It should have moods, change its mind, glow differently at dusk than it did at dawn. So go on, let your perfume flirt, argue, fall in love. Create a scent that doesn’t just sit politely on your skin but lives there.
Because the best scent is layered... alive, personal and quietly, unmistakably yours.
Talk soon,
B x