** Every pre-order will come with a free Eventide Body Lotion (worth £19.50). I think the two sit together beautifully, a gentle conversation between scents and if you’ve ever been curious about scent stacking, this is a perfect place to begin. We’ll be sending them out on 2nd February, which feels perfectly timed for Valentine’s Day. The pre-order - with the gift - is available until 27th January.
Bella’s Notes
Annotations Unisex Parfum is a warm, woody unisex fragrance inspired by our Cambridge perfumery, by a city that has been thinking for a very long time. On the skin, this perfume wears quietly and steadily, opening warm and close rather than showy. There’s a gentle lift at first, then it settles into something reassuring and composed. It doesn’t announce itself; it stays with you, grounded, contented, quietly luminous.
The story:
You know you’re properly inside a library in Cambridge when the doors close and the world quietens. The noise of the street doesn’t so much stop as lose interest. It falls away. What remains is a calm, concentrated quiet that feels accumulated rather than imposed, as though it has been building patiently for centuries.
There are long wooden tables, of course, the sort your hands recognise instantly. You rest your fingers on the surface and feel how smooth it is, worn that way by other hands, other minds. The scent is immediate and comforting: warm, dry wood, cedar burnished by use rather than polish. It smells like seriousness, but the kind you trust.
You find the book you’ve been looking for. The pages resist just slightly, then give, releasing that familiar smell of paper and time. Somewhere nearby, a pencil is sharpened, a brief, precise flash of fresh wood cutting neatly through the quiet. It’s oddly satisfying, like a thought coming into focus. There’s a faint lift in the room, a moment of brightness, the way light sharpens stone when a cloud moves. Lemon peel and bergamot pass through almost unnoticed, doing their work and disappearing again.
You read. A window is opened. Dust motes drift and sparkle in the sunlight. And then, almost without realising it, you notice something softer. A green, living rose, not floral in any obvious way, more like a presence. It feels as though someone has been here before you and left something behind, an annotation, pencilled lightly in the margin. A secret note. The book hasn’t changed, but your understanding of it has.
Time stretches in that particular way it does when you’re absorbed. The warmth builds gently. Your skin warms under the glass. The scent of books deepens: paper, leather, that faint resinous sweetness that only appears when things have been left alone long enough. Balsams and benzoin gather quietly in the background, smoothing everything out, and then oud arrives, unshowy, steady. It doesn’t darken the room. It holds it. It smells like confidence built slowly, thought layered upon thought.
By the time you look up, you feel held inside a quietly luminous world. Full of asides. Full of small, private understandings. The sort of place where nothing has to prove itself, and everything feels, somehow, meant just for you.
Mist between 8-10 inches (10-25cm) away from your body and let it develop on the skin, but please do not rub - it spoils the oils. A little tip I use is to mist my hair - it helps the scent to last longer and each time I move, it releases a little more. I also keep my Parfum in the fridge, the cool air helps to preserve it and when I do mist it on my skin, it feels wonderfully refreshing.
Floral Notes:
Top Notes Cedarwood, Bergamot, Lemon Essential Oil,
Heart Notes: Rose Absolute, Coriander Seed,
Base Notes: Oud, Balsam of Peru, Benzoin Resin, Patchouli
** Every pre-order will come with a free Eventide Body Lotion (worth £19.50). I think the two sit together beautifully, a gentle conversation between scents and if you’ve ever been curious about scent stacking, this is a perfect place to begin. We’ll be sending them out on 2nd February, which feels perfectly timed for Valentine’s Day. The pre-order - with the gift - is available until 27th January.
Bella’s Notes
Annotations Unisex Parfum is a warm, woody unisex fragrance inspired by our Cambridge perfumery, by a city that has been thinking for a very long time. On the skin, this perfume wears quietly and steadily, opening warm and close rather than showy. There’s a gentle lift at first, then it settles into something reassuring and composed. It doesn’t announce itself; it stays with you, grounded, contented, quietly luminous.
The story:
You know you’re properly inside a library in Cambridge when the doors close and the world quietens. The noise of the street doesn’t so much stop as lose interest. It falls away. What remains is a calm, concentrated quiet that feels accumulated rather than imposed, as though it has been building patiently for centuries.
There are long wooden tables, of course, the sort your hands recognise instantly. You rest your fingers on the surface and feel how smooth it is, worn that way by other hands, other minds. The scent is immediate and comforting: warm, dry wood, cedar burnished by use rather than polish. It smells like seriousness, but the kind you trust.
You find the book you’ve been looking for. The pages resist just slightly, then give, releasing that familiar smell of paper and time. Somewhere nearby, a pencil is sharpened, a brief, precise flash of fresh wood cutting neatly through the quiet. It’s oddly satisfying, like a thought coming into focus. There’s a faint lift in the room, a moment of brightness, the way light sharpens stone when a cloud moves. Lemon peel and bergamot pass through almost unnoticed, doing their work and disappearing again.
You read. A window is opened. Dust motes drift and sparkle in the sunlight. And then, almost without realising it, you notice something softer. A green, living rose, not floral in any obvious way, more like a presence. It feels as though someone has been here before you and left something behind, an annotation, pencilled lightly in the margin. A secret note. The book hasn’t changed, but your understanding of it has.
Time stretches in that particular way it does when you’re absorbed. The warmth builds gently. Your skin warms under the glass. The scent of books deepens: paper, leather, that faint resinous sweetness that only appears when things have been left alone long enough. Balsams and benzoin gather quietly in the background, smoothing everything out, and then oud arrives, unshowy, steady. It doesn’t darken the room. It holds it. It smells like confidence built slowly, thought layered upon thought.
By the time you look up, you feel held inside a quietly luminous world. Full of asides. Full of small, private understandings. The sort of place where nothing has to prove itself, and everything feels, somehow, meant just for you.
Mist between 8-10 inches (10-25cm) away from your body and let it develop on the skin, but please do not rub - it spoils the oils. A little tip I use is to mist my hair - it helps the scent to last longer and each time I move, it releases a little more. I also keep my Parfum in the fridge, the cool air helps to preserve it and when I do mist it on my skin, it feels wonderfully refreshing.
Floral Notes:
Top Notes Cedarwood, Bergamot, Lemon Essential Oil,
Heart Notes: Rose Absolute, Coriander Seed,
Base Notes: Oud, Balsam of Peru, Benzoin Resin, Patchouli