Fashion Quarterly

The smell of SWEET SUCCESS

uite unlike our other senses, scent has a hypnotising ability to evoke memories, and transport us to another time and place. For some it’s the smoothing on of sunscreen on the first sweltering day of summer that brings fond childhood memories rushing back; for others it’s the scent of a lost loved one’s favourite fragrance on a cherished item of clothing that helps us revive fading memories. For Glasshouse Fragrance founder Nicole Eckels it’s the memory of her mother that first ignited her passion for fragrance. Eckels recalls the moth-tobutterfly moments when her mother would disappear into her room to then later re-emerge smelling and looking amazing. “Everyone would change as a result of her change. The power in that was extraordinary, and

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