jingle smells
And that’s just our beauty director, Rylan Clark… As well as traversing the slippery tightrope from reality TV star to bonafide National Tresh, the TV presenter also has more knowledge about scent than the finest Parisian nose. Who better to discuss its power and test Christmas home fragrances?
words: alix walker
photography: MATTHEW SHAVE
I like zones. So my bedroom can’t smell like my lounge, my lounge can’t smell like my entrance hall. A lot of people make the mistake of having the same scent everywhere. But actually, subconsciously, fragrance takes you somewhere different and makes you feel a certain way, so when I walk into my house I want to be hit with that cuddle, that warmth. I like Diptyque Tuberose and I like The Beaumont by Jo Loves, which is really leathery, really oudy. In my kitchen/lounge, that’s where you’re going to spend the most time so you don’t want to be overpowered. I like mixing Diptyque Fig Tree as my main candle with another Diptyque fragrance called 34 (and I’ve just turned 34, so I like having that there), which My earliest scent memories are Estée Lauder Azurée, Clinique Aromatics Elixir and Bronnley English Fern. My mum would smother [Bronnley] on every time she got out the bath and that meant we were going somewhere – someone’s christening or communion or wedding. God forbid when my mum dies I’ll have a bottle of Bronnley in my house because it’s her. Lush, which you normally associate with a headache, does a body spray called Twilight that is really comforting to me because it reminds me of home. I like it on my sheets, on my towels – it makes me feel wrapped up.
