Blog entries and aromatherapy topics including links for further reading
(Be)longings: Scent, Memory and Home at Empress Studios A collaborative installation for Kensington & Chelsea Art Week 2025
Explore (Be)longings, a scent and ceramics collaboration by Yasmine ElGhamrawy and @Michaelancholia for Kensington & Chelsea Art Week 2025. Through the Hiraeth blend, visitors reflect on memory, home, and identity in an immersive olfactory experience that reveals how scent can shift perception and evoke deep emotion.
Vianne’s Confession: A Fragrance Born from Story and Place
Discover Vianne’s Confession, a fragrance created by Sarah McCartney of 4160 Tuesdays to accompany Joanne Harris’s new novel Vianne, the prequel to Chocolat. Inspired by Marseille’s Old Quarter, the scent blends incense, cacao, and salt. A sensory journey linking story and scent, explored at a Fragrance Foundation UK talk.
Scent and Art: A New Chapter from My Studio to The Gallery
Discover how Yatlina’s aromatherapy blends joined the InvisibleVisible Project, an Arts Council England-funded exhibition exploring menopause through art. Experience soothing scents like Calm, Power Up, and Rest at The Gallery in Earls Court, London, or shop the limited-time collection online. Read more in the Notebook section.
Walking with Trees Booklet
My contribution to“Walking with Trees,” a new guide to Brompton Cemetery one of London’s Magnificent Seven and a Royal Park.