The founder of Miller Harris – Lyn Harris is a perfume atelier. Based in Notting Hill the boutique shop resembles an old fashioned chemist with shelves lined with brown bottled vials containing the rawest ingredients to make up unique perfumes. A whole host of scents are captured from pistachios aromas to macaroons, warm milk and freshly cut grass!
Bespoke perfumery at Miller Harris has always been instilled in their DNA and now they have opened it up to clients with elaborate budgets to create something no one else has.
People ask for anything and everything and with a price tag starting from £12,000, quite rightly so! Some scents that Miller Harris have created in the past are the smell of a ladies father’s library, fragrance from oak trees from a childhood garden and surprisingly the smell of a horse!
We have asked five Maskettes to share their dream scent as if it were captured in a bottle:
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- Sweet peas. I have strong memories of the scent of the wall of sweet peas at my grandparents country house. It smells like summer to me and evokes fond memories of my childhood, hazy summer evenings and the school holidays.
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- smell of holidays with a half a fresh coconut, sprigs of jasmine and a scoop of Daz washing powder.
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- 2 slices of burnt toast, a BBQ on a sunny Saturday afternoon and a batch of warm chocolate chip cookies with vanilla pods.
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- freshly cut grass combined with my log cabin in Canada, it smells exactly the same year on year- wood, sand and bonfires.
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- Sun soaked sand and sea breeze with a whisper of sweet parma violets, infused with leather jacket and hints of sugary cake mix from a spoon
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