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Diptyque Pop-Up Store – Mayfair
Everyone?s favourite home fragrance and perfume brand, Diptyque, has popped up on10 Hanvover Street, Mayfair with an immersive exhibition/store to mark it?s 50th year of making fragrances. The space is divided up into sections that include a special photo booth for selfies (smellfiies!), a wall of gorgeous and complimentary postcards for you to pick from (Diptyque will mail  them to family and friends for you), a perfumer?s palette where there?s 30 raw fragrance materials to try out and lots more besides. The best part of my visit was at The Artist Box where I discovered my new favourite fragrance, Oyédo, which is a gorgeous fruity blend of yuzu, green tangerine and thyme. Without knowing the notes, I described it as being grapefruit-y and a perfectly balanced citrus scent – not too sweet or too tarte. The pop up is on until the 22nd October but good times to attend might be on 19th October when they?ll be complimentary embroidering on all purchases and on 20th October for the Build Your Own Bouquet session. For more info and to book into workshops email [email protected]

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Snap by Belinda Bauer
I love thrillers and crime novels but I just don?t have the stomach these days for anything too gory. I like puzzles, intrigue and twists not detailed accounts of bodies being hacked to pieces. Snap by Belinda Bauer is a real page turner and reminds me of the novels by Ruth Rendell and Patricia Highsmith. It?s more...