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A huge thank you to our Geelong Fragrance Fair sponsors.

We couldn't bring Australia's only independent and artisanal fragrance fair to life without the support of our incredible sponsors.

A special thank you to our major sponsor, @visitvictoria for backing an event that celebrates Victoria's creativity and craft on a national stage.

Thank you to @givaudan, a global leader in fragrance creation and technology trusted by brands around the world, and @pochpac, masters in the art of luxury glass, for supporting the event, as well as our industry celebrations on Friday 11 Sept.

And to our other programming partners, @loreperfumery and Maximise scent strips: thank you for being part of bringing this to life.

Geelong Fragrance Fair 2026 wouldn't be possible without you.

#GeelongFragranceFair #GFF2026 #OlfactiveSociety #Perfumery #FragranceCommunity @visitgeelongbellarine

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A little throwback to January 2019…

Before the website, before the launch, before Karen Timson Fine Fragrance became what it is today, there was this.

My very first two signature fragrances, Hermia and Pendragon, were being bottled in readiness for my launch the following month.

If you look closely at the photograph, you’ll see something rather lovely. The very first bottles to come off the screen printer @pochpac that were actually labelled by the printers themselves. Those were the bottles that were filled first, boxed first and carefully put aside.

I kept them, not simply because I couldn’t bear to part with them, but because of what they represented.

Years of learning perfumery, experimenting, creating, doubting, starting again and working towards the day when all those years of hard work finally became something I could hold in my hands.

I was incredibly proud.

Six bottles. Hermia and Pendragon, in three different sizes. The very first bottles of my very first fragrances.

And here they are in this photograph, surrounded by boxes, bottles and all the wonderful chaos of those early days. If you look closely, you can even see those little printer’s labels sitting on the bottles! ❤️

Seven years on, I still have every one of those six bottles.

They’re not just perfume bottles. They’re a little piece of my journey, of me and a reminder of the work, hope and sheer determination that went into getting to that moment.

@pochpac @buywomenbuilt

#indieperfumery #womenledbusiness #nichefragrance #fragrancelover #perfumecollection

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For @goeksu_kunak’s exhibition REMAINS in Berlin at @ebensperger_ , we created a dried blood accord as a form of olfactory scenography.

The scent was developed as a smellscape for the closing performance, but also as an object that could leave the exhibition and be experienced elsewhere, in whatever way its owner chooses.

Only 30 bottles were made, proudly sponsored by the amazing @pochpac team. Each bottle has been individually splashed with blue paint, referencing the paintings and drawings generated through performance throughout the two-month exhibition.

The accord is deliberately jarring: metallic, animalic, leathery, slightly rubbery. The impression of dried blood on medical instruments.

REMAINS considers how immaterial practices leave material traces. Bodies, gestures, sound, tension, exhaustion and collective movement become instruments for producing matter. Pigment is transferred through contact, movement is registered through repetition, and surfaces retain the evidence of physical strain and gravity.

Scent occupies a peculiar position within this question. It is material, yet difficult to contain. It can mark a space, attach itself to a body, evoke something long after its source has disappeared, and ultimately dissipate.

A few bottles are still available. Each one is unique, and once they’re gone, they’re gone.

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Roll up roll up, it's time for a raffle for @refuweegee

Raffle tickets are available NOW both in store and online. They cost £5 each and put you in the running to win one of several amazing prizes.

We've received donations from brands including:
@les_indemodables_officiel
@nosuparfum
@mabelle_orama
@trudon
@jazminsarai.scents
@olfictionlimited
@early_modern
@barutiperfumes / @sgbrandsuk
@f.miller.skincare
@sansceuticals

The prize draw will take place on SATURDAY 18TH JULY. Alongside the draw we will be running a sample Lucky Dip, thanks to our friends at @pochpac.

We hope you can join us in store, but fret not we can also send prizes out to you.

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Normal positive service resumed after yesterday’s horror show...! (I’ve posted in my Stories the screenshot of the engagement that my ‘negative’ post had – and it’s absolutely shocking!)

But yesterday was a GREAT day because the gorgeous second issue of @onthescentmedia magazine, which I created with @fragrantmaven (words) and our amazing designer, @jennysemple (who has also worked on almost all the Beauty Bible books). The main theme this quarter is how perfumers cleverly capture the sense of landscape in a fragrance – mountains, meadows, beaches, forests...

But there’s so much more, including ‘Staycation Scents’ (home fragrances to help you travel without leaving home), and a wonderful interview with the super-creative @davidbenedek1 of @bdkparfums – we’re up to 70 pages, with this issue! And @outspokenbeautynicola has written a lovely piece about the scents of her holidays in south west France.

I’m particularly thrilled with the cover, from an idea I had when I saw an image of some bottles from @pochpac – who supply them to a host of fragrance brands – and thought: ‘I wonder if Jenny could Photoshop some images into those, because there’s such a trend for landscape-inspired fragrances...’ No AI involved WHATSOEVER!

I am Editor-in-Chief, Commissioning Editor, Picture Researcher, Sub-Editor (although @maggiealderson always proofs it, too), – and with @scentinelcomms , Ad Sales Manager (also: Customer Service Manager, Director of Logistics and Head of Postroom, at least temporarily!)

But we have been wowed by the response to the magazine – free to read online, but our last print run sold out in four days and we had to get the presses whirring pronto, a reflection of the move back to magazines we can touch, feel, wallow in... Comments from perfumers, fragrance brands and people who just love reading about smell – and there are more and more of you – have been incredible.

Link to buy is in bio!

And no more negativity round here, buddies! It WAS an experiment...

#perfumemagazine #onthecent #onthescentmagazine

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Soon.

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This win has taken me a little time to process. On the 11th June Aethi Opum won best fragrance in the Artisan Category at the Art and Olfaction awards in Athens.

Formulating this scent was lengthy, beautiful, emotional and at times difficult, sad and demanding. I considered the importance of shifts; both seasonal but mostly generational. What to keep, what to let go of and what to carry forward. As our Erykah says: Pack light.

I am so proud and happy that this scent made it through to the finals and won. With over 400 submissions from all over the world, and with the judges smelling blind, I feel it is a testament to how powerful scent really can be.

Thank you to the judges and the @artandolfaction team for your dedication to true independent perfumery and to those who support my business and believe in it, in so many different ways.

Looking back, it’s not the first pear I have won it turns out. I cannot wait to receive my second in the post. 🍐 #aethiopumperfume

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DELIRIUM smellscape launch. Edition of 30 in collaboration with @dor_olfactory as a part of REMAINS @ebensperger_ June 28, at 6 pm. Maybe with a surprise!
Special thanks to @pochpac This is the last event of the exhibition.🥲 #blue #immaterial #fragrance #performance #göksukunak

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A trip I’ll never forget.

Until next time, Greece. 🇬🇷✨

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A handful of photos from the #AOAwards in Athens tonight.
A warm, friendly, joyful evening with the best possible ending: Grant Osborne recognised for Basenotes by a golden pear (and shiny headdress) for Contribution to Scent Culture.
1. The Rose Retreat 2023 reunion
2. My seat
3. Rose, bergamot cocktails
4. Terry Carter of Travertine Atelier + us
5. Ready to go!
6. & 7. Pochpac presenting the Independent finalists
8. Independent winners, Première Peau, with Nuit Elastique
9. Karen & Maddie presenting the Artisan finalists
10. Chi Tang who kindly helped me with Chinese pronunciation for my Honorable Mentions. I can't tag him as he doesn't allow such things 😃
11. Maybe Njie who won a pear!
12. Terry with Simon Niedenthal presenting the Sadakichi Award to...
13. - 15. Nadjib Achaibou
16. The Osmotheque got a Septimus Piesse Visionary Award
17. Grant Osborne who founded Basenotes yonks ago. Go there, because he's on the side of the good.

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