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Rowan Ambrose
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Freelance copywriter and content writer. Gleefully writing sensory-rich words for indie perfume, fine chocolate, and speciality coffee brands ✒️
Also a haphazard gardener, growing fragrant roses in Scotland 🌹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Struggling in the heat?

Here are some fabulous fragrances to bring refreshment on hot and sticky days.

Featuring perfumes by:
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Jorum Studio
Heeley Parfums
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@storaskuggan.bsky.social
Le Galion

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Top 6 best juicy fragrances for languid summer days
Top 6 best juicy fragrances for languid summer days Well, I don’t know about you, but it’s been a real challenge to stay focused in the summer heat this year, even in SW Scotland where …
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July 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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How rosy are you feeling?

Despite a garden full of fragrant old roses, I can never get enough of them.

Here’s a few rose perfumes bringing me joy this midsummer.

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#FragranceSky
5 luscious rose perfumes for high summer
Some of my favourite feel good rose fragrances to boost your mood, even if you can’t bunk off work for the afternoon to lounge in the park. Bring the outdoors in, with these gloriously sunny …
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July 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Wishing you a peaceful summer solstice from the Isle of Cumbrae in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#ScottishIsland #SummerSolstice
Misty mountains on distant islands seem to float on the very calm sea. A nearer island is covered in green foliage. In the foreground, there are stacks and slabs of pinky red rocks, deep green rock plants and acid green seaweed. The sky is blue and there are white wispy clouds.
June 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Latest blog post’s on the power of sensory marketing. Would you consider using it for your indie perfume brand?

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How to use sensory marketing (so you can sell more online)
Are you an artisan or craftsperson wanting to sell more online? Read on to find out how you can use the senses to evoke an emotional response in your readers so they click to buy.
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June 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Mausam by Kushbu Perfumery.

Golden sun dances coins of light on the winding jungle path.

Fresh and brightly juicy fruit dangles from dewy, luxuriant foliage— fantasy versions of rhubarb and mango.

Warm cinnamon, pepper and clove scatter through the treetops and settle on velvety peridot moss.
A glass vial of Mausam perfume is on a vintage pine trunk. It’s surrounded by decorated cards about the perfume and some smooth sea glass.
May 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.

So we’re readying a challenge – join us:
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Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
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April 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Pine by @storaskuggan.bsky.social

Silvery blue. Deep, dark green. Springy, soft bottlebrush needles.

A sprig of mint, maybe 2 or 3.

A snow shower of vanilla sugar dusts the treetops.

Opalescent eucalyptus shimmers.

On the mossy forest floor, a whistling gardener clips bare rose bushes.
An olive green glass bottle with an olive green spherical cap is perched on a perspex prop. There are similar shaped bottles around it; one is milky white and another has a tortoiseshell cap. The wall behind is painted pale cream.
April 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Empty beach, wide skies, distant mountains…and the fabulously complex smell of rotting seaweed.

Do you love it too?

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#PerfumeSky
An empty beach at low tide with rippled wet sand. There are mountain peaks on islands in the distance, the sky is blue and there are big white pale grey clouds.
March 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Can we do a #Smellfie here too?

Wearing Des Cendres by Les Abstraits for a sunny and warm Scottish spring day.

Crushed, sappy green stems with a luxuriously generous white floral heart and a smooothly soft leather drydown.

Utterly bewitching 💚

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#FragranceSky
A rosy faced Scottish person wearing a stripy ecru and navy jersey is grinning and holding a small box with Sainte Cellier branding on.
March 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Wobbly lambs, golden daffodil trumpets and chirruping birds. To celebrate this magical time of year, I’ve written about some perfumes that are bringing me joy right now.

Featuring fragrances from:
Detaille
Jorum Studio
Caron
Maya Njie
Grossmith

#PerfumeSky

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5 triumphant fragrances for spring
Fresh, bright and golden, these uplifting spring perfumes will delight you as the northern hemisphere wakes from its winter slumber.
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March 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Dazzling light at the beach 😎

#ScottishBeach
Bright sunlight dazzles off calm water at a Scottish beach. There are stretches of damp sand with rippled patterns. The sky is blue but hazy and there is a faint outline of mountains on the Isle of Arran in the far distance.
March 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Quick, quick! What a marvellous opportunity.
sarahmccartney.bsky.social Sarah McCartney @sarahmccartney.bsky.social · Mar 6
We've had a cancellation for our 5-day perfume making workshop 17-21 March.
That chair could be yours.
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March 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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This sounds fascinating.
willtullett.bsky.social Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · Mar 5
A reminder that next week you can hear me talk about the smell history of Glasgow’s subway online or in person at the IHR!
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COMING SOON!

The next @ihr.bsky.social Transport & Mobility History seminar:

Underground-Overground: The Heritage Smell of the Glasgow Subway
@willtullett.bsky.social (York)

13 Mar 2025, 17.30 UK, hybrid

#Railway200

Booking free - all welcome:
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March 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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This sounds like a perfect collaboration.
March 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Stephen. Remind people that they’re not helpless
February 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Freshly baked sourdough to scoff today, with the remains destined for #ToastSky.
A freshly baked round sourdough loaf sits on a metal cooling rack. Theres’s a grey granite effect kitchen counter underneath.
February 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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February 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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After splashing paint around all weekend, I was surprised that the smell was still lingering today.

I can highly recommend burning one of these wee incense papers to gently clear the worst of a pong. They worked far better than I’d hoped.

Have you tried them?

#PerfumeSky #FragranceSky
A pale blue book of Papier d’Armenie incense papers is propped against a burred walnut treasure chest banded with bronze. Everything is on an antique pine chest of drawers.
February 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Bright and tangily juicy, Note de Yuzu by Heeley Parfums is keeping me fresh and perky while I tackle some decorating.

Have you any favourites from this house?

#PerfumeSky #FragranceSky
A glass sample bottle of Note de Yuzu by Heeley Parfums is lying on grid pattern notepaper. There is a small white slightly ridged box with the Heeley Parfums branding on.
February 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Quick walk to the beach before the electrician comes round.

What do you do when you have a 4 hour window for expecting a tradesperson? Can you concentrate on anything at all, if you might be interrupted at any point?
Bright blue sky, deep blue calm sea and coppery seaweed is gleaming on a Scottish beach. Sun is shining on bleached sea grasses in the foreground.
February 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Golden gorse, breathing its toasted coconut and warm vanilla into the cool Scottish air 💛
Golden tiny cup shaped gorse flowers on a very thick and prickly thicket.
February 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Majestic and storm battered beeches soaking up some welcome sunshine ☀️

#NoFilter
Blue sky and puffy white clouds with tall, winter bare beeches. There are Scots pine trees in the distance along with hills and glittering wind turbines. The grass is green and sparkling from recent rain.
February 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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To all the friendly fragrance folk here, please have a bunch of honey scented snowdrops.

You’ve made a curmudgeonly technophobe feel very welcome. Thank you 🤍
A cluster of milk white snowdrops. Their nodding heads finely etched with bright green lines along the edges of the petals. Their foliage is slightly grey green and they’re emerging from muddy ground scattered with stalks of dead grass.
February 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Have you seen our online guide for new refugees? It’s available in 20+ languages and is packed with expert information and advice to help people understand their rights and plan their next steps after getting refugee status in Scotland.
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Do you know about our online guide for new refugees? It's packed with expert information to help people plan their next steps after getting refugee status And it's available in more than 20 languages. Just pick the one you need.
February 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM