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Favourite smell
posted on December 8th, 2009 by ormonde jayne in Perfume
If anyone is reading this about to set off to Morocco for their holidays you will have a chance to capture the most mesmerising exhilarating scent I have ever smelt – the Belle du Nuit flower. I first encountered it twenty years ago and then again more recently when we went to visit one of the plantations that supplies Ormonde Jayne with the Moroccan Rose used in Tolu. This time, we stayed in the High Atlas Mountains at Richard Branson’s peaceful hideaway, the Kasbah Tamadot which is a short walk away from a big field full of this incredible shrub.
The Belle de Nuit flower blooms only in the summer months for a very short period starting around 5pm, but its legendary scent reminds me of Scheherazade and magical quests of The Arabian Nights. Before the flowers bloom, you hardly notice this unexceptional dark green bush, but then suddenly, the tiny white flowers emerge and this burst of perfume is so dramatic and magnetic that even the local fauna agree! The funny image of local cats and dogs coming from all directions out to sit near this bush simply because it smells so wonderful reminds me that animals can relish a perfume just as we do. And it takes a truly exceptional event on a hot summer’s afternoon to lure me away from idle siestas, fresh mint tea and infinity pools – Atlas Mountains or not!
While the intoxicating spell of The Belle du Nuit has certainly been a source of inspiration for some of my perfumes, Ormonde Woman & Orris Noir particularly, I have sadly never found anyone able to extract it as the petals are the size of a tea leaf and in order to use it in perfume you would need to plant up half the country to extract a kilo of the oil. There is a synthetic form of Belle du Nuit used in the perfume world – Fragonard’s Belle du Nuit and Deep Night by Ghost- but none have yet captured the fascination of the real thing.
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Congratulations Ashley Jensen
posted on December 7th, 2009 by ormonde jayne in Perfume
We are congratulating Ashley Jensen & her husband with their wonderful news of a new son! Ashley is now starring in Accidentally on Purpose having just finished her role as confidante Christina in Ugly Betty .
She is one of our most devoted customers and stays in touch with Ormonde Jayne between her London visits with us through our online boutique when she is at her home in Hollywood. Incidentally, our new site will soon include a feature to pay in any currency worldwide!
Ashley’s current favourite is Ta’if was inspired by the roses of the Arabian hilltop desert town which overlooks The Red Sea and this exotic floral scent is for a Belle of the Ball which she certainly is! It includes notes of saffron, broom, amber, pink pepper and dates. Ashley also loves Champaca which she wore the night she won her first British Comedy Award.
Ashley got to know our range thoroughly when she briefly joined the staff at Ormonde Jayne Perfumery. Soon after she started, got a phone call from Ricky Gervais telling her she got the lead part in The Extras ending her career with an abrupt but happy end – the only time we truly celebrated saying goodbye to one of our staff!
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Whizz to work without a trace
posted on December 7th, 2009 by ormonde jayne in Perfume
Today I am celebrating one of the best investments I have made in recent years and another judicious reason to open some champagne! It is exactly four years that I got the keys to one of crucial machines that help make the best use of time and keep my carbon footprint almost traceless! My black G-Wiz may not follow Ormonde Jayne’s sleek design, but after four years, I can vouch that it shares our great service. For those of you not familiar with G-Wiz’s unlimited advantages for getting about in central London, it is entirely electric.
My spotless commute to Old Bond Street takes just 12 minutes and is entirely emission-free. At a pinch I could even pick up three other petite passengers or load up back with yet more supplies. At the moment it’s the latter as our perfume Osmanthus has been selling out this month after a raving magazine review. Ormonde Jayne’s Osmanthus is one of our oldest first perfumes launched in 2002 and gets many compliments. In the last two years there have been a few more scents with osmanthus from Keiko Mecheri The Different Company and Parfum d’Empire and I was even asked if ours was inspired by one of them by a journalist recently! I had to quietly point out that Ormonde Jayne’s was first by five years!
But I am digressing from the birthday girl! My G-Wizz means I never have to pay congestion charge and even better…I can park at any parking meter on Old Bond Street without paying one red cent. It’s the laziest way to join a revolution! A side benefit to this is the continually feel good factor watching uninitiated parking wardens desperately scrutinizing my G-Wiz, trying to find a way to issue a ticket …and failing! I can even park it at right angles because it’s so small (some others might say runt-like) and it costs a thrifty 1p a mile and 30 pence to charge its battery!
Other more recent converts to the G-Wiz include Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Ross, Joanna Page and my starter for 10, Bamber Gascoigne. But its advocate I am most thankful for is Boris Johnson who will hopefully ensure the scurrilous plans to ban it in London will be ripped to shreds! So Happy 4th Birthday to Lucie and to your long-but-low carbon future!
If anyone is reading this about to set off to Morocco for their holidays you will have a chance to capture the most mesmerising exhilarating scent I have ever smelt – the Belle du Nuit flower. I first encountered it twenty years ago and then again more recently when we went to visit one of the plantations that supplies Ormonde Jayne with the Moroccan Rose used in Tolu. This time, we stayed in the High Atlas Mountains at Richard Branson’s peaceful hideaway, the Kasbah Tamadot which is a short walk away from a big field full of this incredible shrub.
The Belle de Nuit flower blooms only in the summer months for a very short period starting around 5pm, but its legendary scent reminds me of Scheherazade and magical quests of The Arabian Nights. Before the flowers bloom, you hardly notice this unexceptional dark green bush, but then suddenly, the tiny white flowers emerge and this burst of perfume is so dramatic and magnetic that even the local fauna agree! The funny image of local cats and dogs coming from all directions out to sit near this bush simply because it smells so wonderful reminds me that animals can relish a perfume just as we do. And it takes a truly exceptional event on a hot summer’s afternoon to lure me away from idle siestas, fresh mint tea and infinity pools – Atlas Mountains or not!
While the intoxicating spell of The Belle du Nuit has certainly been a source of inspiration for some of my perfumes, Ormonde Woman & Orris Noir particularly, I have sadly never found anyone able to extract it as the petals are the size of a tea leaf and in order to use it in perfume you would need to plant up half the country to extract a kilo of the oil. There is a synthetic form of Belle du Nuit used in the perfume world – Fragonard’s Belle du Nuit and Deep Night by Ghost- but none have yet captured the fascination of the real thing.
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Congratulations Ashley Jensen
posted on December 7th, 2009 by ormonde jayne in Perfume
We are congratulating Ashley Jensen & her husband with their wonderful news of a new son! Ashley is now starring in Accidentally on Purpose having just finished her role as confidante Christina in Ugly Betty .
She is one of our most devoted customers and stays in touch with Ormonde Jayne between her London visits with us through our online boutique when she is at her home in Hollywood. Incidentally, our new site will soon include a feature to pay in any currency worldwide!
Ashley’s current favourite is Ta’if was inspired by the roses of the Arabian hilltop desert town which overlooks The Red Sea and this exotic floral scent is for a Belle of the Ball which she certainly is! It includes notes of saffron, broom, amber, pink pepper and dates. Ashley also loves Champaca which she wore the night she won her first British Comedy Award.
Ashley got to know our range thoroughly when she briefly joined the staff at Ormonde Jayne Perfumery. Soon after she started, got a phone call from Ricky Gervais telling her she got the lead part in The Extras ending her career with an abrupt but happy end – the only time we truly celebrated saying goodbye to one of our staff!
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Whizz to work without a trace
posted on December 7th, 2009 by ormonde jayne in Perfume
Today I am celebrating one of the best investments I have made in recent years and another judicious reason to open some champagne! It is exactly four years that I got the keys to one of crucial machines that help make the best use of time and keep my carbon footprint almost traceless! My black G-Wiz may not follow Ormonde Jayne’s sleek design, but after four years, I can vouch that it shares our great service. For those of you not familiar with G-Wiz’s unlimited advantages for getting about in central London, it is entirely electric.
My spotless commute to Old Bond Street takes just 12 minutes and is entirely emission-free. At a pinch I could even pick up three other petite passengers or load up back with yet more supplies. At the moment it’s the latter as our perfume Osmanthus has been selling out this month after a raving magazine review. Ormonde Jayne’s Osmanthus is one of our oldest first perfumes launched in 2002 and gets many compliments. In the last two years there have been a few more scents with osmanthus from Keiko Mecheri The Different Company and Parfum d’Empire and I was even asked if ours was inspired by one of them by a journalist recently! I had to quietly point out that Ormonde Jayne’s was first by five years!
But I am digressing from the birthday girl! My G-Wizz means I never have to pay congestion charge and even better…I can park at any parking meter on Old Bond Street without paying one red cent. It’s the laziest way to join a revolution! A side benefit to this is the continually feel good factor watching uninitiated parking wardens desperately scrutinizing my G-Wiz, trying to find a way to issue a ticket …and failing! I can even park it at right angles because it’s so small (some others might say runt-like) and it costs a thrifty 1p a mile and 30 pence to charge its battery!
Other more recent converts to the G-Wiz include Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Ross, Joanna Page and my starter for 10, Bamber Gascoigne. But its advocate I am most thankful for is Boris Johnson who will hopefully ensure the scurrilous plans to ban it in London will be ripped to shreds! So Happy 4th Birthday to Lucie and to your long-but-low carbon future!
We are congratulating Ashley Jensen & her husband with their wonderful news of a new son! Ashley is now starring in Accidentally on Purpose having just finished her role as confidante Christina in Ugly Betty .
She is one of our most devoted customers and stays in touch with Ormonde Jayne between her London visits with us through our online boutique when she is at her home in Hollywood. Incidentally, our new site will soon include a feature to pay in any currency worldwide!
Ashley’s current favourite is Ta’if was inspired by the roses of the Arabian hilltop desert town which overlooks The Red Sea and this exotic floral scent is for a Belle of the Ball which she certainly is! It includes notes of saffron, broom, amber, pink pepper and dates. Ashley also loves Champaca which she wore the night she won her first British Comedy Award.
Ashley got to know our range thoroughly when she briefly joined the staff at Ormonde Jayne Perfumery. Soon after she started, got a phone call from Ricky Gervais telling her she got the lead part in The Extras ending her career with an abrupt but happy end – the only time we truly celebrated saying goodbye to one of our staff!
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Whizz to work without a trace
posted on December 7th, 2009 by ormonde jayne in Perfume
Today I am celebrating one of the best investments I have made in recent years and another judicious reason to open some champagne! It is exactly four years that I got the keys to one of crucial machines that help make the best use of time and keep my carbon footprint almost traceless! My black G-Wiz may not follow Ormonde Jayne’s sleek design, but after four years, I can vouch that it shares our great service. For those of you not familiar with G-Wiz’s unlimited advantages for getting about in central London, it is entirely electric.
My spotless commute to Old Bond Street takes just 12 minutes and is entirely emission-free. At a pinch I could even pick up three other petite passengers or load up back with yet more supplies. At the moment it’s the latter as our perfume Osmanthus has been selling out this month after a raving magazine review. Ormonde Jayne’s Osmanthus is one of our oldest first perfumes launched in 2002 and gets many compliments. In the last two years there have been a few more scents with osmanthus from Keiko Mecheri The Different Company and Parfum d’Empire and I was even asked if ours was inspired by one of them by a journalist recently! I had to quietly point out that Ormonde Jayne’s was first by five years!
But I am digressing from the birthday girl! My G-Wizz means I never have to pay congestion charge and even better…I can park at any parking meter on Old Bond Street without paying one red cent. It’s the laziest way to join a revolution! A side benefit to this is the continually feel good factor watching uninitiated parking wardens desperately scrutinizing my G-Wiz, trying to find a way to issue a ticket …and failing! I can even park it at right angles because it’s so small (some others might say runt-like) and it costs a thrifty 1p a mile and 30 pence to charge its battery!
Other more recent converts to the G-Wiz include Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Ross, Joanna Page and my starter for 10, Bamber Gascoigne. But its advocate I am most thankful for is Boris Johnson who will hopefully ensure the scurrilous plans to ban it in London will be ripped to shreds! So Happy 4th Birthday to Lucie and to your long-but-low carbon future!
Today I am celebrating one of the best investments I have made in recent years and another judicious reason to open some champagne! It is exactly four years that I got the keys to one of crucial machines that help make the best use of time and keep my carbon footprint almost traceless! My black G-Wiz may not follow Ormonde Jayne’s sleek design, but after four years, I can vouch that it shares our great service. For those of you not familiar with G-Wiz’s unlimited advantages for getting about in central London, it is entirely electric.
My spotless commute to Old Bond Street takes just 12 minutes and is entirely emission-free. At a pinch I could even pick up three other petite passengers or load up back with yet more supplies. At the moment it’s the latter as our perfume Osmanthus has been selling out this month after a raving magazine review. Ormonde Jayne’s Osmanthus is one of our oldest first perfumes launched in 2002 and gets many compliments. In the last two years there have been a few more scents with osmanthus from Keiko Mecheri The Different Company and Parfum d’Empire and I was even asked if ours was inspired by one of them by a journalist recently! I had to quietly point out that Ormonde Jayne’s was first by five years!
But I am digressing from the birthday girl! My G-Wizz means I never have to pay congestion charge and even better…I can park at any parking meter on Old Bond Street without paying one red cent. It’s the laziest way to join a revolution! A side benefit to this is the continually feel good factor watching uninitiated parking wardens desperately scrutinizing my G-Wiz, trying to find a way to issue a ticket …and failing! I can even park it at right angles because it’s so small (some others might say runt-like) and it costs a thrifty 1p a mile and 30 pence to charge its battery!
Other more recent converts to the G-Wiz include Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Ross, Joanna Page and my starter for 10, Bamber Gascoigne. But its advocate I am most thankful for is Boris Johnson who will hopefully ensure the scurrilous plans to ban it in London will be ripped to shreds! So Happy 4th Birthday to Lucie and to your long-but-low carbon future!
