Sonnet No. 1

Notes include narcissus, rose, lavender, hay and beeswax absolutes, and white musks.   

• The scent
• The artist

• Try a sample first! 
  
  For Sonnet No. 1, you are smelling the most expensive fragrance, also one of the most complicated, ever made by Sarah McCartney of 4160 Tuesdays. This absolutely stunning yet softly subtle fragrance is a bouquet of flowers that was made as a limited edition of Sonnet No. 1 for the Barnes Fragrance Fair. With the goal of harmoniously blending the aroma of Shakespeare's flowers, McCartney captures it all in liquid form. Shakespeare's first sonnet mentions "beauty's rose" hence the name. To rose - both the absolute and essential oil – lavender was added along with beeswax and hay absolutes to evoke the aromas of lily and violet. This posy of florals floats ever so delicately on a bed of white musks.

   

  Notes include narcissus, rose, lavender, hay and beeswax absolutes, and white musks.   

• We've met a lot of people in the perfume world, and Sarah McCartney of 4160 Tuesdays is one of our very favorites. Want to know why? Sarah, in her own words:

  "As a little girl, I did not make perfumes from rose petals. That was for softies. I made magic spells and wanted to be a witch when I grew up. When I was 16 I bought a bottle of Diorella. I studied maths and sciences, practised music and French, wrote books on brands and their evil twin—counterfeiting—and online marketing, and learned to dance Argentinean tango.

  "For 14 years I was the head writer for Lush while the company grew from four shops—one in Poole and three in London—to 700 worldwide. I was writing 50,000 words every three months for the Lush Times, aiming to encapsulate the products' scents in their descriptions. During that time, I bought and read 200 books on essential oils and herbalism and learned the essential oils the founders gave me to educate myself.

  "At the end of the 14 years, I took some time off to write a novel featuring a problem-solving perfumer. In it, I described the scents that she made and I wanted to have them available for people to smell. So I set off on a quest to see if I could buy them. This turned out to be impossible - and pretty expensive - because no one was making exactly what I wanted, so I started another quest to see of I could make them instead. Of course that turned out to be even more difficult, but once I'd started, I just kept going. 4160 Tuesdays perfumes is the result."

Previous Next