4160Tuesdays

Captured by Candlelight hits at just the right side of appetising.

Balance and restraint are the key to making any perfume with gourmand elements work. The last thing anyone wants to smell like is a cupcake. Well, maybe some people do. No judgement. (We’re totally judging).

Captured by Candlelight is a perfume inspired by perfumer (and writer) Sarah McCartney’s story of the same name. There’s a scene in the story where a huge, flaming Christmas pudding is being wheeled into a candlelit, oak-panelled dining room. She’s told that part of the story with smells.

We love its considered construction of notes - the gummy, stewed fruits, flaming treacle, oak panels and freshly extinguished candles. You really smell the story when you wear it.

A perfect union of narrative and execution.

Notes:

• Cognac, Cinnamon, Toffee
• Stewed Fruits, Toasted Hazelnuts
• Opoponax, Candle Wax, Oakwood

Perfumer: Sarah McCartney, 2016.

10ml/0.35oz eau de parfum

Ingredients: Alcohol (denat), Parfum, Limonene, Cinnamal, Citral, Eugenol, Benzyl Benzoate, Coumarin, Cinnamyl Alcohol, Geraniol, Linalool, Hazelnut Extract (Corylus)

There are some perfumes inspired by aspirational nights out full of glamour, champagne and glittering chandeliers. Maxed Out is the opposite of that. Dodgy bars (you know the kind with sticky floors), smoking blunts, cash up-front liaisons, passing out in a dingy back alley, regret and an espresso for when you finally come round.

Notes:

• Lime, Coconut, Rum
• Tobacco, Cannabis, Olive, Woods
• Black Pepper, Vintage Musks, Cumin, Coffee

Perfumer: Sarah McCartney, 2015.

50ml / 1.7oz extrait de parfum.

Ingredients: Alcohol, Parfum, Linalool, Limonene, Geraniol, Citral, Farnesol, Benzyl Benzoate

Captured by Candlelight hits at just the right side of appetising.

Balance and restraint are the key to making any perfume with gourmand elements work. The last thing anyone wants to smell like is a cupcake. Well, maybe some people do. No judgement. (We’re totally judging).

Captured by Candlelight is a perfume inspired by perfumer (and writer) Sarah McCartney’s story of the same name. There’s a scene in the story where a huge, flaming Christmas pudding is being wheeled into a candlelit, oak-panelled dining room. She’s told that part of the story with smells.

We love its considered construction of notes - the gummy, stewed fruits, flaming treacle, oak panels and freshly extinguished candles. You really smell the story when you wear it.

A perfect union of narrative and execution.

Notes:

• Cognac, Cinnamon, Toffee
• Stewed Fruits, Toasted Hazelnuts
• Opoponax, Candle Wax, Oakwood

Perfumer: Sarah McCartney, 2016.

50ml / 1.7oz eau de parfum

Ingredients: Alcohol (denat), Parfum, Limonene, Cinnamal, Citral, Eugenol, Benzyl Benzoate, Coumarin, Cinnamyl Alcohol, Geraniol, Linalool, Hazelnut Extract (Corylus)

An enthralling perfumed tableaux of wandering through the streets of Havana on a hot summer night. The smell of overripe mangoes, bruised and discarded, after a day spent wallowing in tropical heat mixes with golden, sun-cured tobacco leaves, caramelized brown sugar, freshly pressed espresso and vines of jasmine hanging overhead.

Perfumer Sarah McCartney finishes The Dark Heart of Old Havana on a base of a dark vanilla, tonka bean and feral musks that give this perfume such a swagger it should come with a parental advisory warning. This is a grown-up, adults-only fragrance, fully cognizant of its intoxicating allure.

Warning: Due to the colour of some of the naturals used in this fragrance, it may stain light coloured clothing.

Notes

• Bergamot, Black Pepper, Orange,Mango, Grapefruit, Sugar
• Tobacco, Coffee, Jasmine
• Vanilla, Musk, Tonka

Perfumer: Sarah McCartney, 2013.

50ml / 1.7oz eau de parfum.

Ingredients: Alcohol, Parfum, Limonene, Linalool, Citral, Geraniol.

Temptation is so smooth it practically purs out of the bottle. It was first developed as an accord in another 4160Tuesdays scent called Take Me to the River. Take Me to the River is a perfume about falling for someone who’s really no good for you, and Temptation brought the tempting bit.

“You know how a backing band is sometimes so good that it gathers a fan base, leaves its headline singer behind and goes on tour by itself? That’s what happened with Temptation. No plants were harmed in the creation of this fragrance and it has no allergens. Everyone can wear it. You can use it on its own, or add it to a lighter, flighty fragrance to help it last longer and waft further. It’s gorgeous.” Sarah McCartney, 4160Tuesdays.

And what a cracking idea if you want to experiment with some of your past drops and try boosting them up to Take Me to Mars level!

Notes

• Musks

Perfumer: Sarah McCartney, 2020.

50ml/1.75oz

Ingredients: Alcohol Denat., Parfum

A woodsy, vanilla wardrobe staple that you cannot live without. You’re welcome.

Notes:

• Citrus Meringue
• Spiced Woods
• Vanilla Amber

Perfumer: Sarah McCartney, 2013.

50ml / 1.7oz eau de parfum.

Ingredients: Alcohol (denat), Parfum, Citral, Limonene, Linalool

Doe in the Snow is an homage to the fruity chypre perfumes of the late 1960s and 1970s. Sarah McCartney’s modern interpretation is a graceful blend of citrus fruits, flowers and woods stirred with an icicle. She uses a crystalline breeze of sparkling aldehydes to create an icy glaze on rounded, peachy softness and a blanketing of downy snow on pale white roses and jasmine cradled in woods. She softens the notoriously steely-eyed glare of the classical chypre base with green tea absolute, which surrounds the oakmoss in a velvety plush texture. Understated and fabulously retro.

Notes

• Grapefruit, Cedrat, Yuzu, Peach Aldehyde,Snow
• Cedarwood, Rose, Jasmine, Oak
• Opoponax, Oakmoss, Leather, Green Tea Absolute

Perfumer: Sarah McCartney, 2014.

50ml / 1.7 oz eau de parfum.

Ingredients: Alcohol, Parfum, Benzyl Salicylate , Limonene, Citronellol, Geraniol, Evernia, Prunastri (Oak Moss) Extract, Linalool, Citral