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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The local foxes are looking into the new year with oblivious curiosity and hunger. I try to learn something from them 🤣

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

This was on the inside of the toilet door at the gig I went to last night and just seems to sum up everything really…

Close up of the shiny black painted interior of a toilet cubicle door. Graffiti in neon yellow thin marker pen says ‘Permanent nonsense’ in all caps handwriting

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I keep forgetting to post - it’s been hectic lately, but here’s a little calm thing - a puff of sheep’s wool in the grass.

Low sunlight illuminating damp white sheep’s wool stretched like a thick cobweb in green grass

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Sampling Altra perfumes today (and for several weeks - these need some focus!). REALLY impressed - focus on sustainability in the packaging and on subtle, genuinely novel compositions where flowers and fruits go up in smoke and hearts are frozen in gothic orris…

5 perfume sample vials with black rounded stoppers from Altra. Three liquids are pale yellow, one darker orange and one darker swampy green

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Happy sunny #caturday from Countess, fully solar powered just now #cattummy

A tortoishell cat sprawled on her back in the grass, back feet up showing toe beans and tail curling up in the foreground.

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It’s too hot for daytime daily walks but my last evening stroll yielded a book and dwarf plums - never let it be said that the city doesn’t provide 🤣

A hand holding small maroon coloured plums, and a paperback thriller

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Aqua Allegoria madarin basilic hand cream - Massively overpriced? ☑️ Almost impossible to get half the product out? ☑️ Tiny yet impractical to fit in things? ☑️ But soooooo cute and smells good - yep! 😍 this is my fave scent in this line or I wouldn’t have fallen for it 🤣 #perfumesky

Guerlain aqua allegoria hand cream - hexagonal ‘honeycomb’ container in pale peach colour

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Awesome to meet @perfumer-pia.bsky.social at Barnes Fragrance Fair, and finally sample her Eau de Boujee line. There’s a floral, a leather, a rose, a resinous one… and my favourite, a Verdant green. All take up space unapologetically. This is the plants reclaiming the land… 💚

Eau de Boujee ‘Verdant’ perfume sample balanced on the close up face of a grey & white knitted cat with huge neon green button eyes.

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

#sotd is Altra’s Ghost Flower. Really impressed by this sample set I love 4 out of 5! This is a real subtle beauty - a resinous and gently smoky scent which brings lily to life in a whole new way for me (I usually dislike lily). A hint of guava maybe?? #perfumesky

A perfume sample vial with rounded black top from Altra, on a tracing paper background

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

These roses though… smell is faint but pretty #perfumesky

Bush full of roses with pale peach centres and onbre bright pink edges

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I don’t often buy a paper but struck to see that today’s Guardian headlines are about institutionalised racism and attacks on Kyiv and Gaza. The fact I am struck by this says it all - why isn’t this reporting standard?

Front page of today’s Guardian newspaper (UK)

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Two more empties! Lankaran Forest by Maria Candida Gentile is lovely but not a rebuy for me - more citrus than forest and I have better. Dusita’s Le Sillage Blanc is an obsession with me this Spring - to me it’s less leather chypre more hay 💛

Two small empty perfume bottles against a wooden door

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Had the best time at #barnesfragrancefair yesterday- fave fumes from these two amazing perfumers, Clara of @earlymodernperfume.bsky.social and Mabelle O’Rama - very different but both with so much to share 🤩

A trio of women from the waist up, smiling widely

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Lovely arrival today from Rook - Jaffa is the second of their scents celebrating Palestine and smells like biting through orange peel to release a swirl of blossoms 🧡 #perfumesky

Bottle of Rook Perfumes Jaffa, held uo against white blossoms and green leaves fading to evening sunshine at the right hand side

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

#sotd WAS a spray from a friend of some amazing Pineward concoction of tomato leaf and grapefruit - but now it’s this pandan coconut custard bun 🤤 #perfumesky

Soft white Korean bun with green zig zag icing and desiccated coconut on top, a big bite taken showing bright green filling

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Easily the easiest to love is Rice Cake. Sweet but not too sweet, utterly comforting. I have some similar things already but this is lovely, especially for the price point

KST Rice Cake perfume sample in pink tamarisk flowers

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

So Maek is fascinating. It celebrates Korean drink Soju, which I don’t know and now can’t imagine. Also beer. It smells like very dry beer with something herbal added. I disliked it and then kept sniffing…

KST So Maek perfume sample in pink lilac flowers

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Tambae is probably my second favourite. Slightly reminds me of Dyptique’s Papier. Subtle, dryish, studious. Just a tiny bit scratchy though.

KST Tambae perfume sample in pink tamarisk flowers

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Gay Oppa is maybe the one I was most intrigued to smell. At first I get generic aftershave - concept over execution? But drydown is very soft and more intriguing

KST ‘Gay Oppa’ perfume sample in pink lilac flowers

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Had fun last week trying the KST sample set. Happily for my wallet though I felt more curiosity than true love… #perfumesky #fragrancesky

KST scent sample set in a white box with metallic lettering, among sunlit pink tamarisk blossom

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Victor Hugo’s drawings are incredible and would make the best gothic graphic novel EVER! If you’re in London catch the exhibition at Royal Academy (sorry poor photo)

A sepia-toned ink drawing of a castle by Victor Hugo

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Well we’re back home from Japan, but there is sakura to greet us on a local street! 🌸🌸🌸

A branch of thick pink cherry blossoms interspersed with dark purplish leaves, against a blue sky

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Teamlab Borderless digital art museum is very fun and beautiful - but also they scent the rooms! Very nicely too, I have so many questions about what they use 🤣 #sotd #perfumesky

The bubbles artwork at Teamlab Borderless Tokyo - a dark mirrored room of illuminated globes hanging at different heights, glowing different colours and sometimes the lights inside them spin.

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

When you’re already on the 13th floor above Shinjuku but there’s a roof garden with trees through which you can see the ever-so-much taller building nearby… #Tokyo #dailyadventures

A view of a skyscraper through trees in the sunshine. What isn’t apparent is that the trees are in a 13th floor roofgarden already, above Shinjuku station Tokyo.

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Favourite outfit inspo from La Foret Harajuku 🤩 - how would you scent this look #perfumesky??

A mannequin in a department store featuring a loose dress with pink and green tulle flounces and a black harness with white plushie (not fluffy) cat toys (with quizzical expressions sewn in black) hanging from it.

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Watch how the sencha gets grassier in colour and looser from dry through room temperature, 60 degree and 90 degree water! Smell evolves too - grassy, nutty, slightly bitter #sotd #perfumesky #fragrancesky

Hand rolled sencha leaves in a leaf-shaped white ceramic dish

Sencha leaves turning slightly lighter green in a touch of room temperature water

Sencha leaves lighter grassy green and unfurling in 60 degree water

Sencha leaves fully unfurled and bright light green in 90 degree water

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

#sotd is the grassy, very slightly nutty aroma of this, one of the best senchas I have ever tasted. I’ve smelled some lovely tea perfumes but none this subtle - you? More tea adventures tomorrow 🤩🤓. #perfumesky #fragrancesky

A japanese square tray with a tiny bowl cup of yellow-green tea on a wooden saucer, an oblong plate with a pale sweet dotted with dark beans and a small wooden knife, and a tiny white British-style teapot, also on a wooden saucer.

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

When your new holiday appartment has kimono for you to wear and the belts are folded beautifully 🤩 #japan #nihon #dailyadventures

A woven fabric belt in dark navy with five thin white stripes in the centre is folded into a pentagon, it sits on a section of cotton kimono with dot and floral patterns in sage green on cream.

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Most wisteria in the UK I don’t smell a lot from, but this white wisteria in a nonedescript play park in Atami smelled absolutely sensational - a gust of almost jasmine-y scent at 50 paces #sotd #perfumesky #fragrancesky

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Some actual perfumes for you #fragrancesky #perfumesky 😅 - here’s what I’ve brought to Japan, what would you choose? #sotd for this very zen hotel is dgrayi’s Jade Phoenix, a gorgeous rose-mint which blends in seamlessly

A row of perfume samples on the edge of a traditional japanese wooden onsen tub, which is filling with water in the background

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

When in Japan - onsen! The view is of the sea at Atami 🤩. This hotel the Soki Atami is maybe the nicest place I have ever stayed… a lot of great smells but the woody, eucalyptus-medicinal bath is the best #sotd #fragrrancesky #perfumesky

A traditional japanese round wooden bath in a dark tiled bathroom looking out of a large window.

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

#sotd courtesy of Tokyo today was this incredible fresh herbal tea - smells like lemon balm, contains mint, lemongrass, rosemary, maybe more! Woulf make a great perfume for hot days! #perfumesky

A view from above of the interior of a round glass teapot full of vibrant green herbs filling up the water

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

#perfumesky how would you perfume this graphic-meets-pretty aesthetic?? Everywhere I look here there is something that makes me want to take pictures! #tokyo

A couple shown from behind, the man in a black japanese robe holds a purple paper parasol. They stand on stripes of paving and grass, with the edge of a red shrine behind making a graphic pattern

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

#sotd is this amazing bowl of incense sticks at Senso-ji temple #perfumesky

Crowds of people at Azakusa, Tokyo surround a huge sand bowl with a pointed roof over it that holds fistfuls of incense sticks lit by visitors to the shrine

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Thanks for the good wishes #perfumesky! We got to Tokyo and #sotd is of course the sakura that’s everywhere! Also some lovely fragrant pines in the park 🌲

A tokyo skyscraper in the background with white cherry blossom and red and white lanterns hanging in the foreground

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

At the airport rocking my fav @filigreeandshadow.co T-shirt and ready to go to JAPAN! Beside myself with excitement #perfumesky

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Happy international fragrance day and week #perfumesky ! These two are my faves of 2025 so far, utterly unique greens - Northern Flicker from January Scent Project and Forgotten Highway from One Way Bridge 💚

My face against a jasmine plant, holding two perfume bottles in front of mez

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Tis the season for violets and violet scents! Which are your faves #perfumesky??

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

#sundaysampling the peach trilogy by house of Sarah Baker. They’ve all grown on me surprisingly much but rococo pie with it’s ‘sandalwood petticoats on a swing in a peach orchard eating ice cream’ is just bliss

A sunflower containing three perfume samples

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The absence of any sense of absurdity is never a good sign…

Picture of a brick building and doorway with large sign ‘House of Bread’. Smaller sign ‘Church of God of Prohecy’

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

#sotd for #travelsizetuesday is Stash Unspoken. Stash (original) is maybe the best cheapie out there. This is much sweeter and less interesting. The notes are almost entirely different. And yet there’s a tiny hint of familiarity and the drydown is nice. And it’s cheap as chips… #perfumesky

Roller ball 10 ml of Stash Unspoken perfume and box by Sarah Jessica Parker on orange felt background

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Scent for #travelsizetuesday is Zharr but Jorum Studio - I was super lucky to track down some of this sold out gem which is the champagne of steamed orange blossoms - tart, petillant-tingly gorgeousness! #perfumesky #fragrancesky

Red blossom and a decanted travel size vial of Zharr perfume by Jorum Studio

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Wish I was still here! Very lucky sunny Saturday in Cornwall.

A Cornish beech in sunny evening light with rocky outcrops

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Helen @lowkeyhighflyer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Exciting delivery!! The first spray perfume by Mellifluence Perfumes who makes the most incredible attars. It’s a stunning smoky oud with lots of other facets 🤩 #perfumesky #fragrancesky #fragfam

Perfume bottle of dark brown perfume labelled ‘Ambedo’. Background white china bottle with black snake design.

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