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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 21/06/2025

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.

Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 08/05/2025

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.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 15/04/2025

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.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 25/03/2025

Empty beach, wide skies, distant mountains…and the fabulously complex smell of rotting seaweed. Do you love it too? #FragranceSky #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.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 21/03/2025

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 💚 #PerfumeSky #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.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 07/03/2025

Non-perfume: freshly baked sourdough 😋 The Maillard reaction on this one was quite something.

A very dark brown and crusty sourdough loaf of bread sitting on a metal cooling rack.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 15/02/2025

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.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 13/02/2025

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.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 08/02/2025

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.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 07/02/2025

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.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 06/02/2025

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.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 05/02/2025

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.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 04/02/2025

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.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 03/02/2025

Such a hilarious insight into Germaine Cellier’s world, from a 2015 issue of The Scented Letter. Did you know this? #PerfumeSky #FragranceSky

A snippet from a perfume magazine called The Scented Letter quoting Germaine Cellier and how she created Fracas for ‘femmes’ and Bandit ‘for the dykes’.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 02/02/2025

Mossy wall and winter fields 💚

Vibrant yellow green moss on a wall made of rounded stones. There is a winter foraging field behind the wall. The sky is grey with layered clouds.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 01/02/2025

Happy Imbolc! 💚🤍 Here’s a wee blog post I wrote about juicy green perfumes bringing me joy in these dark days. Featuring fragrances from: Early Modern Heeley Parfums Eau de Boujee Beaufort Vallense rowan-ambrose.com/2025/01/31/c... #PerfumeSky #FragranceSky

A vibrantly green parlour palm house plant

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 29/01/2025

Ailsa Craig away on the horizon. This rock is where a rare form of granite is quarried to make most of the world’s curling stones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A dark grey cloudy sky with a band of peachy light underneath.
On the horizon is a granite rock called Ailsa Craig. There are full green winter fields in the foreground.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 25/01/2025

Reasons to stay inside during severe storms—debris in the front garden. But what is it? Is it a TV aerial?

A piece of debris in a gravel garden. Is it a TV aerial? It’s metal and has spiky bits attached to a central stem.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 23/01/2025

Clinking ice in a curvy glass, generous slices of lime and mango bob joyously as she pushes back her sunglasses over her glossy hair and tilts the cocktail to her perfect red lips. Another exquisite creation by @perfumer-pia.bsky.social for Vallense Fragrances. 2/2 #perfumesky #fragrancesky

A glass sample of Sun perfume by Vallense, created by Pia Long.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 23/01/2025

A sun-warmed 50s starlet in a dazzling white bathing costume, narrow belt twined around her waist. Creamy tropical flowers in her hair, immaculate makeup and a finely turned ankle. 1/2

A glass sample of Sun perfume by Vallense, created by Pia Long. There is an emerald green card sample holder with the Vallense branding in gold. A piece of emerald sea glass holds the card closed. Everything is on a battered antique pine trunk.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 20/01/2025

First snowdrop buds spotted in the woods 🤍

Tiny white snowdrop buds are suspended from the grey green foliage. Mud and dead leaves surround them.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 15/01/2025

I do love this one from Jorum. There’s a spicy depth that’s reminiscent of a rose I grow here in Scotland. Gorgeously uplifting.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 15/01/2025

Bringing comfort and joy in January: 1. Strong tea 2. Vats of porridge gilded with local honey 3. Infleurno by Eau de Boujee @perfumer-pia.bsky.social and @nickrgilbert.bsky.social Mouthwatering scorched citrus goodness with an opulent white floral heart and a dreamily smoky incense dry down.

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Rowan Ambrose @rowan-ambrose.com · 11/01/2025

Blue sky for my first post here. Absolutely bloody freezing 🥶

Rowan Ambrose on a Scottish beach with blue sky and snowy mountains over the rippling sea.

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