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In a time when sexual fluidity is so du jour, Mason Francis Kurkdjian’s Gentle Fluidity duo could not be more relevant. The concept behind these two fragrances focuses on how two very different and distinctive olfactory personalities can be created using exactly the same notes. Francis Kurkdjian is a believer that fragrance notes have no…
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Akkad is really something quite magical; one spray of this precious amber liquid and you are instantly transported back in time to an ancient Middle Eastern city; a mystical place where the air is spiked with the intoxicating scent of incense, spices and precious oils. Named after the great capital of the Akkadian Empire, which…
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Close your eyes and imagine a garden in the future. A place where modern technology and nature meet in a strange harmony of plants, metal, plastic and rubber. A place of strange flowers , vivid colours, flashing motherboards and glittering microchips; where steel-framed structures reach like skyscrapers into the night sky, covered in climbing vines and…
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From before I can remember to early adolescence, our December/January holidays were spent with my family on the Natal north coast – the inescapable destination. The night before our 6+ hour journey from Johannesburg, my siblings and I would stay up as late as possible watching “My Fair Lady”, or “Grease” so that we would…
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