Bonkers about Perfume
I am an independent market researcher, specialising in industrial product sectors, who was struck down in early 2008 by 'sudden onset perfume mania'. 18 months later I took up blogging as a family-friendly outlet for the oddball ramblings prompted by this newfound interest in fragrance - and by my travels generally.
I was a finalist in The Fragrance Foundation's 2015 Jasmine Awards with an entry entitled: "Men and (wet) sheds: dipping into The Library of Fragrance in a focus group down the pub".
Recent posts
- The Frantic Antics Series: Fulfilling Favours for Fellow Fumeheads - No 3: Tamsin's perfume package and a multi-mule marathon
- Paruvea Latte Veil Extrait de Parfum review**, aka The Kraken Wakes (up) and doesn't smell the coffee!
- 2025: My Even Bumperer Bookish Year
- Becalmed, bemused, and beset by doubts: a belated Bonkers bulletin
- La Roche-Posay Effaclar Duo+ Unifiant Tinted Moisturiser review, and an update on papal passings and parallel pustules
- Mike O'Shaughnessy's Perfume Stories prison workshops are featured in The Guardian!
- Finally meeting Linda Pilkington of Ormonde Jayne, 14 years after "train stopped play"...!
- Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites: a wafty interactive exhibition at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts
- 2024: My Bumper Bookish Year
- Simon sniffs: a pioneering perfume protégé is doused down under in a fragrant Fitzroy foray