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Baies/Berries Candle 300g FAMILY: Fruity The candle’s flame is enclosed in a coloured hand-blown glass container. The irresistible freshness of a bouquet of roses, sweetened with blackcurrant leaves. Dhs403 Diptyque

Feu De Bois/Wood Fire Candle 300g FAMILY: Woody The candle flame is enclosed in a coloured hand-blown glass container. Recalls the crackling of an open fire. Warm and familiar during the winter days. Dhs403 Diptyque

34 Boulevard Saint Germain Interior & Exterior Candle 1,5kg FAMILY: Herbal This scented candle with five wicks is entirely handmade by a renowned porcelain maker, it captures the scent of the historic store at 34 Boulevard Saint Germain. Dhs1,457 Diptyque available at NET-A-PORTER

Ambre/Amber Candle 300g FAMILY: Woody The candle’s flame is enclosed in a colourful hand-blown glass container. A warm and elegant procession of woods, vetiver and patchouli, enhanced with radiant aniseed, insolent spices, mysterious incense, cistus and Tonka bean. Dhs403 Diptyque

Feu De Bois/Wood Fire Interior & Exterior Candle 1,5kg FAMILY: Woody This scented candle with five wicks contained in an earthenware pot entirely handmade by a renowned porcelain maker evokes the crackling of an open fire. Dhs1,054 Diptyque available at NET-A-PORTER

The Chemistry of Fragrance

Dan Terry, Founder of Oo La Lab in Alserkal Avenue, shares how this bespoke olfactory experience was born

WORDS: SARAH JOSEPH Can you talk us through your career? I’ve always had a sensitivity towards the senses and the power of human experience. However, my calling was to eventually tell beautiful stories. Discovered over fi een years ago when I was living in Australia, I uncovered my potential through this immersive storytelling ability that fragrances imbued. I subsequently lived in Hong Kong and then Singapore, which helped to develop my personal taste further which has also matured to include an Asian sensibility. As a business owner I have been involved in many roles over the years which include brand consulting, fragrance evaluation, product design and hands-on production. Overall, designing perfumes is a mix of art and time, which I have more of these days that I dedicate to the practice. While for the most of it, I’m self-taught, I have learned from my partners and perfumer colleagues over the years to refine my approach. Through Oo La Lab and other brands inside our portfolio, we have imagined a newly evolved fragrance industry catering to empowered and sensorial consumers. What inspired you to allow clients to create bespoke fragrances for themselves? With a background in designing fragrances for global brands, I also had an understanding of the little olfactory education there is out there for the general public. In a world where mass marketing leads us to function in categories of relative sameness, I understood how empowering it could be to provide this, therefore allowing people to distinguish for themselves what their own preferences are. Hence, designing a fragrance for oneself is the ultimate journey into who we are as individuals, almost like a personal theme song that expresses the essence of our memories and emotions. What has been the biggest challenge since launching and how did you overcome it? We want to empower individual expression, which is great but can be challenging when everyone around is so di erent. I don’t think we necessarily want to overcome this but we have turned to technology and a newly created website to help us to cater to the long tail of perfume expression and built confidence in our community to experiment and discover. What is your personal favourite scent and which memories does it evoke? Such a tough ques-