No Mow May - Our Shop

The aromas we get in suburban London gardens and parks when blossoms are given the chance to smell fruity, honeyed, sweet and animalic. With patchouli, hay and vetiver for the earth. Green leaves, hay, honeyed rose and fruity amber; May, in a bottle.

No Mow May is the scent of the renewal of life, hope, and the return of the sun - and it received an honourable mention at the 2025 Art & Olfaction Awards. The judges clearly felt some of that warmth.

In the UK, during May everyone is encouraged to let wildflowers grow to feed new generations of wildlife; grass grows, flowers feed the insects which feed the birds, and seeds spread for the future.

Of course, there's always a huge fuss from the Hyacinth Buckets who think it looks untidy and want everything trimmed to 2 cm from the ground. They’re the ones I met while campaigning for the Green Party who also want trees cut down because leaves fall on their Mercedes. (I don’t think they know where oxygen comes from.)

• Perfumery Dialect: Green floral amber
• Notes: Orange, privet, fresh fruit, rose, hay, tonka, patchouli, labdanum, amber woods, hope and renewal
• Ingredients: Alcohol (denat), Parfum, Limonene, Coumarin, Citral, Linalool, Citronellol, Geraniol, Eugenol, Benzyl alcohol.

No Mow May is suitable for vegans.

“It’s my first fragrance from you. It’s beautiful thank you so much for your creation! ❤️" - Lori Lynn

“It’s so beautiful - fresh, bright, summery and restful. Everything I needed on a cold and chore-filled January day.” - Lisa Hitchin

All of our fragrances have a story. Here is the story of No Mow May:

No Mow May was one of Sarah’s Scenthusiasm Patreon fragrances which means that she has published the formula for subscribers. It was created to celebrate the scent of spring in the UK where lawns are allowed to grow long to feed wildlife and generate new flowers. It's mixed media. Biodegradable molecules, with natural essential oils and absolutes.

We decided to enter it into the 2025 Art & Olfaction Awards because it was voted favourite 2024 Scenthusiasm fragrance, and we were delighted that it got an Honourable Mention by the judges at the awards.

Here are a few nice things wearers have said about No Mow May:

"No Mow May is based on the idea of letting nature grow wild. No mowing, no pruning, just leaving things alone and seeing what happens. That’s exactly what this smells like. It opens green, like snapped stems and overgrown grass, then shifts into wildflowers, earth, and something damp and warm underneath. Not a garden, but a meadow left to its own devices. There’s a subtle creamy warmth in the dry-down that keeps it from going too sharp, but it never loses that untamed energy. This is a scent I’d wear when I want to smell like the outdoors without smelling like I’ve been outside all day. It’s perfume, so I want to smell good  but I also want to feel alive, and this is precisely that perfume." - Hülya, Elevated Classics

“Everyone should at least try it. I was sold after the first snif 🙃”- Sabrina

“It’s so beautiful - fresh, bright, summery and restful. Everything I needed on a cold and chore-filled January day.” - Lisa Hitchin

“It’s my first fragrance from you. It’s beautiful thank you so much for your creation! ❤️” - Lori Lynn

“No Mow May has my name written all over it. Amazing fragrance! So naturally I ordered a full size bottle the minute I smelled it for the first time. Highly recommended 👌😁” - Sabrina Jonkman-Brouwer

“I wore No Mow May on Sunday and got several compliments. It is a beautiful scent” - Alison

“I love it because it makes me feel like I’m a child in the countryside once more, surrounded by flowers but I can also smell hay in the barn and something lovely is cooking on the stove whilst herbs dry in the kitchen.” - unicornvega

Here are a few other nice mentions:

• Ross - Cabaret Ross
• Three New Scents From 4160 Tuesdays
• Valeryia - Fragrant Whims
• 4160 Tuesdays and the Case for Learning Perfume Like an Artisan

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