Making Sense 100ml

Working with the charity SmellTaste, Sarah has created the ideal fragrance for people with smell impairments, based on a traditional English country garden. It was inspired by the Making Sense sensory garden, shown at the 2024 RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. 

Designed by Flora Scouarnec and Victoria Pease-Cox, in partnership with SmellTaste, Making Sense was the first sensory garden to be designed for those living with impaired smell and taste. Sarah was invited by charity CEO Duncan Boak to create an original fragrance concept for the garden, and as it was so well received at Hampton Court, they decided to make a small batch to raise funds for the charity.

Duncan, who lost his sense of smell after a head injury, founded SmellTaste to support others in the same situation and wears Making Sense confident that he smells great, despite not appreciating its aroma directly himself.

Wearing a fragrance can be an empowering, mood-enhancing form of self-expression. But not everyone can smell them. Up to 5% of the population may have no sense of smell. Recent research tells us that up to 1 in 20 people can’t detect aromas, which prevents them from enjoying perfumes and appreciating the flavour of food and drink.

But even if you can’t smell, you can still smell great!

Making Sense is a light herbal eau de parfum made with essential oils of rose geranium, lavender, rosemary, palmarosa and mint, with a base of soft musks and woods.

Our perfumer Sarah said, “As I make perfume for a living, people who have a partial sense of smell or none at all quite often talk to me about it, and one of their concerns is how other people perceive their aroma. This fresh, light fragrance that gives the impression of walking through the Making Sense garden - pleasant, calming and reassuring. I’m usually asked to create adventurous, boundary-breaking fragrances, so reining myself in was great challenge.”