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Trudon La Nuit des Glaces candles in silver, copper, gold and celadon mirrored glass, lit on a glass table and reflected below

Trudon Christmas 2026: La Nuit des Glaces and the Collection That Never Comes Back

Trudon's 2026 Christmas collection, La Nuit des Glaces, in mirrored glass that will never be made again. The four scents, the three sizes and why t...

Two Amelie & Frank's gift cards in blush and sage held over an open gift box in the Red Hill boutique

The Red Hill Gift Guide: What We Would Give, by Who It Is For

The gifts we choose across the counter in Red Hill every December, arranged by the person on your list. Each one wrapped by hand, with a card writt...

The Vilagallo Irina jacket and Teodora pant in blue stripe, worn beneath the gums in the gardens at Polperro, Red Hill

Long Afternoons at Polperro: The New Season

Polperro is where our long afternoons happen. Lunch that turns into dinner, a glass at the bar as the light drops behind the gums. The new season, ...

Hands tying black grosgrain ribbon around a cream Amelie & Frank's gift box with the logotype in gold foil

How to Choose a Corporate Gift People Actually Keep

The corporate gifts people keep are the ones they would never buy for themselves, arriving in a box that looks chosen, with their name written by h...

Lucy Borland, perfume sommelier, holding a bottle as she teaches a fragrance masterclass at Amelie & Frank's, the fragrance wheel on an easel beside her and guests seated at a long table

Extrait, Eau de Parfum, Eau de Toilette: What the Words Actually Mean

Extrait, eau de parfum, eau de toilette, cologne. Where the words came from, what the percentages actually mean and why more concentrated does not ...

The event space at Amelie & Frank's on the Coverdale vineyard, Red Hill, set for the fragrance masterclass

An Evening of Scent: Inside Our Fragrance Masterclass

A few times each year we open our event space on the Coverdale vineyard for an intimate fragrance masterclass with perfume sommelier Lucy Borland, ...

The Amelie & Frank's boutique at dusk, gold lettering on the black rendered wall beside a lit window on Shoreham Road

Fewer Things, Chosen Well: The Curator's Edit

The philosophy behind Amelie & Frank's, why we curate one hero brand per category and choose fewer things, better.

Christian Kimber seated in the menswear room at Amelie & Frank's in Red Hill, wearing his own tailoring, a jacket and knitted tie on the rail behind him

Made to Measure with Christian Kimber

How made to measure works with Christian Kimber at Amelie & Frank's in Red Hill, from private consultation to a garment cut to your own measure...

A candle under a glass cloche on the counter at Amelie & Frank's, the paper tag still tied to the dome

How to Choose Fragrance as a Gift

A considered guide to choosing fragrance as a gift, from scent families to discovery sets, with help to choose, wrap and send.

ORMAIE Paris bottles on the shelf at Amelie & Frank's, wooden caps in a row

How to Find Your Signature Scent

A guide to niche perfumery and choosing a signature scent, from fragrance families to testing on skin and living with a fragrance across a day.

A shelf of Matiere Premiere bottles at Amelie & Frank's, Encens Suave and Falcon Leather in a row under black caps

Matière Première: Farm to Bottle with Aurélien Guichard

How Matière Première, founded by master perfumer Aurélien Guichard, grows its own raw materials near Grasse to make radically natural fragrance.

P Frapin & Cie on the fragrance shelf at Amelie & Frank's, the carton beside the bottle

Frapin: Twenty Generations on the Same Charente Land

The story of Frapin, a French family house of cognac and fragrance that has worked the same Charente land for twenty generations since 1270.