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Bringing The Outside In
Why we have always brought the winter landscape home at Christmas Long before Christmas decorations arrived in boxes, wrapped in tissue paper and stored away for another year, we seasonally decorated our homes with what was growing outside. Branches were cut, greenery gathered and brought across the threshold. Holly, ivy,...
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Home For Christmas, the Creative Story
Behind the Illustrations of Our Christmas Collection Long before Bath House had its familiar amber bottles, signature fragrances and stores, co-founder Nigel Brooks was drawing. After art school, Nigel worked in illustration and children’s publishing, developing a fascination with detail, composition and visual storytelling. One commission, created around the arrival...
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The story behind our naturally tinted lip balms
There is something reassuring about knowing what goes into the products we use every day. Lip balm is one of those small things we reach for without much thought, kept in a pocket, handbag or beside the bed and applied again and again. When we began developing our latest Lip Balms,...
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The Scent of a Room
How fragrance changes the spaces we live in. There comes a point in September when home begins to matter differently. Doors that have stood open through summer are closed against the evening air. Curtains are drawn earlier, fires are lit and the kitchen returns to hearty meals and the occasional...
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Wilder Places Discovery Set, a journey through fragrance
There are places that stay with us long after we have left them. A wooded path after rain. Stone warmed by the last of the sun. The scent of earth underfoot, smoke carried on cold air, or fruit ripening as summer begins to turn. Wilder Places is a collection of...
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When the air changes…
Why the changing season changes what we want to wear There is usually a moment when you realise that autumn has arrived. For me, it is often the swallows. All summer they are part of the garden, diving through the air and sweeping into the barn with such speed and...
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Nature knows when it’s time to restore
What the changing season can teach us about caring for our skin. There is a point towards the end of summer when the natural world begins to change. It is rarely dramatic. The days may still be warm and the landscape green, but the light softens, mornings become cooler and...
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The greenhouse door
Some fragrances begin with flowers. Others begin with memory. For Bath House founder and Creative Director Nigel Brooks, Greenhouse - a British-made perfume - began many years ago in his grandparents’ greenhouse. Not a grand structure nor a place designed for admiration, but somewhere practical and quietly productive. A place...
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In the shadow of the moor: a slower guide to Ilkley
Ilkley feels shaped by both landscape and ritual. Built from the pale stone of the surrounding moor, the town carries a sense of permanence; broad Victorian terraces, quieter streets, and buildings that seem naturally settled beneath the open sweep of Ilkley Moor. As part of our ongoing journal series exploring...
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Returning to Yourself
Lessons in Stillness from the Lake District There is a moment, just before the day begins, when the Lake District belongs entirely to itself. The water lies still, birds are only just beginning to stir, and the fresh morning air carries the promise of a new day. It was on...
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