See you on 17th May 2025 • 9.30am to 5.00pm • Barnes, LONDON SW13 9HE
Start Talking Scents
Tickets required for all talks, walks and workshops, please book via links below.
TALK
Scents and Songs
9:30am hosted by
Haydn Williams and Roger Miles
Combining six of the most iconic songs recorded at The Olympic Studios with matching fragrances, Roger Miles and Haydn Williams continue their popular Scents and Songs investigations. This year they will look at how mixing music and fragrance results in a magical increase in appreciation of both art forms.
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Barnes Fragrance Fair Roundup
11:00am with Alice du Parcq and Suzy Nightingale
Our favourite fragrance celebrities are back this year, chatting through their top Spring/Summer picks from the 2025 Fair and sharing their best tips for perfume shopping and spritzing.
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A Life In Scent
4:00pm with Sali Hughes, hosted by Alice du Parcq.
Guardian beauty editor, award winning author, Beauty Banks co-founder and scent obsessive Sali Hughes has had a fascinating life, with many milestones connected to special perfumes. Get swept away as Sali talks through some of her favourite fragrances and scented stories with Alice du Parcq.
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Men Smell!
2:00pm Panel discussion hosted by Haydn Williams
Men Smell! Panel discussion hosted by Haydn Williams. Guests tbc.
What does fragrance mean to men and boys in 2025? What’s the surge in interest from teenage boys around 'Perfume Tok’ all about? Plus, tips from an expert panel on how to smell amazing, products to look out for and how to build the ultimate scent wardrobe.
Everyone is welcome and questions will be encouraged!​​
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Top Of The Morning!
9:30am with On The Scent
The huge success of the On The Scent podcast meant we just had to have the popular hosts Suzy Nightingale and Nicola Bonn at the Fair. The pair will be opening our talks and workshops schedule with Top Of The Morning! their take on scented life. Imagine Morning TV, but all about fragrance and as a podcast…
Nicola and Suzy will be interviewing some of our Fair ‘celebs’ and finding out what fragrances they really wear. Tickets will fly for this, so book early.
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WORKSHOP
So You Think You Know Rose?
3:00pm Hosted by Josephine Fairley and LMR- IFF Naturals.
This exceptional rose masterclass will demonstrate the depth, complexity and beauty of natural rose oils and how they are used in fragrance, featuring one of the world’s most important producers of natural roses oil - Laboratoire Monique Rémy (LMR).
WORKSHOP
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Making Scents
11:00am & 2:00pm with Sarah McCartney
Sarah McCartney is back with her popular perfume-making workshops. This year she returns with more sustainably sourced materials to explore en route to creating an adventurous 30ml eau de parfum of your own. The workshop is 90mins
Sarah’s two workshops sell out fast, so we recommend booking as soon as tickets go on sale in mid February.
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The Ingredients Experience
12:30pm with Roja Dove
Founder of Roja London perfumery and industry expert Roja Dove, will be explaining the art of luxury artisan perfumery through experiencing some of his favourite, rare and most exciting ingredients.
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WALK
Scented Walk Around Barnes
2:00pm with Olga Petrouchenko
Our much loved London scent-walker is back with another trip around the beautiful village of Barnes, to experience the outdoors scents of our verdant suburb and match them up to a few of Olga’s favourite fragrances from the Fair.
Tickets are limited to this so book early.
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See you on 17th May 2025 • 9.30am to 5.00pm • Barnes, LONDON SW13 9HE
Our Speakers
Alice du Parcq
Alice du Parcq is a fragrance presenter and content creator on a mission to decode perfume in a fun, relatable and objective way through her Instagram channel @aliceduparcq, and hosts customer events for fragrance brands in store and online.
She was a magazine beauty journalist for over 15 years before specialising, and has since won 3 prestigious Jasmine Awards for her fragrance writing and creative projects. She won one in 2022 for her 'Desert Island Spritz' InstaLive show, where Alice interviews high profile perfume-lovers about their most beloved scents, with past guests including Richard. E. Grant, Sali Hughes and Caroline Hirons.
Alice grew up in Barnes and lives locally, with over a dozen family members still in SW13! After years spent helping her mother-in-law Diane du Parcq on the catering and Pimms tents at Barnes Fair and the Barnes Food Fair, she's thrilled to bring her own passion and expertise on stage.
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Josephine Fairley
Jo Fairley has been scent-obsessed since the age of two, when her grandmother introduced her to the smell of geraniums. After leaving school at 16, Jo went on to become the youngest-ever magazine editor, at the age of 23, editing first Look Now and then Honey – roles which gave Jo a ringside seat at some of the most extravagant fragrance launches of all time.
As a journalist who went on to cover everything from sumo wrestling to sustainability (for The Times), Jo began her perfume-writing life with a feature for Woman's Journal, which won her first of six Jasmine Awards. After several years writing her blog, The Scent Critic, in 2014 Jo co-founded The Perfume Society, and today edits the Society's multi-Award-winning magazine, The Scented Letter; she is also co-author of The Perfume Bible.
Alongside her journalism, Jo has become a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded Green & Black's with her husband Craig Sams, and is Editor of BeautyBible.com, which grew out of The Beauty Bible series of books co-written with Sarah Stacey. (She's still crazy about geraniums.)
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Haydn Williams
Haydn is a freelance writer, blogger and podcaster. He writes regularly about fragrance, grooming and gifting for titles such as Grazia and Closer. He has his own website and Instagram page called ‘You smell great! What is it?’. Last year he launched a podcast about fragrance, grooming and self-care aimed at men called ‘Man In The Mirror’ - guests have included perfumers, brand founders and Oscar-nominated actor Richard E. Grant. Haydn was the recipient of the ‘Rising Star’ award at the 2022 Fragrance Foundation ‘Jasmine' Awards.
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Suzy Nightingale
Suzy Nightingale is a fragrance expert and multi-award-winning journalist, writing for publications such as The Perfume Society’s magazine, The Scented Letter; Grazia Middle East, Elle online, Boots magazine, and trend reporting for Stylus. Having originally appeared as a guest on Outspoken Beauty, Suzy now co-hosts the twice-weekly On the Scent podcast with Nicola Bonn.
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Sarah McCartney
Sarah McCartney is an artisan perfumer and writer; she founded 4160Tuesdays in 2011 after 20 years as a copywriter. She and her team hand make adventurous fragrances in their small West London studio. Their best-seller, The Sexiest Scent on the Planet. Ever. (I.M.H.O.), is sold in Los Angeles, New York, Seoul, Tasmania and Cardiff.
Sarah believes that everyone should have the chance to write a poem, paint a picture, sing a song and make a fragrance so she set up the Scenthusiasm Slow Scent School. She teaches artisan perfume-making at her studio, online, and here at Barnes Fragrance Fair, where this year she will be offering the chance to create your own fragrance.
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Roger Miles
After 32 years as an accountant at Deloitte, Roger retired in June 2009 to pursue a new career in the Arts. After graduating from Chelsea College of Arts with a BA in Fine Art he then completed an MA in Sculpture at the RCA. Roger's art practice is a combination of immersive installations, performance and the memorialisation and cannibalisation of found objects.
He's completed several unusual residencies over the years as a source of new ideas and exciting found objects. The residencies include a three month stint at Townmead Road Recycling and Re-Use Centre- SW London, a mannequin factory in Walthamstow, North London and in a sixty year-old thrift store, called Elsewhere, in Greensboro’, North Carolina, USA.
His latest and most long lasting installation is as archivist and manager of the Olympic Studios Records vinyl record shop, located opposite and funded by the famous Olympic Studios. He is gradually building its iconic archive of music and stories, helped by the residents of Barnes who remember the original Studio. But he has also been curious about the role of music and scent. The Record Shop stocks L'Orchestre Parfum, a fragrance collection which creates beautiful scent around music and musical instruments, and the Scented Revolutions talks will discover how music and our sense of smell are very closely linked.
Olga Petrouchenko
Olga Petrouchenko is a perfume collector and storyteller besotted with fragrances and passionate about the history of perfumes and the people who both created and wore them. A member of The Perfume Society and The Fragrance Foundation UK, Olga organises historical perfume walks in Mayfair, Covent Garden, and Knightsbridge via @perfumewalks.
Olga has lectured and shared her expertise on the history of perfumery in venues such as Pushkin House London attracting perfume enthusiasts, journalists, perfume influencers and historians alike. She speaks fluently in Russian, Italian and English and has a blog @perfumedaze on social media, followed by more than 2000 perfume lovers. This number continues to grow together with her collection of vintage, modern perfume bottles and soaps from all over the world.
For Barnes Fragrance Fair she will be hosting a Scented Barnes walk and an early bird walk, which will offer early access to the fair and a walk around the brands we're featuring.
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Roja Dove
Multi award winning, fragrance polymath Roja Dove is a well known figure in the world of fragrance, being a generous educator of new industry insiders as well as a creator of his successful and glamorous Roja London fragrance brand.
Roja spent twenty years at Guerlain, which allowed him to deep dive into his love of fragrance knowledge and gain huge insights into the global fragrance environment. In 2004 he launched his own fragrance emporium, Roja Dove Haute Parfumerie, in Harrods, selling high end fragrances from around the globe. In 2011 he launched his own brand Roja London, now a global presence, and has received much acclaim for his work within the industry.
We are absolutely delighted that Roja will be hosting an ingredients workshop at Barnes Fragrance Fair in 2025, where he will demonstrate how some of the rarest and most beautiful ingredients in perfumery are used, and how they smell, as well as giving us an anecdotal glimpse into his Life in Scent.
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Nicola Bonn
Co-host of our favourite fragrance podcast On The Scent, Nicola Bonn is an experienced radio broadcaster and beauty writer and prides herself on being honest, no holds barred and outspoken.
No subject matter is off limits for her hugely successful Outspoken Beauty platform, where she gets excited about all that the beauty and fragrance industry has to offer, but it’s Nicola’s wonderful partnership with fragrance journalist Suzy Nightingale that has made her one of our favourite fragrance podcasters.
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