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Sarah McCartney Author & Illustrator

Sarah McCartney is the founder and perfumer at 4160Tuesdays, an independent perfumery in west London. For fourteen years, she wrote for the Lush Times, the in-house newspaper at Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics. In 2010 she wrote a novel, The Scent of Possibility, then started to make the fragrances she’d described in her book. Sarah’s fragrances have been nominated for three Fragrance Foundation Awards, and she has won the Eau MG Readers Award for Best Indie Fragrance House, and Best Indie Fragrance. 
 

Samantha Scriven founded the blog iscentyouaday in 2013 and has twice been a finalist in the UK Fragrance Foundation Jasmine Awards. She is a Senior Contributor for award winning perfume site ÇaFleureBon and has contributed to The Scented Letter magazine for The Perfume Society. She works as a freelancer in the perfume industry and lives in South Wales with her husband, sons and cats.