What does Christmas smell like? The fragrances associated with the Christmas and the winter holiday season really get you in the festive spirit. Indeed, the very words themselves conjure that seasonal sense of cosiness and warmth: cinnamon, mulled spices,...
The holiday season is a time of shopping and gift-buying, and it’s of paramount importance for the retail industries. The so-called ‘golden quarter’ – the three-month run from October to January including Christmas and the New Year – presents...
Putting a loved one into residential care can be one of the most difficult decisions anyone can make. Primarily, you worry about elderly relatives’ health and wellbeing. Also, the guilt at not being able to manage their needs can...
When Burberry’s Regent Street flagship opened in 2012, the fashion giant’s CEO Angela Ahrendts (now with Apple’s Retail division) said: “Customers can experience every facet of the brand through immersive multimedia content exactly as they do online.” Burberry was...
Why is scent so useful to hotels? “We know how powerful scent can be in memory and memory formation. So, in a hotel, it makes sense to use some kind of signature scent as a unique sensory experience, which...
Since Amazon began 23 years ago, physical retailers have been on the back foot. But now the store is returning with a revived confidence, and the nest retail revolution is underway. It’s about providing multisensory experiences, focused personal communication...
In this latest video, master perfumer, Christophe Laudamiel, takes us on a journey on how to compose a brand fragrance. Step by step, we get a unique insight into how Laudamiel approaches the composition of a brand fragrance by...
In this latest video Christophe Laudamiel, Master Perfumer, discusses the powerful relationship between scent, our sense of smell, and our emotions. The emotional recall produced by a particular smell, your scent memory, is far more powerful than the recall...
Europe’s largest consumer electronics retailer, MediaMarkt, set out to test this theory when they asked PremiumScenting to create a bespoke scent for one of their flagship stores based in The Netherlands. By offering every shopper an experience to remember,...
Part of the brand experience in a hotel is the architecture and design of the building and the bedrooms as well as, of course, the service. Other, less obvious elements of the brand include sound, lighting and, crucially, smell,...