Travel

Cliveden House Hotel

Eat • Stay

If you want to experience an english country house and weekend invites are scarce on the ground, worry not! Cliveden House Hotel is the perfect place to feel like the most indulged house guest in the world.

The Perfect Country House Hotel

Cliveden House has the most interesting history. In each bedroom you will find a fascinating book that details it’s many owners over the years and its history. The House itself has been lovingly refurbished with a huge amount of the original details and furniture. Staying in the rooms and walking the house is a real treat as a consequence. The gardens and park are part of the National Trust and so are beautifully maintained.  I think it’s the perfect escape from the city – a taste of fresh air and green less than an hour from london (in good traffic). The restaurant is also lovely, not only because the dinning room is so pretty but because the food is really of the highest quality.

The hotel welcomes dogs, and even gives you a wonderful dog bed, bowl and bone on arrival! They really do think of everything. Thumbelina loved sitting in front of the open fire in our room and walking the grounds. The pace is slow and rejuvenating. The perfect place to unwind for a couple of nights. I also loved the Spa. Within the protection of a former walled garden is a beautiful indoor and outdoor pool, gym and modern spa (the peak being the heated water-massage-beds). They also have a lovely spa cafe with healthy options and a bistro brasserie which is perfect if you sleep through the main breakfast like we did.

All in all well worth a trip. After my first visit, we rebooked for Valentine’s and I would be delighted to visit it year after year.

Photos by Peony Lim
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Beauty

Pom Pom Paradise

Collaborations • Editorials

Tropical Paradise smells sweet.
It smells like AERIN’s Hibiscus Palm.

When I was in Mexico with AERIN I wanted to create a tropical editorial. The setting was so beautiful that it seemed silly not to do something special. So with the help of the AERIN team and my trusty photographer Kit.  We created this story.

I really hope you enjoy it, I have wanted to do something with umbrellas for a while and this just seemed like the perfect moment. The vibrancy of the fragrance and the location just came together.  Kit loved the beach hair. I always use the same wand to create messy curls but I think salt spray is really the key to making it have that texture. My dress was a Zimmerman find. Kit and I, the night before, assembled all the flower pompoms and with the help of some room service, made this floral umbrella. Sadly it was too big to bring home so I had to leave it at the hotel, but it was so fun while it lasted. To get us in the mood for the shoot, we spritz the fragrance on the pompoms, so throughout the shoot we had a reminder of the mood we were trying to capture.

Hibiscus Palm is perfect for a hot holiday fragrance (or for the summer months). With notes of Coconut, Vanilla and Musk layered on the vibrancy of Hibiscus Palm, Ginger, Ylang and Lotus Flower. The finish is floral peaks of White Blossoms and Frangipani. The combination of layers is much more complicated than other tropical fragrances with Coconut and Vanilla notes. It’s more sophisticated and floral, so that it doesn’t smell too like food or too sweet. Just the right amount of warmth.

Photos by Kit Lee
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