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These faqs are distilled from the many ranging questions I have been asked throughout the year and are designed to

answer most people's pressing questions. However you are welcome to ask anything around the Scents of Time range

- by emailing us

  1. Are samples available worldwide?

    2ml samples of NENUFAR and PYXIS are available on request (one per address) However if demand becomes excessive these will have to be purchased at a nominal amount via the website to cover cost of packaging/postage. As yet ANKH, MAYA and NIGHT STAR (due out end 2009) are not available as samples but can be tried out at the retailers selling.

  2. Where can I physically sample the fragrances?

    Scents of Time is a very new company and the perfumes only just being rolled out (distributors welcome to contact).In the short term testers are available for most ofl the fragrances at the British Museum in London England. Available also at John Lewis Oxford Street London , Peter Jones London, and John Lewis Liverpool, Manchester (Cheadle), Southampton and Brent Cross.

  3. Where can I buy apart from this website?

    The British Museum (www.britishmuseum.org). Go to shop online and type "Perfumes" into their search bar. Available also at John Lewis Oxford Street London , Peter Jones London, and John Lewis Liverpool, Manchester (Cheadle), Southampton and Brent Cross For purchase off the JL website go through Fashion...Beauty...male/female fragrances.. Product is be available before Xmas also from www.firebox.com and The Lady Loves site. Also available from Amzon by the end of January.

  4. Can the fragrances be in any way linked to modern perfumes - just so I know without testing that I would like them?

    Well we use Michael Edwards' fragrance families to describe my perfumes so there is a loose connection as follows:

    The Lost Scent of Pompeii
    PYXIS launched 2008    FEMALE EDP    Family WOODY MOSSY
    Some fragrances in the same family:
    Miss Dior Cherie (Dior), Gucchi Rush (Gucchi), Narciso Rodriguez for her, Mitsouko (Guerlain)

    Tutankhamen's aroma of intrigue
    ANKH launched 2008    UNISEX EDT    Family WOODY ORIENTAL
    Some fragrances in the same family:
    Female    Dune (Dior) Samsara (Guerlain), Euphoria (Calvin Klein), Prada.

    Male         Fahrenheit (Dior) Terre D’Hermes (Hermes) Zara Man, Beyond Paradise men (Lauder)    

    The Sacred scent of Cleopatra
    NENUFAR launched 2008    FEMALE EDP    Family WATER
    Some fragrances in the same family:
    L'eau D'Issey d'ete (Issey Miyake), Polo Sport Woman (Ralph Lauren), Sunflowers (Elizabeth Arden), Escape (Calvin Klein).

    Mystical Scent of the Americas
    MAYA launch due fall 2008    FEMALE EDP    Family SOFT ORIENTAL
    Some fragrances in the same family:
    Ambre Sultan (Serge Lutyens & Palais Royal Shisheido), Opium (Yves St Laurent) Youth Dew (Estee Lauder), Maja (Myrurgia), Coco (Chanel).

    Fragrance of the Future
    NIGHT STAR     (potential launch 2009)    FEMALE EDP    Family FLORAL
    Some fragrances in the same family:
    Quelques Fleurs Royale (Houbigant),Nina (Nina Ricci), Fleurs de Rocaille (Caron) L'Air du Temps (Nina Ricci), Dolce Y Gabbana Light Blue.

    NIGHT STAR (potential launch 2009)    Male EDT    Family AROMATIC
    Some fragrances in the same family:
    Echo (Davidoff) Cool Water Sea, Scents and Sun (Davidoff), Bvgari pour Homme.

  5. Are the fragrances available in anything other than 100ml bottles?

    We have moved to 50 ml bottles in October when MAYA was launched to lower the price entry point.

  6. Next launch. . .

    MAYA, Mystic scents of the Americas, was released in early October. A futuristic fragrance, NIGHT STAR, will be launched in mid 2009.

  7. Is your name really Hunter? (As in the Perfume Hunter?)

    It may be that my Northern family have Scottish connections with the Hunter clan whose motto is Cursum perficio which means "I finish the hunt."

    On that note I should add that I am against the use of animals for any form of luxury product. Any animalic aromas in my fragrances (which naturally have to match their historical counterpart) are synthesized by sophisticated chemistry. Mine is a hunt of a different nature.

  8. Do the Dragons help you much?

    Well the money for launch from Peter and Theo was very important to begin with, and then Theo suggested we link to the Ryman website which got us off the ground in terms of reaching the marketplace early. I meet with their supportive back up team regularly and I'm hoping they get me the kind of media exposure they got for Levi Roots! Peter and Theo come up with some real gems in terms of business guidance.

  9. How many fragrances will be in the Scents of Time range?

    It's intended to launch two a year over the next few years. Around a dozen are envisaged... the search continues.

  10. This is a mix of "Time team" and "What the Romans ever did for us". When will the documentary /series be shown?

    A great concept, but unfortunately TV Companies seem to think "aromas don't work on the TV". By the way these same Companies have programmes on wine and cookery (taste is 70% the sense of smell). Maybe one day Discovery, History or National Geographic channels will make contact, but here in the UK there's no real sense of adventure.

  11. How can you have  vanilla and tobacco in an ancient Egyptian fragrance?                                                                                 Don't forget we are trying to emulate as best as possible the aromatic experience of the ancients. It may be that long ago    the Phoenicians traded with Egypt and the New World (see http://phoenicia.org/america.html) and there are stories of Egyptian  mummies being found with both tobacco and cocaine inside them. (see.http://www.sciencefrontiers.com/online). 

But we were simply trying to evoke the aroma of the smoke of Kyphi incense in a liquid fragrance. The combination of tobacco, vanilla and other ingredients did the aromatic trick!  

       12   Are your fragrances tested on animals?  

Absolutely not!

      I am a supporter of Gerald Durrell's ten commandments on man's treatment of animals and in particular number 4- no animal   shall be killed for making luxury items.


As a believer in that I worked hard in the last century to ensure that the Company I worked for (Quest International - part of Unilever) did not use animal derivatives in its fragrances. In the past (decades ago) the industry used Civet, Castoreum (beaver) Musk and Ambergris (sperm whale). Only the last is still used in the industry as the whale is not killed- effectively its whale vomit found by serendipity on the world's oceans! (look it up - makes an interesting read) Some of the chemicals in my fragrances may have historically been tested many years ago- I have no way of knowing- as there is a raft of only about 2000 aroma chemicals approved for use on human skins. But I certainly will never advocate present or future use of animal derivatives or testing in the industry and/or in my products

13 Tell us about your packaging?

It is a fact that a fine fragrance should be nicely packaged, but we're doing what we can with the environment in mind. Over 80% of the materials making up Scents of Time are from recycled product, and 97% of them are in turn able to be recycled again.

14 And your carbon footprint?

This is a tougher question to answer because the aromas for creating a perfume come for all over the world, and the formulae is secret, but taking everything into account my best estimate is that to make and pack one bottle of fragrance ready for shipment to you uses up less than one tenth of a mile. To get this figure I divided the mileage needed to get from manufacturers of components to the factory all the raw materials, averaging one thousand miles for the fragrance materials, and took into account the weight percentage of each of the materials in the final product. Don't forget that materials are sent out in bulk and we manufacture one thousand bottles at a time.

It helps that all the component suppliers are UK based apart from the bottle which comes from France (which I can see from my study window over the Channel!)

To get the product to you involves more mileage, but of course the postal service is picking up and shipping in bulk too!.

i hope that explanation is of some help.