Signature Collection

05/06/2026

02/06/2026

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01/06/2026

We are officially 6 months away from Christmas shopping (assuming you start shopping from December 01st). In an attempt to get you more acquainted with shopping smart and on a budget I am adding more classes to my schedule on The Art of Scent.

31/05/2026

For the past three days I have been away from Social Media but that’s because I needed to show up more in person for an event that I hosted yesterday on Indian Arrival Day.

While curry was on the menu and the picture shows some ducks from my farm being curried on a traditional mud stove known as a “Chulha,” the day was dedicated to my Dad who celebrated his 75th birthday on May 12th and we opted to surprise him with a birthday lime yesterday.

It took me 2 months and a lot of planning in order to cater for 150 members of our extended family in order to ensure that everything went as perfectly as possible and even with all the details to perfection there were some minor hiccups. However, with great planning and back up plans everything works out exactly as it is meant to be.

Somewhere between 1845 and 1917, my Great Grandparents left India to come to the Caribbean. My Great Grandmother is a woman that I have never met. I only know her through the stories my Paternal Grandmother (Ajee) who was her daughter in law told me, yet this woman remains a most integral part of my life and my inspiration.

Many times I feel as though I am her in this era and all the sacrifices she made when she left her family, freedom and life as she knows it to travel across the seas to a foreign land, I am now responsible for ensuring that those sacrifices do not go in vain.

So yesterday as I stood in one of my plantations, in 2026, I am the Plantation Owner, my great grandmother came to work for a Plantation Owner.

She came under British rule and today I am a proud external member of The UK Fragrance Foundation.

When I teach my Art of Scent classes for Free it is because I am trying to uplift my industry and the country which I proudly call my homeland as I am Trini to the Bone.

I don’t forget my past and where I came from but I also know that my great grandmother wouldn’t want me to be in any kind of bo***ge in 2026 as she made those sacrifices when she left India so that I could enjoy today the freedom she traded in order to gift me a better life.

Every Trini reading this post is going to have a similar history to me where a great grandparent gave up their life to come to the Caribbean in search of a better life.

Make sure that you don’t waste those sacrifices and in 2026 you are the honorable, upstanding, proud Trinbagonian who is doing your best to make our motherland of Trinidad and Tobago the beautiful gem of a paradise that it is.

I am so happy that I am Trini and my great grandparents came here to settle because I wouldn’t want to be born anywhere else.

If you are not proud to be Trini and you are not doing your best to uplift Trinidad and Tobago and every citizen because we are only as strong as our weakest links, have we really arrived or are we still trying to find ourselves?

28/05/2026

One of the things about constantly attending Masterclasses in The Art of Scent and also teaching these classes locally is that I am constantly in learning mode.

Any CSR/Store front person who has been properly trained in how to attend to customers in a perfume shop setting would have learnt this trick of the trade.

The goal of these perfume stores is always to sell the most expensive bottle of perfume to the customer.

The first question they would ask you is what is your price range and when you let them know they then bring out between 3 to 5 options in ascending price order with the least expensive first and the most expensive last.

We expect that a customer would do an initial smell of all the cards and then the CSR would prompt the customer to go back to the first blotter or tester strip to smell again because it has had time to further dry down. Some of you even say things like you can smell the difference in scent as the perfume dries down.

Eventually you arrive to what was originally the last strip and that’s always the most expensive perfume and because in psychology we suffer from a term known as “Recent Bias,” we confidently confirm that this is the perfume we love and want to purchase.

Perfume stores worth their scent are not neutral environments to test fragrances in the first place so for the majority of times when you are investing in a new perfume you are doing it based on your price point which is also a terrible judge of fragrance character.

My conversations and consultations about perfumes and The Art of Scent are priceless. Let’s have a real, honest, no frills conversation about your fragrance journey and how you need to stop your incorrect practices if you want the best bang for your buck.