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Sarah McCartney

Born  within the sound of the North Sea crashing on Saltburn beach. 75%  Teesside, 25% Cockney. Boro supporter, yoga teacher, clarinettist, and  writer of books. Guilty pleasures: playing on the swings at the park,  red lipstick, cosy crime novels, craft beer, Eurostar. 


As a  child, I did not make perfumes from rose petals. That was for softies. I  made magic spells and wanted to be a witch when I grew up. When I was  16 I bought a bottle of Diorella and fell in love with perfumery's magic  powers. Since I started to make my own scents, I've been attempting to  create my own ideal citrus chypre. I studied maths and sciences,  practised music and French and wrote books on brands and their evil twin  (counterfeiting) and online marketing.


For 14 years I was the  head writer for Lush while the company grew from four shops - one in  Poole and three in London - to 700 worldwide. I was writing 50,000 words  every three months for the Lush Times, aiming to encapsulate the  products' scents in their descriptions. During that time, I bought and  read 200 books on essential oils and herbalism.

In 2010 years I  took some time off to write a novel featuring a problem-solving  perfumer. In it, I described the scents that she made and I wanted to  have them available for people to smell. So I set off on a quest to see  if I could buy them. This turned out to be impossible because no one was  making exactly what I wanted, so I started another quest to see of I  could make them instead. Of course that turned out to be even more  difficult, but once I'd started, I just kept going. 4160Tuesdays  perfumes are the result.


Website: 4160tuesdays.com

Instagram: @4160tuesdays

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