8th March 2018

Mother's Day with Laboratory Perfumes

- words by Anya

If your childhood was anything like mine, you, along with your siblings, spent a large proportion of it getting your parents to admit to having a favourite child. If you think the probing stops when you reach adulthood, you’d be very mistaken.

Mother’s Day means different things to different people. If you are a mum, what’s not to like: a whole day when it is your given right to be adored by your brood. If you are one of several siblings, it often means war.

The annual Who Can Best Woo Mum competition usually starts several weeks prior to the main event. It starts with the card: extra points goes to handmade or personalised. Then there’s the gift. Generally you’d be advised to keep your cards close to your chest at this point – you don’t want to be trumped before the battle has even started.

Fragrances by Laboratory Perfumes. Photo by Yeshen Venema. Styling by Mughda Sapte.

If you are the sibling that wins your Mum’s company on Mothering Sunday, you undoubtedly have an advantage (cue the thoughtful gestures). But don’t rest on your laurels – there is always one sibling that keeps quiet about their offering, right until it arrives on your Mum’s doorstep. It has happened before and it will happen again.

Laboratory Perfumes has the answer. All of its products are suitably indulgent (who doesn’t like a candle to accompany a soak in the bath, or a natural fragrance to dab onto their shirt?), but also eco-friendly and ethical. This basically means that your mum can indulge to her heart’s content, and you can win points for thoughtfulness while knowing that you are being kind to the planet.

All of Laboratory Perfumes’ scents and candles are made in the UK using socially conscious, environmentally friendly and cruelty-free ingredients. They don’t test on animals and its fragrances are made with non-animal-derived, and therefore vegan, ingredients. Its scented candles are made with paraffin wax – with the exception of Atlas (lab tests showed that this particular fragrance has to be infused into beeswax in order to preserve the integrity of the scent).

Fragrances and candles by Laboratory Perfumes. Photo by Yeshen Venema. Styling by Mughda Sapte.

There’s more to love: all glass, card and paper used in Laboratory Perfumes packaging is sustainably sourced and widely recycled. Finally, Laboratory Perfumes fragrances are intended to be enjoyed by anyone and everyone. Gender is the one thing that they don’t give a damn about.

Perhaps your Dad would also like a treat from Laboratory Perfumes?

Amber by Laboratory Perfumes. Photo by Yeshen Venema. Styling by Mughda Sapte.

Save yourself the faffing, head over to the Laboratory Perfumes website to buy your Mothers Day gift now!