King Charles wears Penhaligon, but the Princess of Wales wears Jo Malone London [IG]. Focusing on rank for a moment, Penhaligon has been a royal warrant holder for 150 years.

No, Jo Malone is not working with the King’s famous Highgrove Gardens on a new fragrance, in the style of Burberry’s current 2025 [and earlier] collaborations. That honor also goes to Penhaligon.

Out of the kitchen and onto the portico, Jo Malone creates a delicious vision of high-style British dining, brought to life by Samuel Bradley [IG]. AOC means Jo Malone the brand, owned by Estee Lauder since 1999.

One of Kate’s forever favorites is Jo Malone’s Orange Blossom cologne, which first debuted in 2003. The fragrance is described as a ‘shimmering garden oasis’ and ‘pure delight’, with a scent created with white floral notes of tangerine and orange blossom.

The founder Jo Malone CBE was interviewed by The Sunday Times May 10, 2025 at Dubai’s One&Only The Palm, a hotel on one of the city’s artificial islands. This is not the five-star hotel where the founder, now 61, and Gary Willcox, 65, her husband and business partner, have lived for about four years.

Curious, AOC queried if Dubai’s artificial islands have real grass in the traditional sense. The answer is ‘complicated’, and we’ll table it for now. The kitchen is exactly where Jo Malone, now suffering from synaesthesia, set out to seduce Britain’s middle class with fragrance flavors like Nutmeg & Ginger and Lime, Basil & Mandarin.

Is your mouth watering? Synaesthesia is not connected to your response. Rather, Malone experiences smells that aren’t actually there when she sees any given object.

AOC has read the entire article, and there is no discussion of Dubai’s politics. Except, she did say that she was ‘disallusioned’ with Britain and she described Sheikh Mohammed as a ‘most wonderful leader.’ The Telegraph took her to task and social media followed.

To be honest, 1] AOC is working to clean up our own political messes that are threatening the world economy and liberal democracies everywhere; and 2] We pick our spots when to climb high on the soap box. Am I personally unnerved by President Trump’s uber-cozy relationship with the Arab world that breaks every rule of the US Constitution? Yes.

Am I equally unnerved by the assumed power of social media to attack fellow global citizens with little restraint, as apparently happened to Jo Malone? Yes.

AOC will not write off the entire Arab world, after discovering that it’s they who translated and preserved the writings of the Greek philosophers and shared them with important European Universities as educated clergy and much of Europe sought to reorganize and move forwards after the Crusades and the winding down of the Middle Ages.

I am very grateful to the Arab world for preserving and translating those documents and philosophical discussions around them in their universities.

In a world where 45% of consumers say they are prepared to use natural ingredients or food products as substitutes in their beauty routines, foods influence on beauty and fragrance is higher impact than ever.

As Curion research points out, 40% of consumers now prioritize natural ingredients in beauty products.

Anne of Carversville is deeply involved in studying ancient history to understand modern-day politics and cultural disagreements. Tracing the history of precolonial trade routes is another focus of AOC, and I could be lost for days in new discoveries.