A Month of 4160 Tuesdays: Day 10: What I Did On My Holidays

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I thought it would be a challenge to write about 4160 Tuesday’s What I Did On My Holidays in February, until we were lucky enough to host an event with Sarah McCartney a couple of weeks ago at the store. Whilst Sarah was talking I realised what she is referencing in the scent is a childhood memory that many of us share.

If you are lucky, in this memory you have spent all day on the beach with your family, the late summer sun is low in the the early evening sky and everybody else has packed up and left. You wanted to stay and to stop the day ending you had run down to the water for one last swim and now you sit shivering in the cool seaweed tainted breeze. Next to you your sister is savouring an ice cream, nibbling round the edges of a Funny Face. Your mother comes up and wraps you in a thick towel, you smell sun cream on the cotton cloth and, as your she hugs you to her shoulder, you catch the mint of your stick of rock she has been surreptitiously sneaking on her breath. She brushes your feet and squeezes them into your Startrite sandals and leads you reluctantly across the sand, hand in hand, you dragging your bucket and spade in the other. The shoreline shimmers a grey silver as in the distance the orange horizon slowly advances.

The innocently uncomplicated guitar of the last track of Fairport Convention’s 1969 album; What We Did on our Holidays, The End of the Holiday, could be the music that plays over this closing scene of one of your happiest days. You think at the time you will remember this day always, and occasionally you will.


With What I Did On My Holidays, Sarah transports us to the sun soaked (or, more often than not, just soaked) British seaside to take in the smells: sticks of mint rock, salty rock pools, and ice cream. Opening with a delicious combination of mint and coconut, Sarah blends notes of green seaweed into the equation to offset the sweetness, before being backed up with expansive oceanic notes of sea breeze. In the heart, lavender mellows the syrupy sweet aroma of cotton candy, making for a rounded and enticing sugary accord enriched with floral delicacy. In the base, a note of pure vanilla brings the scent together around an addictive and rich ice cream accord that truly captures the spirit of the seaside. 

Fragrance Notes

Top: Mint, Coconut, Sea Notes, Seaweed

Middle: Cotton Candy, Lavender

Base: Vanilla

Find 4160 Tuesday's What I Did On My Holidays on the Roullier White website here.

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