This is a 4160Tuesdays style tea scent, and what better way to enjoy tea than with a biscuit? We made it in honour of our "new" home, our Hammersmith studio, where we took up residence in 2019, way before all these other biscuitry fragrances started popping up. Wholemeal with lemon zest, a pinch of ginger and cinder toffee chips, dunked in black tea with oatmilk. This is technically a gourmand fragrance, but it's not one of those party-time candyfloss overloads; the bran absolute and black tea keep it grounded in a calm afternoon tea friendliness. We think of it as the symbol of British problem-solving and friendship, dedicated to London W6 and the rest of the world. "Hammersmith Tea and Biscuits. This one smells exactly like its name, but it’s not a gimmick. Hammersmith Tea and Biscuits is a scent about British survival tactics. Someone’s crying, put the kettle on. Global disaster, tea and a biscuit. Awkward silence, milk, one sugar. The fragrance was made as a kind of olfactory love letter to the 4160Tuesday studio in Hammersmith. It’s a grounded, oddly moving scent built around black tea with oat milk. Wholemeal lemon and ginger biscuits and toasted hazelnuts. There’s a little cinder toffee in there too, but nothing sugary or cloying. It opens warm and slightly crumbly like a biscuit just pulled from the tin, and then the tea note wraps around it. What makes it interesting is that it doesn’t lean into dessert territory. The wholemeal flour and bran keep it grounded. It smells like a hug. But from someone who also knows how to hold a boundary. For me, this isn’t about nostalgia. It’s about resilience. The kind of resilience that doesn’t need to be loud. Just pass the biscuit, sit down, and figure it all out." - Hülya, Elevated Classics "The most realistic biscuit note I've tried. You can literally smell the whole grains. Ginger lemon whole grain biscuits and black tea. Probably the most comforting fragrance in my collection!" - Thornfield All of our fragrances have a story. Here is the story of Hammersmith Tea & Biscuits: We moved to our Hammersmith studio in September 2019, and our perfumer, Sarah, wanted to honour the London Borough which became our new home. She made a collection of fragrances, of which Hammersmith Tea & Biscuits was the first. Two others were Court of Ravens and Brackenbury. Hammersmith is on the River Thames, home to the Apollo, two tube stations with the same name, and a wide and varied range of people and eating places, and we all muddle along together. She made Tea & Biscuits as a symbol of the British way of making friends and getting through a crisis, which Hammersmith seems to epitomise. The biscuits featured are wholemeal lemon and ginger with toasted hazelnuts. The tea is black, with oat milk. It was almost finished when our friend, philosopher/perfumer/walking-perfumery-encyclopedia Harry Sherwood came to visit, bringing some brilliant biscuit accords of his own. He suggested adding our bran absolute to give it more fibre, and so it was complete. We like to wear Hammersmith Tea & Biscuits to remind us to offer empathy and friendship. Let’s see past our differences and enjoy a nice cup of tea and biscuits together. This fragrance was made in 2019, several years before other baked goods fragrances blanketed the world of perfume. If you want to be ahead of the curve, come to the Indie perfumers before niche brands catch up. “Smells so tasty and cozy. Super well done for the concept it's going for! Very much like real tea time in countries that do that with the plates of biscuits sitting out, and fresh black tea. I normally dislike black tea notes but this is well balanced with the bread-y biscuit sweetness, and I think it's great! Unisex leaning feminine to my nose.” - wst “I’ve never been to Hammersmith, but I want to thank Sarah for taking me there. In love with this beautiful scent.” - Debra Power
