Notes from Malta
The Journal
Short pieces about living with scent in a hot, salty, hard-water island. Written by the people who pack the boxes, which is why there are not very many of them.
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What a house in Malta smells like in August
Shutters down, air conditioning on, windows shut against thirty-four degrees. By the third week of August a Maltese flat has a smell of its own, and it is not the sea. What is actually in it, and the order in...
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Three drops, not six
The most common mistake with a new diffuser is using too much oil. It costs you money, it does not smell better, and in a Maltese...
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Hard water in Malta and your diffuser
If the mist has gone weak, the machine is almost certainly fine. Malta has some of the hardest tap water in Europe, and an ultrasonic diffuser...
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While you are here
One diffuser. Three scents.
That is the whole shop. Ordered before 14:00 Monday to Saturday, it is at your door the same evening, brought by one of us rather than by a courier.