You’re invited to a fragrant tea with Jo at The Star in Alfriston
It’s back! So successful was the special fragrant tea and scent appreciation workshop that Jo hosted last autumn at The Star, in Alfriston, East Sussex: she’s been invited back to host another, on Friday 4th April 2025.
The Star is The Polizzi Collection’s stunning hotel in the picturesque East Sussex village of Alfriston, which is located between Brighton and Jo’s home town of Hastings.
Taking place from 3 - 5.30 p.m., the event features a special menu created by The Star’s patissiers (see below). But the real focus of the event is a truly fun and fascinating ‘How to Improve Your Sense of Smell’ workshop, in which you’ll get to smell lots of different and delightful scents, and learn a technique to turbo-charge your appreciation of perfumes and aroma generally.
This unique workshop is based on a technique Jo learned over 30 years ago from a trio of stellar scent experts: Jean Kerléo (of Jean Patou, and also founder of Paris’s Osmothèque scent archive), Jacques Cavallier Belletrud (now resident perfumer at Louis Vuitton, but creator of fragrances from Jean Paul Gaultier Classique to Stella McCartney’s Stella), and Karyn Khoury, who was the guiding light of fragrance creation at the Estée Lauder Companies, becoming a treasured colleague of Jo’s.
Jo – who is also, of course, co-founder of Green & Black’s and Editor of the perfume magazine The Scented Letter, for The Perfume Society – has hosted dozens of these fragrance workshops, over the years. They’re always hugely enjoyable, and Jo’s seen time and again how the simple (and fun!) technique that she’ll share on 4th April has helped many people significantly to improve their sense of smell, deepening their appreciation of scents, and, as a result – says Jo – ‘of life itself.’
Oh, and the food…! You’ll have a choice of coffee or teas, with sandwiches, scones and an array of fragrant cakes and pastries to enliven the senses.
PLUS… of course there’ll be a FAH-BU-LOUS perfume goodie bag, to go home with!
Hope to see you there…
Tickets are priced £70 to include the workshop and tea – click here for more info and to book
