What perfume to buy in London

Sarah McCartney, who spent 14 years at Lush, founded 4160Tuesdays in 2011. She makes perfumes by hand in small batches in a former Victorian builders' yard in Hammersmith, with playful names like London 1969. The studio also runs perfume-making workshops.

Former BBC costume designer Angela Flanders opened her shop in 1985 in a Victorian building on Columbia Road, home of the Sunday flower market. She taught herself perfumery from old books and made small batches by hand. Since her death in 2016 her daughter Kate Evans runs the family house from the same green-fronted shop.

Escentric Molecules is an independent perfume house started in London in 2006 by German perfumer Geza Schoen and British creative director Paul White. Each scent comes as a pair: a Molecule built around one aroma molecule, and an Escentric that blends it with other notes. Schoen now creates new scents in his Berlin studio, where the brand also has its first own boutique.

Experimental Perfume Club is a London perfume house started by ISIPCA-trained French perfumer Emmanuelle Moeglin, who began with small workshops in London in 2016. It makes its own perfumes, partly in Grasse and partly in its London lab, and at its lab-boutique in Marylebone you can try the range or blend your own scent.

Juan Famenias Floris, a barber and comb maker from Menorca, opened his shop at 89 Jermyn Street in 1730 and began selling perfumes inspired by the scents of his Mediterranean youth. The house is still family owned, now run by the eighth and ninth generations, and still trades from the same address. A small museum at the back of the shop shows royal warrants, letters and old bottles from nearly 300 years.

Jo Malone, who sold her first brand to Estee Lauder and left it in 2006, started Jo Loves in London in 2011. Her shop on Elizabeth Street in Belgravia stands where she worked in a florist as a teenager, and has a 'fragrance tapas' bar where staff paint scents onto your skin. It is independent of the Jo Malone London brand.

Perfumer Linda Pilkington opened her first boutique on Old Bond Street in 2001 and named the house after her middle name and the street of her first small workshop. She is known for rare ingredients such as champaca, Ta'if rose and black hemlock. The perfumes are made in the house's own studio in England, and the boutique is still in Mayfair's Royal Arcade.

Lyn Harris, founder of Miller Harris, opened Perfumer H in October 2015 as a laboratory and shop in Marylebone. Scents come in hand-blown glass bottles made in London by glassblower Michael Ruh, and can be refilled in store. The house now has a shop on Clifford Street in Mayfair.