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Hydra is known as the Pearl of the Aegean Sea. It’s an island where there is no rush hour, only the call of church bells and the lapping of the clear sea against rocky shores.
This is a scented story of human nature, slow-living and creative fuel.
A modern bohemian culture, slow living, the natural world co-inhabiting with human nature and artistic endeavour. Hydra Figue is a fragrance that explores these references with honesty.
Hydra Figue pays tribute to Miller Harris’s ethos of rich storytelling and search for beauty in the everyday.
We travelled to Hydra with London based photographer Louis Sheridan to explore how the slow living pace and rich natural habitat of the island can cultivate creativity.
He explores getting back to your roots and how getting off the well-trodden path, can help you document the beauty in everyday by seeing things as they truly are.
Watch the video below.
To celebrate the launch of our new fragrance, we’ve partnered with a series of multi-disciplinary artists based in London who all use slow-living to inspire their craft, to bring the creative spirit of Hydra to you.
Booking A Workshop
Book a place at one of our Hydra Figue inspired London workshops at the creative hub that is Mortimer House. Set in a six-storey Art Deco building in the heart of Fitzrovia, London, Mortimer House brings beautifully designed work, social and wellbeing spaces together under one roof.
Every attendee will receive a limited-edition Miller Harris goodie bag including their own creation from the night, plus a voucher to the value of the ticket towards a 50ml or 100ml Miller Harris fragrance of your choice. Details of the workshops can be found below.
Shown Left/Above: MONTI at work
Thursday 25th May - 7pm
£45 (includes £45 voucher towards a Miller Harris purchase)
Laxmi will guide you through the session and encourage more playful exploration of drawing to ease you in and participate in the class.
Laxmi Hussain is a London-born artist whose work exists somewhere between the abstract and the realistic. Having studied architecture, she enjoyed and excelled at the drawing and fluid art techniques within the course and this became a basis from which to explore all aspects of
drawing.
Monday 5th June
£75 (includes £75 voucher towards a Miller Harris purchase)
Develop your clay practice with a masterclass with award-winning artist, Ana Kerin, founder of KANA London.
Yugoslavia-born Ana Kerin studied fine art and sculpture and works across mediums, from
charcoal to canvas and clay. Her undulating silhouettes and free-form shapes are present across her works. Each artwork questions the relationship between form, fluidity and function.
Thursday 1st June - 8.30pm
£75 (includes £75 voucher towards a Miller Harris purchase)
Dee will walk you through each step of the traditional stained glass tiffany technique from beginning to end. No prior experience or knowledge needed this will be both a fun and relaxing workshop for you to enjoy.
Dee Monti founded MONTI in 2015 a handmade stained glass and homewares brand. Everything is made by hand using stencils and soldered using the traditional Tiffany technique
Hydra Figue is abundant with a high concentration of natural materials, all sourced for their high-quality grade and focus on CSR initiatives. Perfumer Emilie has followed the DNA of a true Miller Harris fragrance in creating a complex formulation of ingredients around the singular fig note.
The fragrance also continues Miller Harris’s UpCycled initiative with two exciting new innovations in natural scent extraction.
The process of extracting essential oils in perfumery has long used water in large volumes. The reduction of water waste in manufacturing is a key cornerstone of our CSR actions. Our supplier already re-uses water for the watering of local crops (Rose, Tuberose, Ylang Ylang) in Grasse, but water is still needed in the final product of perfumery.
We’ve replaced the water used (around 7% of the final product) with Hydrolat Sage. This is the water used in the steam distillation of sage leaves. The Hydrolat carries a subtle hint of the sage leaf and brings a slight aromatic nature to the fragrance.
The production and control of natural materials for use in perfumery is at a crucial juncture in its history. Oakwood in perfumery has long been used as an ingredient, however we’ve worked with our suppliers to develop a process that looks further down the supply chain, for second use opportunities.
Our UpCycled Oakwood is a bi-product of the scrap wood that is used in the creation of wine barrels in the home of wine, France. This wood is PEFC certified, a standard that ensures the development of the forest heritage through a sustainable forest management approach.