Noted. by Suzy Nightingale

Suzy Nightingale is the Fragrance Editor at The Perfume Society (also featured in this directory), a role she has held since 2015, alongside 15 years of professional fragrance journalism and a role co-hosting the On the Scent podcast. Her Substack, Noted., is her personal, weekly-aimed outlet: scents, suggestions, news and reviews, plus a recurring feature on where to find genuine fragrance bargains and what she'd actually pay full price for.

The voice is candid and specific rather than press-release smooth. The newsletter leans into personal opinion, telling readers plainly what she would and wouldn't pay for, in a way a brand-facing editorial platform can't always do, and her multi-award recognition as a journalist gives it real professional weight.

On trust: Nightingale's day job as The Perfume Society's Fragrance Editor is worth knowing when reading Noted., since The Perfume Society itself runs brand-partnered Discovery Boxes and features - her Substack isn't a fully separate business from a commercial fragrance operation, even if the newsletter itself carries no obvious sponsorship. That makes her closer to the honest-reviewer end of the spectrum than an entertainment-first account, but not a completely independent one. The Substack is also relatively new and smaller than her long-running mainstream bylines, and she has openly noted that the weekly-Monday aim isn't always hit.