Angela Flanders
A golden flask of joy, a little bit of magic in a bottle
Angela Flanders opened her first perfumery on Columbia Road in East London in 1985, after a career as a costume and textile designer. The shop became a quiet fixture of the Sunday flower market — a tiled room of dark bottles, soaps, and pomanders blended in small batches. Flanders worked from raw materials and historical formulae, favouring rose, oakmoss, vetiver, and orris over fashionable synthetics, and the resulting fragrances feel closer to a Georgian apothecary than to contemporary niche. Since Angela Flanders' death in 2016 the house has been run by her daughter Kate Evans, who has kept the line and the original shop intact while opening a second location in Spitalfields. The catalogue now numbers several dozen eaux de parfum, colognes, and room sprays, all still mixed in London. The house's appeal is partly its refusal to scale: each bottle is hand-labelled, and the staff will discuss the history of a chypre at length if asked.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
