In summer you may find little pockets of tranquility in the small things, like sun-drenched sand dunes, grasses, picnic blankets and wobbly old deckchairs.
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Vesterhavet, also known as the North Sea i located off the West coast of Denmark, with its sea and coastlines known for its wild waves and strong currants.
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Glamping in Scandinavia is not about fancy tents with soft mattresses on raised platforms, hot water outdoor showers, and in-tent drinks refrigerators.
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The Hardangerfjord is Norway’s second longest fjord, and third longest in the world, known for its spectacular views and vast cascading landscape.
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The next destination of our journey around wild Scandinavia is Lapland — a vast and largely untouched landscape of over 100,000 square km, and home of northern lights, midnight sun, and incredible wilderness.
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The Stockholm archipelago is a cluster of around 30.000 islands, skerries and rocks and begins just a few minutes away from the city of Stockholm.
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Last Friday we had our annual midsummer party; a beautiful day, on the harbour and in the courtyard, all carefully planned by our Creative Director, Line
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Have you ever employed a disadvantaged person simply to give them a chance? Have you ever looked at your organisation and recognised you could add another person for ethical, rather than business, reasons?
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Today we launch a new category in our collection — mini hand creams. An extremely handy product, made for the pocket, the purse, for your exposed skin.
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Our new subscription box service lets you choose your own essentials, choose how often you need them, and choose when to change them, or cancel. The catch?
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It’s spring blossom again in fjordland. Can you imagine travelling to the Norwegian fjords every morning, as you get ready for your day?
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Our starting point was to create a calming atmosphere for all who visit, to bring the light in and to bring people together in an informal, Scandinavian way.
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When we created our first cosmetic collection we followed the familiar path of focusing on an exotic hero ingredient to make it appear more authentic. We’re not proud of the result.
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‘Island solitude’ is a truth that forms the template for the unique marine floral fragrance profile that plays such an important role in our collection of Scandinavian stories.
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Our cargo bike has had a make-over and is ready to tour the world. First stop, Denmark’s second city for Greenlight, a weekend-long festival examining Aarhus’s ambitions to lead a more sustainable urban community life.
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Shaun discusses the original idea behind Skandinavisk and our subsequent journey to leave a lighter footprint on the Pretty Good Business podcast, a series focusing on businesses trying to make a difference by putting sustainability at their core.
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On Saturday morning the sun will pass the equator on its journey back north, marking the moment when day and night are in perfect balance, and heralding the return of spring to Scandinavia. We’re celebrating this vernal equinox with KOTO and LEMPI, our own yin and yang of darkness and light.
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A Certified B Corporation is a business that has been audited to meet the highest standards of social and environmental impact in everything they do. It’s the most rigorous company certification in the world, and it’s probably the hardest thing we have ever done.
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When lack of regulation, industry definitions, optional certification, marketing and misinformation combine, the result can be confusion that is bad for both soil and skin.
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Gazing into the snow-blanketed landscape that surrounded me, I had the sudden realisation that I hadn’t seen so much as a trace of another person for over six days.
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Scandinavian love is about much more than just bouquets of red roses, boxes of chocolates, and cheesy love letters.
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It is said that, as a young boy, Danish designer, Arne Jacobsen, painted his bedroom white because he disliked the multi-coloured Victorian wallpaper on the walls.
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Does glass mean good? Does plastic mean bad? Learn more about the environmental footprint of the materials and our take on utilising them.
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For some, Scandinavian winters conjure hygge-esque visions. It heralds a very different call to me. Read about Kirstens rugged adventure on our blog.
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In Scandinavia the freedom to roam (‘allemansrätten’ in Swedish) is the universal right to access public or privately owned land, forests, lakes and rivers.
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The air was clear and crisp and the lake was covered with a thick layer of ice and surrounded by majestic pine trees.
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We had expected 2020 to be our year of transition. Just not one quite like that.
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That feeling of homeliness and well-being was something I wanted to pass on to the people I love the most.
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Story and photos by My Scandinavian Home
How do you celebrate Christmas? Since moving to Sweden – we try to have two celebrations.
December 13th is St. Lucia’s day. Alongside Midsummar, the Lucia celebrations represent one of the foremost cultural traditions in Sweden.
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Our journey to finding the right one.
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Let me share with you the secret to our design. We have always been inspired by the Scandinavian design tradition of function over form, of minimal aesthetics and understatement, and of responsible sourcing and production practises.
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Before I moved here, my whole life was in Stockholm, and – like horse riding – living in an old schoolhouse in Ölsdalen, literally in the middle of nowhere, was not part of my plan.
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When we started Skandinavisk we knew that its stories and its design tradition were rich and captivating, and we felt equipped and energised to reinterpret both. But its scents? We had no idea.
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Each chapter, locally known as ‘kapitel’, echoes the chronology of our own twenty year journey across Scandinavia by reinterpreting three adventures precious to life in the north.
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It brings to mind the architect of my home and the legacy he, and the other Scandinavian Modern designers, left to the world. When people do things with passion, soul, and attention to detail, the results can be transformative and enduring.
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The beauty of living in Sweden? When it comes to breath-taking scenery and great deserted swathes of nature you’re spoilt for choice.
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Follow us on a short journey, and be prepared for a lot of links that will either amuse, bemuse, or leave you just as confused as this very relationship.
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I grew up in a small community, just outside Oslo. At the end of the road from my parent’s house was the fjord and, one way or another, my most intense childhood memories are all about the sea.
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Shortly after we revealed the launch of our Next Generation collection, Selfridges invited us to participate in their own sustainable retail initiative, Project Earth.
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What we have stopped doing is as important as what we have started to do. Understanding why helps navigate our new collection.
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How to find happiness, Lykke (Danish), in life?
I learned more about the big topic of happiness during my visit in the brand new happiness museum in Copenhagen.
When it’s 100% organic? When some of its ingredients are certified organic? When its formula is certified organic? Or when the word ‘organic’ is used liberally all over its packaging? It’s confusing.
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The farm we are a part of sits on the coastline of the narrow north-western tongue of Sjælland, locally known as the Odde, facing due north toward the Swedish port of Gøteborg and the Oslo fjord, via the shallow, choppy waters of the Kattegat.
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Three months ago, as the European corona crisis reached its peak, I wrote a post with the message ‘we didn’t come this far to only come this far’.
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It’s almost that time of year again. To take sail and discover new secrets along the Swedish coastline, exploring its myriad of islands, skerries and rocky outcrops – many of which are uninhabited and totally exposed to the elements.
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It’s almost the longest day of the year, and in Scandinavia this is cause for celebration. For several hours now most of the population of Sweden (including our very own Gerry and Margareta) will be found deep in the countryside, busy decorating the midsummer pole, picking flowers to wear in their hair, scrubbing the last new potatoes, putting the final touches to the strawberry cakes, singing and dancing, and – of course – washing it all down with some delicious schnapps.
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Scandinavia creeps up on you, it doesn’t happen overnight. For a start, it’s not the first part of the world one hears about, or aspires toward, in these noisy, globalised times.
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The moods and emotions that the landscapes evoke in me are those I wish to translate into my pictures. It is a search for resonance, of a relationship and interaction between the mind and the landscape.
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It’s a jungle out there. Even in the world of waxes. And, one thing is for sure, buying the cheapest candles is not likely to give you the most responsibly sourced blend or the cleanest, most stable burn.
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The first time I visited Scandinavia was to answer a brief from a new fragrance company based in Denmark. The task piqued my interest since it was a region I knew little of, and olfactory knowledge about the Scandinavian region in the perfume industry of Grasse, France – one to which I have been wedded for almost thirty years – was similarly limited.
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Each time I reach the ferry berth, I get an immediate sense of tranquility; I breathe more freely, and my mind seems clearer. Blame it on the light that in early spring will cast a supernatural, pink haze over the treetops on the other side of the narrow stretch of water separating the island from the mainland.
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More than half the Nordic lands lie beneath a dense canopy of trees and it is said that one can walk from Skåne, the southernmost county of Sweden, to Lapland, inside the Arctic Circle, without once leaving the forest. A journey of two thousand kilometers.
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When Villa Copenhagen approached us last year, they were looking for a local amenities partner who took sustainability seriously. Villa is a new 5-star, 400-room hotel due to open this summer in the old Central Post Office building right next door to Copenhagen Central Station, and just a five minute walk from our office.
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When I first began growing roses more than fifteen years ago at our home in Stockholm, I had this idea of the romantic English rose garden. I soon discovered that would not be possible when combined with such challenging Nordic weather. Instead, I discovered something less perfect, and in that imperfection, true beauty that can be cultivated over time.
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By staying open and following Danish guidelines.
In Denmark, while our office staff now work from home, our warehouse is open, our freight partners continue to operate, and the country is not in a strict lockdown compared to countries like France, Spain and Italy. This means our webshop operations are running almost as normal.
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I was talking to a local Copenhagen shopkeeper the other day, someone who has clothed my wife for the past ten years.
She said the reason people buy fashion has turned upside down in the space of just a few seasons. It used to be to look good, attend a party, or treat oneself. But now people ask themselves, do I really need another dress? Is it responsibly made? Where do the materials come from? If I buy it, am I part of the problem or the solution?
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In the summer of 2019, the world was shocked and outraged at the President of the United States’ crude attempt to buy Greenland, a semi-autonomous island territory of Denmark. The President himself was then so insulted by the swift response from the Danish Prime Minister, who called it “an absurd discussion”, that he cancelled an imminent state visit, and the blur of noise grew louder.
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Exactly seven years after our launch we have changed everything. The fragrance approach, the formulae, the packaging, the sourcing, the design. The footprint.
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