Essy's Essentials

A Keepsake Collection

Essy's Favourites

A little collection of things I've loved — on my bedside table, in my handbag, or simply too lovely not to share. Previously spotted in the Polaroids, kept here to come back to.

Newest first - everything that has ever had its own Polaroid moment, kept here so nothing gets lost once a new one takes its place.

A Cinnabon cinnamon roll thick with icing, fresh from the shop.

CURRENTLY EATING

Cinnamon Roll

Cinnabon

Warm, sticky and entirely too generous with the icing - a Cinnabon classic and no notes.

19 September 2026

A boxed set of two Meri Meri ghost-shaped taper candles from Anthropologie, unboxed on a wooden floor.

CURRENTLY LOVING

Ghost Candles

Meri Meri · Found at Anthropologie

A Halloween find from Anthropologie: two little ghosts almost too lovely to light. Almost.

11 September 2026

A bottle of Kayali Freedom Musk Santal | 34 eau de parfum held on a woven rug.A bottle of Phlur Vanilla Skin hair and body fragrance mist held in one hand.

CURRENTLY LAYERING

Freedom Musk Santal | 34 + Vanilla Skin

Kayali × Phlur

One smells good. Together, they smell like I have my life considerably more together than I do.

26 August 2026

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A paperback copy of The Daisy Chain Flower Shop by Laurie Gilmore, held above a wooden floor.

CURRENTLY READING

The Daisy Chain Flower Shop

Laurie Gilmore

The kind of gentle small-town romance where the biggest crisis is a slightly wilted peony. I am fully invested.

24 August 2026

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A set of Zara Home Pumpkin Spice mushroom-shaped candles and a matching car fragrance sachet, unboxed on a textured throw.

CURRENTLY LOVING

Pumpkin Spice & Mushroom Candles

Zara Home

Bought two "for the house" and lit both within the hour. No regrets.

22 August 2026

A jar of Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask in Chocolate held up close, its lid unscrewed.

CURRENTLY LOVING

Lip Sleeping Mask, Chocolate

Laneige

Apparently my bedtime routine needed a chocolate course.

20 August 2026

A can of Pepsi Zero Sugar Cream Soda Flavour on a kitchen counter.

CURRENTLY DRINKING

Cream Soda Flavour

Pepsi Zero Sugar

Did I need cream soda Pepsi? No. Did I absolutely need to try it? Yes.

18 August 2026