A perfumery with somewhere to sit

Scent needs time. It changes on the skin, gets tangled with memory and can rarely be understood in the first spray.At Libertine Parfumerie’s new Melbourne flagship in Armadale, Tamsin Johnson has designed for that slow pace. The 140-square-metre boutique on High Street is warm, furnished and layered, with parquetry underfoot, dark timber joinery, vintage lighting, natural stone, seating and basins. It is still clearly a store, but it does not behave like one in the usual sense.“The s