Unique Shopping Experiences
Live to shop? Further enhance your luxury London shopping experience with a range of tailor-made private visits and tours that can be pre-arranged before arrival.
Perfect ScentsDiscover your perfect scent with a private perfume consultation at specialist perfumery, Les Senteurs.
For over 20 years Les Senteurs (
www.lessenteurs.com) have championed unusual, niche and hard-to-find scents from some of the world’s greatest perfumiers including Creed, Diptyque and Annik Goutal.
On this fragrant excursion, Les Senteurs will carefully unravel your personal style and sense of smell to help identify the scent most suited to you. Halkin guests will receive an exclusive £25 gift certificate to use in store when booking the consultation. Costs from £75.
His and HersElizabeth Street neighbours Tom Tom Cigars (
www.tomtom.co.uk) and De Vroomen jewellery (
www.devroomen.co.uk) have created the ultimate ‘his and hers’ London shopping experience for Halkin guests.
On this super-luxe package, ladies receive a private consultation over a glass of Champagne with the designers and makers at prestigious jeweller De Vroomen. Meanwhile next door, chaps can chill out with a bespoke cigar session at London’s leading cigar merchant, Tom Tom Cigars, including tips on which smokes to choose for different occasions. Consultations are priced at £75 each and include an exclusive £25 gift certificate to spend at Tom Tom.
The Belgravia SybariteDiscover the fascinating history of Belgravia and enjoy VIP access to some of the area’s top retailers with The Halkin’s Belgravia Sybarite Tour.
This three-hour private excursion mixes stories about the neighbourhood’s heritage and history with visits to contemporary and cutting-edge boutiques. Halkin guests get a true sense of this prestigious area —once a no-go-zone and haunt of highwaymen that’s now one of the world’s most desirable postcodes.
Along with engaging commentary, guests will have VIP access to some of Belgravia’s most prestigious retailers including personal appointments at Les Senteurs (
www.lessenteurs.com) perfumery, chocolatier and patissier William Curley (
www.williamcurley.co.uk) and candle marker Rachel Vosper (
www.rachelvosper.com). Costs are from £214, subject to availability and must be booked 14 days in advance.