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The Weekly List: High summer
Every week, our founder Emma Unckel shares the five things currently on her radar. This week it's a candle I've carried through an entire summer, a place I keep returning to, a cream unlike anything else, a pair of trousers everyone keeps asking about, and one dinner we plan a year in advance. Here's what's been on my mind lately.
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1. Diptyque, Violette candle.
"I bring this candle wherever I go, it's the fastest way to make any borrowed room feel like home."
I've carried this candle through the entire summer, simply because I love the scent. It's the quickest way to make a rented house, like the little place in Skåne we stayed in this year, feel like ours the moment the violet starts to fill the room. My tip: always travel with your favourite candle. It does more for a space than you'd think.
2. Comporta
"Three summers in, and I still can't get enough of this place."
This has become our family's go-to destination over the last few years, and this was our third visit. I never tire of the atmosphere, the food, the calm, the pine trees and rice fields, the wide beaches, the relaxed, quietly chic feeling that runs through everything. This photo is from one of our evenings at Quinta da Comporta.
3. DamDam
I've spent the whole summer working my way through DamDam, a Japanese skincare brand you'll now find in our shop alongside Yay Yay, something I'm genuinely proud of. The face cream in particular is unlike anything else I've tried. DamDam is built on time-honoured Japanese ingredients, shiso, rice, matcha, sourced through regenerative farming rather than trend-chasing formulas. That philosophy is exactly why it's stuck with me all season.
4. The green cargo trousers
"People stop me every time I wear these."
I picked these up from a small Austrian brand while shopping in Comporta, which, by the way, has surprisingly good shopping. You've all asked about them more than almost anything else I've worn this summer. They are from Marlo, and i LOVE them!
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5. Vyn
"One night a year, always worth it."
Every year, we take one romantic overnight trip to Vyn, the restaurant and hotel chef Daniel Berlin built on a hilltop farm in Österlen, overlooking the Baltic Sea. Staying there is wonderful in itself. My tip: eat at the more casual food and wine bar, not only the tasting menu. The full tasting experience is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of dinner, but Vyn has so much more to offer beyond that one meal.
6. The pink top
"I found this in a small shop in Hornbæk, and I already know it's a summer wardrobe staple for years to come."
I'm loving pink right now, and this one is from Studio Feder, a Danish label built on natural materials like linen and organic cotton, quietly made to last rather than to.
