This week, we chat with Simone Haynes, Founder of No Common Scents. This British-owned brand proudly crafting candles and room fragrance in Dubai, UAE. Welcome to the Emirates Woman weekly series ‘How I got my job as.
..’ where we speak to some incredible entrepreneurs and businesswomen both based in the UAE and globally to find out about their career paths that led them to where they are now; what their daily routines look like; the advice they’d give to those starting out; and the hurdles they’ve had to overcome.
Infused with the finest oils from heritage perfumers and created with vegan coconut soy wax, designed to elevate your everyday moments into extraordinary memories. Each candle is carefully crafted to evoke deep emotions and memories. To delve into the brand’s story, spoke to Simone Haynes who shared how it all began.
English by far. Being loquacious and wielding a fierce vocabulary is my nature. My parents still have the typewriter copy of the play I wrote with a school friend.
We decided to do a Roald Dahl-esque rhyming version of Cinderella and charge the parents a pound to get into the assembly hall to watch it. We wanted to raise money for the children in a warzone we’d seen on the news. We raised over a hundred pounds, not bad for a 10-year-old in 1992.
Is my Mum reading this (of course she is...
). I told a small lie about my age so I could get work in a sausage factory. I was 14 and my job was to twist the sausage meat as it came out of a machine i.
