QEST Scholar Leora Honeyman Creates Exclusive Floral Diffusers for Penhaligon’s

QEST Scholar and multidisciplinary artist Leora Honeyman has collaborated with British fragrance house Penhaligon’s to create ten unique sculptural diffusers inspired by its Highgrove Bouquet fragrance.

Combining ceramics, sculpture and a sensitivity to natural forms, Leora’s work brings together material, pattern and function. The exclusive collection celebrates the relationship between craft, design and the natural world, transforming the delicate form of a flower into a functional object.

From Craft Skills to Creative Innovation

Leora specialises in glass and ceramics, exploring the boundaries between material, pattern, use and form. Whilst studying at the Royal College of Art, she was awarded a QEST Scholarship in 2020. Since then, she has continued to expand her technical expertise through training in industrial pottery skills, industrial textile braiding and large borosilicate-tube lampworking.

Her practice reflects the value of continued learning and specialist training, enabling makers to develop their skills, experiment with materials and explore new creative possibilities.

Inspired by Nature

The Highgrove Diffuser collection takes inspiration from the silver lime flower, a key note in Penhaligon’s Highgrove Bouquet eau de parfum, created in collaboration with Highgrove Gardens.

Leora hand-modelled the clay petals and painted them in varying shades of yellow, experimenting with colour and texture to ensure each of the ten diffusers is unique. The clay itself helps diffuse the fragrance, bringing together the visual and sensory qualities of the flower.

The result is a collection that captures the character of the natural world through considered, handcrafted design.

Craft in Collaboration

The collaboration showcases how traditional making skills can be applied in contemporary contexts, bringing together a maker’s individual practice and a brand’s creative vision. Through her work with Penhaligon’s, Leora demonstrates how ceramics can move beyond purely decorative forms to create objects that engage the senses and enrich everyday spaces.

Leora’s collaboration is a wonderful example of the possibilities that emerge when craft, creativity and nature come together, and of the role skilled makers play in shaping contemporary design.

See the end result and watch the launch event unfold at Penhaligon’s below: