Viola Levy

Viola is a freelance beauty journalist and copywriter from North London. Last year she won the Fragrance Foundation Jasmine Award for Best Short Piece, reporting on how urban life is damaging our sense of smell.#000d

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Draw a line for our best looks

Eyeliner is a girl's best friend

2 min read

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Home SPA - woman takes a bath, reads and makes facial mask

Autumn’s here, time for a mask

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Scent of the city

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Getting older...still beautiful

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How to fight those sleepless nights

Our beauty columnist Viola Levy has some tips for peaceful slumbers

2 min read

September 6, 2021 09:38

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Can SATC’s Carrie be Jewish this time?

There’s going to be a spin-off update of Sex and the City and Viola Levy hopes this time they’ll get it right

3 min read

August 26, 2021 18:43

The perfumer’s secret Shoah family history

Viola Levy meets a successful perfumer — and hears the story of her father, a child refugee

5 min read

July 29, 2021 10:18

The perfumer’s secret Shoah family history

Ten years on and we still miss Amy

She was a year older than me and I felt an affinity to her, as a lot of Millennial Jewish women did

3 min read

July 22, 2021 11:40

D 32808-16 Amy Winehouse Mark Okoh SPECIAL PRICE. Jazz and soul singer Amy Winehouse poses for photos at her home in Camden, London. Her debut album 'Frank' won an Ivor Novello award and was released in October 2003. 2004

The magic  of marijuana — and babka helps too

Can cannabis extract help your anxiety? In hippest Notting Hill, Viola Levy meets a man who says it can

4 min read

July 2, 2021 10:28

The magic  of marijuana — and babka helps too

Chutzpah-channelling beauty

What is the elusive factor that adds glamour? Viola Levy knows...

3 min read

March 19, 2021 13:16

US-Israeli actress Natalie Portman arrives for the 92nd Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on February 9, 2020. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Sweet scents for a fruitful new year

Just as we eat apples dipped in honey for a sweet new year, the perfumes we wear can be symbolic, says Viola Levy

3 min read

September 17, 2020 11:36

Oy de Parfum

Scent has a special role in Judaism - and many Jewish perfume makers were inspired by childhood memories

6 min read

June 15, 2020 11:33

Bigger's thinking big business

An international upbringing prepared Natanel Bigger for life as an entrepreneur. Now he's launching his own haircare brand.

2 min read

May 6, 2020 18:31

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Viola Levy

Latest from Viola Levy

Draw a line for our best looks

Autumn’s here, time for a mask

Scent of the city

Getting older...still beautiful

More from Viola Levy

How to fight those sleepless nights

Can SATC’s Carrie be Jewish this time?

The perfumer’s secret Shoah family history

Ten years on and we still miss Amy

The magic of marijuana — and babka helps too

Chutzpah-channelling beauty

Sweet scents for a fruitful new year

Oy de Parfum

Bigger's thinking big business

The magic  of marijuana — and babka helps too