AKT London curates our latest Walpole Weekend Wind-Down playlist

After a high-pressure week of meetings, management and making connections, the best way to decompress is to plug in your headphones and allow a superb selection of tunes to take your brain far away from the world of work. Enter the Walpole Weekend Wind-Down: a monthly playlist of tracks created by one of our Walpole members or partners that will help you transition into a weekend headspace.

For July, we're headed to Italy with a laid-back summer playlist courtesy of AKT London, one of our current Brands of Tomorrow. After years of not being able to find a deodorant that could withstand the rigours of their eight-day-a-week West End careers, actors Ed Currie and Andy Coxon set about creating one that could. The result was AKT London (pronounced “act”) – a natural deodorant made in the UK and stored in 100% plastic-free packaging. Initially launched in 2015 with three fragrances, the brand has launched a new scent, aptly entitled Halcyon Summers, just in time for holiday season – a perfect addition to any getaway grooming kit. 

"Our scents encapsulate Theatre of Fragrance," says AKT London Co-Founder Andy Coxon. "Each of our scents are written like a scene description in a script, so it only felt right to underscore our scent of the summer, SC.04 Halcyon Summers, with a playlist designed to transport you to the Italian dream."

And just as the playlist below can't help get you in an Italian frame of mind, the scent itself conjures thoughts of cobbled streets, citrus trees and sunset spritzes with notes of pomelo, mint, tomato vine and geranium. Perfetto!

Tune in and tune out from the stress of the week below.

AKT Deodorant Balm in SC.04. Halcyon Summers is available now at aktlondon.com