What a Difference a Day Makes: 'Dad’s death turned my world upside down'

Alix Mulholland of Field Day: "It was a huge blow to us all — my two older sisters, my little brother still in school, my mum only in her 50s, she really struggled. It took us a long time to heal."

Alix Mulholland’s brand FieldDay has been creating small batch, sustainable scents since 2002.

It’s the guts of 30 years ago now — hard to believe. I was a student in Glasgow, with a job in a pub on the Byres Road. April 1997, I was doing a shift, a manager came and said: “Your mum’s on the phone.”

I thought this isn’t good. This was before mobile phones — my mum didn’t even know I had a job, she’d have had to ring the house I was staying in, then ring around to find me. There was no Google then.