Something for the Weekend: 9-11 May 2014

<p><strong>BEAUTY: The Fragrance Lab at Selfridges</strong></p><p>Pay a visit to Selfridges' Fragrance Lab and finding The One for your dressing table becomes a delightfully straightforward affair.</p><p>The lab's USP is an unconventional way of discovering a customer's deepest olfactory desires. Rather than starting inconclusive conversations about top notes and fragrances past, Selfridges' parfumiers ask customers to undergo an immersive experience, smelling their way through a number of installations and revealing elements of their personality.</p><p> As a result, visitors to the lab may not leave with the scent they expect but they leave with a scent they love.</p><p><em><a href="http://www.selfridges.com">selfridges.com </a></em></p>

<p><strong>EXHIBITION: 'The Years of La Dolce Vita' at the Estorick Collection</strong></p><p>A little bit of mid-century Rome setting up camp in the heart of London.</p><p>This collection of eighty photographs, many of them taken by photojournalist Marcello Gepetti, provides a wonderful refuge from rainy reality as it harks back to the glory days of Italian cinema and the infancy of the celebrity culture it spawned.</p><p>Where better to plan just how you'll do riviera than among countless images of Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren living the good life?</p><p><em>39a Canonbury Square, N1 2AN</em></p><p><em><a href="http://www.estorickcollection.com">estorickcollection.com</a></em></p>

<p><strong>NIGHTLIFE: Memory Box presents The Evolution of Disco</strong></p><p>As the sun goes down this Friday, the ever electric club night delves deeper than usual into the genealogy of modern disco, giving a platform to tunes dating from disco's 70s heydey to the house-heavy 90s.</p><p> For all lovers of cosmic disco and electronica, it's a rare opportunity to meet the musical parents on their own glittering turf.</p><p>There to make the introductions is Memory Box creator, Robin Ball, djing alongside Frank Mitchell and Nick Dare.</p><p><em>Lockside Lounge, NW1 8AF</em></p><p><em><a href="http://www.djrobinball.com">djrobinball.com</a></em></p>

<p><strong>MUSIC: London Symphony Orchestra in Trafalgar Square</strong></p><p>For anyone who fancies a foray into classical music but isn’t quite ready for commitment, the BMW LSO Open Air Classics series - put on in Trafalgar Square - is well worth looking into.</p><p>The concerts are free and unticketed and even if you’re not entranced by what the Orchestra has to offer (though we can't see how its players could fail to impress), there’s a relaxed, communal atmosphere that makes for a great evening. This year's offering, presented on Sunday evening, is a programme of Prokoviev’s best-loved compositions.</p><p><em>Trafalgar Square WC2N 5DN</em></p><p><em><a href="http://lso.co.uk">lso.co.uk</a></em></p>

<p><strong>DOWNLOAD NOW: Lykke Li, 'I Never Learn'</strong></p><p>With a noticeably more pared-back sound and just as much haunting melancholy, Swedish songstress Lykke Li slinks back onto our collective radars with third album, <em>I Never Learn.</em></p><p>The perfect next fix for anyone who plays Kyla La Grange on loop, it’s built from acoustic guitar, bashed out piano chords and a whole lot of emotion.</p><p>In matters of the heart, Li may, as she laments, have a lot to learn, but when it comes to moody pop, this lady is giving all the lessons.</p><p><a href="http://www.lykkeli.com/splash/ineverlearn"></a></p>

<p><strong>FILM: Frank</strong></p><p>Coming to the silver screen on Friday, this indie comedy charts the fortunes of a newly formed pop-band headed by the eponymous Frank.</p><p>An enigma of a man in a papier mache head, our hero is Lenny Abrahamson's reworking of Frank Sidebottom, the 1980s alter-ego of musician-cum-comedian, Christ Sievey.</p><p>Abrahamson's film snubs its nose at all rhyme and reason and yet, bolstered by the talent of lead Michael Fassbender and a supporting cast including Maggie Gyllenhal, the whole project somehow works.</p><p><em><a href="http://frank-film.com/">frank-film.com</a></em></p>

<p><strong>FASHION: 'What Planet are You On?' at Anya Hindmarch</strong></p><p>Tote bag or clutch, an Anya Hindmarch piece never fails to lift an otherwise earthly outfit to a whole new plane of brilliance.</p><p>So how wonderfully apt that the brand’s Bond and Sloane street stores are offering, over the next three days, a more spiritual fling with the celestial!</p><p>Visitors to the selected stores will have the opportunity to learn their astro-facts as they lend their minds to the What Planet Are You On? and produce personalised birth charts. </p><p><em>118 New Bond Street, W1S 1EW</em></p><p><em>157-158 Sloane Street, SW1X 9AB</em></p><p><em><a href="http://www.anyahindmarch.com">anyahindmarch.com</a></em></p>