Emotional ties with Radio DJ Lilah Parsons

Tune in to Lilah on Heart, Friday and Saturday nights from 10pm to 1am. Lilah also hosts live Twitter show PopBuzz Presents on Thursdays at 5pm; go to @PopBuzz

I discovered this Edouard Fléchier Une Rose perfume by Frédéric Malle while I was living in New York six years ago. It has a unique scent that I find calming. Thankfully, you can buy it in the UK, too.

Left: I can’t leave the house without my Bose wireless headphones. I need to have a soundtrack to my life and always be listening to music – at the moment it’s George Ezra. I drop them all the time, but they still work! Right: My Converse go everywhere with me. They’ve been to Glastonbury twice – I scuffed them up there last summer. I wear them to work and they come on holiday. I would wear them on the red carpet if I knew that they wouldn’t show under a long dress!

I was freakishly obsessed with Titanic as a child. I won a poetry prize at school aged ten and bought this with my book token. Once we were asked to write to someone who we looked up to. Everyone wrote to the Queen or the Prime Minister and got letters back. I wrote to James Cameron but, sadly, did not get a reply.

This picture is by my great friend, the artist Bella Franks, who I did an art foundation course with at City & Guilds of London Art School. I love the female form – I’ve got a naked Jane Birkin above my bed.

This clutch was given to me by the French perfume brand Kilian when I DJed for its tenth anniversary party last year. It was perfect timing as I had just turned 29. I plan to be still carrying this when I am 50.

Left: My sister-in-law Georgie – who has been with my brother, David, for so long that she is essentially my sister – bought this mid-century ice bucket from Italy for me because I love pineapples. It’s not so much about eating them as the way they look. Right: These Minnie Mouse ears are from Walt Disney World, Florida. I went there last month on my first work trip with Heart Radio. When I was three, my parents took my brothers there, but left me with my granny because they thought that I was too young.

My father [Sir John Parsons] worked for the royal household as Deputy Keeper of the Privy Purse, so I spent 11 years of my childhood living in the grounds of Kensington Palace. A couple of Christmases ago he gave my two brothers and me watercolours to remember that magical time.