![]() ![]() I inveigled James Craven from London perfume shop Les Senteurs to co-host with me, and together we concocted a whistlestop tour through the twentieth century in perfume. Hosting it in a bar was much more inviting than going to a department store with all that pressure to buy. I wanted to create an experience which made learning about scent fun, sociable and intelligent, and that spanned pop culture to high culture. Out of nowhere I had this idea to host an event about scent.Īs someone who loves food, reading, drinking, and learning, I absolutely felt perfume fitted in with this landscape of discovery but it's often left out. In 2010, all this suddenly became useful when a friend told me about The Book Club, which was looking for live programming. Even as a teenager, in the heady days of dial-up internet, I’d drive my dad crazy, tying up the phoneline looking at perfume reviews. I spent a lot of time thinking about it, but rather than defining it as a ‘thing’, it was more of a compulsion. ![]() I was working in events PR promoting restaurants and hotels. ![]() As you might imagine, I’m a woman who, even now, have more fragrances than I could ever wear in a lifetime, keeps on buying them.įive years ago, this hobby had nothing to do with my job. If you were to go to my home and open a cupboard or drawer, you would probably find dozens of bottles of perfume waiting to fall out. ![]()
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