Hannibal is the last person you want close enough to smell you, yet ironically he would be an excellent perfume shopping buddy. In the films, TV series and novels, there are multiple scenes where Lecter identifies someone’s fragrance in seconds. In the 1986 film Manhunter (adapted from the first novel, Red Dragon), he whiffs Old […]
Sugar, Honey Honey, You are my Candy Girl
Candy by Prada This post puts in me in mind of a friend who likes to greet me by shouting “HELLO SUGAR TITS”, preferably in public. Like Wes Anderson films, a little gourmand goes a long way. Gourmand perfumes smell of cakes, macarons, caramels, vanilla, almonds, pastries, puddings, sweeties. They have been fashionable for quite […]
Art of repair
One of my loves is ‘slow fashion’. This is a pretentious way of saying I buy clothes secondhand (except knickers: I am not a complete beast). I’ve always done this. I spent hours in a massive, messy open plan Oxfam in Dalston as a teenager finding ridiculous outfits. I get it from my mum, who […]
Smell the glove: the pleasures of leather
I recently started leathercraft as a hobby. My first project was a refurb of a battered tote bag with ripped, coffee stained lining. I took it apart, relined it with rich blue denim from some cut up jeans, and re-stitched with white linen thread. I re-used the jeans’ back pockets, kept the original maker’s logo […]
