Silvery seventies chic Got a 50ml eau de toilette for £33 from Boots. This is an iconic one. It launched in 1970, so is now fifty years old, designed with arty, assertive, metropolitan intellectual Parisienne Left Bank ladies in mind. The fab silver black and bright blue striped metal tin is instantly recognisable and looks […]
“Eau de Homophobie”, Withnail and I, 1985
I want to kick off a little series about scent in the movies. In this short scene from Withnail and I, beautiful young Paul McGann (“I”) strides in a full length leather coat with his lovely curls across a grotty Camden pub to the toilet. A waft of whatever cologne he is wearing brings him […]
Flower by Kenzo
I’m coming back to the blog having last posted in February 2020. Five months ago. Feels like five years from this strange new future limbo-land of coronavirus. After reeling from the initial shock of London’s covid-19 lockdown (‘ok, so now, you stay at home, you never get on the bus or the tube, you only […]
