Patriotic Perfume: Scents inspired by London
To coincide with the opening of Somerset House's upcoming exhibition 'Perfume: A sensory journey through contemporary scent', we have compiled a list of fragrances that pay tribute to our great city.
While London's most prominent smells may lean more towards pollution, rubbish and dirt than rose petals and cedar, it is a place - as Tom Ford put it - filled with "noble elegance and unconventional spirit." Here are the scents which we believe to capture exactly that.
Foreigners always seem to associate Britain with afternoon tea. So, let's own it. Here we have bergamot, distinct to Earl Grey, and cool calming cucumber combined to make a truly original, and very British scent.
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Jo Malone
