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What Did The Past SMELL like?

Tony Robinson's Cunningcast

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The Perfume of Political Correctness

Amber-gree is from a sperm whale stomach. Sivit is from an anal gland. The original coronation oil had amber-gree and sivit in it but they've decided to in inverted commas go vegan, so they won't be including the animal sense in the coronation oil. So this is a fragrance I designed for Layton House Museum which is in Holland Park. This is really inspired by the collection of this museum which is the home and studio of Frederick Layton who was a pre-ratholite painter. He was very interested in the east, in Turkey, in Syria and all these spaces that he took huge amounts of inspiration from.

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