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What Did The Past SMELL like?

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The Disadvantages of Oriental Perfume

Oscar Wilde was a really good pick there in terms of linking to that fragrance. It's very, is decadent the right word yeah. Yes it's like young men in dressing gowns kind of thing. Although we're moving away aren't we from the idea that there are oriental things and occidental things? Yeah definitely. I mean so me and Tasha were on a panel recently at Leighton House where we talked about this with a number of other perfumers and art historians and fragrance experts. There is a real move to try and stop using terms like oriental because there seem to be othering and racist.

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