“There’s no pretending that home – England – doesn’t smell different to everyone,” Miss Starvrevska mused. “If you’re from the country there would be farmyard smells, if you’re from a home with a lot of cooking then there would be food. But funnily enough when we were brainstorming for By George! there were no food smells that made it through the cut.”
— Angela Starvrevska of CPL Aromas explains the By George! fragrance project to Emma Hartley of the Telegraph, in The scent of England.
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I’m English – I think that Demeter has pretty much summed up what I missed when I went away with Wet Garden.
That’s a nice one
I forgot about my Wet Garden! I love it too, I dirty up the dirt smell with their Incense though. Thanks for the reminder.
That reminds me – I never did hear back from the Queen…
…or the ‘Visit England’ website either, for that matter…
I’m English, now living in Ohio, and I would be a total sucker for this if only I could get hold of some! Such a fun idea, totally wasted. Grrr.
Will be interesting to see if they change their minds & decide to market it after all.
I’m sure it would make money, regardless of how it smells, for all the reasons mentioned in the article.
But now I want every country to do it. It would be really fun (and interesting) to see what people came up with and how each nation identified itself. And they could sell gift sets by continent, or political alliance…!
OMG, by continent and political alliance…! That’s amazing. It could be like perfumed Risk.
It’s true, comments on newspaper articles do not tend to be well behaved.
Wowsa! Some of the comments on that article are so… well, racist, actually.
I missed something — I didn’t see anything about race in the comments at all (?)
I’m think that she means on the original article in the Telegraph? There are some comments about the smell of the unwashed underclass and things of that ilk. I rarely read the comments to news articles anymore – at least letters to the editor are edited and screened, any yahoo can comment on the internet.
Lol!
Why, oh why must they torment us by creating a scent and then not letting us buy it? It’s even worse than European or city exclusives – at least there’s a way around that.
There’s something kind of comical about the whole thing.
Maybe it’s all just an urban myth…
I’m glad no food smells made the cut. Annick Goutal has a scent I might love but I’m frightened by the tomato vine note, even as much as I love the smell of tomato vines. I wonder how much of the vine does it smell? Or does it change in the blend anyone?
It certainly wouldn’t hurt me to try more scents with notes I don’t think of “perfumey”. I love Manifesto by Isabella Rossellini and it smells of basil.
Oh, I love tomato vine in perfume! Do try it — I assume you mean Folavril?
Yes, that be it.
LOL this whole thing reminds me of Adrian Mole for some reason.
Never read those so that goes right over my head