Late last year, British retailer The Perfume Shop revealed that the sales of classic fragrances had spiked in the UK during the country’s second lockdown. As the Daily Mail reported, (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9099453/The-Perfume-Shop-reveals-shoppers-turning-familiar-scents-comfort-amid-pandemic.html) “shoppers are turning to well-loved nostalgic scents to provide a sense of comfort and transport them back to more carefree times”.
It is, of course, somewhat ironic that it is scent which is providing a refuge from the ravages of the pandemic, when it is this sense that is often the first to vanish when we’re infected by Covid-19...
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