![]() ![]() “It’s a hundred essays about fragrance and most of it is perfume history, so I’m choosing perfumes from the last century that have been socially important. Not one to rest on her laurels, Ostrom is currently penning a book on her favourite subject. Past events have seen her pair scent with spirits (at her recent Sip/Sniff event in Hackney) or talk about scents via a certain decade (the Vintage Scent Sessions) or various other wonderful themes such as Temptresses, Lotharios and the Scented Siren Scent and Mythology and Fragrance and Male Identity. And such is her passion and enthusiasm for fragrance, that you immediately get drawn into her magically fragrant world.Īt each event, she invites fellow perfume lovers to explore the history of fragrance and develop new ways of describing scent – all based around sniffing, talking and sniffing some more. Not a perfumer, critic, PR or businesswoman in the traditional sense, she instead hosts “Scratch n’ Sniff” perfume events all over London. ![]() And then there’s Lizzie Ostrom, who is somewhat of a delightful anomaly to this merry gathering. T he British perfume industry is full of colourful characters: the visionary perfumers, intrepid bloggers, PR supremos, charismatic boutique owners and the formidable team behind the newly launched Perfume Society. All about Odette – Glass meets the host of London’s famous fragrance events ![]()
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