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Flaming June: childhood scent reveries

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Although it feels more like flooded June!  Its my birthday this month and for me June signals the start of Summer,  a sense of nostalgia descends remembering childhood Summers.

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Forever Amber

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Secluded in the comfortable environs of The New Cavendish Club in Marylebone, we were treated to an amble through favoured Amber fumes with Birgit of Olfactoria's Travels ...

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Courtly Beauty Secrets from the 17th Century

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Well this is not exactly a typical anti-ageing recipe, but in the 17th century, similarly strange, repellent and sometimes toxic substances were used in the name of beautification, as we soon found out...

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Wake up and smell the coffee ..

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On a Saturday afternoon, I am standing on the steps of St Michaels Church on Cornhill, near Bank  meeting other coffee and history lovers, ready to embark on a Coffee House Tour of the City...