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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Ellie Davis

Celebrities’ favourite fragrances: What they really wear

In May last year, on a particularly balmy day for the season, I was lucky enough to come sweaty face-to-face with David Beckham in the flesh (me, not him).

Now, I’m not telling this anecdote solely to name-drop, although, as celeb names go, that’s a pretty big one. After posting the meet on my Instagram stories, I was bombarded by questions - but not the kind I could have ever predicted. It wasn’t where I was - at the launch of a new Haig Club flavour, incidentally - or what he was like (very lovely) but the same query came up over and over again. “What did he smell like?”. The people demanded to know, and I’ve made it my mission to deliver.

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