At this time of year, there’s one thing you need to beat the heat - cologne. It’s the very lightest sort of scent: evanescent and refreshing, and you drench yourself with it.
In habitually hot places like Spain and Italy, you can get the stuff cheap in supermarkets, in big bottles. It’s called Cologne after the city where an Italian, Giovanni Maria Farina, produced the first cologne in 1709. He wrote to his brother: "I have found a fragrance that reminds me of an Italian spring morning, of mountain daffodils and orange blossoms after the rain".
