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Fiona McKim

If you try a beauty product this week, make it not one but two perfumes for a scent that's 100% yours

A marble backdrop containing an image of Jo Malone London colognes - grapefruit and English Oak and Hazelnut beside an image of beauty editor Fiona Mckim.

One of my all-time favourite quotes is by cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead, who said, "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

I love it. All of humanity, our yearning for connection and contradictory need for individuality, summed up in a pithy one-liner. Bringing it back to beauty, I think this desire for distinctiveness is most evident when shopping for the best perfume.

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