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Fiona McKim

If you try one product, make it this surprising perfume that's straight out of the allotment

An orange bottle of jo malone london carrot blossom eau de cologne beside an image of fiona mckim smiling.

Would you wear a perfume that smelled like a vegetable? Avid readers may guess that I certainly would, based on a prior Sunday Service about a green perfume that smells like tomato leaf. And yes, produce-pedants, I know that's actually a fruit. Allow it.

Social conditioning that tells us certain smells are good for certain things, and others aren't. We're all very comfortable with fruity perfumes, and gourmand perfumes that smell like dessert, but the idea of replicating other things we eat in the scents we wear can provoke strong reactions - and not always good ones.

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