Radio 4 The Purfumed Mountaineer programme this week interviewed head purfumer Shelagh Foyle:
“Scent is just so attuned to memories and it’s so evocative it’s like none of the other senses. A smell will bring you back to a place in time and this for me is taking me back to my times in the laboratories in Yardley….one of the most difficult things is that there is no words to describe perfumes. You cannot describe a perfume in its essence..in its entirety. There is literally no language to do it.”
