We love to scent our homes with candles, reed diffusers, room sprays, fragrance sachets and more (not to mention the perfumes, hand washes and lotions we slather on ourselves, too), and what fragrance brand has wider appeal than Jo Malone London? So often our go-to for scents for ourselves as well as our homes, Jo Malone is to thank for such cult smells as Pomegranate Noir, English Pear & Freesia and Lime Basil & Mandarin, all of which have spawned many a copy over the years.
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It was the final straw, the pointless argument that was the nail in the coffin of my disastrous on/off, mostly pen-pal friendship with David 1.0. You simply cannot call what we have been resuscitating every now and then a ‘relationship’, given we’ve not had sex since October, and then it was disappointing. The vintage physical contact took place in my lovely room at the Rosewood hotel in London, where I was staying for work. He had brought sex toys and a blindfold, so there was no skin on skin, no actual kissing, merely him rummaging, as though wanting to find Marmite in the back of a cupboard. I was not aroused. Instead I felt annoyed at the blindfold, given I could no longer admire the twinkling erotic edifice that is the London Shard.