Perfume is the center of gravity of my long-term devotion to beauty; my obsession with Chanel No. 5 was the reason I started writing a full-length body of work at all. Chanel No 5 is a neat summary of my love of beauty’s incredible potential: popular, beautiful, and a product with an origin of Nazis, greed, and a revisionist Girlboss success story. It w…
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