Perfume Diary #15: On Sweetness (HF)

Jasmins Marzipane, Lancome

It is easy to mistrust sweetness. Most of us are used to sniffing out obsequiousness and flattery. We are aware of - or worse, have been - the person laying on the compliments in order to gain a result, cynically adding up the math of what someone else wants to hear. If one has come within the vicinity of these machinations, it is easy to grow wary when…