After travelling around Indonesia in my late teens, I returned home determined to recreate the exotic scents and flavours that I'd encountered in the food markets.
4. Four rows of grommets decorate a buttery leather Lucy bag by Kooba ($595 at www.neimanmarcus.com). 5. Five new Molton Brown Candelas come in exotic scents and are elegantly wrapped in canvas-swathed boxes ($55 each at www.moltonbrown.com).
Amenities include such innovations as a technology butler to solve problems without charge for laptop-carrying guests and a bath butler to draw one's bath and supply, at extra charge, Champagne and truffles or exotic scents.
Fiona Beckett's drink match Another tricky dish to pair with wine, but a well-chilled glass of Torres' exotic, scented Viña Esmeralda 2011 (widely available at around £8.29; 11.5% abv), a blend of moscatel and gewürztraminer, should do the biz.
The varying textures of songs, mostly written in English and Portuguese with some French and Spanish, are so fluid and finely tuned to the senses that listening to a song like "Lisboa" is like strolling through the city's side streets captivated by the sounds of church bells and children at play while inhaling its exotic scents.
Now, however, chefs, designers and artisans in the Italianate quarter of Carouge are lending the city a little boho cool. 1. Autour du Bain Roxanne Ferren and Corinne Plouviez Resentera's whitewashed emporium is stocked with soaps, bath gels and candles in exotic scents like Moroccan rose.
But compared to contemporaries like the Kinks or the Monkees, even the best Rolling Stones records of the 60s and 70s are hard to listen to without wincing; the whiff of Dad-dancing unmistakably surrounds them, drowning out the more exotic scents that once made them seem so edgy.
Milena's Candles gave out candles with such exotic scents as Patchouli/Valencia Orange.
There are those who prefer rich and exotic scents, while other essences play on favorite foods like milk, hazelnut, chocolate or almond.
