Born in London, but moved to India when she was just two years old, Azzi Glasser grew up surrounded by the wealthy smells of nature - the beach, the ocean air, the echoes of a monsoon. When she returned to England, it was the smell of rain on earth that greeted her. Other smells she recalls from her childhood are those associated together with her mother - a lipstick, her old powder compact cases after she had finished with them, and her perfume. “I'd watch my mother preparing for evening events,” Azzi says. “She would placed on her false eyelashes, throw on her fur coat and spray her perfume on before going out with my father, which was very often....
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