My husband has a very bad "nose". He can never tell what perfume I'm wearing. He can't even normally tell if it's a floral or not. The only perfume he recognizes regularly is Diorissimo, and that's only because he doesn't happen to like it!

On the other hand, my four-year-old daughter has a very good nose, and she loves "peefeeume". She'll often ask to wear it, and she recognizes the bottles by sight and can name them. At this point, she can't always name the fragrances by smell, but I think that's only a matter of time, really.

The other day I wore Estée Lauder White Linen (I should do a review of that one; it was my signature fragrance for many years). She smelled it and said, "It's dry." I said, "What do you mean? That it dries on your skin? Or that it smells dry?" And she answered, "It smells dry."

I wouldn't have thought of White Linen that way, but now I must admit, she's got a point...

Perhaps she'll go to Paris and become a perfumer. Or perhaps she'll just end up with a few drawers full of perfume, like her mum...