I’d go to New York and buy the perfume from the shop; this little shop, always with an old man who only made perfumes in the summer with a few students. At some point it closed down. Then I felt awful; for me this was a disaster. So the first perfume I tried was based on this one. I went to a man with a piece of the bottle and told him what I remembered about it, what was in my imagination. And that is what became Prada Amber.

— Designer Miuccia Prada talks about the first perfume she fell in love with (and about the latest Prada fragrances) in Miuccia Prada on being shy, working with her husband and her mad office with a helter skelter at The Telegraph.