I care about perfume. During lectures, I usually spend about half the time taking notes, and the other half browsing the Diptyque website.

[...] Now, I’m not telling you that you should go out and buy a perfume that smells like the apocalypse or drop a small fortune on a niche scent which nobody else can afford to smell of. What I am saying is that it’s actually very easy to smell interesting (and pleasant) without breaking the bank, and that perfume can elevate your style in a way that normal accessorising can’t.

— Cambridge student Olivia Redman on perfume; read more in You smell really boring at Varsity.