Grant has always been deeply aware of smells. Cheese and chocolate he finds offensive: “If I’m at a dinner and the chocolate and/or cheese comes out, I will literally go to the bathroom until that course is done.” He detests the cacao, vanilla-influenced fragrance Angel by Thierry Mugler: “It’s so overwhelming if I smell someone wearing it even from a distance I move away.”

— Richard E. Grant hates Angel but loves Kai. Read about the creation of his own fragrance line at Richard E. Grant’s Sensuous Obsession, at the Observer.