A Nose For A Good Story…

Fair play to the Daily Mail hack whose feature, ‘Smart Scent’, about perfumes which “say they’ll make you seem slimmer, sexier – even more intelligent” was published today.  Clearly, the commissioning editor correctly decided that any article about the miracle of scent would be best written by someone who goes by the name of Alice Smellie.  Reminds me of when I was a checkout chick in London, I sold an item to a particularly friendly woman who paid with a credit card which bore the name “Mrs Smellie”.  I couldn’t help but wonder just how awful the poor woman’s maiden name must have been.