Tag Archives: perfume

(Not the) Paper Street Soap Company

Monday 29th December 2025, 12.55pm (day 5,240)

Manufacture of smellies, 29/12/25

It is the limbo period between Christmas and New Year, and while many of us might see this as an opportunity to do very little, our Clare (being who she is) decides to launch into a significant manufacturing operation. In Fight Club the Paper Street Soap Company was a front for the manufacture of bombs and general subversion, but I assume that’s not the case here. Who knows for sure, though.

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A fragrant Mood (not an advert)

Tuesday 3rd October 2023, 12.35pm (day 4,422)

Perfume stall, 3/10/23

Apparently “Mood” is the gender-neutral fragrance of the season, if the large stall in the Arndale Centre, exclusively devoted to tempting us to buy it, is anything to go by. But one might advise them to be a little more subtle when it comes to pumping out the scent. By the time I had walked past I was already sick of it.

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