My cruise-ship career started last century with a phone call which I thought was a scam.
I was known as the Indiana Jones of Scent after my career in the perfume business. The career has its advantages. If I didn’t come home smelling of perfume, my wife would shout, ‘Where the hell have you been?’
The man at the other end of the phone asked if I would like to give a 45-minute talk about perfumes on a