Perfume: what your smell says about you

6 Minute English

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2018-05-03

6 分钟
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  • Hello and welcome to Six Minute English, I'm Neil.

  • And I'm Dan.

  • In this program, we're going to hear from someone who smells smells for a living.

  • Although these are very expensive smells, smells that we wear deliberately to make us smell good.

  • Oh, you mean scents and perfumes?

  • Yes, and perfumes are big business.

  • And that's the topic of our quiz in this program.

  • How much is the perfume industry in the UK worth each year?

  • Is it A, 650 million pounds?

  • B, 970 million pounds, or C, 1.3 billion pounds?

  • Well, I don't know is her smell knows.

  • This is just a guess, but I'll say 970 million pounds.

  • Well, I'll let you know the answer a little later in the program.

  • Now, let's hear from Roger Dove, who is a perfumer.

  • He designs and creates very exclusive and very expensive perfumes.

  • In a recent BBC video, he talked about the power of smells.

  • What does he say there is a very deep psychological connection between?

  • Who we are as a personality and the type of smells we like.