When Lyn Harris is making a fragrance, she will not eat garlic or onions. Curries are off the menu, too. Absolutely nothing must impede this perfumer’s sense of smell – and fair enough, too, when some of her scents are sold for a cool £15,000 ($29,000).

Harris is one of the world’s leading noses and the proprietor of Perfumer H, a rarefied fragrance house that creates scents with strange and intoxicating names like Ink, Rain Cloud and Smoke.