Mommy dearest

Get out there fast and get her a fragrance, says Sarah Caden, who has five favourites

It’s not too late, if you’ve just realised that today is Mother’s Day. Or thought your mother didn’t care, until she told you to stop messing and give her the present. Or if you just got the memo that petrol-station flowers don’t really count as flowers. Be assured, it’s not too late to fix this, and we’re on hand today to point out how it could be fixed with fragrance.

There was a time when a single signature fragrance could carry a person through their lives. It was the scent that carried into a room with them, and hung in the air around them like a part of their character. These days, as with most things, a lot of us have several different fragrances, all bottled beautifully, and all playing to different moods and elements of our personality. No one wants to be just one thing any more, perhaps, and that goes double for your mother.