Countess launches £60 ‘Eau de Downton’ scents

SOMETIMES it seems there’s scarcely a showbusiness personality left who hasn’t launched their own fragrance.

So how enterprising of the Countess of Carnarvon to come up with a scent that friends have christened ‘eau de Downton Abbey’.

Fiona, whose husband, the Earl of Carnarvon, owns Highclere Castle in Berkshire, where Downton is filmed, has started selling two signature fragrances to the thousands of visiting fans of ITV’s hit period drama.

The first is called 1793, in a reference to the date the Carnarvon title was created, while the other, Lorato, ‘is summer in a bottle’.

At £60, the price tag is not to be sniffed at.