OR Tambo airport is the second busiest airport in Africa. The duty free area is rather big and has a well-curated selection of curios, jewellery (lots of tanzanite plus the amazing Browns store), books, luggage etc.
I saw this perfume brand in the main duty free shop. I had never heard of it before, but I was interested in the African ingredients and the design of the bottles. In a sea of well-known international brands, this African addition clearly stood out.
I am sorry now that I did not at least take a sniff.
I normally have a stomach like a leather bucket, but travelling always throws my digestive system out of whack. The combination of no natural air, strange time zones, meals at weird times, unfamiliar food, flying, turbulence and being cooped up in tiny spaces on planes always makes me nauseated. Not so that I want to throw up – more that I don’t want to eat, drink or smell anything at all. I generally don’t get my appetite my back until a day or so after destination.
I’ve just checked online for this brand and it is quite expensive (100ml size anyway) but they do the four different fragrances in a small size for 25euros. It’s called a discovery set, I don’t know if it is shipped to non-EU countries as I couldn’t find the details of where they ship to and every EU country seems to be listed. (Unfortunately we were hauled out of the EU in 2020 by the same government that allowed thousands of people to die needlessly during the pandemic’s early days).
I unfortunately have champagne tastes on a beer budget! I seem to always gravitate towards expensive things…
Janet, I never get jet lag any more, thanks to Macca. I follow his advice of changing my clock to the country I am visiting a few days before flying, getting used to doing things at this new time.
Agree with you.