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.