Erotic Review receives a sniffy reply

 
Actress Jane Birkin. . REXSCANPIX.
Associated Newspapers
25 July 2013

How they love a good double entendre at the Erotic Review. Editor Jamie Maclean was researching an article on “affordable luxuries to take on holiday” when he asked fragrance merchant Miller Harris to suggest some of its sexiest perfumes.

He received an apparently serious reply: “Lyn is often unavailable as involved with private clients, or simply tied up in the laboratory.”

“That little double entendre caused no end of enjoyment in the editorial department,” says Maclean. “But then Miller Harris were overcome with primness — after another lengthy wait we were told by their marketing agency that they weren’t prepared to assist in our quest.”

This surprised Maclean because one of their scents, L’Air de Rien, is billed as “an expression of the life and style” of Jane Birkin, the saucy chanteuse who performed an orgasmic double act with Serge Gainsbourg singing Je T’aime… “However, we’re a forgiving lot at Erotic Towers so we decided to promote their range anyway,” said Maclean.

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