Peaty blinders – eight great whisky-scented perfumes

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“Whisky-inspired scents have a surprisingly short history,” says Lizzie Ostrom, author of Perfume: A Century of Scents. “If you look at midcentury men’s fragrance adverts, you’ll often spy bottles of aftershave carefully placed next to a tumbler of single malt (and a chess set). Whisky was rarely an aromatic inspiration, more a lifestyle prop. It’s only in…