Sweet smell of excess for collector with 3,000 perfumes

It might seem barmy to some - but it makes perfect scents to her!

Perfume collector Gail Cherowbrier, 56, has spent thousands of pounds amassing 3,000 bottles of perfume - but doesn’t even wear them.

The fragrance fanatic spends hours each day trawling the internet for rare bottles to display in cabinets which fill her home.

She has spent as much as $1,000 on a bottle of Christian Dior Crystal 1956 and her collection ranges from a 14ft high Dior J’Adore bottle to a one-inch high Chanel piece.

But despite spending four years building her collection, she only ever uses a handful of fragrances in her everyday ‘private’ selection.

Ex-civil servant Gail, from South Yorkshire, said: “I just love the bottles, they’re beautiful.

“I know a lot of people won’t understand it.

“Perfume bottles are quite disposable.

“But I’ve come to appreciate the way the bottles look and I’ve got six double cabinets in my dining room full of them.”


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