Prada recently released its new perfume, Candy, which retails at £2,500 per 900ml. Yasmin Khalil considers the most expensive scent on the high street.
‘That is extremely unnecessary!,’ announced Maureen, mother of two from Cambridge, who clearly had more important things to worry about. She was standing next to the Candy display in Selfridges on launch day, and she didn’t care who heard what she thought.
Lauren, student, fashionably dressed from London, disagreed: ‘If I could afford it, I wouldn’t think twice about buying this perfume!’
But Lauren’s friend Rose sided with Maureen. ‘It is definitely not worth that amount of money,’ she declared.
At Selfridges, the punters were hardly queuing up to buy it. There was only a small crowd around the Candy display – and they, ordinary people like you and I, were there more out of curiosity than anything else.
I’m with Rose and Maureen. Scent at a tenth of the price would surely smell as sweet. Spending £2,500 on perfume seems extremely selfish, when there are people in the world unable to access clean water and other basic necessities in life.
The same perfume is available in a 50ml bottle for only £52.50. If a girl’s really got to have it, that’s less of a strain on the wallet.