It sounds like the perfect mash-up plot for a blockbuster novel: The Da Vinci Code – about the discovery of a code revealing a religious secret – meets Perfume – involving the quest to find the ultimate scent. But the tale of Dominican friars, a perfumer and a Jewish rabbi finding the formula for a perfume hidden in the Bible’s Song of Songs goes one better – this is no fiction and the scent will be on sale from March.
This year is the 25th anniversary of Facets of Faith. To observe this, every so often, I’m choosing a column from the past to rerun. This one ran originally on