A few years ago, I immersed myself in the world of luxurious fragrances through the Tom Ford brand. I remember it like it was only yesterday. On a city trip to Berlin, I visited the KaDeWe store on a cold, rainy fall day and entered a new world...

Whenever I heard this sentence, or something similar, from a date when I was single, my alarm bells would usually ring and I'd already mentally put an end to the topic. "They all say that", I thought to myself. Maybe this...