You beauty! Jo Malone Red Roses cologne

I am in a long-term relationship with Jo Malone’s Red Roses. I get a bit jalouse when I smell it on someone else. Except I met a man the other day who wore it, which amused me because it is the most feminine smell in the world. But I suppose a straight man who thinks he’s butch enough to pull it off must have something going on. And what woman doesn’t want to fall into a bed of roses? Perhaps it’s a little light poodle-fakery — pretending to be gay to make straight women feel safe and then pouncing.

Anyway, whatever your predilection and your process, Red Roses has fallen into the hands of Charlotte Stockdale, Jo Malone’s style editor, one of the women Karl Lagerfeld listens to — right up there on the juddering juggernaut of fashion’s front line. She’s popping up in Selfridges from Easter Monday with Charlotte’s Corner, a curious little boutique flogging odds and sods — Art Deco match strikers, illustrated textiles, antique glass scent flagons and this very limited-edition (only 300 have been made) graffitied, neon-dipped Red Roses bottle.

It’s a nice collision: the old-school womanliness of the cologne itself; the heavy, square-cut, expensive-feeling, trad glass bottle; the anarchic dripping glare of radically bright, matt paint. Love it. Fashion and sunshine and a kind of love juice. In one.

Jo Malone limited-edition Red Roses Cologne, £120 for 100ml. Charlotte’s Corner will be at Selfridges from 1 April (selfridges.com)