Heaven scent

FOR MUCH OF THE LAST CENTURY, HARRODS HELD THE ROYAL Warrant, the positionnement haut de gamme on Brompton Road and the reputation for supplying anything its customers might crave. Not for nothing did its founder choose the motto Omnia Omnibus Ubique (“all things for all people, everywhere”) a clarion call to chic shoppers. In 1923 an eccentric Courtauld heiress desirous of a lemur went first not to London Zoo but to Harrod’s to purchase her exotic pet. “Mah-Jongg” her ring-tailed little menace lived happily, and in some style, with the Courtaulds, chewing the Howard furniture in Eltham Palace, for the next 15 years. As the swinging sixties swung to their cannabis-infused close, Harrods sold Christian the lion to the conservationist George Adamson for 250 Guineas — a princely sum for a…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2024

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