Strip off smelling just like a rose

PARIS - A French firm is introducing perfumed lingerie on the international market next year

PARIS - A French firm is introducing perfumed lingerie on the international market next year. The problem is, it will only wash four or five times before the lingering whiff of roses, apricots, grapefruit or carnations wafts away in the washing-powder.

The floral and fruit fragrance, described as "voluptuous and sensual" and "which causes neither migraines nor allergies" was created by Japanese perfumer Takasago.

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