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1 week ago | 
afr.com | Charis Perkins
May 8, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? You’d expect the chief custodian of Britain’s most venerable fragrance house to be rather grand – someone with an aristocratic lineage, a plummy accent and a penchant for adhering to protocol. The woman sitting across the table from me outside a cafe in Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building is nothing of the sort.
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1 week ago | 
afr.com | Charis Perkins
May 8, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? You’d expect the chief custodian of Britain’s most venerable fragrance house to be rather grand – someone with an aristocratic lineage, a plummy accent and a penchant for adhering to protocol. The woman sitting across the table from me outside a cafe in Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building is nothing of the sort.
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2 months ago | 
afr.com | Charis Perkins
Mar 11, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? It’s not that guacamole is unusual. Far from it. But the guacamole I’ve just tasted is so good that it leaves every other version I’ve had in the dust.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
afr.com | Charis Perkins
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
afr.com | Charis Perkins
Top 50 hotlistLife & LuxuryTravelThere’s plenty to tempt guests away from relaxing on their cabin balconies, as cruise companies offer ever-more immersive, exciting and educational itineraries. An expedition aboard a Hurtigruten vessel is pitched at “mindful” adventurers. Nov 15, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
afr.com | Charis Perkins
Top 50 hotlistLife & LuxuryTravelFrom New York City to Rome, luxury hospitality is being redefined. These city stays are destinations in themselves. Raffles in Jaipur. Nov 14, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
afr.com | Kirstie Clements |Charis Perkins
Kirstie Clements and Charis PerkinsNov 12, 2024 – 5.00amGift this article NewSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? LoginFlop-and-drop holidays not for you? Book these holidays and unleash your inner action hero. Famed fjordsLoading...
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
afr.com | Charis Perkins
Top 50 hotlistLife & LuxuryTravelGet away from it all at these luxury lodgings primed for relaxation, solitude and wellbeing. Soneva Secret’s overwater villas in the Maldives. Nov 11, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Are the mountains calling or the ocean?
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
afr.com | Charis Perkins
Life & LuxuryTravelTake up the alternative medical therapies or snorkel in transparent water with boundless reef fish. Each has its own wow factor. The three-level Soneva Soul spa complex at Soneva Jani. Oct 9, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? ″You did what?!” The blood has drained from my husband’s face.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
afr.com | Charis Perkins
Life & LuxuryTravelThe US-based founder of ThirdHome and his high-flying girlfriend have been in Australia to catch up with members, entice new ones and talk to potential partners in the prestige property space. To join, you need one key asset. Jun 13, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?
