WEDNESDAY 9 JULY 2014 •
[email protected] • www.thepeninsulaqatar.com • 4455 7741 inside The house COMMUNITY • G4S Qatar hosts that 20,000 Iftar, holds toothbrushes built donation ceremony P | 4 P | 10 MARKETPLACE • OSN revamps website to support multiplatform browsing P | 5 ENTERTAINMENT • British film enters a new golden age P | 8-9 PEOPLE • The dream: To play catch-up with Heinz P | 11 TECHNOLOGY WHAT’S IN A • Smartwatches targeted as next ad frontier P | 12 LEARN ARABIC • Learn commonly used Arabic words SCENT?Perfume makers are turning and their meanings to preserve the scent of their fragrances in the face of new EU anti-allergy restrictions. P | 13 2 PLUS | WEDNESDAY 9 JULY 2014 COVER STORY Perfume makers face EU anti-allergy curbs Patricia de Nicolai, French perfumer who created the Nicolai perfume brand with her husband 25 years ago, smells perfume ingredients in the brand’s laboratory in Paris. BY ASTRID WENDLANDT anti-allergy restrictions. Perfume creators say they love oak to use oak moss from which these two The global high end perfume indus- moss for its woody, earthy notes which molecules have been removed. The mak- EAWEED may not be try, generating $25bn in annual sales, give it depth and help make scent ers say this results in a much lighter and the first ingredient that is readying itself for EU regulations last longer. But on the grounds that less vigorous scent. springs to mind for per- that will come into force in early 2015. between one and three percent of the “I am crazy about oak moss, it is fume.