Now, Francis Kurkdjian, the creative director of perfumes at Christian Dior, has created a fragrance version of knocking on wood. The scent, Bois Talisman, pays homage to Dior’s penchant for ...

In the late Seventies, Francis Kurkdjian tells me over coffee at Christian Dior ... and model to Christian himself, who affectionately nicknamed her ‘Lucky’. “In the original fragrance ...