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An obscure perfume worn by the actress Elizabeth Taylor was lost to time. Some passionate fans have given it a new life.
By Iva Dixit
The scene had some of the enchantment of a spell-casting ritual: In a shoe-box-size gallery with hot pink walls in Lower Manhattan, a hushed crowd had assembled around a woman as she was methodically opening an obelisk-shaped box. Those who hadn’t managed to squeeze inside the room were spilling out onto the street into the evening humidity. They watched in fixation as the woman pulled from the box a tall glass flacon containing what looked like a saffron-colored potion.
