Article: Madame with nose for brandy - and business; Tycoon is scenting success in a perfume made from rare cognac.

Byline: QUENTIN LETTS

BACK in the Eighties, an England rugby forward distinguished himself at the digestif stage of a post-match dinner in Paris by pulling the stopper from a bottle of scent and glug-glugging it down his open throat. He felt pretty rough the next day but for the following week his breath was impeccably florid.

Now, in a neat flip, a French wine chateau has produced an eau de parfum made from 19th century cognac. Frapin's 1270 should be kept well away from rugby forwards. It really does smell like cognac - sweet, nutty, pretty powerful. It has been invented by Beatrice Cointreau, a cigar-smoking, American-educated, French tycoon who is ...

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