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• Study Notes: Back to school

  

  by Pia Long, 26 June 2009

  In this new column Pia Long will be telling you about what it’s like to be a trainee perfumer with the maverick Constantines and an adult distance learner of perfumery.

  When I threw my maths book into a Finnish lake one summer camp, little did I suspect I’d willingly study the subject as an adult, decades later in another country. Chemistry and physics were never really a problem at school; in fact, I rather liked knowing how things worked. During my first trip to the zoo, I spent most of the time with my nappy-padded bottom up in the air, head deep in the plumbing and other interesting paraphernalia of the cages. Animals? What animals? How do they get the water in? 

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