A bowl of pot-pourri was once a sign of comfortable middle-class status: an asset to be displayed on the coffee table. Then, slowly but unstoppably, it became the butt of sniffy jokes and an emblem of doomed social ambition.
Now, after collecting dust for more than a decade, the pot-pourri seems to be back. [...] The bad news is that few fans will be able to afford the new pot-pourris: luxury products cost between £70 and £330.
— Read more in More money than scents? Pot-pourri is back, at up to £330 a sniff… at The Guardian