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6 July 2022
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Scent explores the mood-altering world of perfume. Elise Vernon Pearlstine, a zoologist-cum-parfumier, tells the evolutionary story of plant fragrances that seduce and repulse, heal and protect. Available to buy from 26 July.
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Resident Evil’s Raccoon City receives a futuristic makeover in a new adaptation of the hit video-game series. You might have thought that their city planners would have learned not to build above secret bioweapon labs by now… Streaming on Netflix from 14 July.
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On Sonorous Seas is a podcast accompanying a multimedia exhibition on the Isle of Mull …
