As the founder of Ormonde Jayne fine perfumery (www. ormondejayne.com), Linda has an unrivalled nose for beauty and rarity. And, having lived in the bushveld of South Africa, run a soya farm on the Argentine sierras and opened a boutique hotel in Rio de Janeiro, she knows a thing or two about the power of consoling weary travellers with the finest comforts. Between flower-finding missions to Madagascar and Tahiti, she lives in leafy Primrose Hill with her husband and two young sons.

Linda Pilkington anonymously reviewed: