By Emer Scully For Mailonline
Published: 16:39 BST, 12 May 2019 | Updated: 18:25 BST, 12 May 2019
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Jo Malone, 55, created her eponymous brand which creates richly scented candles, perfumes and creams in 1994
Perfume tycoon Jo Malone has said her sense of smell is so strong that she could tell as a child when her bigamist father was having an affair.
The 55-year-old, who credits her powerful senses with the success of her eponymous brand, said she had smelled cologne on her father - which turned out to come from another woman he was seeing.
Her father Andy Malone, who died in 2007, was convicted of bigamy after abandoning his first wife and marrying Jo Malone's mother illegally.
Jo Malone, whose brand is best known for its richly scented candles, has rarely commented on him in public.
In 2016 the Mail on Sunday discovered that her father's real name was Frank Monks, who had left his two children from his first marriage behind in Edinburgh.
He married Jo Malone's mother Eileen in 1962 - leading to his conviction for
