Planes, Trains and Fake Perfume: How Novichok Arrived in Britain
Sep 6, 2018 · 5 min read

By Kitty Donaldson
The sheer audacity of Russia’s chemical-weapon attack on the U.K. can be traced through the journey of a small — and fake — Nina Ricci ‘Premier Jour’ perfume bottle.
It contained Novichok, a lethal Soviet-era nerve agent, and was smuggled from Russia into Britain on a regular Aeroflot flight. Landing at…

