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Osaka, Japan – A trip to the Body Shop<\/a> proved near fatal for one American man on Tuesday when a bottle of their \u201cBeleaf<\/a>\u201dfragrance sprayed sideways into the right eye of Marlen Harrison, an American who claims to be a university professor. Harrison, a self-described fragrance addict whose sole purpose for entering The Body Shop was to \u201cget a quick fix before heading uptown to Hermes for some designer shit\u201d was caught by surprise when after depressing the sprayer on the small green bottle, was hit in the pupil by a renegade stream of alcohol-based eau de toilette. \u201cThe pain was immediate and shocking,\u201d said Harrison, \u201cI mean, after all these years of doing this- and I\u2019ve done it everywhere \u2013 I couldn\u2019t believe I had actually gotten hit. Still, I took it like a man.\u201d Eye witnesses said that Harrison put his hand over his eye and began to cry. \u201cHe put the bottle back on the shelf saying words I couldn\u2019t understand, and then began to jump around,\u201d reported Kaori Wakai, Body Shop employee, \u201cI guess he was in pain. His friend was laughing at him. He said a word I cannot repeat and then ran out of the store.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Image by Grant Osborne Osaka, Japan – A trip to the Body Shop proved near fatal for one American man on Tuesday when a bottle of their \u201cBeleaf\u201dfragrance sprayed sideways into the right eye of Marlen Harrison, an American who claims to be a university professor. Harrison, a self-described fragrance addict whose sole purpose for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,560,594,589,600],"tags":[57,113,159],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-creative-writing","category-japan","category-journalist","category-uk","tag-body-shop","tag-designer","tag-fragrance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7965,"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/7965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}