Oasïs to Anaïs

This is the new progression of things: author, perfume, rock star's child. Thus it has happened that Anaïs Nin, author, sensualist and lover of Henry Miller, begat the perfume Anaïs Anaïs. And thus it has followed that Meg Matthews, wife of Oasis's Noel Gallagher, has given the name to her new daughter, even if the father was confused in thinking that Nin was a seventeenth century writer. In five years' time - to complete the natural cycle - a generation of parents will be calling (carefully) for 'Anaïs!' in the playground.

We can be grateful, at least, for one thing: that Mrs Gallagher, unlike Victoria Beckham, desisted from naming her child after the place of her conception and chose to name her after someone she admires.