some of my favourites were
Nina Ricci L'air du Temps
Christian Diors Diorissima
and another one which is annoying me that I had when I was in portugal but just cannot remember its name and only got it there. When I worked for the airline I would be able to buy these at duty free prices and so it was a heck of ashock when I saw the full price in a shop in england Actually I tend to wear the eau do toilette as I like the perfume but dont want a very strong smell that masks things like newly baked bread etc.
As a singer , there was always the hazard from the audience. Naturally women coming out for an evening would put on their favourite perfume, but if you think of over 100 women all wearing different things it can be overpowering, and for me the main culprit which I dislike the smell of anyway is the awful (to me) Estee Lauder. Ugh!! It hangs in the air overpowering most of any other much nicer perfume and you cannot get rid of the smell of it for ages.
I like using essential oils , lavender , rose and a variety of other ones., as the mood takes me. sometimes I swap often, at other times I get sort of a craving for a particular smell. If I think of my dear granny then lavendar furniture polish, or the yellow saddle soap smell in and on furniture and she always had several different mints in the garden in pots , each one with differing smells so lemon or moroccan or ordinary so that I loved the job of chopping up mint and the smell now evokes long ago.
But I wish for specially made perfumes for me of
Parfume de Tar ( from that hot summer where the men are redoing the road or making up potholes and the desperate wish to pop bubbles with the new sandals with their white crepey soles but knowing I would be in serious trouble if I did!
Parfume de cherry blossom shoe polish
Wood smoke
A wonderful cigar smell that a friend of my fathers had made up for him specially. If I ever smelt that it meant Mr Ulman was in the house.
fresh cut hay
lovely hay made from wonderful meadows full of flowers.
kitchen smells of roast dinner or better when I made bread as my mother did. But it always rises better when I use breadmaking as therapy, when I could cheerfully strangle people like Trump or Putin. Bash the bread as if it was them. It rises beautifully and then you can cut and eat it (them)
Then of course to a yorkshire woman this has two benefits.ironing clothes that have dried outside, cant beat that smell and even better it cost me "nowt" to dry them rather than have a horrible tumbledryer coting a fortune to run and no nice smell.
Also that special smell in the air when it has been hot, but you can sense that rain is coming soon and dash out to claim your washing before it gets wet again, and that lovely cooling when it pours with rain and sometimes thunder and lightning leaving the air fresher and easier to breath after that hot still day.
The perfume of a couple of my special snowdrops,
Oh, how could I have missed out a very important one. Every day it gives me pleasure and helps to get me going in the morning. That wonderful smell of coffee freshly made whilst listening to j s Bach on Bach before 7.
Oh I could go on and on, but enough for now
It has been quite a tough day but I can now go to bed and go through my lists of smells . isnt it amazing how we can really know what those smells are like and can conjure them up and the particular scene that comes to mind .
Thankyou for putting this on the agenda . it is better than a sleeping pill for me.
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