Gosh this is a
throwback. I’m giving my grandmother a
hug. I snuggle in, she is very dear to
me and even though I don’t know it, I’m capturing the smell of her perfume to
summon up in thirty years or so, long after she has sadly left us.
Well here we are, 30
years or so later and it feels like she is in the room. I’ve no idea what the perfume was that she
wore that day, but it can’t have been Alahine since this is a creation born in
2007.
A rich floriental
perfume laced heavily with ylang ylang, lavender, jasmine, rose, iris, labdanum, patchouli,
vanilla, benzoin, sandalwood and musk with a smattering of pepper, bergamot and
orange.
It is heavy and rich
and really typifies the era when perfumes were meant to be noticed. It is deep, floral and exotic with a
mysterious and slightly musky edge to it.
I’m not sure I’d wear
it often, just on special occasions. But
the occasion of happy memories with my grandmother have made this occasion very
very special indeed.
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