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A surprising scent memory
This perfume has been a surprise and a very interesting revelation.
The opening is sharp citrusy and fresh, but after five -or-so minutes the flowers start to bloom up and tame the citrus, which however, still reminds me slightly of toilet refreshener. By the 20 minutes mark that has faded out. It became much more Chanel like, with elegant aldehydes and clean flowers. At that point I have decided it was not for me, but eventually found myself coming back to it again and again. It reminded me of something... Something nice... What was it?
And then it has downed on me and left me wondering how our brain imprints on certain smells and even if we never smell them again for ages, it stays there in our memory, latent but alive. It´s quite remarkable. My daughter was born in Spain, and apparently it is costumary there to give out the baby perfumed when leaving the hospital. The perfume they used is called Nenuco, and it was a citrusy flower scent, special for babies. It was unexpected for me back then, quite a bit of culture shock too, but they didn´t ask me, so there it was, my Nenuco scented baby. When we got home I found that I somehow imprinted on that smell and eventually had to buy it, eventhough I was totally against the idea of putting perfume on babies, but at that point I found I needed it for a little while. (Good, albeit a little forced marketing, I suppose) I bought a bottle - they are quite inexpensive and are sold in very simple plastic bottles. This is what Chanel Riviera reminds me of. The classic Nenuco. My freshly baked newborn daughter. (She´s 17 by now.) That is why I found it almost addictive while testing. I´m not sure how much my scent memory is cheating on me here, but next time I´m in Spain I plan to buy a bottle of nenuco and compare these two again.
The opening is sharp citrusy and fresh, but after five -or-so minutes the flowers start to bloom up and tame the citrus, which however, still reminds me slightly of toilet refreshener. By the 20 minutes mark that has faded out. It became much more Chanel like, with elegant aldehydes and clean flowers. At that point I have decided it was not for me, but eventually found myself coming back to it again and again. It reminded me of something... Something nice... What was it?
And then it has downed on me and left me wondering how our brain imprints on certain smells and even if we never smell them again for ages, it stays there in our memory, latent but alive. It´s quite remarkable. My daughter was born in Spain, and apparently it is costumary there to give out the baby perfumed when leaving the hospital. The perfume they used is called Nenuco, and it was a citrusy flower scent, special for babies. It was unexpected for me back then, quite a bit of culture shock too, but they didn´t ask me, so there it was, my Nenuco scented baby. When we got home I found that I somehow imprinted on that smell and eventually had to buy it, eventhough I was totally against the idea of putting perfume on babies, but at that point I found I needed it for a little while. (Good, albeit a little forced marketing, I suppose) I bought a bottle - they are quite inexpensive and are sold in very simple plastic bottles. This is what Chanel Riviera reminds me of. The classic Nenuco. My freshly baked newborn daughter. (She´s 17 by now.) That is why I found it almost addictive while testing. I´m not sure how much my scent memory is cheating on me here, but next time I´m in Spain I plan to buy a bottle of nenuco and compare these two again.
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