Gabriela Sabatini Gabriela Sabatini 1989 Eau de Toilette
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Summer '92 at the Luisenburg Festival
This fragrance played a role in my life exactly once: namely when I was engaged at the Luisenburg Festival in the summer of '92.
A full bottle of this perfume was always in the makeup room throughout the festival and was extensively used by everyone coming in and out - even the men.
The reason for this was:
the Luisenburg is an open-air stage in the middle of the forest, and during evening performances in the height of summer, myriads of (tiny) mosquitoes gathered on the brightly lit stage, which, according to the sweating actors, preferred to crawl under their glued-on hairpieces. Someone had discovered that those who generously doused themselves with Gabriela Sabatini before going on stage no longer had this problem.
I suspect the first bottle of this EdT was not very well received as a gift from an admirer and ended up in the makeup room - until someone realized it kept the ever-present mosquitoes at bay.
And over the weeks, it became a ritual that everyone who entered the makeup room treated themselves to a spritz. And a few mocking remarks were made. Probably because the scent was too mainstream for the majority of us.
Personally, I found it too strong and too sweet, even though I thought it was solid. Still, I will forever associate beautiful memories of that festival summer with this fragrance, and for that alone, I appreciate it.
A full bottle of this perfume was always in the makeup room throughout the festival and was extensively used by everyone coming in and out - even the men.
The reason for this was:
the Luisenburg is an open-air stage in the middle of the forest, and during evening performances in the height of summer, myriads of (tiny) mosquitoes gathered on the brightly lit stage, which, according to the sweating actors, preferred to crawl under their glued-on hairpieces. Someone had discovered that those who generously doused themselves with Gabriela Sabatini before going on stage no longer had this problem.
I suspect the first bottle of this EdT was not very well received as a gift from an admirer and ended up in the makeup room - until someone realized it kept the ever-present mosquitoes at bay.
And over the weeks, it became a ritual that everyone who entered the makeup room treated themselves to a spritz. And a few mocking remarks were made. Probably because the scent was too mainstream for the majority of us.
Personally, I found it too strong and too sweet, even though I thought it was solid. Still, I will forever associate beautiful memories of that festival summer with this fragrance, and for that alone, I appreciate it.
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