Mitsouko Guerlain Eau de Parfum

When a nose knows something, it recognizes it later.
As a girl, I was always invited to our neighbors in January for a birthday, because our wife neighbor had a whole three boys and might have liked to have a girl there. She always fulfills this wish on children's birthdays.
And as a girl you have to go to the toilet, especially on birthdays when there was a lot to eat and drink. The visitors' toilet was to the right of the front door, in the cold hallway past the gadrobe. That's where the family's coats hung, or rather our wife's neighbor's fur coats and..
they always smelled - (perfume - I didn't know until then).
Much later I found out that it must have been Mitsouko, because the memories of the scent of our Mrs. neighbor came to me when I was a young woman and wanted to smell or buy something special, if it was not to be the racer Janine D. as at that time. In the wonderful perfumery they showed me various classics by Guerlain, I was just 20 years old then. Mitsouko was there and the feeling came back: past the fur coats and then hurry in the winter because of the cold toilet seat, because there was not heated....
Mitsouko - not sweet and not heavy either, maybe a bit woodsy (we lived near the forest) - not loud, somehow close to nature and definitely rather ladylike.
Today Mitsouko is in my stock and I use it again and again with pleasure in memory of our Mrs. Neighbour, who has gone unfortunately very early from us.