02/16/2021

Friesin
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Friesin
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For Elisabeth
Dear Elisabeth,
today is your 89th birthday and I congratulate you with all my heart.
I look forward to seeing you again and am with you in my thoughts.
At a time when my life was coming apart at the seams, you were suddenly there.
I knew you only from the stairwell, but soon you were to become my reliable support. Your Prussian toughness, the view of the essential and inevitable, as well as the ability to look forward when everything seems lost, were my salvation You were born on an East Elbian estate. Your father, the lord of the manor, ruled with severity and inflexibility over the family and the servants.
You'd much rather tell me about your grandfather, the horse breeder. Of the Union Club and Hoppegarten, evening events and driven hunts, and show me pictures of another world. "Tinkle a little brook, dear," and over soft tones, the image of your grandmother emerges. Not made for a life of wasteland, she took refuge at the piano, delivered from Hamburg by horse and cart.
So you grow up, a privileged life that comes to an abrupt end through war.
Your father and brother fall, your grandparents die on the run, only you and your mother survive. Lost everything at 13, stranded as a refugee, like so many who are no longer to tell about it.
"Cry at home," you said to me, remember?
"Child be strong, straighten your back and get your life back". That these were not just phrases based on repression.. you were my mirror. It could succeed.
I hug you, you strong woman with a lion's heart
and send you all my love.
Elizabeth's fragrance is 'Calèche', always has been.
The 60's version and today the reformulation. As always, when we associate scents with a particular person, we personalize the scent.
Except I think, in an attempt to be objective,
Calèsche is just that. The fragrance of a strong, down-to-earth woman. Classic, not playful with a flirtatious understatement.
The landowner's daughter can not be denied, even after more than 70 years.
The icing on the cake is of course the Hermès logo with horse and "carriage".
today is your 89th birthday and I congratulate you with all my heart.
I look forward to seeing you again and am with you in my thoughts.
At a time when my life was coming apart at the seams, you were suddenly there.
I knew you only from the stairwell, but soon you were to become my reliable support. Your Prussian toughness, the view of the essential and inevitable, as well as the ability to look forward when everything seems lost, were my salvation You were born on an East Elbian estate. Your father, the lord of the manor, ruled with severity and inflexibility over the family and the servants.
You'd much rather tell me about your grandfather, the horse breeder. Of the Union Club and Hoppegarten, evening events and driven hunts, and show me pictures of another world. "Tinkle a little brook, dear," and over soft tones, the image of your grandmother emerges. Not made for a life of wasteland, she took refuge at the piano, delivered from Hamburg by horse and cart.
So you grow up, a privileged life that comes to an abrupt end through war.
Your father and brother fall, your grandparents die on the run, only you and your mother survive. Lost everything at 13, stranded as a refugee, like so many who are no longer to tell about it.
"Cry at home," you said to me, remember?
"Child be strong, straighten your back and get your life back". That these were not just phrases based on repression.. you were my mirror. It could succeed.
I hug you, you strong woman with a lion's heart
and send you all my love.
Elizabeth's fragrance is 'Calèche', always has been.
The 60's version and today the reformulation. As always, when we associate scents with a particular person, we personalize the scent.
Except I think, in an attempt to be objective,
Calèsche is just that. The fragrance of a strong, down-to-earth woman. Classic, not playful with a flirtatious understatement.
The landowner's daughter can not be denied, even after more than 70 years.
The icing on the cake is of course the Hermès logo with horse and "carriage".
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