Nasturtium & Clover Jo Malone 2016

Surely, each of us has it - a meadow in the memory of our childhood. A place where we frolicked with the dog, where we flew kites, where we picked wildflowers for our mother. This meadow may have been located behind the dikes of North Frisia or in the middle of Berlin, by the banks of the Isar, or in a suburb of Gelsenkirchen - or in a faraway land. None of these meadows is like the other, and yet they are all one, whole and intact and perfect in the memory of us all.

Jo Malone's Nasturtium & Clover honors this meadow of our memories. It is not pretentious and dramatic - not a wild scent trying to make an impression. Nasturtium & Clover is a gentle, moist green fragrance full of kindness and cheerfulness - and then everything is back: the sound of the sea beyond the dike or the tram behind the old fire wall, the church bells in the neighboring village or the sound of the football against the garage doors. The meadow of our childhood. No more. And no less.

Conclusion: 'Green, green grass of home' - this is the title of a legendary country song made famous by Tom Jones in the mid-60s. It tells of the wistful memories of a prisoner of the green meadows of his childhood, and it ends with: 'Yes, they'll all come to see me in the shade of that old oak tree - as they lay me beneath the green, green grass of home', where it smells of clover and nasturtium...