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Gonna Take a Sentimental Journey
This evening after the lecture, I sit in the car, it's just before seven, and the Bayern1 voice announces the news. First a brief overview before they are read out individually. What was that, Hollywood actress died? I hadn't really been paying attention, there’s quite a bit going on in the street. Now the actual report, Hollywood actress and singer Doris Day has died today at the age of 97. I hadn't misheard. Oh dear. Doris Day was somehow a constant presence, always there, like the Queen. Every Christmas, her "Winter Wonderland" reliably echoes from the speakers, just like her duet "Baby it’s cold outside" with Dean Martin.
"Dream a little dream of me," "Que sera sera," "Sentimental Journey" - the list of her classics could go on for quite a while. They all come from the 40s and 50s, when her film and singing career really took off. Just imagine, she had to give up her dream of dancing in 1937 due to an accident at the age of 14 and instead embarked on her career as a singer and later as an actress starting in 1939. And she didn't just make any films; she starred alongside greats like Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers - names that belong to a long-gone era, when everyone still felt the effects of the Great Depression and sound films had only been around for a few years. Doris Day was a witness and participant of that era and had carried the vivid memory of it within her until yesterday. And now she is gone.
As a retro perfume junkie, after the initial shock, the question arises for me: Hmm, what could the good lady have worn? What did a lady like Doris Day smell like? As I read through the films she made (Hitchcock's "Midnight Lace," for example), I wonder where on earth the image I have of her comes from. In my memory, she is somehow the cheerful housewife from the 50s, dancing through the kitchen while singing, as Disney birds chirp on the windowsill outside. And there is hardly a more fitting fragrance for this woman than L’air du Temps. It was created in 1948, just like Day's first film "Romance on the High Seas." It is floral and cheerful, has an innocent charm, and smells not just clean, but pure. A delicate carnation, hardly spicy, rather elegant, perfectly represented by the light yellow color of the fragrance.
My vintage bottle of pure perfume is flat, sealed with a nearly spherical glass stopper, and comes in a yellow box that opens from the top. The legendary peace doves, which are fitting for a fragrance from the immediate post-war period, adorn the bottles of L’air du Temps; on my bottle, they are placed flat on the front of the belly and not on the cap. Since I have also owned the current Eau de Toilette, I can say that L’air du Temps has likely survived the years without major damage, also known as reformulations. The new Eau de Toilette is unmistakably the same scent as that in my old bottle of pure perfume. I am glad that a gem that has been around for over 70 years is still being produced and sold.
Now I dab a few drops of it on my arm, for Doris.
"Dream a little dream of me," "Que sera sera," "Sentimental Journey" - the list of her classics could go on for quite a while. They all come from the 40s and 50s, when her film and singing career really took off. Just imagine, she had to give up her dream of dancing in 1937 due to an accident at the age of 14 and instead embarked on her career as a singer and later as an actress starting in 1939. And she didn't just make any films; she starred alongside greats like Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers - names that belong to a long-gone era, when everyone still felt the effects of the Great Depression and sound films had only been around for a few years. Doris Day was a witness and participant of that era and had carried the vivid memory of it within her until yesterday. And now she is gone.
As a retro perfume junkie, after the initial shock, the question arises for me: Hmm, what could the good lady have worn? What did a lady like Doris Day smell like? As I read through the films she made (Hitchcock's "Midnight Lace," for example), I wonder where on earth the image I have of her comes from. In my memory, she is somehow the cheerful housewife from the 50s, dancing through the kitchen while singing, as Disney birds chirp on the windowsill outside. And there is hardly a more fitting fragrance for this woman than L’air du Temps. It was created in 1948, just like Day's first film "Romance on the High Seas." It is floral and cheerful, has an innocent charm, and smells not just clean, but pure. A delicate carnation, hardly spicy, rather elegant, perfectly represented by the light yellow color of the fragrance.
My vintage bottle of pure perfume is flat, sealed with a nearly spherical glass stopper, and comes in a yellow box that opens from the top. The legendary peace doves, which are fitting for a fragrance from the immediate post-war period, adorn the bottles of L’air du Temps; on my bottle, they are placed flat on the front of the belly and not on the cap. Since I have also owned the current Eau de Toilette, I can say that L’air du Temps has likely survived the years without major damage, also known as reformulations. The new Eau de Toilette is unmistakably the same scent as that in my old bottle of pure perfume. I am glad that a gem that has been around for over 70 years is still being produced and sold.
Now I dab a few drops of it on my arm, for Doris.
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