Oilily Oilily 2013

My 9-year old daughter is always eager to spray me with my scent of the day (which she sometimes chooses for me), to try samples on me, to give her meaning on this or that fragrance that I wear or try ("Can you still smell it ? - Yes, Daddy" Ok). She is patient enough to stroll in perfume shops and watch me try some perfumes... But she becomes shy when I propose her to test herself a perfume marketed for "grown-up".

Her stepmother told me that I may try and find a perfume for her.

We duly tried a few perfumes, on strips, on skin ("But are these ones for children? - Yes, honey try it on!). We settled our choice on this one. It was not available in our town, difficult to find online, but I found it in Brussels (of all places).

I got a 50ml bottle in a metallic box, along with a purse for something like 25 €. All lavishly adorned with flowers and berries... There was even a small bag of seeds, which we planted and which in time grew to flashy yellow flowers.

As for the perfume itself. It's flowers and berries all the way long. It's sweet as you might already have guessed, but not overly so. In the listed notes I can smell jasmine and lily of the valley, the "fruits" are red berries. I can't smell any vetiver or oakmoss here, maybe a bit of sandalwood. Overall it's youthful, I can see young girls and teenagers wearing it. It's an edp and on her skin the longevity is really great: a few sprays in the morning last till the evening.

Now she has her own perfume. She wears it on special occasions and brings the bottle in her purse during the holidays... Because you never know when there'll be a special occasion.

I think it was a summer day

I was sitting in the back of the car at 7 years old

My mother had bought something at Aunt Maria's in the Stefan perfumery when Maria came running with her arms full of samples "Teresa, you're getting the bla bla samples bla bla oh! And Jasmin! For you from Oilily!"

What was that, a sample for me?! Great, kids usually don't get things like this!!

There it was in my hand! A piece of cardboard that was colorful with flowers on it and on it a little plastic bubble, you could say, and from that I squeezed just enough drops to perceive the scent…. A fresh floral scent that I liked so much that I wished I had that amazing bottle….. a whiff of fragrance experience that I still remember to this day