Opium Yves Saint Laurent 1977 Parfum

Is it only me so? Where have all the fellow human beings gone, that I perceived in the 70s, 80s and partly still 90s with sometimes overkill scent plumes around me ?

Whether shopping, on the train, on the bus, during the last years of school, during the training path, in the obligatory Diiiscooo, in the restaurant or countless other life situations.

These years were years in which one was constantly surrounded by scents, Duftfaaahnen, or even Stinkerchen. Looking back and subjective, my personal memory. One lived in a world, constantly surrounded by scents.

Opium was one of them, for some years my "hate" fragrance, as it was omnipresent and used in the highest dosage by many lovers of this scent. To the fragrance itself I must probably no longer give my mustard to it.
Even today, one loves him or despises him. Whereby I also know only the vintage version.

Today I love Opium, well dosed a beautiful fragrance for the already cold autumn and also winter.

But, to make the connection to the current fragrance world around me, have I, just my personal olfactory perception, or even that of my entire generation, suffered any olfactory lasting damage from the many "overkill scents" of these decades?

Rarely do I notice perfume on other people. Whether I take a seat on the bus right next to someone, standing in line at the checkout in the supermarket, standing with colleagues.

Yes even with girlfriends, my sisters, incredulous amazement on my part when they report on their fragrances they use. For I hardly notice them on them, associate with them no scents in the last ten fifteen years, though I have known them thirty forty years.

So sometimes I almost wish back the olfactory bazaar, the olfactory hustle and bustle of those decades that surrounded me then.

Yes, even the overkill of opium that struck many a time on every other corner.