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10/26/2023
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Mom? Where are you? I can smell you, but you're not here!
A tribute to my mom... Yvresse by YSL and Opium by YSL was in the 90`s the signature fragrance of my mom. Today she wears exclusively Eau des Merveilles by Hermés, fits her like a second skin. She doesn't like it so loud anymore. Is probably so when you get older.
When my husband and I bought Grandma's house last year and my mother-in-law cleaned out the basement, a rare find was found in one of the basement rooms. There was a separate room in the basement just for Grandpa and his worn horse clothes, riding pants, etc. Grandma wanted it that way.... My mother-in-law actually found a small bottle of Yvresse among all the clothes. Since the bottle was still well filled, she probably thought it was too bad to throw it away. And that was a good thing. So where to put the bottle she found? Sure, off to the daughter-in-law, who has such a soft spot for fragrances. Well my mother in law knows me ;-)
So I took the bottle and made him open, carefully smelled it and there she was! The memory! Immediately I felt transported back to my childhood. It was Christmas Eve, December 24 sometime in the 1990s. I was about nine years old. My mom was sitting in the car in front of me, looking posh as always, wearing her dark red lipstick, high heels, a black velvet dress and wearing Yvresse by YSL. So natural, as if there had never been anything else for you. Simply Mama. It suited her, although she was never the person who liked to be the center of attention. Always discreetly reserved.
I asked my mother-in-law where you found the bottle. "It was in the riding cellar, the room where Grandpa always stored his riding pants and you know, my mother (Grandma) was always very difficult when it came to unpleasant odors, so you sprayed the riding clothes of Grandpa always with the perfume." What??? She didn't exactly say that now and grandma didn't really do that did she?! In fact, our Grandma Elli used to use Yvresse to spray Grandpa's horse stuff so she wouldn't have to smell the horse smell. What a shame! There are so many memories in that. Oh mom I feel sorry for you. If I told her that. There are also other things that were sprayed with perfume at Grandma and Grandpa's house, for example, the garbage can was sprayed with Chanel No. 5, it could be that the garbage men would fall down because of the stench. I wonder which of the two evils for the garbage men was worse, the actual residual waste to smell or the residual waste with Chanel No. 5 (please forgive me Chanel No.5 lovers) No offense.
Well and so it came that I became by a funny coincidence, owner of a long-gone love of my mom. "I want to smell that again" she said. So far I have always forgotten to take it to our visits. But I will, so that mom has the same memory as I do....
When my husband and I bought Grandma's house last year and my mother-in-law cleaned out the basement, a rare find was found in one of the basement rooms. There was a separate room in the basement just for Grandpa and his worn horse clothes, riding pants, etc. Grandma wanted it that way.... My mother-in-law actually found a small bottle of Yvresse among all the clothes. Since the bottle was still well filled, she probably thought it was too bad to throw it away. And that was a good thing. So where to put the bottle she found? Sure, off to the daughter-in-law, who has such a soft spot for fragrances. Well my mother in law knows me ;-)
So I took the bottle and made him open, carefully smelled it and there she was! The memory! Immediately I felt transported back to my childhood. It was Christmas Eve, December 24 sometime in the 1990s. I was about nine years old. My mom was sitting in the car in front of me, looking posh as always, wearing her dark red lipstick, high heels, a black velvet dress and wearing Yvresse by YSL. So natural, as if there had never been anything else for you. Simply Mama. It suited her, although she was never the person who liked to be the center of attention. Always discreetly reserved.
I asked my mother-in-law where you found the bottle. "It was in the riding cellar, the room where Grandpa always stored his riding pants and you know, my mother (Grandma) was always very difficult when it came to unpleasant odors, so you sprayed the riding clothes of Grandpa always with the perfume." What??? She didn't exactly say that now and grandma didn't really do that did she?! In fact, our Grandma Elli used to use Yvresse to spray Grandpa's horse stuff so she wouldn't have to smell the horse smell. What a shame! There are so many memories in that. Oh mom I feel sorry for you. If I told her that. There are also other things that were sprayed with perfume at Grandma and Grandpa's house, for example, the garbage can was sprayed with Chanel No. 5, it could be that the garbage men would fall down because of the stench. I wonder which of the two evils for the garbage men was worse, the actual residual waste to smell or the residual waste with Chanel No. 5 (please forgive me Chanel No.5 lovers) No offense.
Well and so it came that I became by a funny coincidence, owner of a long-gone love of my mom. "I want to smell that again" she said. So far I have always forgotten to take it to our visits. But I will, so that mom has the same memory as I do....
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