Paloma

... smells like strawberries with whipped cream.
In the book "All's Well with the World at 7 a.m.," these are the words little Gaylord uses to describe his favorite aunt.

Every time I wear Armani " Because it s You " I think of this.
Except this is raspberries with whipped cream.

The raspberry is present right from the opening, and remains so until the end.
The whipped cream impression is brought on by vanilla and musk.
The rose is one of the fruity kind, as it appears in Turkish rose jam.
Neroli I perceive fortunately not at all, because it reminds me inevitably of "4711", a remedy for very old ladies, if they are so "blümerant", or they even faint.

Although Aunt Becky is a very young woman in the book, I find that it can definitely be worn by older folks as well - so, for example, by me :-)

Because it s You - I love You!

At the beginning of the 80s of the last century, as a very young woman, I was "On The Road" for a long time
If you have to carry around all your belongings every day, you become very frugal, and learn to limit yourself to very little.
3 sets of underwear will have to do. Finally, one needs still place for some books and a bottle of perfume (at that time "Anais Anais")
For weeks I sometimes camped on the beach.
To wash myself with fresh water I had to go up the mountain wall, as there was a spring there.
On the way, I sometimes had to rely on the murky trickle that ran from the tap of a dirty gas station toilet.
A very intense time. Very close to the "essentials".
Even today, I sometimes feel it is a luxury to enjoy a long, hot shower.
It is not a matter of course.

Tiare vanilla tonka bean
Again, one has been frugal and limited.
Marquise27 put it aptly:
How can you create something so beautiful from so few ingredients?

As it was, it was good and right.
But today I know that to the trip then "Prodigieux Le Parfum" would have fit better than Anais.