Hi everyone/Bonjour tout le monde!
I’m Yvonne, another defector from Fragrantica. I’m from the great state of California where I was born and raised and have lived 57 out of my 61 years. I’m a third year PhD student and graduate teaching assistant at the University of California Davis in the French department where I’m about to embark on my dissertation. I’m working with a corpus of fin-de-siècle French advice/etiquette manuals, gastronomy magazines and cooking magazines published for women.
I started wearing perfume in high school, but spent 20+ years as a cheese monger (Whole Foods Market), so stopped wearing fragrance. I got back into perfume about two years ago and went a little crazy with collecting. But I love fragrance (especially vintage!!!) and I’m very glad to be here. I look forward to interacting with the Parfumo community! 🥰