tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post1842844336898943802..comments2024-03-25T22:59:30.053+00:00Comments on Desperate Reader: The Joy of ScentsDesperate Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15708411387912078122noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-42413742391427343612009-10-22T18:49:49.800+01:002009-10-22T18:49:49.800+01:00Kindred spirits, What a fantastic way to remember ...Kindred spirits, What a fantastic way to remember a holiday. I love Penhaligons, especially the one in the burlington arcade, it's so perfectly old world.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16462516965218548374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011557877105021955.post-22259337512481250562009-10-20T22:07:51.192+01:002009-10-20T22:07:51.192+01:00You have totally opened Pandora's box for me o...You have totally opened Pandora's box for me on this one. I totally understand your fascination. I don't even know where to begin.<br /><br />You are so right about smell being a memory trigger. I hope no one takes this the wrong way, but whenever the weather is just right and I get a big whiff of bus exhaust it takes me right back to my first trip to London in 1989. It may be pollution, but it brings back good memories.<br /><br />For 3 years I worked at the headquarters of Aveda, where they make all kinds of beauty products and pretty much only use natural aroma. After working in that environment for a while one gets totally attuned to which scents are natural and which are synthetic. There would be days where we could tell there was a temporary employee on the floor because we could smell their synthetic (non-Aveda) beauty products across the office. Perfume, shampoo, deodorant, whatever it was they had used before coming to work, they might as well have been a skunk.<br /><br />And finally, in 2000 I was in London before going off to Naples for the first time and wanted to find a new scent that I could use for the first time in Naples. That way whenever I used it after that, it would always remind me of that trip. Well, by 2000 the world of scent was pretty international and I couldn't find anything in London that I didn't already know from the US (or an airport duty free). Until someone told me about Penhaligans. Long story short, I found the tiny little Penhaligan's shop and decided on Blenheim Bouquet. My first morning in Pozzuoli just outside of Naples I woke up, looked out on the blue sky and sunshine over a lemon grove and misted myself with Blenheim Bouquet. You can imagine what I thin of every time I use that scent. Sunshine, Italy, and lemons.Thomas Hogglestockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14284352537015457974noreply@blogger.com