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aunty_val

Liverpool · member since December 2025

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Retired school dinner lady in Liverpool. I love a bit of rose and powder, like my mother used to wear.

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Were old perfumes all natural before chemistry?I always thought the old scents my mother wore were all flowers, nothing made in a lab. Is that right? Itchy neck after my rose and powder scentSince the cold weather came in, my neck goes red and itchy where I spray my rose and powder perfume. Should I put it…

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Were old perfumes all natural before chemistry?Well I never. I'll look at her powder a bit differently now. My granny's dressing table bottle with no namePowder and violets, that was my mother as well. Must have been the smell of every Sunday. Orris root smells nothing like the iris flowerRose and powder, that's what my mother wore. I wonder now if the powder was orris. No open-jar symbol on my perfume box?Keep the box, love. Mine live in their boxes in the wardrobe and they're fine. Itchy neck after my rose and powder scentOff to the chemist with the box tomorrow then. Ta, all of you. What was in my late husband's aftershave?My dad had one like that too. Sunday mornings, every week. My mother's lilac scent doesn't smell the sameMy mother's rose and powder went the same way. I thought my nose had gone. Thread of the week: one scent, three placesDid it with my rose and powder one, love. Scarf first, then the paper, then the wrist, same as everyone.