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bev.boston

Boston · member since June 2025

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Retired teacher in Boston. My late husband's aftershave started all this. I'm learning what was in it.

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My late husband's aftershave started all thisI taught fourth grade in Boston for years and I'm retired now. I'm here because of my late husband's aftershave… Bushy pale grey tree lichen clinging to a stem in a forest near Oslo What was in my late husband's aftershave?My late husband wore the same aftershave for forty years, a green bottle with lavender on top and something sweet like… Common carder bee clinging to a lavender spike, slender stems on a golden background His aftershave still lives in the cardiganI keep my late husband's gray cardigan on the bedroom chair. When the heat kicks on in the fall, lavender and something…

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Resin, rose, tonka: a perfume timeline you can smellTonka is the sweet part of my husband's aftershave. I'm sure of it now. My late husband's aftershave started all thisLavender, moss and hay. That's him exactly. Thank you, I'm a little teary. One candle by the bath, rain on the skylightMademoiselle Bulle's room-by-room lighting guide answers that one: by the bath it's a waterproof LED, or a real candle in a secure holder. My windowsill has a… How much jasmine still grows around Grasse?about 27 tonnes of jasmine a year Well, I stand corrected twice over. What was in my late husband's aftershave?Thank you all. Next time I'm downtown I'll ask to smell a fougère on paper. That's enough for me. Last mow of the year: cut grass or hay?And the coumarin note describes coumarin as sweet, close to vanilla, with the smell of new-mown hay. So Dougie has the hay and Pip has the fresh grass. What was in my late husband's aftershave?Coumarin. I'd never heard the word, but hay is exactly it. Read: smell beats the carols at bringing Christmas backMy late husband's aftershave on a Christmas sweater. I'm not a child in that one, but it's the strongest.