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trudy.lilac

Ottawa · member since February 2025

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Retired civil servant in Ottawa. Lilacs in May, and tulips I wish smelled of something. I love the history threads.

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My mother's lilac scent doesn't smell the sameMy mother wore a lilac scent all through my childhood. I smelled it again recently and it's thinner, greener, not her…

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My mother's lilac scent doesn't smell the sameThat's kind, and probably true. I'll take the four reasons as my answer and keep the lilac in the garden. Resin, rose, tonka: a perfume timeline you can smellRose water from the grocery on Bank Street, very strong on paper. I'll try again with less. What makes a perfume house 'niche', exactly?Selective channels, so it's about where it's sold. Simpler than I thought. Chrysanthemums at the cemetery gates before All SaintsSame bitter green as the pots on my neighbour's steps. I always thought they smelled of nothing until I put my nose right in. What was on your nan's dressing table?Lilac from the bush by my mother's kitchen door, and cold cream. I always read that smell memories never fade, so maybe that's why. Missing the Seville azahar on a grey London morningThis is me with lilac every autumn. Seven months to go. Reading up on violets and their vanishing extractI love the history threads. Violets were pinned on every Sunday hat in my grandmother's albums, so that fits. A flea-market atomiser with a perished bulbKeep it out of the sun, at least. The Class on what light, heat and air do to a perfume explains why my old ones on a south window went the way they did.