![]() I was unprepared for how huge it was, especially in the top. I tried YSL Paris for the first time on a lunch break. I remember riding a bicycle to a friend’s house who on my arrival asked, “Are you wearing Shalimar?” When I answered yes, she said, “It smells totally different on you,” which reminds me of the scene in A Hard Day’s Night when the initially giddy fan who has accosted John Lennon in a hallway lifts her glasses at him and declares, “You don’t look like him at all.” ![]() ![]() The one I wore when I got to NYU was Sung, and then I bought Shalimar and L’Heure Bleue. In my twenties I had already gone sick in the head over perfume so there was never a point at which I had one Perfume of My Twenties. ![]() What a wonderful fragrance was Old Spice! The only memory it evokes is a very detailed rendering of his corner of my parents’ bathroom, where sat the opaque white glass bottle with the ship on it, accompanied by disposable razor, a tube of Score hair gel, and a tube of Colgate. What was the first perfume you remember your mum or dad wearing?ĭad wore Old Spice. ![]()
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