On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM Thaths via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote:
Smells, more than taste (well, what is taste, but just a weaker way of > smelling?), play the role of bringing memories of madelines past for me. > > What are some scents from the past that you would pay good money to > experience again? > > https://www.ft.com/content/53a3a13b-fe98-4670-9163-be659ccbf4f2 > Here's a personal anecdote of this: In the early 80s, my father was gifted a bottle of Jules <https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Dior/Jules-1243.html> cologne. In those pre-liberalization times, it was a rare thing that was used sparingly, and was forever associated in my mind with my father wearing it on big occasions like weddings or suchlike. That bottle lasted decades, to give you an idea. It was discontinued sometime after, never lost <https://www.yesterdaysperfume.com/yesterdays_perfume/2014/06/jules-by-christian-dior-1980.html> its fan following among perfume aficionados. Perhaps as a sop to this group, it was re-launched in the 2000s sometime, but only as a limited edition, available only at the flagship Dior store in Paris. Through a member of this list, I enlisted the help of a mutual friend who was traveling to Paris on work to pick up a bottle for me. Apparently, the very fact that he knew to ask for Jules gave him some cred with the sales people there. :) This bottle took an incredibly roundabout route to reach me, but reach me it did, eventually. The smell was objectively different from the original formulation, but close enough to give me that hit of instant nostalgia - which I indulge in from time to time. Udhay PS: I was sharing this story recently with another member of this list, also called Jules. :)
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