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Ode to a Perfume

Ode to a Perfume

Reflecting on a scent from the past.

Nov 22, 2024
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“Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past,
the one which when all our tears have run dry, can make us cry again!” 

– Marcel Proust

Today I’m going to get a little nostalgic on you - we’re heading back in time to the U.S. in the 1980’s. I suspect many of you living elsewhere might have had a similar…

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