I’m pretty sure I sat behind the woman in this Avon film on a flight from Chicago to Los Angeles for The Big Move. To say that my allergies were on high alert would be an understatement. Don’t get me wrong! Shalimar is my signature fragrance. But I wouldn’t recommend slathering cologne all over your body like this film suggests.
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Do you have a signature fragrance?
In the day when this video was made, many women wore cologne / perfume as a matter of course. Remember when department stores enclosed flyers in the monthly statement and included one that was saturated in some scent? Those mailings were overpoweringly aromatic.
I remember those! It was one of the mailings that enabled me to discover “Shalimar.” I wear the cologne version almost every day and love to wear it but a little goes a long ways.
I think as some women get older their sense of smell is reduced and they don’t realize that they’ve crossed the line from “enjoyable fragrant” to “overpowering.”
When I was a teenager, I thought “Chantilly” was the ultimate in perfumes!
My mother cautioned me about wearing overpowering scents when I was still a child, and after that “talking to,” I never really wore perfume again. I remember Mother wearing cologne on occasion but she grew more sensitive to scents as she grew older. My husband doesn’t care for perfume (or scented candles).
In the ’70s, a co-workers went into ecstacies over Avon’s “Roses.” I put a dab on my wrist and showed her that it didn’t smell like roses on me. It was awful!