User post: Why I might always wear the same perfume

Clare

Chanel Coco Mademoiselle

That's the perfume I wear and I'll never change it.

I never wore perfume before I was in my thirties. It's one of those girlie things that, like a lot of other girlie things, never really hit my radar. But I always had a bottle of perfume around, and would occasionally remember to spray some on before I went out at night. When Sarah was little, like three of four, without fail every time I would wear perfume she would say "Mama you smell good."

There was something about that little person with that little voice telling me "Mmmm. You smell gooood" that totally got to me. I wanted to always smell good to her. And I wanted to have a lovely scent that she would always associate with me.

One night on a business trip I went out to find my smell. The smell my daughter would know as me. It was daunting. I sniffed at a lot of stuff. Sprayed some on. Kind of liked this or that. Wasn't sure what direction to go. Knew I liked the Coco but it just seemed like such a big decision. I didn't buy any perfume that night.

I woke up the next morning and the Chanel Coco Mademoiselle had lingered, and I still liked it. Done. That's it. I am a Coco Mademoiselle girl.



I don't have a "summer scent" and a "winter scent." I wear Coco Mademoiselle year round because that is the smell my daughter knows as me. Sometimes I think it would be fun to try a different scent, now that I am a person who wears perfume and all, just to mix it up, but I never will because Coco Mademoiselle is what Sarah's mama smells like. I would venture to guess that long after I am gone, whenever she smells that scent she will think of her mother.

I spray the perfume on her pillows before she leaves for camp and she loves this. She can bury her head in the pillow and smell her mama. When she started going to camp for a month, I had to find a little bottle of it to send her off with. I love that she finds comfort in this lovely smell she knows as me. Who knew perfume was so much more than just some fragrance trapped in a bottle.