On the bed, a suitcase lies open. New Yorkers, Michelin maps, and a passport stuff the computer tote next to it. For the most part, I’ve nailed down my travel wardrobe — simple cotton dresses with cardigans and flat shoes since I’ll be primarily in the country — but the one thing I haven’t yet packed is perfume.
In the past I’ve tried to settle on one or two fragrances to bring on a trip with the idea that I’d buy something new on vacation and wear it often enough so that just a whiff later would bring back travel memories. This time I’m considering adopting an olfactory theme to the trip: iris and leather.
I figure as a foundation I’ll pack a large decant of Parfums DelRae Mythique. Its tender suede-iris is quiet and easy but delicious, and it’s equally at home in the city as it is in the rural, stone-floored house I’ll be staying in. I almost always have some Mythique handy anyway for when the day’s perfume wears off and I want something unobtrusive but wonderful all the same. Mythique will comfort me…
