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Happiness smells like…

Posted by Robin on 17 December 2018 6 Comments

Pale yellow roses. It’s so hard for a perfumer because I don’t think of things in terms of emotion very often, you know? But yeah, it has to be pale white or yellow roses, they’re so happy.

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Jasmine flowers by the sea. A mixture of the salty and sweet. We have a place in the Caribbean where we have night-blooming jasmine. I love flowers that bloom near the sea. That fragrance is absolutely intoxicating.

— David Moltz of DS & Durga, then model Christie Brinkley, answering the question of what happiness smells like. Read more at David Moltz Thinks Success Smells Like a Rich Dad and/or Christie Brinkley Thinks Success Smells Like a Campfire at The Cut.

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  1. Marjorie Rose says:
    17 December 2018 at 10:01 am

    Oh funny!
    I do a lesson in my elective class on scents and scent-memory, and one of the questions I always ask the class is “What does happiness smell like?” They hate it! “Happiness is a feeling not a smell!” they invariably insist! And then I talk about warm, fresh-cut grass and fresh baked cookies, and they slowly come to my side of things. ?

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    • Robin says:
      17 December 2018 at 10:19 am

      That’s funny that they hate the question!

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      • Marjorie Rose says:
        17 December 2018 at 12:34 pm

        12 year olds can be very literal.

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        • Robin says:
          17 December 2018 at 1:31 pm

          Ha, true!

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      • nozknoz says:
        18 December 2018 at 2:25 pm

        Have we ever done that as a poll question?

        To me, original 1999 J’Adore was the scent of sheer joy.

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        • Robin says:
          19 December 2018 at 5:31 pm

          We did something like it but I’ll have to find it!

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