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.
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. 😋
That’s funny that they hate the question!
12 year olds can be very literal.
Ha, true!
Have we ever done that as a poll question?
To me, original 1999 J’Adore was the scent of sheer joy.
We did something like it but I’ll have to find it!