Two years and a month ago, I heard the great Brazilian guitarist Yamandu Costa in east-central Illinois. I had followed his playing for years on YouTube but owned only one CD. I bought all seven CDs for sale after the performance — a 700% increase in my collection. The digipaks and cardboard sleeves all bore an unmistakable floral fragrance that I thought must have come from something else in a suitcase.
Two years and a month later, the digipaks and cardboard sleeves still have a trace of that fragrance.
At the end of a long walk this morning, Elaine and I passed a woman walking two pups. And I recognized this woman’s fragrance. Should I ask about it? Or not? I began with a caution: “This is going to sound like a crazy question,” and gave a condensed version of the paragraphs you’ve just read.
The answer: Japanese Cherry Blossom lotion, from Bath & Body Works.
My follow-up question: Is it a really long-lasting fragrance?
Yes.
Case solved.
And it turns out that my informant is visiting from Wisconsin and is planning to attend the Holiday Folk Fair International back home in November. Many musical traditions there, but no Yamandu Costa, at least not this time. If he were performing there, I think that’d push this story into the realm of fiction.
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[Could some other product have been the source of the fragrance on my CDs? Of course. But the fragrances past and present match.]
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My mother always bought Jergen’s lotion for the family when I was a kid – – it’s cherry & almond scented. ( Sounds similar to that bath and body lotion.)
To this day, that scent takes me back.
PS. But I’ve never smelled it on a CD! Very odd
I guess that when you're on the road with stuff, scent happens.
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