Isn’t it funny how a certain fragrance can bring back memories of a particular event or time?

For example, Anais Anais perfume reminds me of my first trip to Germany in the late 1980s, when I was on a student exchange.

The exotic fragrance of gardenia brings back memories of when I was working at a florist in London, where they’d ordered in lots of gardenia plants for a wedding.

As soon as you walked into the room, you could smell them and this memory was brought back to me the other day, when I noticed a gardenia plant in a shop – and just had to buy it!… Read more