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So essentially, at that point in our young lives, everything we know to be good.
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And then, at some point, we move on or feel like we should.
Adults aren’t supposed to smell like cupcakes, right?
Objectively, vanilla isn’tbadby any stretch of the imagination.
Until recently, I shared this thinking.
But then, something weird happened.
“Ooh, what is that?
It smells really good,” I said to her.
“It’s justFlowerbomb,” she replied.
And just like that, the Western world’s love affair withall things vanillawas hot and heavy.
But it’s not only the perfumes themselves that have changed: We have, too.
“For years now, I’ve been trying to get a vanilla fragrance right,” she says.
Vanilla is captivating and beautiful but it can easily fall into being overdone or stereotypical."
“During the ’80s and ’90s, vanilla was overexposed and overused.
Lots of inexpensive perfumes flooded the market, making vanilla a dirty word.”
But she chose to embrace nostalgia, instead of fighting against it.
Speaking of Earth, there’s one thing about vanilla that isn’t so sweet.
And really, whocouldn’tuse joy, comfort, connection, and a hug right about now?
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