{"id":880,"date":"2012-07-26T19:07:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T23:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/?p=880"},"modified":"2012-07-26T19:10:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T23:10:44","slug":"what-is-your-favorite-perfume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2012\/07\/26\/what-is-your-favorite-perfume\/","title":{"rendered":"What is your favorite perfume?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Gretchen Rubin, of the Happiness-Project (www.happiness-project.com<\/a>) , asked the happiness question of the day: \u00a0What is your favorite perfume?\u00a0 Mine is Miracle by Lanc\u00f4me.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been wearing it for years and everyone who knows me, knows that is my fragrance. They may not know the name but they recognize it as Sandi\u2019s, my sister\u2019s or my friend\u2019s or my Aunt Sandi\u2019s scent.<\/p>\n

It is important to me to have a signature fragrance.\u00a0\u00a0 It is so important to me, and I hope to others, that when I ran out just before going up to Buffalo for Gramma Velda\u2019s funeral I made sure to go and restock.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t risk my niece and nephew or even more importantly my summer sister Kyle not recognizing the familiar scent that surrounds every hug I have ever handed out.<\/p>\n

Sandra and I once ventured down to Philly for a weekend with my friend Beth.\u00a0 When she walked into my room before heading out she smiled and said, oh your room smells just like you. \u00a0\u00a0I had just put on my perfume.\u00a0 I know she had the same comfort when I arrived in her hospital room last January when she broke her legs.<\/p>\n

I used to spritz the light bulbs on Oak Tree Road so himself would always have that scent in the air.\u00a0 Even if he couldn\u2019t come back from that dark place the aroma would be familiar and perhaps, just maybe, get him back to that place called normal.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even know if he realized there was a scent in the air or if he ever smelled it again there would be an association, but it was my way of making myself memorable.<\/p>\n

Aroma is powerful, it can transport you back to a wonderful childhood memory or to a hospital stay, and to the day you took the SATs or outside the Dairy Queen on a hot summer day, think the strawberries they use on a sundae.\u00a0 When I eat french fries in the car from MacDonald\u2019s when I\u2019m traveling I am immediately transported back in time to our rides that ended at MacDonald for dinner when we were kids.<\/p>\n

My insistence on a signature fragrance stems from memories of my father.\u00a0 He wore Old Spice his entire life and every time I smell it, which isn\u2019t often anymore, I think of him.\u00a0 Making \u201cfunny faces\u201d in the mirror while shaving and then putting just a splash of that on to start his day is one of the strongest most powerful memories I have of him.<\/p>\n

I hope that Miracle will prove to do the same for me, it\u2019s all part of the plan, all part of a legacy.\u00a0 When you smell it I hope you will think of me fondly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gretchen Rubin, of the Happiness-Project (www.happiness-project.com) , asked the happiness question of the day: \u00a0What is your favorite perfume?\u00a0 Mine is Miracle by Lanc\u00f4me. I\u2019ve been wearing it for years and everyone who knows me, knows that is my fragrance. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[194,199,196,197],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pause-points","tag-gretchen-rubin","tag-happiness-project","tag-miracle-by-lancome","tag-old-spice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27hQ5-ec","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}