Gucci Flora Gorgeous Gardenia Eau de Parfum Brings Falls Days at Lyndhurst and Long Summers in Europe To My Mind Today
The dog days of Summer are upon us but all I can think about is wearing Gucci Flora Gorgeous Gardenia Eau de Parfum as I take a long walk around the grounds of Lyndhurst on a cool autumn day. There’s something magical about Fall days at Lyndhurst especially when the early morning sun hits the mansion in just the right way and reflects off the windows. Around that time of the year a cool breeze will flow from the Hudson River and ruffle your hair as you walk along the drive leading to the mansion. I like to imagine what it would be like over 180 years when horse drawn carriages made their way up the drive to drop off fancy ladies and their gentlemen for a dinner party.
The gothic revival style of the home also makes me think of the passionate Mr Rochester who yearned for the challenge that the witty and clever Jane Eyre set fourth for his mind. It reminds me even the plain, nerdy, boring girls like me get their happily ever after after all.
As sit here early this morning and the sun starts to peek its wary head out and bath my home office window in its soft glow I felt the need to wax poetry to the tune of Gucci Flora Gorgeous Gardenia. Gardenia always plays an important role in my fragrance life. It reminds me of my grandmother’s house in Europe. It was such a strange house with a large garage on the bottom of the house and a big staircase that lead up to the main house. It never entered my mind back then, as I was too young to think about it, but how my aging grandparents did those steps up and down several times a day is sort of amazing and a nod to their strength and good health. There used to a river that ran through the back of the house and just below the stairs, a garden filled with all sorts of different flowers and yes, you probably guessed, gardenias were mixed in there. My entire Summer vacation was spent going back and fourth by car (about an hour drive) to have lunch with them. My grandmother was incredible as she was always so attentive to me and my sister and our picky American palate. There would be fresh bread, Caldo verde soup, black olives, a bottle of red wine for my grandfather, and ham and butter sandwiches, and of course, Bolinos de Bacalhau. She did her best to make the things she’d think we’d eat.
But it was the gardenias that always bring me back to those days. I can close my eyes and smell them and to this day and they’ll always bring me back to really warm Summer days spent eating lunch at my grandparents house.
Gucci Flora Gorgeous Gardenia Eau de Parfum sounds like it’ll evoke Summer and Fall. The pear and the brown sugar are what bring forth that cool, Fall vibe but with those delicious fruity and gourmand notes they inject white Gardenia and jasmine. Will the pear and the brown sugar give the blend a warm note? Will the gardenia and the jasmine dominate and bring us a beautiful, delicate floral scent?
I need to smell this and find out for myself.
Interestingly enough they went with a pink elongated bottle that reminds me of a shampoo or a shower gel. Another interesting thing? The addition of Miley Cyrus as the Ambassador for the scent and a campaign that features her journey through a candy pink world inspired by Japanese animation. Hmmm……!
Gucci Flora Gorgeous Gardenia Eau de Parfum does so intrigue.
What do the notes make you think about?
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