Scented Reminders

A WAVE OF NOSTALGIA
I had the idea for this blog post earlier in the week when I sprayed my Chloé perfume (when you share a name with a brand, you gotta use them!) and was hit by a wave of nostalgia for being in Australia last year. I always find it cool how smells can remind you of certain times and places, and so I thought it might be fun to share with y'all some smells that remind me of different moments in my life.

LOVE, CHLOÉ PERFUME
In April of 2014 I went to Melbourne, Australia to visit my sister while she studying abroad there. And it was the best time of my life. I loved every second of it, from feeding wild rosellas along the great ocean road to having to change out of my converse because it had rained so hard. While I was there I mostly wore my Love, Chloé perfume. It's a floral scent but with a hint of spice mixed in too. Whenever I spray this perfume now, which is pretty much every time I'm going out somewhere nicer than uni or shopping, it reminds me of being in Melbourne.

BACON
This one is a bit different to the fanciness of my perfume but the smell of bacon reminds of Melbourne too. And that's because my sister's apartment always smelt like bacon because someone in one of the neighbouring apartments obviously enjoyed eating bacon, haha. This scent is so distinct to me to the point that I can remember perfectly how it smelt right now as I write this in my bedroom in England where nobody is cooking bacon!

DOVE WOMENS ORIGINAL DEODORANT
I use different brands of deodorant all the time, I just buy whatever is on offer, but whenever I use the original dove deodorant the smell really reminds me of summers while I was in secondary school. I don't know why it's summer in particular, but I just can't help thinking of the days when I used to go to the park all day with my friends and just sit and talk. In a weird way though, I really wish I wasn't reminded of those times because since leaving secondary school I realised how bad those friends treated me, and I lost contact with most of them. But hey, that's life. (Woah, this got deep real quick, back to the lighter stuff shall we!)

A CERTAIN BOOK SMELL
A true bookworm knows that not all books smell the same, and so with this one I don't mean all books, just a certain kind. It reminds of being little and reading The Faraway Tree, aka my favourite book ever when I was a child! It's hard to describe this smell properly because it's just a certain type of paper I guess, but the best way I can think of is that kind of felt, spongey material you get, mixed with paper? I can guarantee that most of you will have no clue what I'm talking about so I'm going to move on, haha.

RIGHT GUARD MENS DEODORANT 
I can't tell you what particular one, but I imagine it would just be the classic/original deodorant that right guard have, always reminds me of being at the Danny Elfman, Music from Tim Burton films concert that I went to at the Royal Albert Hall in 2014. I think it's because I was wearing this deodorant that night as it's what my dad uses and I'd ran out of my normal one, so I just borrowed his. Now, men's deodorant smells hella strong, so I could just smell it on myself all night. And now whenever I smell it it just reminds me of that evening (and seeing Helena Bonham Carter sing, which was crazy exciting because woman crush).

BYE!
And that's it! I'm sure there are more scents that remind me of different things, but I can't think of them right now, or in most cases, I can't distinguish what the smell actually is, which makes it a little bit hard to write about.

Are there any smells that remind you of certain times of your life? Let me know in the comments below and we can have a nice little scent based memory chat!

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I hope you're having a wonderful day.

Love Chloe x

My February In Photos

                 

So here's my February in photos. You might have already seen some of these scattered across my social media, but others are gracing the Internet for the first time in this post. 

These are the stories behind my photos.... 

1. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH.

2. Actresses dressed up all Victorian style for the Sherlock filming. 

3. Selfie at setlock.

4. Because it was freezing on the day we saw Sherlock being filmed we had to seek warmth (and food) inside a restaurant. This was at Revolution in Bath, where I was surrounded by plants and ate burritos. Also I love this photo of me because my hair looks amazing.

5. Tuna bake and The 100 with my sister in my little uni home.

6. Farm shop lunch with the two people who will be my housemates next year! Taken after we'd been to see the house we'll be living in for the next few years.

7. Eating ice cream when it's freezing is weird, but it was worth getting even more cold for this ice cream because it was delicious. Chocolate and coffee flavour, but i'm 98% sure that the coffee had been spilt in it by accident because it was literally just random instant coffee granules every now and then and the coffee bit had been added to the label in biro, so y'know pretty sketchy stuff at the ice cream shop. 

8. We made Riccardo, my darling avocado tree, get into the valentines day spirit by adding heart confetti to his plant pot. Why? Because Riccardo is my one true love.

9. "I got that red lip, face mask, thing that you like."

10. To represent Valentines Day, because as I said Riccardo is my one true love and he didn't even send me a card. 

11. Tartlets made by me, with the help of my favourite new cookbook by Mary Berry.

12. Souffles made by me, once again with help from Mary Berry.

13. Apple and Cinnamon cake by me, and Mary again (this cookbook is amazing, okay.)

14. I love Pancake Day <3

15. My outfit on the day I went back to uni after our reading week. I felt very cute and just a tad bit hipster.

16. More meals by Chloe. This one was inspired by an amazing chilli con carne I had whilst in Maastricht. No rice, lots of sauce, and a warm baguette. Delicious.

17. I went to see Samantha Shannon in conversation at my local bookshop, with my friend Lisa. Samantha Shannon is an amazing writer and The Bone Season series is wonderful, so it was rad to be able to see her. I met her and got my book signed afterwards too!

18. A moses basket bought by my family for our friends, who were obviously due to have a baby. They had the baby the day after we gave it to them, which was very unexpected but rad all the same. 

Thanks for reading, have a lovely rest of your day.

Love Chloe x

P.S This post was inspired by a similar thing that Loiuse, aka Sprinkleofglitter, does over on her blog. I always think it's such a nice way of looking back at the month, so I've decided to do it myself. So thanks to her for the inspiration. Here's a link to her blog, it's great: http://sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.co.uk