It smells like my Dutch grandparents' farmhouse, in the best possible way. Their flower garden and 200-year-old wooden beams and Oma's perfume and summer fruit and the fields... I honestly feel like I'm back there, this place I can never revisit. It smells like the best moments of my otherwise unhappy childhood, and brings them back in such a healing, loving way. When I wore the sample for the first time, I literally had tears in my eyes at work all day. I haven't been to the Netherlands since right after I graduated, almost 12 years ago. My grandmother doesn't live at that farm anymore, and my grandfather died when I was in middle school. This perfume... When I close my eyes, I am standing in the living room, between the cast iron stove and the dresser that held all Oma's collection of antique pill boxes (I thought they were magic), listening to Opa play piano in his music closet while my mother and uncles talk on the couch. I can see my brothers playing outside by the chicken coop. There's a bowl of blackberries on the table, ones we picked in the woods last night.
I loved most of the perfumes in the Discovery kit, but this...this is special. I had to buy a full-sized bottle.
