When you're young, simple floral scents make sense: lily of the valley, lilacs, those violets in that square, purple chewing gum.
Back in the 1980s, another sense drawer was unlocked when molecules from detergents and fabric softeners migrated into the perfume industry, imparting a "message of cleanliness" through "simple, linear, recognizable" scents like Drakkar Noir, Cool Water and Eternity.
A simple roast perhaps, scented with fennel seeds and thyme; a platter of grilled prawns to tear apart with our fingers; sweet, almost too ripe tomatoes tossed with crisp radishes and peppery watercress and perhaps a dessert based around the age old crowd-pleaser of late summer fruits and cream.
Others were the old-fashioned roses that bloomed once a year with rich scents, simple flowers like daisies, and flowering herbs.
Cuvée Sparkle, most enjoyable when drunk moderately chilled, offers a sweet scent and simple, subdued flavors.
The personal or apolitical tone of so much post-sixties comedy is, in this sense, not a betrayal but a simple tracking of the scent to the place where liberal pretension has gone, mainly the bedroom and the living room.
Choose scents he agrees to, he might prefer simple pine disinfectant to floral scents, "fresh bread" or other scents.
The company even developed a Holiday Inn scent that is "simple and clean, open and airy, and warm," according to a spokesman.
Sitting in a tiny room in the warren of labs and offices, I was shown a rack of bottles of scent and a simple computer program that let me play the sound of musical instruments at different pitches.
