How it started -> how it’s going.
This is the one that started it all.
Actually it started it again.
Let’s rewind. I gave up perfume a few years ago. Donated most of my bottles and whittled my collection down to a modest 50 bottles. I know, it’s not modest by any standards but my own. Then I randomly got a tester of this with a Sephora order. I finished it slowly and put this perfume on my wish list, and then one day I bought the travel size. It was fall outside, cool weather, and it felt just right. It was also Fall of 2020, and we felt like we were in the thick of things. Rolling lockdowns, testing, worrying about a sniffly nose, an unusual headache. It was time to find some joy.
Joy came in a little bottle of Margiela Replica Music Festival. It’s smoky and warm, with tobacco leaf, incense, leather. Cannabis and a dry cedar are also in here, but the cannabis only stands out once in a while. Some days I can smell it… most days I can’t. Critics of this scent say that it’s stereotypical of music festivals – hippie festival-goers, but actually, it’s just right. It could be a music festival, or the smoky back of a club.
Anyway, I stopped wearing it so much when I found out that it was discontinued in Canada, but I’ve mentioned it often because I reach for it now and then. My perfume collection has grown a bit, so I have other warm smoky scents to reach for, but nothing like this.
Spraying it this morning took me back to last November… and I had to appreciate how much better things have gotten. I hope they have for you too. Do you remember what scent bubble, what mood you were in last year?
