Here's My Heart

I first came across this wonderful scent when I was a very young girl. I was always in the hospital because of my really chronic asthma. But I always remember the nurses that would come to check my vitals and the oxygen tent. Whenever they checked my pulse I’d watch the classic timex watch and the fragrance was not overwhelming. It was so pleasant and comforting. I told the nurse how good she smells and that’s when she told me it was Here’s My Heart. On the day I left, that same nurse gave me a beautiful blue bottle of Here’s My Heart! I sprayed a little in the pretty white top and everyday I would open the bottle and smell the soft fragrance. When I was a little older I would use it everyday. And ever since then I always had this cologne the powder and the soap until it was discontinued. I no longer have the fragrance but I do have a scented bar of soap that I would smell from time to time. I just loved the powdery fragrance. To bad I didn’t know that Here’s My Heart would be discontinued. If I’d known I would have bought a closet full of it.

I love this for a slightly different reason: this is the scent my grandmother wore for years. The scent itself is pretty similar to Coty L'aimant, but it is softer and less in-your-face. After a while, a smoky note develops that L'aimant doesn't have. It's a bit difficult to talk about the fragrance since I'm working off a vintage bottle and cannot be entirely sure it's reflective of the fragrance in its heyday. This is a very 'old' style scent and not something that would probably go over well today. I like it because of the associated memories. Definitely not a summer scent as it would become too overpowering, I think.

I absolutely adore this fragrance. It has become one of my all-time favorites. I have always loved "grandma" scents, but I can't help it. So beautifully clean and floral, the scent reminds me of a really lovely-smelling bar of soap I would find in my grandmother's house that's been left in its box since the 80s. The powdery notes in this make me feel so fresh, and I find myself sniffing my wrists over and over again.

I have an OLD bottle of this from a perfume lot my girlfriend bought at a flea market. So old that the perfume has turned red over time and the topper has disintegrated a bit! The green notes are still quite present now, and the perfume smells a bit like incense to me. I really like my bottle- no clue if I would like the scent as it was actually intended, but I’m still giving this one a “love!”

I've been in a floral craving cycle lately. Probably because it's been cold for southern CA and I'm looking for signs of spring. I wore floral scents the last couple of days. Last night before heading to bed I did a comparison of some floral perfumes I love. One arm had a dot of Avon Honeysuckle perfume oil and a dot of Here's My Heart. The other arm held a dot of Hawaiian White Ginger and a dot of White Shoulders parfum. They all smelled lovely but interestingly, Here's My Heart stood out. I'm going to pick a day and wear it as my fragrance. Old fashioned, powdery yet with the depth that holds up in vintage formulas, and that many newer fragrances lack. I remember the name of the perfume from childhood musings through mother's Avon books, but I don't really remember smelling Here's My Heart from the past. I think it's one that someone gifted me with. It was most likely in a box of many fragrances bought at auction. Lovely powdery fragrance for lover's of vintage perfumes to sniff out!