well i'm finally back from montreal.
apart from the train ride there and back (which was hell) it was a wonderful trip. i met new people, saw new things, bought a ton of books as well as a new bag to cart them all back in and in general RELAXED. i found montreal to be an enchanting city and i can't wait to go back.
i also smelled a few new smells.
it's funny but the most memorable of those was a gardenia growing in the garden of the small hotel i stayed in. it was a very pretty well planted garden and though there were many other flowers, there was only one single gardenia blossom.
now i've never liked synthetic gardenias of which i've smelled PLENTY over the years. they always smell too sharp, too sweet or simply nauseating to me for some reason. this is the prime reason i don't currently have a "gardenia" listed among my other floral accords. the real thing however is an entirely different matter...
one of the most pleasurable aspects of my trip was sitting in the garden each morning sipping coffee, reading and chatting with some of the other guests. one morning i spent my time sniffing that single gardenia flower. it's strange how my brain works - i can still smell that blossom so vividly. and with the notes i made about it, i'm pretty certain i can reproduce it hopefully soon.
in the meantime, i can smell it in my head and remember montreal...