My happy scent!
What’s a “happy” scent? Is it something that perks up your mood as soon as you spray it on, or something that you know is going to lead to a good day ahead after you do? In my opinion, it could be either!
Rose scents get such a bad rep sometimes. People tend to lump them together unfairly and associate them with something negative, like being matronly or grandma. Well, that’s a problem in itself, because why are we looking at age as a negative frame of reference? If anything, it’s beautiful, timeless, and, in many cases, nostalgic. Most of us have grown up around someone who wore a rose scent. Whether that reminds you of an Estée Lauder, Cacharel, Dior, or plain old talcum powder, there’s beauty in all those associations.
Rose was never something that appealed to me. It felt too “floral,” if that is even a thing. However, my untrained nose wasn’t equipped with the knowledge of the various kinds of rose scents. As we do with everything in life, we grow up, mature, and see things in a different light.
Unequipped and naive, I walked into Nordstrom convinced that I’d already fallen in love with Valaya, only to be severely underwhelmed, but story for another day! The very kind SA asked me about my preference in fragrances and told me that he’d make me try a bunch, but the caveat was that I’d neither know the brand name nor the scent. And that, my friends, is how I found my happy scent and one of my very first loves: Delina La Rosée.
People always talk about Delina & Delina Exclusif, whereas La Rosée always gets brushed aside. I remember the kind gentleman spraying it once on my wrist, and I couldn’t stop sniffing it until the very next morning! To me, it’s the definition of my fragrance profile. Light, airy, translucent, & almost luminous. The pear adds the right amount of crisp freshness, which is then carried over by the aquatic notes. It feels like fresh morning dew over the most perfect pink-petalled rose. Unlike rose water, which can lean a bit heavier to my nose, this feels like fresh water over roses, which makes complete sense in my brain! The lychee adds a bit of tartness that completes this fragrance beautifully, along with the musk and woody notes, which almost makes you feel like the same perfect rose is in a lush green forest, over the most perfect log of wood. And as you walk in and explore, it all melds beautifully into your own skin chemistry. Something Jenny Humphrey would wear before she was sucked into the Upper East Side, or Rachel Green as she walked into Central Perk in her wedding gown!
Delina La Rosée isn’t just another rose fragrance; it’s reminiscent of joy and almost like my very own gratitude reminder, because on the days I reach for this, I know it’s going to be a good day, at the very least! Writing this is making me thankful to that kind SA for changing my mind about a note that I was convinced wasn’t for me. See, grateful already!
What’s your “happy” scent? 😁