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Scents of Possibility
A favorite perfume can make a woman feel more courageous, more attractive, more at ease. Four writers reflect on the scents that have shaped their lives.
the sweet smell of excess By Jenny Bicks E.B. White once wrote that New York City "carries on its lapel the unexpungeable odor of the long past." Perhaps for him that scent was a heady mix of bus exhaust and gin martinis and the smell off the Hudson when the wind blows just so. For me it will always be one scent -- Pond's cold cream. It was the late '60s, and very little was right with the world. We were at war in a far-off place called Vietnam, and right at home in Manhattan, ...