Scent of a Woman

Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures

AHH...Who can forget this delightful 1992 movie? Especially if you're a fragrance aficionado. I might not have realized it then but this was probably the movie that sparked my interest in fragrances, though it might have taken almost two decades to finally turn that spark into a flame. Blame it on the ravishing beauty Gabrielle Anwar who played Donna in that movie. I mean which guy in his right mind wouldn't want to play a blind tango dancer and 'cop a feel', all in the name of retakes? Lucky bastard.

      For a brief moment I even forgot what fragrance Donna had on that afternoon, with sillage potent enough to turn a blind guy loopy from a good twelve feet away. 

       "Ogilvie Sisters soap..." Or so the retired colonel guessed, much to the astonishment of the giggly beauty who, come to think of it, could just as well entertain a passing thought: "Just what IS the deal with this old man? Was he a bloodhound in a past life? A Basenotes veteran perhaps?" (Sorry, lol, can't resist.)

As Donna continued to ponder, Colonel Slade's nifty footwork probably dazzled the perfumistas well enough for them to forget the chronological limitations and wonder aloud:
  
 "Hey. Are you certain he didn't say 'old JB's sister's dope' "?


Yes, I'm quite certain the old man knows his soap from his dope. Otherwise, to his young companion Charlie Simms he would have barked:


"HOO-AH! Someone here smells like a WHORE!!"