So Free and Humble, you Tumble

Challenge : 5. Something you smelled: What's something you came across today that smelled {or smelt depending on where you live}. Take a photo of it.

Smells are the same as lyrics to me.

A smell takes me to places I've long since forgotten about. When I was 22, I was newly in love with a real boyfriend. A proper, real boyfriend, who phoned, made arrangements to meet you, met you, wrote you letters.

He was in the Navy, and he went away for 6 weeks. When he came back, he phoned me. I arranged to meet him in the town, and I ran, heart full of joy at the prospect of seeing him again.

As we sat in the pub, he rummaged in his bag and produced two boxes, all wrapped. I eagerly ripped into them, one contained a box of continental chocolates from Sweden, and the other, a ginormous bottle of Paris perfume. My first, real, proper present from a real, proper boyfriend.

Wherever he went after that, he always brought me back Paris.

And he still does.