Strawberry Ecstasy. The Ferris Wheel Ticket

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Olfactorium

Lena had been holding the Ferris wheel ticket in her fist for twenty minutes, and the card had gone soft from her warm palm. The wheel turned slowly over the park, and the cabins at the very top looked tiny to her.

Lena had been afraid of heights since childhood. Ira, her friend from school, had bought two tickets without asking, and now she stood ahead in the queue, turning round and laughing.

It was a June Saturday, a hot noon. That morning Lena had put Strawberry Ecstasy on her wrists, a bottle Ira had given her the week before. «This is for courage», Ira had said.

The queue moved. Lena watched the cabin ahead of them rise and thought she would turn round any moment and walk off to the ice-cream stall.

She brushed a strand of hair from her forehead, and the scent came from her wrist. Lemon and bergamot splashed freshness, and beneath them strawberry opened, juicy and sweet, with rose and blackcurrant. The scent was cheerful and sparkling, like Ira's laughter ahead.

Lena laughed too, without knowing why, and stepped into the cabin after her friend. The cabin swayed and floated upwards.

At the top the wind was blowing, the city lay below, and the river glittered in the sun. «Look, our building!» Ira shouted, pointing. Lena looked down and was holding the rail with one hand now.

At home Lena smoothed out the softened ticket and slipped it into a book on the shelf as a bookmark.

Fresh, sparkling, alive.

How it smells

The opening is fresh and sparkling: lemon and bergamot splash tartness, and cardamom adds a dry, spicy spark.

The heart is juicy. Strawberry leads, with sweet Nepalese rose and blackcurrant juice beside it.

By evening the berries settle onto vanilla, sandalwood and musk, soft and warm.

What makes it special

Strawberry Ecstasy belongs to the Olfactorium collection, a floral fruity scent for women for spring and summer. The brand calls it fresh, sparkling and alive and writes that enjoying a scent is one of the pleasures of life. The blogger Vera of sunshine lady hears the opening burst straight from the heart: juicy strawberry, sweet rose and blackcurrant juice, sprinkled with citrus and lightly dusted with cardamom. A Kosmetista author wore it for several days in a row and recognised in it a children's amusement park with carousels, a Ferris wheel and candy floss. The blogger likemarie praises how precisely lemon, blackcurrant and strawberry come together in it and calls it truly summery. Strawberry Ecstasy is worn when you want to smile all day.