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| I have worn this fragrance Karma since 2009 and love it. I think it is the hippy in me! |
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| this fragrance is called Private Collection and became the fragrance that I wore from about 1980 until 2000. I loved it and to this day reminds me of my Dad. It is no longer made by Estes Lauder |
When I was in my mid twenties I began wearing Private Collection. My dad used to buy all of us girls the biggest bottle of our favourite perfumes for Christmas. I am telling you, I think the perfume consultant at the Bay or Sears made her commission for the month, on my dad's sales. He loved to lavish on mum and us girls in this way. I knew that each year, I would get the biggest bottle of Private Collection for Christmas. The year that my dad passed away, when I opened up my gift from Alvin and saw that it was the perfume, I just cried.
I had many people ask me what I was wearing. I always took that to be a compliment. This fragrance was truly in a class of its own, which I guess is why it was Estée Lauder herself' - her private collection perfume. I loved it.
Then I came across Karma. Actually I hugged someone in my life group, and she was wearing it, and that was the beginning of my love for Karma. I have had a few cute stories with the perfume which I think is subtle although my daughter has told me it is anything but! I love the patchouli in it. I think it brings out the hippie in me. Or the wanna be free spirit!! My kids used to say that they could always tell when the babies were held by Granny as they smelled like me!!
One time when Alvin and I were building we went in to pick out the carpet. We were standing at the counter talking to the owner. He was writing down the details when he put his pen down and leaned towards me and said, "What are you wearing?" He took me by surprise actually. I said, well, it was a perfume called Karma. He said "wait a minute, I want to write that down."
What can I say - I love the fragrance of a sweet perfume! I have often wondered about what fragrance was poured on Jesus out of the alabaster jar that the woman had ...
In my course in Spiritual direction, there were times when we wrote a "pantoum" poem. This morning as I was sitting and reflecting, my goodness it seems like more than a month ago that I was with my cohort graduating! My full heart has been letting go memories, a little at a time. However this morning, my thoughts were on my Bible Reading Plan Scripture for today. (This year I am doing only the New Testament in a year plan) Today I read 2 Corinthians 2. Paul wrote about "pour lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God" and "to those who are being saved, we are a life giving perfume."
This is not new to me, but has been a prayer of mine, and a desire of my heart that people around me would smell the fragrance of Christ! So with those thoughts, I took the pantoum poem and wrote the following to express my heart:
The Fragrance of CHRIST
My desire is to be a container full of the fragrance of CHRIST
A sweetness that is unlike any other
It fills the room
permeating every space with its exquisite fragrance
A sweetness that is unlike any other
the smell of LOVE - Grace - Mercy - and Redemption
permeating every space with its exquisite fragrance
may this fragrance flow through me onto others
the smell of LOVE - Grace - Mercy - and Redemption
It fills the room
may this fragrance flow through me onto others
My desire is to be a container full of the fragrance of CHRIST
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