I used to love that
perfume you would wear:
Pavlova, by pavot.
The name rings a bell.
In the post ****** heat
I remember it well.
Mandarin Orange with
raspberry ,musk,
Jasmine and Hyacinth
all that came between us.
Now the scent is redolent
of another place and time.
It returns me to our youth
in that summer of sixty nine
It of course has no such power
to make me, once more, twenty three-
but its subtle hints of citrus
gives rise to my
memory.
May 25, 2012
May 25, 2012 at 6:23 AM UTC
I used to love that
perfume you would wear:
Pavlova, by pavot.
The name rings a bell.
In the post ****** heat
I remember it well.
Mandarin Orange with
raspberry ,musk,
Jasmine and Hyacinth
all that came between us.
Now the scent is redolent
of another place and time.
It returns me to our youth
in that summer of sixty nine
It of course has no such power
to make me, once more, twenty three-
but its subtle hints of citrus
gives rise to my
memory.
Not to be confused with the national dessert of New Zealand and Australia. Pavlova by pavot was a scent introduced in 1977. Both the dessert and the perfume are named after the Russian ballarina, anna Pavlova, who toured the world in 1926.
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