Apparently, lots of women like Vanilla as a fragrance to wear! Who knew? (Apparently everyone but me.)
I never bring up the topic of fragrances with my girlfriends usually, because I rarely wear perfume. I have a bottle someone gave me long ago, and just keep using that! Just the thought that I should buy another perfume is completely off my radar! And it's unlikely to be vanilla, let me tell you.
Now we're getting into personal stuff, but, you know, I have generally considered myself to be pretty girly: I prefer to wear skirts than pants (though I must say I did often wear jeans to class, especially early Fall and late Spring). I have some clothes that have a touch of lace on them—just a touch—and I like to cook, and that sort of thing. I don't like guy sports, though I've watched enough football to talk about it in general terms. Tennis is the game I like to play—I should say liked, because I haven't played in so long!—and that's it, for me.
But, vanilla? I don't know... When I used to snort down entire sheaves of Amazon 'sapphic' romances, I used to read descriptions of these gorgeous women whose hair smelled of vanilla, and I used to think, ew. What will it be next, chocolate? Lemon is somehow OK; in fact I read somewhere that the oil distilled from citrus rind was important in the perfume industry. In fact, I remember that it was a book of my mom's, from way back; it was a set of (straight) romances, before I gave up on them and started reading lesfic instead.
Anyway, I had better get used to smelling vanilla on women.
Kay
