Fragrance sensations
Amal Al-Minshawi
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December 08, 2022
It is associated in our conscience with their images, the color of their clothes, the expressions of their faces, and our buried feelings of them in the veins.
It renews grief and nostalgia for those who have left us, and reaffirms our connection to those with us and our neighbours, and its scent lingers in our souls, sweetening companionship and times.
He appears before his companion, so souls are opened and prepared to receive the one who comes suddenly after an absence, and he dwells in the places and houses engraved in the conscience.
We prefer it over others and keep it as a title for precious days and unforgettable memories.
We love him out of love for them, we call him by their names, we rejoice in his fragrance that opens the pores of the heart, and we miss him in their absence, no matter how long our lives are.
We do not know its secret or its magic, nor how its scent can leave the soul with so much joy, as if it is a whiff of God’s hidden whiffs on His earth, or a fragrance from the breath of Heaven.
Who among us does not remember his father's perfume, who among us did not try it by stealth in childhood, and who among us did not know that he had returned home before he entered?
Who among us did not wipe his mother’s clothes, to smell her distinctive scent and store it in his mind, swearing that it would be her endless gift?
Who among us has not longed for those precious family visits of an uncle, aunt, uncle or aunt?
Who among us did not name it after their names and love it on their clothes?
Who among us did not find its scent with the new money on the holidays, among the folds of clothes prepared on the eve of the prayer, and on top of the towels that were specially placed for the guests?
Who among us has not been squeezed by grief when he finds its traces on a carpet whose owner was absent, an old coat, or forgotten papers of the departed from our world?
Who among us did not present it to his neighbor or remember a friend with it, who among us did not rejoice when he received a gift, as proof and evidence of the sincerity of friendship?
Who among us did not receive his arrow with the first heartbeat and the first look of love, so he kept looking for it every evening amidst the small details and above the scraps that drip with love and longing, to always take a special place in the heart next to the picture of our loved one?
Who among us did not love the smell of rain in winter and the fragrance of spring flowers, who among us did not refresh with the smell of the sea and the breath of the morning, who among us does not love perfume?
Gift it at all times, for perfume has a lasting effect on souls, sensations and feelings that engrave inscriptions in memory that distance or departure cannot erase.
• Who among us does not remember his father's perfume, who among us did not try it surreptitiously as a child, and who among us did not know that he had returned home before entering it? Who among us has not been squeezed by grief when he finds its traces on a carpet whose owner was absent, an old coat, or forgotten papers of the departed from our world?
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