The scents of reminiscence

When we walk passed a cologne counter in the department store today, the scent of cologne reminds us something….

There was a new experience for us and we don’t know whether any other Europe or Middle East countries having the same custom. Regardless the distance of bus journey, bus conductor will spray your hand with cologne. Even through the cologne might not be the expensive one but the fragrance doesn’t disturbing. Most common scents of those colognes that we have experienced throughout our travel in Turkey are lemon, orange and jasmine scented.

The bus conductor pour cologne to passenger’s hand and passenger rub their palms with cologne and apply to their face, hand or neck. Natasha and I imitate those locals when the bus conductor made his turn to pours the cologne into our hands. Once the bus attendance moved from front to the back of the bus on spraying cologne, scent of sweat and cigarette from passengers went disappear and the aroma of entire bus becomes fragrant and refreshed.

The scent of cologne in the bus becomes our scents of reminscence on travelling in Turkey.