A look at the past and present

I've been feeling like getting gourmands, which is strange as I don't really have wished for any in 8 years of being into the hobby.

I like almonds, vintage perfumes and old things from the 2000s. They bring me to a fictitious (let's call it for what it is...) time back where I would fantasise about a world I didn't live in while listening to music.

The colours and imagery that brought me peace, that were an escape route from the pain I had felt, still bring me confort under a new form. In the form of smell and sight.

The pale liquid inside the clear bottles secured with a gold cap is the new shape things from back then have taken and came back to existence. The same feelings of wonder arise and a new need takes form. The same feelings the afternoon light hitting the decorated glass bell displayed on the warm coloured wooden furniture awakened in the me of the past. Fascination and amazement.

From something as simple as sunlight filling the room of a warm yellow tint, diffused by the delicate white curtains, to a strong desire to own something that brings me the same feelings from long ago, today.

Although they were released around that time, the perfumes I want today didn't even exist in my world back then, but they're one of the few things that briefly satisfy my search for that light. Only briefly after owning them.

Quickly after, the feeling disappears-

and I keep looking again.

Unfortunately, I do not have a picture of that room. Cellphones back then did not have a camera.

Now that place exists solely in my mind.