I thought of another one. At least 40, or maybe even 50 years ago, I dated a guy who wore this Yves St. Laurent men’s cologne:
It had a refreshing lemony scent. I loved it. The guy and I broke up eventually, but the next guy I dated-- well, I bought him that cologne for Christmas one year. So sue me. We broke up, too, and life went on.
Around 2000, when Mrs. Meyer’s products came out, I bought her Clean Day Hand Soap in the Lemon Verbena scent:
After I washed my hands with it for the first time, I put my hands up to my face and inhaled. Yikes! It was the same scent–identical–and that propelled me back in an olfactory flash to one or the other of those guys–after so long they kind of blur together. But good memories. Mostly.