4160Tuesdays Meet Me on The Corner swings Digital collage by Samantha Scriven
“Meet me on the corner, when the lights are coming on, and I’ll be there, I promise I’ll be there.”-Songwriter Rod Clements
People of a certain age will remember the freedom of the pre-internet era, where social arrangements were made face to face or over the house telephone (if your Dad let you use it). 4160Tuesdays Meet Me on The Corner evokes the scent you might have worn when you met someone for an anticipated rendez vous back in the day… without Whats-Apping them or giffing them. None of that nonsense was invented back in the cheesecloth wearing, bell bottomed cusp of the Seventies, to which this fragrance is a tribute. Long hair with a center part, rollerball lip gloss and sundresses, were IN and this is the era we’re transported back to, with Lindisfarne on your transistor radio.
photo courtesy of Sarah
Meet Me on The Corner is the creation of uniquely quirky, terribly British maverick perfumer Sarah McCartney of 4160Tuesdays. Why maverick? Because she doesn’t sell the date night fantasy about a fragrance giving you irresistible allure (that’s up to you) but instead catches a time capsule in a butterfly net and bottles it for you. The time capsule blooms like a pavement painting in the rain, putting fancies and whimsy in your head. I was born in 1970, so 4160Tuesdays Meet Me on The Corner reminds me of my big sister, six years older than me, who had adventures involving Aqua Manda and ill-advised home perms, giving me a thrilling trailer of teenage life. In diaphanous blouses and flared blue jeans, she would disappear for the day and come back smelling of outdoors and mystery, and on one memorable occasion, weed.
Lindisfarne Meet me on The Corner CD cover©
Meet Me on The Corner reminds me of those days, bringing them back vividly with its effervescent mandarin notes that dazzle and pop. Hedione adds the endless expanse of sky, always necessary for a feel-good scent, whilst yellow and orange citrus notes float up like balloons. Here comes the lemon flavour lip gloss that came off on the first glass you sipped. Closer to skin, there’s the addictively sniffable trace of the lemon soap you may have used at bath time, because shower time, in the UK at least, was still a thing of the future. Your soap may have been soap on a rope, or it may have been in the shape of an actual lemon, but here it leaves a distinct cleanliness that makes you feel as fresh as the daisies at your feet. If I’m not mistaken, there may be a hint of talcum powder in the chypre finale, which is so evocative of my childhood that I want to weep tears of loss for it: tears that are quickly dried by an irresistibly happy mélange of optimism, sunshine and catchy pop music.
photo by Samantha Scriven©
4160Tuesdays Meet Me on The Corner has everything I want from a fragrance: it’s fresh and uplifting and has an authenticity that could only be created by a perfumer who grew up in the UK during the 1970s. It has a feel-good aura and tells you the sun is out. Someone’s playing BBC Radio 1 back when UK DJs were heart throbs, you’re clean as a whistle, the Avon lady showed you how to do eye shadow;the nearest you ever got to today’s “sci-fi as reality” lifestyle was watching The Bionic Woman. The chypre notes hint at exotic pen friends from the continent, bringing tidings of faraway lands and unimaginable sophistication.
Painting by Martin Woods. Photo credit The Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service©
It was truly an era of innocence, of music, of expectation. To its creator, it’s reminiscent of the Lindisfarne song and of meeting by the fire station in her native Newcastle. In my town, we had a clock, perhaps you did too. The universality of this scent will strike a chord with anyone who remembers that pre-digital era when life might have been more laborious and old-fashioned, yet there wasa generational optimism that I hope we can get back. If you need a pick me up, then 4160Tuesdays Meet Me on The Corner has dreams enough to share.
Notes: bergamot citrus patchouli, oakmoss sandalwood, veramoss, red mandarin, clementine, styrax, apritone, hedione, musks, violet leaf absolute, lily of the valley, ionones, flower essential oils, magnolia leaf.
Disclaimer: Many thanks to Lisa Jones for letting me borrow her bottle of Meet Me on The Corner. Opinions are my own.
–Samantha Scriven, Guest Contributor and author of I scent you a day
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