I tell ya mon, I'm stuck on the distinctive perfume of this lovely girl.


Dewberry perfume, from the Body Shop.

Only one girl at my school wore it, and she was the one I 'liked'. Kirsty Lovell. She was kind of the alternative kid. Actually she was incredibly stylish. She had sort of rockabilly hair, dyed red, converse before anyone else had them, into the Violent Femmes and the Cure & so forth. It was like going to school with Coco Chanel.

Anyway she wore dewberry perfume and I associate it with her. I've just realised this isn't a very good story.

OK, I'll re-post something:

once she was playing the Violent Femmes on a boombox (as was the style in those days) and I heard it. I'd really only ever heard pop music before, and Gordon Gano's voice just blew me away. A couple of years later I became a huge fan. I used to know the lyrics to the first two albums off by heart, including song order.

"What's this crap?" I sneered at Kirsty.

Um, more Femmes-and-Kirsty-Lovell-flavoured misery below.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 17:11, 3 replies)

dewberry perfume smells lovely
but if you wear it, it gives you a banging headache.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 22:34, closed)

in about 1988
nearly every girl into alternative music was wearing dewberry. i know because i was one of them :)
whenever i smell dewberry, a wonderstuff or pop will eat itself song pops into my head too and i'm back in those days.
( gypsy turnips, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 23:49, closed)

It was indeed
1986-88.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Sun 28 Sep 2008, 20:08, closed)