And as I watched these beautiful sunsets by myself, something happened. We used to watch the sunsets over the mountains every day. One of the things David and I loved about the property was the sunsets. I had to really go through my grieving process because I had nowhere to flee. And lo and behold, grief came knocking at the door. In early 2020, I came upstate for a weekend, and then everything shut down and I was in the house by myself. I thought I had been through my grieving process, because it had been five years, but actually I was helping my daughter, who was a teenager when she lost her father, through her grieving process and ignoring my own. I would be there for a weekend and I could barely stay for a day because all of the memories would flood in and I would feel sad and start crying and just flee back to the city. We have this beautiful house upstate, but I had not come very often after David passed away. ThatвЂ™s what IвЂ™ve been wearing for the past five years. David loved vetiver, and he wore a Tom Ford that had a lot of vetiver in it. And when my husband passed away, I started wearing his fragrance, just to be close to him.

In my 20s, I wore nothing but Fracas every day. IвЂ™m the type of person who becomes extremely loyal to a fragrance that I love. Fragrance is to me very specific and very personal. IвЂ™ve done cosmetics and skincare with Iman Cosmetics, but IвЂ™ve never thought of creating a fragrance. At what point did you decide that paying tribute to your marriage in the form of fragrance made sense? To mark its launch on HSN this week, Iman tells Town & Country why she chose to memorialize her relationship in the especially evocative medium of scent. The perfume-a blend of bergamot, black currant, vetiver, vanilla, and rose notes that connect to specific moments in ImanвЂ™s life with Bowie-has a 1970s sultriness and a very modern warmth, while the sculptural bottle evokes both African jewelry and symbolic stacked stones, a symbol of eternity. Over the course of 2020, the philanthropist and beauty entrepreneur, who launched her own brand, Iman Cosmetics, in 1994, developed a very special fragrance, Love Memoir, which pays tribute to the man she adored. Now, Iman is ready to share-at least in an olfactive sense-the details of their love story.

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