What a Hippie Smells Like

I was recently told I smell like a hippy, now before you go there it's not because I'm some throw back author hiding out for weeks on end not bathing or combing my hair. 

I get this a lot, people at the checkout, the grocery, the mall, the doctor’s office and on and on the sniffing goes.

It seems my scent congers up a reminiscent feelings stirring wonderment in those who smell me. They can't help but ask what's that you’re wearing. 

I reply, nothing! I note the, she's lying, hint of dissatisfaction on their faces. 

But really I say to myself, I am honestly wearing nothing but the soap and body oil I use fresh out of the shower to treat my delicate fare skin prone to drying.

Then like a bolt it hit me, it’s my body oil. I’d worn it for so long I mindlessly used this hippy potion without thinking about the very ingredients hippies were famous for slathering in as opposed to taking a bath or shower.

I wear Zum Body frankincense and myrrh body oil. 

It the frankincense and myrrh my body oil contains. It is very reminiscent patchouli a scent I’ve learned the hippies used back in the sixties. It was rumored they bathed far less than most others common did back then. The scent of patchouli was common used for body spray oil for scent and burned in incense burners. These pungent scents were believed to be used to cover up the illegal organic plant they smoked. I can't say if this is true as I didn't live during the sixties, the time of free love and peace.  The images of those times gone past are very appealing to me. While I can't speak from experience.