This is what Black mothers smell like.

Like love in a bottle.

To the woman who developed my sense of smell. Collage by Taylyn Washington-Harmon.

Welcome to the sixth issue of Black Girl Perfume Club! Let’s dive right in.

I associate my mother with two smells: ‘Lady Million’ by Paco Rabanne and Palmer’s Cocoa Butter lotion. Every morning before work she’d slather her skin in these scents that have always evoked the g…