Bunny Mellon, the American socialite designer of the White House rose gardens and President Kennedy’s gravestone allegedly kept pots of stewed apple bubbling away on the stove at her Virginia estate in tribute to the apple pies made by her mother. She understood the power of scent memory to create a sense of place no matter how vast her house and its estate might be, taking visitors back to a simpler and more homely past- all the way back to her own childhood in fact.
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Bunny Mellon, the American socialite designer of the White House rose gardens and President Kennedy’s gravestone allegedly kept pots of stewed apple bubbling away on the stove at her Virginia estate in tribute to the apple pies made by her mother. She understood the power of scent memory to create a sense of place no matter how vast her house and its estate might be, taking visitors back to a simpler and more homely past- all the way back to her own childhood in fact.