Witherspoon`s perfume inspired by mom
London: `Legally Blonde` star Reese Witherspoon has credited her latest perfume`s fragrance to her mother who is the inspiration behind it.
The global ambassador of the cosmetics brand Avon , Witherspoon has spent two years developing `In Bloom for Avon`, and says it was based on memories of her mum`s fragrance and her childhood in Tennessee, USA, reported Femalefirst.

"We started with a set of ideas ... about sensory memories, what it was like growing up in Tennessee and what I remember of my mother and my grandmother wearing perfume-wise.

A large part of my childhood was spent in my yard with a gigantic magnolia tree, so I knew it had to have magnolia in it," the 33-year-old actress said.

The Academy-award-winning actress who is dating heartthrob Jake Gyllenhal said that she also took a cue from her grandmother for the fragrance.

"When my grandmother was done with the perfume, she would give me the bottle so that there was just a little bit left. I remember thinking, `It`s so beautiful having these things sitting on your dresser," Witherspoon added.

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