Yes, it did.

Everything about her smelled heavenly, and she also had the perfect voice - soft and clear (as a semi-professional musician I have often thought that she had the perfect voice for bossa nova, a style that I love).

If you know the 1959 Brazilian film "Orfeu Negro", she looked a lot like the female protagonist.

The day after I had brought her home for the first time my mother quietly said to me: "You never get to see a woman this beautiful on the TV."

And that beauty was totally natural. No makeup, no earrings, no fancy clothes or shoes, just jeans and t-shirt, hair down (when we were together it was waist length at first and grew to tailbone length eventually) or in a ponytail. And she had absolutely no awareness of how beautiful she was. Which also meant: no arrogance whatsoever.

She would have been the most perfect role model for a madonna statue.