Re: when I was a child, the scent of cloves would make me almost think I was levitating, with joy; it was my favorite gum; and I still love the scent, though I don't think I'd wear it as perfume!

do you like carnations? they smell like cloves. (think about it--or get a green one tomorrow and refresh your sence of smell. cloves are lovely in perfume!
ginger too, and other spice smells. (Opium, Red Door, and other perfumes are spicy/(sometimes called oriental) scents/perfumes.) i also love Revlon's Ciara -a light spicey perfume.