Frank "always smelled like lavender" and "made me feel special."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Frank Sinatra -- 12 Showers Every Single Day!!!

6/2/2011 1:35 PM PDT by TMZ Staff

Frank Sinatra was "obsessed" with being clean -- to the point of taking 12 showers a day -- so says the legendary singer's widow.

http://www.tmz.com/2011/06/02/frank-sinatra-barbara-memoir-book-ocd-shower-clean-obsessed-my-way-blue-eyes/



Barbara Sinatra dropped the info in her new memoir: "Lady Blue Eyes: My Life with Frank" -- saying Frank "always smelled like lavender" and "made (her) feel special."

She also recounts the singer's alcohol use -- writing, "Gin, I think, made him mean. So when I'd come out of my room and see the gin bottle on the bar, I'd turn right around, go back in my room, lock the door, because I didn't want to deal with it."

Barbara was Frank's fourth and final wife. The couple was married for 22-years ... up until Frank's death in 1998 following a heart attack.

[monmouth]

1. I met him at Jillys in NY back in the day. He was drinking scotch that

night and was in a very "playful" mood. He craved attention but seemed okay. Our table of girls didn't give him the attention he was looking for and he kept coming over and asking us to join him. He then became a PIA...LOL.. He was married to Mia Farrow at the time and she ignored him too...

[Scuba]

2. Hard to get rid of "mob stench".