today I'm wearing

 The lIttle Book eater  "We have always lived in the castle" 

This fragrance is inspired by the unsettling mystery novel by Shirley Jackson. Made with the scents of black coffee, nutmeg, sugared blackberries (no arsenic included!), sandalwood, and smoke. Fruity, dark, smoky, and musty. Reminiscent of walking through town, dining at Blackwood Manor, and house fires. The perfect combination for poetic introversion and finding happiness in strange and fantastical things!

Fragrance Note(s): Black Coffee • Nutmeg • Sugared Blackberries • Sandalwood • Smoke
Scent Categories: Fruity • Smoky • Musty

“Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.” — from We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson

and 

Demeter "Fireplace" 

 

Demeter has captured a small part of the fireplace tradition, with the wonderful, cozy comforting scent of the fireplace on a cold winter’s eve. It smells exactly like your sweater after sitting for hours in front of a wood fire.

By George Matthew Adams
I shall try to make myself like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it…

 

 

 

 

by itself, 'we have always lived in the castle' is more fruity than any of the other notes listed. "Fireplace"  helps the smoke element so that everything is more balanced and less purely gourmand.

I've been transcribing my old personal journal into my dreamdiwth again, had some downtime at work this week, so it seemed like a good time to work on it. I used to be so busy and I used to get so much done, even with friends and dinners out and renfaires and bellydance shows and this and that...these days I don't have that many 'spoons', just the thought of doing more than one or two things in a day is exhausting, and I see people other than my household ....once a month, if that.  I think I'm really ready to go be a hermit in the jungle.

The weekend is here and yet again I have no solid plans to do anything or go anywhere. Some vague sense that I *should* have plans, go somewhere, do something,  but very little actual want to do.

plagiarism, man.

 So, my favorite soap maker  is going out of business (retiring). They make "Rococo," a soap I absolutely love, especially on my husband. 

 

Rococo: architectural element. We didn’t anticipate the response this blend of essential oils would create. I have had people show up on my doorstep at 7:30 in the morning, telling me they’re “down to their last sliver”. Seriously. Patchouli, Sweet Orange, Cinnamon Leaf, Lemon. Rich, Dark Chocolate.

Ingredients

Saponified Natural Oils of Sunflower, Coconut, Sustainable Palm, Olive. Unrefined Ghana Beige Shea Butter. Castor Oil. Pure Essential Oils. Raw CaCao.

 I did a google search with the scent description and found a listing with the same scent description with a different business.I ordered it. It is not the same. sad. (they chaged the scent description since I ordered it. huh.) I was kinda hoping that maybe my soap maker had gone into only making soap for businesses that would make bulk purchases.

with shipping whatnots, it was cheaper to order another thing than pay shpping, so I ordered cleanser.   I believe I found the original manufacturer on that one, though.   And I ordered the 2 oz and they sent me the 8 oz, so win? It's a pretty good cleanser. Not much of a scent or a lather, but leaves my skin clean and nice. 

anyway. bla bla. 

adventures in shopping and plagiarism. I'm gonna miss Rococo soap.