When I was in Junior High I got some perfume at Walgreens that came in little compacts. It was waxy and you rubbed it on. I had three different sets, each with three different scents....the lemony flower scents, the grass scents and the wood scents, which I liked the best. It had patchouli, sandalwood and amberwood... or something.
I have this reoccurring dream that I'm walking "home" and pass a drug store in midtown Fort Collins (I know exactly where this is, and there's no drugstore there). I go inside and there's all these costume jewelry rings, nothing expensive, so I buy some. It's this weird liberating feeling, like I wanted to do it a long time ago when I was young, but wasn't able to. This probably explains why I have a ring collection. Things once denied are now a source of indulgence, like food.
From now on, we will have a supply of sushi from the grocery store on hand for emergency monday night sushi cravings while watching Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations. I get so damn hungry watching that show because he's always eating something exotic and intriguing, and usually seafood oriented which reminds me of sushi (I thought I heard him say Sea Urchin when asked what his favorite fish was, but maybe I just thought I heard that because that's what I wanted to hear). Last night he was eating geoduck (which looks like an overgrown schlong in a shell...literally) and both Stan and I got so hungry (and this was after eating a dinner of yummy scallops!) that we raided a bag of Cheetos. How pathetic is that? Fortunately, the week before I had some left over mussels so I was able to eat those while watching. Next week, we have to be prepared ahead of time.
Labels: Scents, This Boring Life
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Food... I love that show. Wouldn't it be great to work for Anthony Bourdain and be able to try all kinds of wonderful foods. We need to have some sushi around the house on Monday nights to eat after watching the show just to calm our stomachs.
i love the smell of sandel wood. I have the insence. I want to get into candle making, and I want to make and alternative to insence, becuase it gives me headaches. so I would like to make them in traditional insence scents, like the woody ones and others used in pagan rituals. i agree, most candles don't offer a variety anymore.
Stan: Next week he visits Namibia. Since it is a coastal country, there should be some seafood, hopefully, so the sushi thing should work, however I thought I saw a preview a while back for that episode and he was talking about roast warthog in fur. Hmmm. I wonder if his crew gets to sample the local cuisines as well, or if it's just he that's entitled to that fun...or horror, like during the time they visited Iceland and had the rancid fermented shark.
Dawn: I wonder if wood scents are just sort of out of vogue. For a long time the scent of Patchoulli has been the butt of anti-hippie jokes, but even when I was at my most punk un-hippie-like, I still liked the scent. Yankee Candle does have a Patchoulli (they might only sell it online though), and around Halloween they bring out "Witches' Brew" which is the same scent under a different name. They used to stock a Sandalwood as well, but it might be a retired fragrance that you can only find on ebay.
I think most scents smells like either public toilets and/or overperfumed elderly ladies. I got some candles for christmas and the label on the box they came in says it smells vanilla, otherwise I wouldn't know. I have some cinnamoncandles though which actually smell like vanilla.
Ew! You know, maybe it's a guy thing. My dad's sense of smell is totally mangled, like he'll think roses smell like oranges (not, really, but it's just an example). My friend Bill can't smell at all. Not at all. Not one bit. And Stan, although he likes all my candles and perfume, he can't smell me when I've been sick and haven't taken a shower, whereas I'm driving myself crazy when that happens. Somewhere I read that men don't have as an acute sense of smell as women.
Me, on the other hand, has to have candles burning to eliminate the odors of dog and man farts. Plus, I just like scented candles. I'm burning Yankee Candle's "Spiced Cocoa" right now.
I think most roses smells like catpee ;) I can smell lots of things, they just don't smell good ;) But I like the smell of hair or skin or soap or weed or coffee. Just not such candles, they smell artificial, at least mine, but then again I got them from my sister and she always buy me cheap shit ;)
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