Cire Trudon's latest candle: the limited edition Mary. "The fantastical world by Mary Shelley's work : a combination of spices as the recipe for a strange potion, tender and exotic wood notes expressing desire for movement, a soft amber and tobacco accord reminiscent of certain scents of her time. The Mary perfume is theatrical, with a luminous depth: floral and spicy notes of immortelle, tuberose, star aniseed and cardamom hint at maverick travels that a heady heart – composed of patchouli, Cedar, Gaiac wood – further transgresses. Mary is a subversive perfume: the testament of a rich interior life, it reveals the life of a cursed heroine." Additional notes include juniper, pepper, papyrus, labdanum and moss. $140 for 270g or $650 for the giant 2.8kg.
My little gothy heart wants this so bad but I can’t justify that price.
$140 is steep! 270g is big (a full size Diptyque is 170g), but still.
I love Frankenstein. It moves me. The monster was kind and thoughtful at the beginning of its creation, but became murderous cos it got sick of being beaten and ostracised by villagers. But Germaine Greer hates the book. She thinks it was badly written and that it’s obvious it was written by a woman, because the story is about one of women’s greatest fears: giving birth to a unhealthy, deformed child. But that’s her theory!
I did not know that, thanks!
Actually, the last straw for the creature before it went on its killing spree was rejection by the little brother of Victor Frankenstein