Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words ‘EAT ME’ were beautifully marked in currants.
‘Well, I’ll eat it,’ said Alice, ‘and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I’ll get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens!’
She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, ‘Which way? Which way?’, holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
Three white cakes, vanilla, and red and black currants.
BPAL’s Eat Me is not for eating. Please use common sense, and remember: perfume oils are for external use only.
lex –
I was a little apprehensive about how much peru balsam I was smelling in the perfume when I opened the bottle, but I know that can be an overwhelming note. While the perfume retains that bitter, citrusy resin scent when applied, it eventually gives way to a warm, earthy-woody scent brightened by the blackcurrant. The cardamom’s sharper towards the end as the other notes fade, though I’d say the profile tends sweeter than spicier overall. It’s a lovely scent – not what I would usually go for, but comforting and rich in its own way. I can definitely see myself wearing it!