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`It says “Bough-wough!” cried a Daisy: `that’s why its branches are called boughs!’
`Didn’t you know that?’ cried another Daisy, and here they all began shouting together, till the air seemed quite full of little shrill voices. `Silence, every one of you!’ cried the Tiger-lily, waving itself passionately from side to side, and trembling with excitement. `They know I can’t get at them!’ it panted, bending its quivering head towards Alice, `or they wouldn’t dare to do it!’
`Never mind!’ Alice said in a soothing tone, and stooping down to the daisies, who were just beginning again, she whispered, `If you don’t hold your tongues, I’ll pick you!’
There was silence in a moment, and several of the pink daisies turned white.
`That’s right!’ said the Tiger-lily. `The daisies are worst of all. When one speaks, they all begin together, and it’s enough to make one wither to hear the way they go on!’
`How is it you can all talk so nicely?’ Alice said, hoping to get it into a better temper by a compliment. `I’ve been in many gardens before, but none of the flowers could talk.’
`Put your hand down, and feel the ground,’ said the Tiger-lily. `Then you’ll know why.
Alice did so. `It’s very hard,’ she said, `but I don’t see what that has to do with it.’
`In most gardens,’ the Tiger-lily said, `they make the beds too soft — so that the flowers are always asleep.’
This sounded a very good reason, and Alice was quite pleased to know it. `I never thought of that before!’ she said.
`It’s my opinion that you never think at all,’ the Rose said in a rather severe tone.
Daisy, pink carnation, pink pepper, and sugar.
Mad Tea Party
The Dodgson Collection.
Scents inspired by the madness of Alice’s sojourns to Wonderland.
The Garden of Live Flowers
This time she came upon a large flower-bed, with a border of daisies, and a willow-tree growing in the middle.
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary glass vial.
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Recoiling, you back away from the dicing. A large tent striped in many shades of green grabs your attention, and you walk towards it. You peer inside the open tent flap and see a room crowded with people in various stages of profound intoxication. Tables are littered with glasses filled with thick, cloudy emerald liquid, and candlelight glints on discarded silver spoons. The scent of spilled absinthe, opium smoke, lilac blossoms, and rose water permeates the stifling air of the tent. As you close the tent flap and turn to leave, you see a scantily clad server bend close to a rugged laborer that is sitting slumped in a sagging chair. A low velvety voice voice asks, “Another drink for you, Monsieur Lanfray?”
Spilled absinthe, scorched sugar cubes, opium smoke, lilac blossoms, and rose water.
Dried red fruits, pink peppercorn, black fig, nagarmotha, and vetiver.
Spiked for your pleasure: protrusions of pomegranate and pink peppercorn.
A tiny woman stands in the center of the stage, the perfect woman in miniature, her copper hair bouncing in elegant curls. She is surrounded on all sides by a necropolis of maimed, mutilated stuffed animals, decapitated fashion dolls, and eviscerated wooden figures. It is a strangely ghastly tableau: the disemboweled toys ooze fiberfill, batting, and sawdust from their gaping wounds. In one dainty hand she clutches a shard of glass, and in the other she nimbly twirls a razor blade. Her face is twisted in a grimace of mad ferocity, and she hisses as she brandishes her makeshift weapons at you. “Play with me?” she growls.
Soft, yet sociopathic: white carnation, iris, orange blossom, poisonous pale white berries, and sugared cream.
teagrrs –
Wow, very light and fresh floral, the mix of the floral and pepper almost smell slightly citrusy in the bottle.
On skin, I’m getting more sugary freshness, floral note fades a tiny bit and the pepper creeps back out
olgaleshchova –
Out of all the Mad Tea Party oils I have so far, High Strung Daisies, is my favourite!
I received it in the mail this morning, and fell in love, as soon as I opened the bottle.
Wet, and on my dkin this perfume oil is very sugary sweet. Which is something I like. I can smell the dasies in the background. But, the sugar is what stands out for me.
I would describe this sent as, flowers covered in sugar. But not in an artificially smelling sort of way.
I’m not super into strong floral perfumes. And, this one definitely isn’t.
If you’re curious to try High Strung Daisies, I’d recommended giving it a chance. ?
Gina –
This inspired a haiku:
Pink flower cupcake.
I want to lick the icing
And roll in petals.
Gloame –
This is soft and very feminine. Not overly floral (I didn’t feel sneezy) but kind of…cottony soft. Not my vibe, but it’s a lovely scent.
unicorngoth –
I’m not big on florals, but I enjoyed this. It smells a bit like cough syrup wet, but that goes away pretty quickly and leaves very pleasant floral notes. The pepper notes could be a little stronger to balance things out, but overall this is a very pretty and feminine scent.