‘Get to your places!’ shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder, and people began running about in all directions, tumbling up against each other; however, they got settled down in a minute or two, and the game began. Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in her life; it was all ridges and furrows; the balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and to stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches.
The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it would twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing: and when she had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away: besides all this, there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever she wanted to send the hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up soldiers were always getting up and walking off to other parts of the ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion that it was a very difficult game indeed.
We have some trouble managing our flamingos, too. Pink lime, pink grapefruit, white nectarine, wild rose, sage, woody patchouli, bergamot, and ornery hedgehog musk.
Gloame –
Smells very outdoors and medieval. Burning hay and men’s spiced cologne. The scent of a rogue.
Where I’d wear this: A 17th century pub crawl
Velvet Lilly –
A charming, alluring rake-hell of a cultured gentleman. And he doesn’t disappoint! Bourbon vetiver, you are my master now.
Sexy, suave, debonaire with just a hint of devil may care arrogance and charisma…..he lulls you in with hints of warmth, a richly appointed parlor fireside: Yet it’s clear,
dark things are lurking underneath.
I love this both on men and women’s skin.