Behind everything crouched the brooding, festering horror of the ancient town, and of the mouldy, unhallowed garret gable where he wrote and studied and wrestled with figures and formulae when he was not tossing on the meager iron bed. His ears were growing sensitive to a preternatural and intolerable degree, and he had long ago stopped the cheap mantel clock whose ticking had come to seem like a thunder of artillery. At night the subtle stirring of the black city outside, the sinister scurrying of rats in the wormy partitions, and the creaking of hidden timbers in the centuried house, were enough to give him a sense of strident pandemonium. The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound – and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard should subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.
He was in the changeless, legend-haunted city of Arkham, with its clustering gambrel roofs that sway and sag over attics where witches hid from the King’s men in the dark, olden years of the Province.
A shadowy, unapproachable forest of maple, birch, dogwood, cypress and pine softened by a garland of New England wildflowers: bergamot, columbine, rue anemone, blue violet, creeping phlox, bloodroot, toadflax, and pixie moss.
Spidey –
This scent is incredible. I was hesitant to purchase it since it’s only available in full size and I had zero idea how most of the notes would smell. Something about it just called my name and I’m so glad I went for it. It’s warm (that sun-baked stone is delightful), grassy, and dry while also being slightly tangy and refreshing. Super unisex and super unique, I’ve never smelled anything like it. Fair warning, even though it doesn’t have floral notes, it gives off that distinct heady cloud of scent reminiscent of many florals despite not actually smelling floral. I don’t mind it but something to consider.