She herself had short red hair and a face which was not so much freckled as one big freckle with occasional areas of skin.
Pepper’s given first names were Pippin Galadriel Moonchild. She had been given them in a naming ceremony in a muddy valley field that contained three sick sheep and a number of leaky polythene teepees. Her mother had chosen the Welsh valley of Pant y Gyrdl as the ideal site to Return to Nature. (Six months later, sick of the rain, the mosquitoes, the men, the tent trampling sheep who ate first the whole commune’s marijuana crop and then its antique minibus, and by now beginning to glimpse why almost the entire drive of human history has been an attempt to get as far away from Nature as possible, Pepper’s mother returned to Pepper’s surprised grandparents in Tadfield, bought a bra, and enrolled in a sociology course with a deep sigh of relief.)
There are only two ways a child can go with a name like Pippin Galadriel Moonchild, and Pepper had chosen the other one: the three male Them had learned this on their first day of school, in the playground, at the age of four.
They had asked her her name, and, all innocent, she had told them.
Subsequently a bucket of water had been needed to separate Pippin Galadriel Moonchild’s teeth from Adam’s shoe. Wensleydale’s first pair of spectacles had been broken, and Brian’s sweater needed five stitches.
The Them were together from then on, and Pepper was Pepper forever, except to her mother, and (when they were feeling especially courageous, and the Them were almost out of earshot) Greasy Johnson and the Johnsonites, the village’s only other gang.
Wild English roses, French gardenia, vanilla, honey, golden ginger, blood orange, pine resin, pink pepper, crushed berries, tuberose, bergamot, and geranium.
The Coraline Collection.
m3wkat –
I was hoping for something with more of a tuberose scent but this is definitely heavier on the tea and cookies. There’s just a dash of floral that makes it reminiscent of a garden tea party, but it eventually fades out to cookies, which is just fine with me. Not what I expected, but delightful nevertheless.
Nuri –
This isn’t a scent I reach for every day, but when I’m in the mood to wear it, it always makes me happy. It seems like it would get along well in the Alice in Wonderland collection. Its very tea and butter cookies. The gardenia just exists as a sharpness to the tea as if if was gardenia tea and I can’t really smell the tuberose at all wet or dry. If you like tea, milk or sweet food scents I think you will like it. I tend to wear it when I know I’ll be spending time with children. I think of it as my Aunty Scent.
Lycanthrope –
A very intriguing scent, definitely a slightly foody tuberose. There’s a touch of biscuit cookie spice (cinnamon?). The florals are a beautiful combination of sweet tuberose and fleshy gardenia, however the whole scent veers towards the foodier side of things, like a spicy flower-cookie.