‘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.
The Neverwhere Collection.
Hellokoi –
Equal parts peppermint and sweet, creamy lavender. I don’t like this as a perfume, but I like it as an aromatherapy sleep scent (like a minty TKO) and used in an oil diffuser, as it’s cooling and relaxing.
Wren12 –
This scent is, quite frankly, amazing.
It opens with a hugely minty, very slightly citrus blast, which actually causes an exquisite cooling sensation to the skin. The mint is effervescent as it blends with the sharp citrusy tang of sour orange.
In this blend the mint is mind be singly strong and has lovely staying power. As the sparkly effervescence of the bergamot fades the sharpness of a lovely herbal lavender takes over the mid notes and provides a calming, soothing heart to the blend. This amazing blend is provided a deep base, herbal and e artsy, which grounds the higher pitched mid and top notes.
This is a perfect fragrance for a summer day, or to sooth one to sleep on a hot and humid night.