BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOL
SCENT PROFILE : BEAUTY AND MONEY
(PINK CHAMPAGNE / DAISIES)
"I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
(The Great Gatsby ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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BEE CHARMER
SCENT PROFILE : FORBIDDEN LOVE
(HONEY / FRIED GREEN TOMATOES)
"When Idgie had grinned at her and tried to hand her that jar of honey, all these feelings that she had been trying to hold back came flooding through her, and it was at that second in time that she knew she loved Idgie with all her heart."
(Fried Green Tomatoes ~ Fannie Flagg)
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BREAK THEIR HEARTS
SCENT PROFILE : BROKEN PROMISES (WEDDING CAKE)
"Break their hearts, my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy!"
(Great Expectations ~ Charles Dickens)
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FALL IN LOVE WHENEVER YOU CAN
SCENT PROFILE : SORROW AND MAGIC (ROSEMARY AND BLACK PEPPER)
"There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can."
(Practical Magic ~ Alice Hoffman)
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LIKE PEOPLE IN NOVELS
SCENT PROFILE : REPRESSED EMOTIONS
(PAPER / YELLOW ROSES )
"We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?"
(The Age of Innocence ~ Edith Wharton)
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LITTLE GREY CELLS
SCENT PROFILE : MYSTERY
(BELGIAN HOT CHOCOLATE)
"If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust."
(Hercule Poirot ~ Agatha Christie)
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ONLY CONNECT
SCENT PROFILE : CLACISSIM / EDWARDIANS vs. VICTORIANS (TEA IN AN ENGLISH GARDEN)
"Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer"
(Howards End ~ E. M. Forster)
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PLEASE LOOK AFTER THIS BEAR
SCENT PROFILE : MARMALADE SANDWICHES (ORANGE MARMALADE)
"A wise bear always keeps a marmalade sandwich in his hat in case of emergency"
(Paddington ~ Michael Bond)
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THIS MOMENT IN JUNE
SCENT PROFILE : ANTICIPATION (FRESH CUT FLOWERS)
"Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself"
(Mrs. Dalloway ~ Virginia Woolf )
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WE ARE SO HAPPY
SCENT PROFILE : SISTERLY LOVE
(SUGARED BERRIES AND TEA)
"I put it in the sugar."
"I know. I knew then."
"You never used sugar."
(We Have Always Lived in the Castle ~ Shirley Jackson)