I am in the mood for lilting. To just lay back in a cabin on a tropical island with nothing to do for weeks; months ; years on end. To be lazy and indolent. No infinity pools and corny white beach furniture. Just old weathered chests, mosquito screens ( I have a thing about dengue), the air, and the sea.
For perfume ? When I come back from the water, perhaps Kandilli – a tropical tuberose, white lily and jasmine; ylang ylang and sandalwood filtered through a high SPF factor sunscreen : unctuous ;florally soothing
For the evening, if we do stroll in to town, number 3 – L’Etang Noir, or ‘Black Pond’. A proper spice blend in the manner of Pierre Guillaume’s Un Crime Exotique, the anise, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and a strong doseage of ginger spill out from the sweetly ambered base in this roll on concoction like the heavy medicinal odors escaping beneath the shaded wooden slats and windows of the old apothecaries in Chinatown, Singapore. Dense with application. Slightly woozy.
Sounds like an ideal summer vacation. I’m starting to wonder if I’ll ever be capable of enjoying a slow pace, even though I want to. Between nature and those perfumes, you probably have the spectrum of smells covered!
I saw your Italy posts (wonderful ; don’t know how I somehow failed to see your adventures until now ): maybe part of you loves the frenetic ..
I NEED, so badly, a slower pace..
Thanks! My vacations are always frenetic, probably because we are greedy and always want to see new places, and it’s hard to take more than a week or so off at a time from work. So we pack as much into a short trip as we can. It does feel rewarding to revisit afterwards and see just how much, although the flip side is we’ve only seen places at a very surface level.
Hope you can see the light of a relaxing time at the end of the tunnel of this term.
Sounds heavenly. Bring on the holidays! When and where are you off? X
AUGUST 15TH
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That’s a while to go. I finish on the 2nd. Venue?