Anne of Avonlea perfume oil from Ravenscourt Apothecary: "...a modest and sensual melody of three notes: rich sweetness of ylang ylang is followed by the clean scent of lavender florets in the sun, with final accords of juicy mandarin. This is a feminine, soft and joyous fragrance, named after the novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery, and the its [sic] main character, Anne Shirley, a remarkable young woman working as a schoolteacher in 1900s." $36.99 for 10 ml.
[Vero Kern Onda] speaks to a specific history of perfume connoisseurship, and is therefore not for everyone. It is earthy and glamorous in that l’armoire de ma grand-mere kind of way, but there is wisdom in that. Amy Hempel’s recent collection of short stories, Sing to It—dedicated to another dearly departed artist, Gloria Vanderbilt—reviews the twilight moments after dark, and at the end of romance.
— Zoma Crum-Tesfa suggests summer reading with matching perfumes. Read more at Smelling Notes: Sniffing Out Summer’s Freshest Books for Every Kind of Voyage at Interview. Hat tip to Angie!
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