The small independent fragrance company Scentings recently expanded its line of literary-inspired scents; now, in addition to perfume oils named after Jane Austen heroines Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse, Scentings represents the mystery genre with Miss Marple and Nancy Drew.
I still remember the very first time I read a Miss Marple mystery: it was The Mirror Crack’d, and it was the first Agatha Christie book, even the first “grown-up” mystery, that I’d ever read. I was eleven years old, and it was a gift from a teacher; I was thrilled by it. Years later, having read many more Christie mysteries, I savored every episode of the BBC Miss Marple series starring the peerless Joan Hickson. That series was unimpeachably faithful to the books and to the character of Miss Marple.
Scentings is just as faithful to Christie’s creation, in its own way…
