The Right Note

The weather this week...

• Cloudy
• Foggy
• Foggy
• Foggy and light rain
• Rain
  

Even though it was dry today, it was yet another in a string of gloomy days. I needed something to perk me up, so this afternoon I was browsing in a "natural" body products store. On an end cap I saw a selection of interesting-looking fragrances that were new to me-the Demeter Fragrance Library.

I'm not a big user of scents or perfumes; they usually give me a headache. The names of these intrigued me, though. They were all based on "everyday" scents. I saw things like Fuzzy Naval, Laundromat, Pink Lemonade, Snow, Dirt, and Wet Garden.

All the scents sounded fascinating, but today the spring-like ones were especially appealing, so I used the tester to spritz a small amount of Wet Garden on my wrist. It was wonderful. There were notes of flowers, wet soil, and wood mulch; all the smells when you walk outside in the garden after a rainfall. I left the store in a much better mood than I went in. The scent didn't last on my skin very long, but made me happy every time I got a whiff of it.

The Demeter Website indicated that the store I saw just a small selection of the available fragrances. Some of them commonplace (Apple Blossom and Patchouli), some were bizarre (Funeral Home and Cannabis Flower), and others would be interesting to smell (Crayon or Bonfire).