Drive-By Post Before I Vanish To Do Laundry

[redbrunja]

Someone online mentioned a Beauty & The Beast Castle that I need to go see while I'm in France. Is this ringing anyone's bells?

Also...

-What does Gojyo's shampoo smell like? I assume, with his hair, he probably using something fairly quality, but I can't think of what. I'm tempted to go with Tea Tree Oil Shampoo, which smells minty and green and tingles pleasantly, but since that's what I use, I'm not sure it's allowed.

-During the summer pzb, my mother, possibly renegadekitsuneand I had a conversation about the ikkou's musical taste, which is notable for the way every single person said immediately, 'Gojyo listens to rock.' Which is kind of a gimme, but still, aren't we sympathico? So my question is, what are the ikkou's musical guilty pleasures? What is the music that Gojyo plays that Hakkai actually likes? For Gojyo himself, I think he wouldn't admit to liking Ray Lamontagne, but would because that artist  has this wonderful sense of romance combined with the doubt that love even exists. (Go listen to "Jolene" - it's gorgeous and totally on my 'Forget Me Not' playlist, and only smillaraaqis going to know what that means.) 

Also, I went to Giverny today, which is where Monet painted and it was utterly gorgeous and so, so peaceful, I just wanted to stay there listening to music and looking at the flowers, in this lovely, hazy misty morning, with a truly lovely dove-gray sky and the birds chirping.

What was less fun was that while I was walking to Monet's house I had my head turned and walked straight into the lamp post that was for some unfathomable reason in the middle of the sidewalk. Seriously, it was a total slap-stick moment; I expected to see Charlie Chaplan hanging around. Almost as painful as it was embarrassing.

Comments

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Well, hrm, not knowing what Hi-Lites actually SMELL like I am just going to handwave and pretend they smell like nice pure tobacco and not nasty stinky crap like Marlboros, so even if there's some lingering smoke smell it's not going to be icky. But that means I'm not sure if minty smells are a good match since I really don't get the menthol-cigarette thing. Coconut could work if it's not too sweet and heavy, and is a common enough sort of shampoo scent; or a light aloe vera scent would be pretty inoffensive and neutral. Although for my tastes in fragrance, if we're gonna go completely into wild flights of fancy I'd say cloves, or sandalwood, or vetiver: something dry and spicy, not a girly-sweet-fruity-scented sort of shampoo. Mmmmmmmmm. Happy place.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Cloves or sandlewood... would totally work. And thanks for mentioning that I'm going to need something that would work well with just a light bit of tabacco (I recently become friends with a chainsmoker, and I love the girl but sometimes I'll just get a wiff of her cigerrettes that I know is the smell of her skin and... *winces*)

I'm not going to go with coconut, because I hate that flavor beyond the telling of it.

But sandlewood and tobacco smoke... total happy place.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

And there are a bunch of different brands of sandalwood and clove shampoos out there, so handwaving that they or some similar domestic product are available in Shangri-La isn't all that big a stretch. Cedar might work too, it's a common enough masculine scent and I've bought Japanese bath salts that were cedar-scented, so shampoo doesn't seem that far-fetched. Vetiver's about the only one I've never seen as a shampoo scent but damnit, if I'm fantasizing here I'm gonna include it because on the right guy it can smell utterly irresistible. ;)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

No, ceder doesn't. And what does Vetiver smell like? Or is that ceder shampoo?

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Vetiver smells like...well, it's made from the roots of a really aromatic grass. It's sort of between a dry woody smell and a greener grassy one, if that makes any sense?

Next time you're near anyplace that sells perfume, look for a Guerlain men's scent called oh-so-predictably "Vetiver" -- it's got a bunch of other stuff mixed in but the heart notes are vetiver and cedarwood, so that might give you a little bit of an idea of the pure vetiver note.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, okay. I'll have to see if I can stumble into a perfume store and check that out.