Horns of Misrule





By Bullock's Horn
And ramping Buck
Now raise the Stang
For Lust and Luck
The Auld 'Un's Nigh
On Coal-Black steed
With Gabriel Hounds
The Hunt to lead!

~Nigel Jackson

Just a small thing~
My new favorite perfume is 'Chanel Allure Sensuelle' after smelling it on a friend a week ago!
It smells very earthy and woodsy, with lots of patchouli, but more like something from an enchanted forest, not too heavy nor "department store" perfumy at all, at least not to my nose.

If you like the sent of patchouli but get tired of comments like, "Oh god, who's wearing patchouli!" or "What the hell smells like a tree in here?!", when you walk into a room then want to shrink into a corner, you might like this better.
You'll still have that earthy tree-root smell and get your woodsy patchouli fix, yet it's a touch more sophisticated!
I highly recommend it.

Now if only I could find something that smells like a balsam Christmas tree without smelling like, well, a Christmas tree! Sometimes I like to wear a balsam/piney woods/fir tree scent, even in July, and get "You smell like a Christmas tree!" comments. Not that it matters really...
If I want to smell like a tree I will.
;)

I know I've posted this poem before, some time ago, but I do love it and this author so.






Twilight on the Snow
~Clark Ashton Smith


Before the hill's high altar bowed,
The trees are Druids, weird and white,
Facing the vision of the light
With ancient lips to silence vowed.

No certain sound the woods aver,
Nor motion save of formless wings—
Filled with phantasmal flutterings,
With thronging gloom and shadow-stir.

Unseen, unheard, amid the dell
Lie all the winds that mantic trees
Have lulled with crystal warlockries
And bound about with Merlin-spell.



http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/poetry/