Rook

Sample number two is Rook's eponymous signature perfume, lots of incense and cardamom! This all dries away to smoke and much much later a floral residue. This would be a good one to wear when camping, because it would just add to the woodfire mix. It's a beaut though definitely late Autumn/Winter wear. I am going to try a couple of these on my long suffering husband, because despite being touted as for women they are clearly unisex (is that even a word now?) and because though generally a lover of classic sandalwood/vanilla/musk combos, he also likes a touch of oud, which this has.

But not testing any of those today because R's dad hates any and all perfumes; comes from years of working in pharmacy retail apparently, developed an intolerance to/dislike for smellies. I am trying, possibly not hard enough, not to resent a forthcoming week of their rules. After all, they are good kind people who love their family very much, and do their best with a DIL whose ideas are antipathetic to theirs, and who, unlike their other son's wife, has supplied them with no grandchildren to make up for her tiresomeness.

The politics will be endless and tooth grinding. As dedicated tory brexiters, they face the challenge of approving Boris and the government whatever they do, with the latest dismaying news for farmers, a group they revere, who are now put on the back foot by the govt's Australian deal and latest climate change proposals. I am expecting much cant about how they are only eating British, how they get everything from the local shops and farmers, and grow tomatoes and cucumbers/marrows in their own one and a half acres, and why doesn't everyone do the same?

I must remind myself that it is their big time, their golden anniversary and we are there to celebrate it with them. A little generosity of spirit won't come amiss. And they do have a big back garden. Maybe I can just go out there and laugh hysterically to myself whenever they come up with something truly appalling. Unfortunately that would mean camping out there and I can't even wear the appropriate perfume...