Episode 2 of St Patrick Avenue ~ PerfumeCritic.com

Episode Two: The Budding Cafe

The working week begins on a Tuesday for Cassie. She walks to work. It takes her 20 minutes walking briskly. She crosses through Kennedy Square (Eyre Square) and past the big black cannons that face the main bank before walking down through main street. The shop where she works is “back in the west” of Galway City.

Two doors down the street from where she works there is a little café-flowershop called the “Budding Cafe”. It is run by the nicest couple you could ever hope to meet in your entire life, Geranium and Vetiver. Geranium has long thick black hair and looks like a Spanish señorita if not for her pale Irish complexion. She has one of those faces that gives nothing away until she smiles. She is very softly spoken.

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Just Once...

Opoponax and Cassie, two friends of mine. They met in September and by June they had turned the moon blue.
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What's your blue moon?

Rose Beads

Making rose beads tonight. My finger tips are covered in rose clay. On each finger tip is caked in what probably amounts to four or five pink organic damask rose petals. The clay is light colored. Made from scratch today. It sort of feels like papier mache. It dries dark red, maroon. The room is filled with the smell of damask rose. I made medallions too, made the shapes and then using my special needle I hand pick little designs in the wet clay. I would close my eyes first and see the design then the needle would just pick it's own way along. Each one is different. When they are dry they are as hard as wood. I sand and then oil them with virgin coconut oil infused with vanilla. The scent of roses and vanilla when you wear one against your skin is remarkable.
€30.00 for a rose bead medallion threaded on leather.