Tayyiba opens with a bouquet of sweet, oily, and slightly pungent flowers – mostly lilac, jasmine, and ylang – creating an effect that is soapy and thick rather than fresh, as if the flowers have been muffled under a thin layer of beeswax. Later, a savory orange blossom note not a m...
but it is smothered and muffled with layers of wax, adipose, and decaying rose petals. The opening verges on the unpleasant, with a rose as sharply tannic as the dregs of red wine in the glass you forgot to rinse the night before. The beeswax takes some of the sting out ...
when I feel so . . . small, so weak. I wish Håkan could understand how it feels. Then maybe he would be more willing to help me. Instead of arguing all the time. I tell him and tell him:there is no other way. He should know I wouldn’t ask him if there was. ...
Type Over-ear Enclosure Closed-Back Wireless Yes Transducer Dynamic The JBL CLUB ONE have a similarly sleek and well-designed look as the JBL CLUB 950NC Wireless. They have an all-black matte finish and their headband feels premium thanks to its leatherette detailing. They also have sma...
shown up as generations of women whose voices were lost amidst the noise of the times. Across the globe today, nations of women oppressed, abused, enslaved, and forgotten. Voices are muffled but the message remains, simmering beneath the surface, waiting. Waiting for the day when the pressure...
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Once his ear had distinguished it, it was like singling out the notes of one instrument in an orchestra until it dominated everything else. Sometimes Tony would even wonder why more people didn’t talk that way, and if it wouldn’t be a good idea for more people to be insane. Tony ...
I feel the warm sun on my skin. I feel my puppy, who often looks and acts like a small bear cub, pressed up against me. His fur fluffs between my fingers; his soft belly rises and falls with each breath as he playfully squirms and makes muffled grunts and growls in my ear. I fe...
“You know damned well who it is,” came Samantha’s muffled voice from outside the van. “My sister-in-law?” John asked. “No.” “Mysister-in-law?” I asked, even though I have no sister-in-law. “Open the door!” the voice insisted. ...
Ah, but Chanels are difficult to dupe. No matter how many times you run a fragrance like Coromandel through a gas spectrometer, you cannot make pearls out of a swine’s ear. Access to superior grades of sandalwood, iris, jasmine, and patchouli means that any attempt to dupe a Chanel wil...