We never have had the habit of putting scents in our car, except for once, where we bought some lavender scented one for its curiously designed bottle (designers by training, so).
So it kinda came as a pleasant surprise for me when one of our close friends bought a Yankee Candle's Car Jar - Balsam and Cedar for us. Although, we joked at first on whether it was because she found our car needed something to smell nice, since it is a fact that we are rather, ahem, tardy on the interior maintenance of our car.
To be honest, I am never a fan of scents and perfumes. Although yes, I did put on Davidoff's Cool Water for a time (because that's the only one from duty-free shops which doesn't smell like, literally, a walking toilet), until my skin got a little bit too sensitive for it. Hubs ain't a fan of typical cologne either because, yes, "walking toilet". And that malodorous odour of cologne mixed with sweat? Ugh, just ugh.
But, close friends being close friends and being one of those who know me well, she knows I'm not into strong scents. Not to mention, she uses this Balsam and Cedar scent mix in her own car as well. The woody smell is calming and pleasing to the olfactory. Unlike the usual scents I come across in scented candles and oils, which have the tendency of stinging and burning at first whiff, this unpretentious emerald mixture gives one the feeling of walking through a tranquil forest at the break of dawn, where the dew hangs heavy in the morning air intertwined with the humble scent of fresh earth.
And according to her, she bought this Yankee Candle Car Jar from a pop-up booth at NEX's Isetan during Christmas, so you know, I thought after Christmas, we can't really find them elsewhere anymore. Just like those pop-up tea booths at Takashimaya B2 during Christmas the year before.
But, how wrong I was and much to my delight when I discovered the small and cosy Yankee Candle shop at Novena Square. Our Balsam and Cedar was shrinking significantly and I thought, maybe it's about time we get a new car jar.
Alas, they didn't have Balsam and Cedar in the car jar version anymore (what I saw was the cardboard and the other round version emblazoned with a bright siam red bird). The very nice shop assistant, sensing my dilemma, took out testers from the two other scents - Vanilla Cupcake and Sun and Sand and asked if I would like to try out either of these two instead.
Initially, I wasn't very keen on the other scents because my friend had told me they were "too sweet" for her. However, after taking a whiff of the Vanilla Cupcake scent, I was agreeable with it because it smells like a well-balanced mixture of my two faves - Butterscotch and Vanilla Ceylon. The jolly shop assistant was quite amused when I told her what it smelt like to me.
Sun and Sand was not really up my alley because it reminds me of those superbly sterilized and tropical scented hotel toilets (and even so, I don't want my car to smell like a toilet so no).
This Vanilla Cupcake car jar is priced at S$9,90 and according to their website, their car jars have a "fragrance life of up to 4 weeks". They have other scents in other equally unique and exquisite forms as well and I have to say it's quite an experience at their store because their variety is awesome and the scents are all so nice.
Perhaps I'll invest in a scented oil burner next because their Midsummer's Night scent has such a nice name but doesn't come in a car jar form, at least not in our local store here.
Credits to Collider.com
And, who has been to the movies recently? It's been a long time since we last watched a movie (I think the last one was "Interstellar"?) and well, since our Buddy wants to catch the latest "Seventh Son" movie, we were thinking, "Why not?"
However, you can see us coming out of the theatre afterwards in heated discussion and curses on the excessively weak plot and numerous glaring plot holes. B-grade movie, that's our verdict.
You see, Game of Thrones fans, the first person which comes on screen, I think most of us will recognize him as our favourite "Jon Snow". Cast ain't weak that's for sure (the ones who acted as the witch queen and the witch who protected the city sure are famous faces), but why in the world would they kill him off so early in the movie? I don't think his screen time was that short in "Pompeii" that's for sure.
And the dude who came afterwards, yes, "Seventh son of the seventh son", who is supposedly some special son who has super powers and super human strength.
Or so we thought because the only thing he did was to light up the staff and burn everything. Like, that. Like, ok...
If he the seventh son is like "The Special" because his mum is a witch, then what does that make the rest of his siblings? I mean, they are also imbued with half-witch half-human father genes too right?
And his mum. GOD, you are the witch who stole the Umbra stone from the witch queen ya? Means, you're supposedly quite strong and powerful yes? Why did you just frizzle and die off within a one-hit kill by the witch queen?
Don't, don't even get me started on the witch queen's supposedly epic henchmens. That necro dude just died within one hit? "Elite" assassins who fall like leaves? And that poor dire bear dude who has to be swapped back into human form just to get him to burn properly (this is no WoW where dire bear form gives you more armor...)?
And their head honcho - that supposedly fearful witch queen with seducing abilities (quite like Lorelei with her voice which leads men astray) imbue on her eyes and who can switch to a formidable winged dragon form as and when she pleases? She dies off so easily. WHY.
Underwhelming. And so full of epic fail.
The only character who had so remotely amused me was the spook's ugly servant - Tusk was he? He was the only sorta comic relief throughout the whole movie and his "You just don't die easily do you?" signature stunt was what made me a tad bit tickled at least.
The romance portion was just bleh. Typical witch-turn-turncoat with spook's apprentice love story. Enough with these cliches please.
Otherwise, landscape and background setting is kinda ya, ok. Slightly more impressive than everything else add up together, to say the least.
Would I recommend this movie?
God forbid. No.
No comments:
Post a Comment