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theodora.fig

Bath · member since October 2025

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I work in an antiques shop in Bath, surrounded by old wood, polish and dusty velvet. Fig leaves and cedar are my favourite things to smell.

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Jan Brueghel the Elder painting: an abundant bouquet of mixed flowers in a vase Rain on Walcot Street and a row of stoppersRain on Walcot Street all afternoon. Beeswax polish, damp umbrellas by the door, and a row of empty scent bottles with… Air the decorations box before it comes indoorsWhen the decorations come down from the loft, the box brings the loft with it: damp card, dust, a hint of mouse. I give… Pale sweet violets growing low to the ground in a park near Paris in spring A flea-market atomiser with a perished bulbFound at the Sunday market, in a drizzle: a cut-glass atomiser with a gilt collar and a rubber bulb gone hard as a… Ripe purplish fig hanging from a branch beside a large lobed leaf The fig tree on my aunt's garden wallMy aunt's fig tree against the south wall is dropping its leaves now. I crushed one on my way out and my hand smelled…

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Three words, one flower: guess itOrris. That's the velvet in our shop. Flat viewings when my coats smell of peat smokeThe shop gets judged on its smell the second the door opens, so I take this seriously. A home staging guide that ranks a bad smell as the first thing that… Orris root smells nothing like the iris flowerWe have an old pot-pourri bowl at the shop and the dust at the bottom smells exactly like that. I always blamed the velvet. My mother's lilac scent doesn't smell the sameMemory plays its part too. Whatever you smell now is up against forty years of missing her. Where Grasse's jasmine fields wentInteresting that the factories changed hands first, then the flowers moved. Grasse began with gloves, Northampton with bootsWe get old kid gloves in the shop now and then. They smell of nothing much now, just dust and a bit of wax. My grandmother's sandalwood box smells of warm milkWe get the odd sandalwood box in the shop. The good ones still smell when you open the lid, even very old ones. Some turn out to be another wood stained dark… Resin, rose, tonka: a perfume timeline you can smellRose water on paper vanished in minutes for me. The frankincense was still on my fingers at closing time.