Here I am in my orange jeans with King's College in the background.
It was during that stay which I blogged about here that I discovered one of my favourite words, Petrichor.
It is the word that describes the scent the earth gives off when it rains after a lengthy dry period.
It is so specific and so evocative.
It is one of the reasons I love to run in the summer rain.
I discovered the word in The Bellwether Revivals, by Benjamin Wood, a novel I bought from a Cambridge bookshop during my stay.
The novel begins with a character seduced by the sound of singing from King's College and follows the fortunes of a group of young people in the university town.
When I returned home I discovered that the author was once a student at the sixth form college where I was working as a tutor.
Out of interest I googled petrichor and discovered that you can buy candles and oils with the scent of petrichor!
The word also inspired this great piece of music from Ludovico Einaudi.
I don't think I will be smelling the scent of petrichor for a while as the temperature here has dropped but at least I can put a candle on my Christmas list.
I wore:
Boots - M & S
Leggings - Dorothy Perkins
Top - French Connection
Cardigan - Karen Millen (from eBay)
Orange is one of those colours that always makes me feel good - it's lovely on you.
ReplyDeleteAnother excellent word - it often smells like petrichor here as all the leaves start to decompose.
Thank you Sheila. Yes I think orange is my new red.
DeleteOrange looks really good on you, I love wearing it, too! xxx
ReplyDeleteEvery colour looks fab on you Vix X
DeleteAnother great word Jane, and one of my favourite smells! I will now look out for pertichor scented items. Cambridge is very beautiful and very Hogwarts. I played a gig there years ago one snowy January – there were only a handful of people in the audience due to the thick snow and we almost got stuck ourselves, but my band mates and I loved having a look around the University Town. Lulu x
ReplyDeleteIsn't it a lovely city Lulu? I much preferred it to Oxford.
DeleteI bet that was beautiful - snow in Cambridge X