Enraged Orangutan Musk

Today is Koninginnedag, Queen's Day, in The Netherlands. April 30th is the birthday of our former Queen Juliana. Queen's Day is traditionally a public holiday (although more and more stores are open each year now) and another tradition is that citizens are allowed to sell whatever they want to sell on the street. This has resulted in the very popular free markets, first in the larger cities but soon just about every town wanted to have their own free market. My home town has made the restriction that only children under 12 may sell on the free market, because there is not enough room for all professional sellers who also like this chance to earn some money.


Now you may wonder what this has to do with an enraged orangutan. Nothing, really, but another tradition for Queen's Day is that we dress in orange. The name of our royal family is 'Van Oranje' and although the name Oranje originally is connected with the county of Orange in France, it also means orange in Dutch. This still has nothing to do with orangutans, enraged or otherwise, except perhaps when one considers the colour of their fur. And this fur colour was probably what inspired Beth to add the scent of orange peel too the perfume Enraged Orangutan Musk. I wanted an orange scent today and although some 10 days ago I suggested that La Calavera Catrina would be a good choice for an orange scent, today I felt more like wearing the orangutan's orangepeel scented musk.

An earlier post about this scent can be found here.