Poisoned Apple

The queen stepped before her mirror: 

Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?

The mirror answered: 

You, my queen, are fair; it is true.
But Little Snow-White with the seven dwarfs
Is a thousand times fairer than you.

When the queen heard this, she shook and trembled with anger, "Snow-White will die, if it costs me my life!" Then she went into her most secret room -- no one else was allowed inside -- and she made a poisoned, poisoned apple. From the outside it was red and beautiful, and anyone who saw it would want it. Then she disguised herself as a peasant woman, went to the dwarfs' house and knocked on the door. 

Snow-White peeped out and said, "I'm not allowed to let anyone in. The dwarfs have forbidden it most severely." 

"If you don't want to, I can't force you," said the peasant woman. "I am selling these apples, and I will give you one to taste." 

"No, I can't accept anything. The dwarfs don't want me to." 

"If you are afraid, then I will cut the apple in two and eat half of it. Here, you eat the half with the beautiful red cheek!" Now the apple had been so artfully made that only the red half was poisoned. When Snow-White saw that the peasant woman was eating part of the apple, her desire for it grew stronger, so she finally let the woman hand her the other half through the window. She bit into it, but she barely had the bite in her mouth when she fell to the ground dead. 

The queen was happy, went home, and asked her mirror: 

Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?

And it answered: 

You, my queen, are fairest of all.

I suppose most people hear the story of Snow White  at some time during their childhood. The fairy tale became well known through the version that the brothers Grimm collected in 1812, although two centuries later most people see in their mind the image of Snow White that Walt Disney created in 1937. In fact when I was searching for images of the fairy tale it was very hard to find any that were not made by Disney or inspired by his famous animated film. But I am a stubborn person who thinks Disney's Snow White is a far too popular remake. Which is not completely fair, as fairy tales have always had as many variations as they had story tellers.

A perfect, lovely, gleaming red apple whose sweetness masks a swirl of narcotic opium, oleander, and hemlock.

I have to admit that this scent smells as much as apple as I could ever expect an accord of essential oils to do. It is almost like a real apple, perhaps what makes it less real is that it is stronger than a real apple. And... warmer? At first I thought it was like cooked apple, but on second application I had to come back to that. Not like cooked apple, almost like fresh apple but... My scent-friend Voodoocat suggested it smells like poisoned apple. Since I never smelled a poisoned apple, I can not say if this is true. But I do know that this is a lot more comforting than anything poisened should be. Or perhaps that is just the trick with a poisoned apple: that it is so comforting one would not expect any harm to come from it. 


Oh dear, perhaps I should not wear this too often?