One thing you shouldn't neglect in thinking about the spread of your annual bathtime experiences is combination. What I mean by this is the occasional use of a soap that suggests more than one provenance. That is why I'm recommending today the L'Occitane Rose bar. As you would expect from the name, it gives you a wonderful, though at the same time subtle, fragrance of roses. But for some inexplicable reason, while using it you also think of wood smoke. Not that you come to smell of wood smoke - heaven forfend. No, you smell of roses, as befits a person intending good in the world. But a hint - from who knows where? - of wood smoke adds to the interest of your bath and also teaches you about mundane mystery and complexity.
[For links to the rest of the series go to the soap dish.]
