Tag: Purple

A stylized cemetery on a black and dark grey-blue color field, with a mausoleum in the distance and two tombstones and a cross grave marker in the foreground. The center tombstone is lit up and on it hangs a bright purple feather boa with a vase of lavender in front of it. by Alabaster Rhumb.

“The Smell of Purple” * Fiction * Rainie Zenith

aromatica poetica January 7, 2021

Before my grandmother died, we would walk down to the cemetery, sit on the bench that faced the road and count cars. Just the red ones. When the count reached ten, we’d walk back up the hill to Gran’s house for a cup of tea and a shortbread biscuit. The most amazing thing about Gran’s house was the bathroom. It was purple in every sense of the word. That is, it was painted mauve and always smelled like lavender, from …

Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” A Tale of A Boy, A Girl, Her Flower & It’s Poison

aromatica poetica July 10, 2018

Aromatica Poetica is delighted to present “Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1844, and later collected in Mosses From An Old Manse. We were alerted to this stunning gothic tale by Jim Endersby in his fun cultural history of the Orchid, in which he analyzes it as “one of the earliest killer plant stories.” As you know from reading “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid,” we love killer plant stories! But whereas H.G. Well’s story is lighthearted, Hawthorne’s …