What does one do when faced with overwhelming hardship… endure and triumph. Perhaps no better example
“A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway."
After more harsh conditions and misfortunes, Jayne with her very British perseverance reunites with Edward Rochester and marries her hero.
Penhaligon’s London, opened its first shoppe in the 1860s, just about the time Jane Eyre was written. Bluebell is perhaps the most British and iconic of all Penhaligon’s scents and is a beloved cult classic, (as is the novel) to generations of romantics.
Bluebell is not a simple soliflore and declares its nature from the onset; top notes of citrus, suggesting bitterness, and heart notes of gentle but hardy florals, including Hyacinth, Lily of the Valley, Cyclamen, Jasmine and Rose. Base notes of Galbanum, Clove and Cinnamon show veiled passion.
Although Penhaligon’s has recently reformulated fragrances from its archives, I don’t think they will touch this classic perfume, Bluebell will endure; it’s as for ever appealing, tenacious and unique as Jayne Eyre.