The Campus Poo

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FOR A COUPLE YEARS IN THE LATE EIGHTIES (THE 1980S, MIND YOU, I’M NOT AS OLD AS I LOOK) I STAYED WITH THE MUL’S AT LE PETIT CAMAPADIEU. IT’S THEIR FLOWER FARM IN GRASSE- HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO GRASSE? OH, IT’S DIVINE. THE AIR IS SO RICH. ANYWAY, LE PETIT CAMPADIEU IS A 100 HECTARE FARM, FIVE OF WHICH ARE CENTIFOLIA ROSES AND FIVE OF WHICH ARE JASMINE. CHANEL HAS AN EXCLUSIVE CONTRACT FOR ALL THE JASMINE AND HALF THE ROSES. I MET COCO ONCE. LORD, WAS THAT WOMAN A HANDFUL. THAT MUST HAVE BEEN 1912 OR 1913. DORZIAT WAS USING HER HATS IN BEL AMI. THAT’S KIND OF WHAT LAUNCHED HER INTO THE PUBLIC “SPHERE” I GUESS. ANYWAY, BACK TO GRASSE. JOSEPH (MONSIEUR MUL), HE WAS SO EXCITED. HE BUILT AN EXTRACTING PLANT RIGHT ON THE FARM TO MAKE THE CONCRETES AND ABSOLUTES. THAT’S WHEN I LEFT. I HAD BUSINESS IN MARSEILLES AT THE TIME. I MISS THAT FARM, THOUGH. CENTIFOLIAS ARE SO MUCH RICHER AND MORE VIBRANT THAN DAMASCENIAS OR WHATEVER THEY’RE GROWING IN BULGARIA THIS YEAR, AND WHILE GRASSE ISN’T THE FLOWER CAPITAL IT ONCE WAS, LE PETIT CAMPADIEU IS WHERE THOSE WHO KNOW AND CAN AFFORD THE BEST GO TO GET IT. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THESE DAYS, EVEN IN THE WORLD OF SUPPOSED ‘LUXURY’ GOODS IT’S ALL JUST PROFIT MARGINS AND CUTTING CORNERS, AND THAT MEANS GETTING WHATEVER MATERIALS OR LABOR YOU CAN AT THE LOWEST COST. BUT AS LONG AS NO. 5 EXISTS, LE PETIT CAMPADIEU AND ITS CENTIFOLIAS AND JASMINE WILL EXIST. THEY’RE NOT MUL’S PRIMARY FLOWERS, BUT THEY’RE INTEGRAL TO ONE OF THE MOST RENOWNED PERFUMES OF OUR TIME. SOMETIMES WHEN I SLEEP I DREAM OF THOSE FIELDS. WE SHOULD VISIT, WHEN YOU’RE A BIT OLDER.

You are the weirdest Chia Pet I’ve ever had.