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To: Cindy
>>>>I wonder if it was Flowerbomb perfume?

Entirely possible as that's what I found when looking it up too. ;-)

At $95 per 50ml grenade-shaped bottle, ya wonder.

The description of the scent mentions a strong odor of 'patchouli' (which makes me gag, btw)

Patchouli:

Patchouli (also patchouly or pachouli) is both a plant and an essential oil (patchouli oil) obtained from the leaves of a plant of the same name. The scent of patchouli is heavy and strong, and many people find it offensive. It has been used for centuries in perfumes, and is grown in the East and West Indies. The word derives from the Tamil patchai பச்சை (green), ellai இலை (leaf).(snip)

During the 18th and 19th century silk traders from China travelling to the Middle East packed their silk cloth with dried patchouli leaves to prevent moths from laying their eggs on the cloth.(snip) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patchouli

857 posted on 09/13/2006 10:36:20 AM PDT by Velveeta (God bless America. Never forget.)
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To: Velveeta; Cindy; All

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060913/montreal_shooting_060913/20060913?hub=TopStories

Shots fired at Dawson College in Montreal
Updated Wed. Sep. 13 2006 1:44 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

There are reports that shots have been fired at a downtown Montreal college, and between two and six people have been shot.

CTV's Jed Kahane, reporting from Montreal, said only preliminary reports have been released, and police received a call about the shooting at just before 1 p.m. ET.

Kahane said reports coming in over the police scanner say shots are still being fired and there may be as many as four gunmen involved. Dawson College is located at the corner of Atwater and Sherbrooke in the heart of downtown Montreal.

"I'm just hearing a witness now speaking saying that she was in the college and she saw someone coming down the stairwell with a gun," Kahane told CTV Newsnet.

"They ran back into their classroom and closed the door. The person was apparently chasing someone, and they heard, in her words, at least 20 shots fired, and they stayed inside their classroom until they felt they could get out safely."

A number of officers surrounded the school with guns drawn, while others helped to evacuate students who are still hiding inside the English-language CEGEP school which houses about 10,000 students.

One student told radio station 940 News she saw two people who had been shot, including one who had been hit in the neck.

more info at link


858 posted on 09/13/2006 10:49:35 AM PDT by KylaStarr (Stay ready)
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To: Velveeta; Cindy

>>The description of the scent mentions a strong odor of 'patchouli' (which makes me gag, btw)<<

Maybe that's why someone left it there? Although, if I paid 95 bucks for a bottle of perfume, I'd be sure I liked the smell of it.


860 posted on 09/13/2006 10:53:06 AM PDT by KylaStarr (Stay ready)
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