Fig Preserves Candle gifts my mother had a perfume

my mother had a perfume in a green glass bottle that reminded me of the antique tonics I'd seen in movies—like absinthe

Unframed: 12

They do not pinch and won’t squeeze

Made from recycled wood/paper composite

Field trips to the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in childhood and late-night walks around our historic town when Ben and I moved back home to Laurel after college were all permeated with a very particular scent memory that makes my heart swell with a homesick

Fig Preserves Candle gifts my mother had a perfumeMade in Laurel, Mississippi Fig + wild honey 11 oz. "The fig bushes in my parent's back yard were twiggy things when they built the house in 1992. Today they tower 15 feet tall, a wall of green and velvety purple behind the porch. They harvest and toil at making the preserves every summer, boiling the glass jars and straining the seeds from the figs to create a whiskey colored syrupy mash, the crown jewel of a cathead biscuit." Erin