Baby Doll

The dune buggy was built and continuously modified in the the weekend warriors garage in the suburbs. Unlike the boat with it’s damaged motor, bent propeller, and quasi-antique Bass Finder, the dune buggy regularly gets out of the garage into these dunes to rip it up with the other weekend warriors. The metal bar above his head has stickers from different parts-manufacturers in between the big lights that the weekend warrior turns on when he stays out late in the dunes hanging out and partying, or doing a night run. On a full moon like tonight he can go full blackout and just listen to the transplanted Jeep engine and look for the dark shapes of of other dune buggies while feeling alone and together. He thinks this is what purpose might feel like, alone and focused and individualistic, but understood and accepted and asked to be his best self. He puts all his free time when not teaching at the culinary school into modding this dune buggy. He’s been particularly active these past few months because the culinary school cut one of his classes so he has all day Tuesday free and part of Thursday. His signature buggy feature is a big dangly flag that rises up about 10 feet off the back. The image on the flag is a drawing of a sand mermaid, his idea for a species of mermaids that stayed on land millions of years ago when the oceans receded from these dunes and evolved to swim in sand. It looks a lot like an aquatic mermaid, sexualized with big tits and a big butt that also becomes a fish body, or in this case a sort of dry looking fish that dips into the sand and comes up a few feet away to signify the sand mermaids capacity for moving through the sand. It also says “molly” on it, which is the name of his buggy and the sand mermaid and secretly the name of a girl he’d had a huge crush on in high school to the point that he was standing outside her house a few nights a week until her dad talked to his dad and then he learned about how the reason his uncle couldn’t come over to visit ever was that they lived too close to his brother’s ex-wife and she had a restraining order on him. The flag whips around as he drives and it is what he’s known for. This weekend he’s made some mods that he is pretty excited about and can’t wait to show the guys when they got done with this night run. He’s welded a custom diamond plate bumper. He has powder coated the brake calipers bright orange and you can see them flashing through the wheels. He’s added a strobe effect to his night bar so the lights up top could now flash up to 15 times a second. And he’s filled the tires partially with Yves Saint Laurent. The weekend warrior knows that mods can happen in all ways and that the experience of a buggy isn’t as simple as what you see. It is the purr of the engine and the whipping of the flag and the scent of Yves Saint Laurent that comes out of his tires when he has to deflate them to go up a particularly steep slope. This is the sensitivity of the culinary school teacher in him, he thinks. The weekend warrior is having a pretty good night, all told. The hours go by and the buggy rips through the dunes predictably and he gets back to camp and circles up his buggy with the others and joins the fire and starts talking shop and joking and someone asks him what mods he’s been working on and they go over to his buggy and he’s a little drunk, but not too much. He points out the strobe and the bumper and the calipers and he asks the other weekend warrior to crouch down and come close and he takes off the cap of one of the tire valves. Closer, he says. And the other weekend warrior leans in and he pushes on the little wire nozzle inside the valve with his fingernail and it starts letting out a hiss. He hopes the other weekend warrior recognizes Baby Doll, a fun and elegant fragrance with unusually fresh and youthful gourmand charm. Baby Doll woman is charming, playfully seductive-she has a wonderful sense of humour. Top notes are fresh and full of zest with the notes of blackcurrant, orange, apple, and pineapple. Heart notes include a feminine floral bouquet made of rose, freesia, lily of the valley and heliotrope. Base notes are warm and incensy; cedar, sandal, tonka and vanilla. Baby Doll perfume was created by Cecille Matton while the bottle was designed by Saint Gobain. This perfume received a Fifi award in 2000.