For my 30th birthday (last year) all I wanted was to have a slumber party with my best friend! We chose The Beekman, known for its stunning atrium. However, the biggest thrill was the toiletries by D.S. & Durga in their Bowmakers scent. Bowmakers is supposed to smell like a violin shop in Massachusetts, which is coincidentally where I am from. I fell in love with the scent and ordered the perfume shortly after. I use Neutrogena shampoo for my scalp that smells like coal tar and Bowmakers just happens to go perfectly with that, admittedly funky, top note. The first time my mom came to visit after I started wearing Bowmakers she got really excited about it. I still had a bottle of the shampoo from my hotel stay so I gave it to her to take home. Later she told me she had been ārationingā it to make it last longer which broke my heart a little bit because my mom is the most wonderful person in the world and deserves the best of everything. Of course, I had to buy her a bottle of Bowmakers for Christmas.