A candle by Frederic Malle, the scent of an old well-kept French house or a Paris living room after a dinner party.

Things to remember about coffee:

Stumptown, Intelligentsia, Peets and Blue Bottle are corporate sell-outs. But I still buy Peets Major Dickason’s Blend at the Safeway.

Might still be okay: Flying Goat Coffee, the Optimist Blend; Counterculture Coffee; Spotted Cow Coffee; Dallis Bros. Coffee, the Ethiopia Kochere.

Beans to buy: Celebes Kalossi, Javanese, Antiguan, Blue Mountain.

Unknown blend mentioned in a Stuart Woods novel: Medaglia d’Oro.