She allows her hair to be teased into a lofty blond arc, a sort of cotton-candy diadem, and her speech, with training, gets heavier and slower, the emphasis landing on selected, morally significant syllables like a hammer hitting an anvil.

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Head down to the waterfront to take in the classic Seattle smells: a mix of saltwater, cotton candy and greasy fish and chips.

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Perusing the five-star reviews in Perfumes, it seems that a good perfume is surprising, individual, abstract, witty, maybe ironic, complex (for example, Thierry Mugler's Angel perfume works because of the juxtaposition of cotton candy and flowers with a masculine patchouli), long-lasting, transformative (it somehow makes the wearer feel different).

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They would advertise it as the best cotton candy ever, just to sell a few more too.

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"It's a lot of talk, a lot of rhetoric but it's like cotton candy -- it melts on contact but you can't live on it, " he said.

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The capital Willemstad, settled in 1634, is the financial and commercial centre of life on the island, as well as a Unesco World Heritage Site, thanks to its well-preserved, cotton-candy-coloured Dutch Colonial architecture and buildings like the Mikve Israel Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in use in the Western Hemisphere.

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