Mushrooms, of course
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Crushed grass
Rotting apples
Damp leaves smouldering
A last honeysuckle
A tattered rose
Is that incense or only woodsmoke?
Out of nowhere, butterscotch
And, ah yes
Fireworks
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33 comments:
I like this, Zeph.
The smell of a conker-case broken open.
Whisky. Porridge.
Zingy traffic fumes (like it or not).
The wet wool of wet woollen gloves.
Can I add a quick link to my new blog, which maybe some people will like?
Damn, why didn't I think of conker-cases, ringo, you're quite right - smells like nothing else except possibly stainless steel.
Your blog looks nice, I'll amend our select group of links.
don't forget a spoon of civet poo or a hint of sperm whale spit that would definitely modify the color of your fragrance
Paddleman (ex), I believe that owing to EU regulations the civet cats can live unmolested nowadays, not sure about the sperm whales though. No doubt perfumiers have replaced them with something else that smells just as bad. Extract of politician, perhaps.
Short and very, very sweet, Zeph.
Zeph, maybe you should be told that the ex paddler used to live and work in the hills above Grasse, dealing in substances that make sperm whale spit sound mundane.
I collected conkers for the first time in donkeys this year. At Pluscarden - a Catholic monastery
see here
http://www.pluscardenabbey.org/home.asp
Real monks. Chaps who were the robes and sandals with no socks even here in northern scotters where it is cold and very cold.
However, I did collect my conkers in the monks' graveyard, and I have a bowl of them but the best bit was, when I was collecting under the conker tree, I did catch a couple of falling conkers. That was fun.
don't know much about poetry, all I can say :it smells good and looks good too.
loved Ringo's blog : this bike ride is mind blowing,
great soundtrack, thanks.
don't know much about poetry, all I can say :it smells good and looks good too.
loved Ringo's blog : this bike ride is mind blowing,
great soundtrack, thanks.
ah, that's lovely. I clicked through specifically to add conker-cases to the list, and obviously I've been beaten to it - they have to be broken open with boots though.
Also hot chocolate and roasted chestnuts, or is it still too early for them?
Thanks all. I think roast chestnuts are more winter, Munni. Coming up soon then... but hot chocolate is all the year round.
Ex-paddler, did you work in perfumes then? Or I suppose we must say 'the fragrance industry'. I'm very into perfume, I have whole books about it, but tend to always wear the same ones.
Those are impressive monks, Mimi, nice to see them still wearing the robes, most of the nuns around seem to have settled for ordinary clothes but I suppose at least they can get on the bus easily.
Zeph, I think the Paddler has just boarded his flight for Jakarta, so I'll field this one. He used to be Mr Quality at a perfume and artificial aroma plant in that area for many years. Bit of a nosy fellow, if you will. Quality, though.
Nice idea, Zeph. Mrs M claims that frost has a smell. I'm doubtful.
Aha, thanks Offie.
MM, don't know about frost, but fog definitely has a smell. It smells slightly sooty to me, for some reason, perhaps it's all that lovely pollution trapped in it.
Yes, I used to work for 13 years near Grasse in the fragrance and flavour industry dealing with hundreds of beautiful molecules and natural extracts. And you are right, natural animal extracts are no longer part of the perfumer's "organ".
I also created my own perfumes like "wet water" or "heavy rain" with of lot of naturals. It's just amazing what you can do with these material.
Zeph, what are your favorites ?
Ha, and I thought he'd be too busy sightseeing to hang around at Other Stuff.
So, what does Jakarta smell like?
Christian Dior
Ex-Pad, "heavy rain" sounds lovely, though if one wore it perhaps people would keep coming up with a towel to dry one off.
Mostly I'm predictably Guerlain, I'm afraid: Mitsouko, and Eau de Fleurs de Cédrat, very classic.
But the internet has been wonderful for perfume freaks - there are blogs and blogs just of people telling each other about perfumes, especially in the USA for some reason. Not to mention eBay for discontinued perfumes - those of you to whom this is a mystery will think it totally bizarre that I'm thrilled at having got hold of second-hand bottles of Millot Crêpe de Chine and Weil Zibeline.
The nuns at my school claimed they only made the change to ordinary clothes because the company that made their habits went out of business (early 1990s, this was), which I always thought was a shockingly feeble excuse. And "ordinary" was relative, in their case - they lost the veils and switched to a frumpy, middle-aged variation on school uniforms.
Meltonian, frost absolutely has a smell.
Zeph, hunting down old perfumes is not something I could bring myself to do, but I find it admirable, not bizarre. And I've never heard of Zibeline, but it's a fantastic name.
Munni, big mistake on the nuns' part, they looked so impressive before, seemingly going about on wheels. Very scary when one was little.
Zibeline means sable, and it is a wonderfully dark and furry perfume, you can only wear it in winter.
Zeph,
Mitsouko, Crêpe de Chine, Zibeline,even Shalimar or Arpège, there is no better evocation for glamour.It sounds like the ultimate sophistication .They were probably carefully picked to be very suggestive, for me it evokes the glamourous ladies of the old Films Noir wearing sexy long black dress with super long cigarettes holder in one hand,a martini cocktail in the other, a whispery voice ....eeeeh cut!
Sadly I'm nothing like that at all, Guitou.... but I do like perfumes that were popular in the 30s, I must have an old-fashioned nose.
Yes, the names must have been picked then to sound exotic and seductive. New perfumes now are called things like Bling by Jennifer Lopez.
Yeah, the iconography has changed a bit since the 30's too.
Apologies for posting the short version.
:)
Well, they tried, but those were more innocent times....
more innocent times or in " oh scent of a woman"?
the perfume of autumn
can I please add this Zephie autumn ingredient - love from Doc - as the time approaches
Hey, look who's here...
Hi Doc, did you get my email after all, or is it a (nice) coincidence?
Doc, that is such a fabulous clip, I'm going to give it its own post. Thanks so much.
Are you all right down there in the Antipodes?
zeph hanging in by a tropical thread
offie I have not your email but will go look in the letter cupboard now
nice, zeph
"mushrooms, of course" makes me think of - indubitably truffles - for some reason
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