OK, so I sort of told myself that if I had a glass or 8 of wine then I would post something on the Interwebs. Which, now that I think about it, maybe isn't the best idea, but whatever. I'm only in the mood to post after a glass or two of wine. And prebiotics.
So I thought I'd flammer about things that I couldn't smell before but I can smell now. First, the odd ones out: raspberry ketone and eugenyl acetate. Raspberry ketone I thought I just couldn't smell. But since there's online jangles about it helping hair growth and skin elasticity (and weight loss--how odd that something I've played with for perfume is also available in pill form for people who want to slim down), I diluted some in PG (yeah, I did that. I said PG for propylene glycol) and then in water and put it on my face. Why not? It's cheap enough. And from that I get a little bit of a berry smell. Not singly raspberry--more like a vague strawberry/raspberry/generic berry. Or like the fruity part of ethyl maltol without the burnt sugar/caramel tone. Faint, but nice, and seemingly very versatile. I think TGSC said one of its uses was 'Christmas blends,' and I can see this now.
And eugenyl acetate. The first couple times I got this chem I could not smell it AT ALL. This latest time I got an impression of it. I think. Now that I've come to the conclusion that acetates are fruitier than alcohols, I smelled the eugenyl in that frame of mind. I think it is fruitier than eugenol, although it's not fruity per se. I think it's a more rounded smell than eugenol, not as sharp. But I still can't smell it all the time, whereas I can absolutely smell eugenol, dihydroeugenol (the Monster thought that smelled like clove cigarettes) and isoeugenol (there's a weird ham note there). I like eugenyl acetate, but of course I would. I love the clove note, and I don't think I've met a clove note that I didn't like a bit. Interestingly, the Nilsmonster couldn't smell eugenyl acetate at all either--is this common? Anyone out there who could smell eugenol perfectly well but not the acetate? (I don't know if it's relevant, but I can smell Z3hexenyl acetate and linalyl acetate just fine.) So I can sort of smell eugenyl acetate now, under the right conditions.
A couple more: ambroxan at 100% and Exaltolide at 100%. I can smell these now. Before, I couldn't. You may be thinking, "Of course you couldn't smell them at 100%! Why didn't you dilute them?!" OK. I admit it--I'm not exactly scientific with my aromachems. I'm not a perfumer or a compounder. And I don't have a 'lab.' So I usually smell things at 100% or dilute them in any carrier I have (at whatever %) and, well, yeah. Anyway, I can smell ambroxan now. If I hold the bottle under my nose for just a moment, I get the whiff of what I know is ambroxan (I know this mostly from drydowns of things with it.). And Exaltolide: I couldn't smell it at all before at 100%, and I don't think I could smell it in dilution, but I COULD smell a change when I added it to things. I can't exactly explain the change, but it just seemed to enhance things. Well the last time I ordered it, I smelled it outside (this is important, I think because of air pressure) and I could smell it! I could smell the balsamic character it has! That was cool. Other musks were somewhat easy to smell at 100%: Cosmone, Musk Ketone, Velvione, R1. Others needed dilution: Galaxolide (I put this in my bathroom spray, which essentially functions as a vehicle for experiments. I sprayed it, and after the lighter notes wore off, I was like 'this smells just like Tersor!!!'), Tonalide (to me this smells like Downy when it dries down), Habanolide (the hot-ironed fabric note is real: but you have to dilute it or let it dry down to smell it).
I'm not sure I have anything else that I can't smell at 100%. I don't really keep track of musks, since I don't expect to smell them at 100%. I have a great musk ambrette replacer that I can smell if I put it on paper and wait a short while. Otherwise I think everything I have at the moment is smellable at 100%.
And that's the burgoosh for now.
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So I thought I'd flammer about things that I couldn't smell before but I can smell now. First, the odd ones out: raspberry ketone and eugenyl acetate. Raspberry ketone I thought I just couldn't smell. But since there's online jangles about it helping hair growth and skin elasticity (and weight loss--how odd that something I've played with for perfume is also available in pill form for people who want to slim down), I diluted some in PG (yeah, I did that. I said PG for propylene glycol) and then in water and put it on my face. Why not? It's cheap enough. And from that I get a little bit of a berry smell. Not singly raspberry--more like a vague strawberry/raspberry/generic berry. Or like the fruity part of ethyl maltol without the burnt sugar/caramel tone. Faint, but nice, and seemingly very versatile. I think TGSC said one of its uses was 'Christmas blends,' and I can see this now.
And eugenyl acetate. The first couple times I got this chem I could not smell it AT ALL. This latest time I got an impression of it. I think. Now that I've come to the conclusion that acetates are fruitier than alcohols, I smelled the eugenyl in that frame of mind. I think it is fruitier than eugenol, although it's not fruity per se. I think it's a more rounded smell than eugenol, not as sharp. But I still can't smell it all the time, whereas I can absolutely smell eugenol, dihydroeugenol (the Monster thought that smelled like clove cigarettes) and isoeugenol (there's a weird ham note there). I like eugenyl acetate, but of course I would. I love the clove note, and I don't think I've met a clove note that I didn't like a bit. Interestingly, the Nilsmonster couldn't smell eugenyl acetate at all either--is this common? Anyone out there who could smell eugenol perfectly well but not the acetate? (I don't know if it's relevant, but I can smell Z3hexenyl acetate and linalyl acetate just fine.) So I can sort of smell eugenyl acetate now, under the right conditions.
A couple more: ambroxan at 100% and Exaltolide at 100%. I can smell these now. Before, I couldn't. You may be thinking, "Of course you couldn't smell them at 100%! Why didn't you dilute them?!" OK. I admit it--I'm not exactly scientific with my aromachems. I'm not a perfumer or a compounder. And I don't have a 'lab.' So I usually smell things at 100% or dilute them in any carrier I have (at whatever %) and, well, yeah. Anyway, I can smell ambroxan now. If I hold the bottle under my nose for just a moment, I get the whiff of what I know is ambroxan (I know this mostly from drydowns of things with it.). And Exaltolide: I couldn't smell it at all before at 100%, and I don't think I could smell it in dilution, but I COULD smell a change when I added it to things. I can't exactly explain the change, but it just seemed to enhance things. Well the last time I ordered it, I smelled it outside (this is important, I think because of air pressure) and I could smell it! I could smell the balsamic character it has! That was cool. Other musks were somewhat easy to smell at 100%: Cosmone, Musk Ketone, Velvione, R1. Others needed dilution: Galaxolide (I put this in my bathroom spray, which essentially functions as a vehicle for experiments. I sprayed it, and after the lighter notes wore off, I was like 'this smells just like Tersor!!!'), Tonalide (to me this smells like Downy when it dries down), Habanolide (the hot-ironed fabric note is real: but you have to dilute it or let it dry down to smell it).
I'm not sure I have anything else that I can't smell at 100%. I don't really keep track of musks, since I don't expect to smell them at 100%. I have a great musk ambrette replacer that I can smell if I put it on paper and wait a short while. Otherwise I think everything I have at the moment is smellable at 100%.
And that's the burgoosh for now.
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