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Ambers, Spices & Gourmands, page 2

Vanilla, tonka bean, cinnamon, incense: warm perfumes and edible notes.

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mo_from_leicesterin Ambers, Spices & Gourmands · Leicester ·

Question

Saffron at weddings: spice or leather?

Our weddings smell of saffron rice, rose water and cardamom. Now I'm learning the proper names, I see saffron filed under leather on here, not with the spices. Why? To me it smells of hay and a bit of metal, like a handful of coins.

Saffron Rose Cardamom

ambrose_leather A good hide fresh off the tanner's lorry has that same dry, slightly medicinal edge, so I can see it. The club's page on saffron's hay and leather…

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ingrid_berlinin Ambers, Spices & Gourmands · Berlin ·

Scent diary

Ambroxan on a blotter, all bass and no treble

A friend gave me a blotter dipped in Ambroxan. Dry wood, a little salt, no top at all, only a low bass line, and the next evening the strip is still humming. I wanted to smell this since a long time. The club's page on Ambroxan and how it clings has the…

Ambroxan Ambergris

frankie.incense Ambroxide, sold as Ambroxan, is made from sclareol, a component of clary sage oil , so your whale-ish bass line definately starts in a field of sage…

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kemi.cocoain Ambers, Spices & Gourmands · London ·

Question

Amber and ambergris, are they the same thing?

Daft question from a primary teacher. Half the threads in here say amber and the other half say ambergris. Is the amber in a perfume the same thing as the whale stuff, or something else entirely? My Year 4s did whales today and now I can't stop wondering.

Ambergris Labdanum Ambroxan

dex_in_brooklyn ok so I always figured amber was just ambergris with the gris chopped off, like how we say mise for the whole station. your welcome to correct me

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maeve.mossin Ambers, Spices & Gourmands · Galway ·

Memory
Pink and white clary sage spike standing in a meadow in Armenia

Studding oranges with cloves at my gran's

Here's a thing. It's lashing on the bog road and I passed a crate of oranges outside the shop and I was straight back in my gran's kitchen in Oughterard, a basin of oranges on the table and a saucer of cloves and the two of us pushing them in until our thumbs…

Clove Sweet orange

kit.clove Cloves are half my username and I still had to look up pomander. Lovely memory.

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