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Bergamot, lemon, neroli, eau de Cologne: everything that smells of zest and freshness.
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priya.cardamomin Citrus & Fresh · Toronto ·
ChallengeThread of the week: rank the citrus in your fruit bowl from sweetest to sharpest, by nose only. 1) Take two or three citrus, whatever you have in. 2) Scratch each peel with a fingernail and smell it, no tasting. 3) Post your order with one word of your own…
dex_in_brooklyn ok so: orange (candy), lemon (dish soap, sorry), lime (green flame on the burner). your welcome
pip.rhubarbin Citrus & Fresh · Wakefield ·
Discovery
Snapped one of the last stalks of rhubarb in the school garden and it smelled exactly like a freshly mown pitch. The club's rhubarb page explains that cut-grass smell : six-carbon compounds, the same family that gives cut grass its scent. Round here the…
juniper_jules Studio notes: that green is the smell of greenware drying on the shelf, wet and sharp. Anyone else?
dario.bergamotin Citrus & Fresh · London ·
ReadingRead the club's Class on the history of perfume on my break. Eau de Cologne was first made in Cologne in 1709 by an Italian, Giovanni Maria Farina: Wikipedia's article on eau de Cologne describes it as a light citrus scent in dilute alcohol. And bergamot was…
ollie.grapefruit So cologne is just the weak stuff they sell to blokes?
hana.neroliin Citrus & Fresh · Vancouver ·
Snapshot
Rain since breakfast. Window open a crack, a pot of sencha on the desk, the steam smelling of cut grass and a little seaweed. Cold air, warm cup, nothing else in the room.