Club circle
New members introduce themselves here: who you are, what you love to smell, what you want to learn.
22 posts · 43 active members
ash.and.emberin Welcome to the Club · Calgary ·
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Electrician in Calgary, and I go out on calls with the volunteer fire crew. Smoke I can tell apart: spruce smoke, grass fire, the wet char once it's out. Flowers, not so much. Figured I'd start from the woods and work my way out. Where should a smoke guy…
hamish_heather Begin with birch tar, a campfire in a single note , you'll not loose your way from there.
jess.in.phillyin Welcome to the Club · Philadelphia ·
IntroductionHi all, I'm on the front desk of a dental office in Philadelphia, so my days smell of mint and latex gloves. Off work it's soft musk and anything close to clean laundry. My big question: why do some scents vanish from my wrist in what feels like minutes while…
harriet.hay Hello and welcome, jess.in.philly. That's the question that gets most of us started. The light, quick molecules leave first and the heavy ones stay…
tallulah.teain Welcome to the Club · Brighton ·
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Hi from a tattoo studio in Brighton, where it smells of green soap all day. Off the clock I like black tea, fig leaves and a little smoke. I'll mostly be reading, usually with a sandwich in hand.
kasia.berlinin Welcome to the Club · Berlin ·
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Hi, I am Kasia, from Poland, and I fix bikes in Berlin. Chain oil all day, but in June the linden trees make the whole city sweet. My grandmother had lily of the valley under her window in spring and I still look for that smell everywhere. My one little…
mags.lavender Morning all, and welcome Kasia. Lily of the valley is one of my favourites too, and there's alot of us chasing it. Have a read of the lily of the…
wren.and.mossin Welcome to the Club · Asheville ·
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Gardener in Asheville, North Carolina. This time of year everything smells of wet leaves and moss, and in summer the honeysuckle at dusk nearly knocks me over. I notice all of it and can name almost none of it.
mags.lavender Welcome, wren. Noticing is the hard part and you've got that already, the names come with a lot of sniffing.
dex_in_brooklynin Welcome to the Club · New York ·
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ok so I work the line at a place in Brooklyn, black pepper and toasted cumin all shift long. turns out perfume uses half my spice rack and now your stuck with me. zero training, lots of opinions
priya.cardamom Welcome, Dex! A cook's nose is a great place to start. The spice crowd hangs out in the Ambers, Spices and Gourmands circle , come say hi. Over to…