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Sandalwood, cedar, vetiver, oakmoss: the smells of wood, forest floor and roots.
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wren.and.mossin Woods, Mosses & Roots · Asheville ·
QuestionI keep reading that oakmoss is 'restricted' in perfume, and nobody says by whom or why. In my garden it's just a gray lichen on the oak branches that I'd never think twice about. What happened?
maeve.moss The oakmoss page goes through it and it's two sets of rules, the EU law on one side and the industry's own standards on the other, and the EU banned…
juniper_julesin Woods, Mosses & Roots · Portland ·
ReadingStudio notes: I read the club Class on the seven fragrance families and then the Wikipedia page on the fragrance wheel , back to back. The French list has oakmoss anchoring the fougères and the chypres, while the wheel has a subfamily called Mossy Woods. Less…
hamish_heather Same with whisky, every shop sorts its shelves its own way. You learn the map and try not to loose the plot.
lupe.pinonin Woods, Mosses & Roots · Santa Fe ·
Discovery
It's chile roasting season here and every parking lot smells of charred green peppers. A friend let me smell a strip of galbanum this weekend and it was that same green, raw and bitter, from before the roast. Without the smoke, of course.
juniper_jules Galbanum is my favorite green, sharper then cut grass, almost like turpentine on a rag.
theodora.figin Woods, Mosses & Roots · Bath ·
Memory
My aunt's fig tree against the south wall is dropping its leaves now. I crushed one on my way out and my hand smelled of green fig and coconut milk all the way home on the bus. She used to send me home with a bag of figs every year at the end of summer.
priya.cardamom I've moved this over from the Florals circle, since fig sits with the woods in our notes. Lovely memory, Theodora.