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ambrose_leather

Northampton · member since July 2025

8 posts · 39 comments

Retired from a shoe factory in Northampton after a lifetime around tanned hides. Leather, tobacco and saffron are my home ground. My granddaughter set this account up for me.

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Pink-tinged tuberose buds at the top of their stem in a cultivated field Enfleurage sounds like dressing a hideRight then. Reading the encyclopedia page on enfleurage : you spread fat on glass, lay flowers on it and keep replacing… Young tobacco plant with broad pale green leaves in a field in Dordogne Tobacco on my coat collar, still there FridayRight then. The wool overcoat came out of the wardrobe at the weekend, first properly cold morning. On Monday I put one… Watercolour of a tan leather saddle with hanging stirrups on a cream ground Polishing boots in the back porch on a SundayRight then. Sunday job: boots on newspaper in the back porch, a tin of dubbin and a brush. The porch smells of the… Red maple leaf resting on the white bark of a paper birch, with sharp shadows Treacle toffee and the bonfire on the recRight then. The posters are up for the fireworks on the rec, and I've started smelling Bonfire Night before it's here… Strings of unripe green peppercorns hanging from a climbing pepper vine Birch tar and the hides at the factoryRight then. A lady at the autumn craft fair had a tray of smelling strips, and the birch tar one sent me back to the… Glass perfume bottles with atomiser bulbs and golden juices on a flowery tray My mother's handshake rule for scentRight then. My mother had a rule for my father's Sunday best: his scent should only be noticed when you shook his hand… Fringed edge of an ancient Egyptian linen sheet, fine weave and sand colour Grasse began with gloves, Northampton with bootsRight then. I always knew Grasse for its flowers, but the encyclopedia article on Grasse says its perfume trade grew… Pod of sperm whales swimming beneath the surface of a blue ocean off Mauritius Tonka beans and the foreman's pipe tobaccoRight then. Our foreman in the clicking room smoked a pipe at break, and his tobacco smelled of hay and marzipan…

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My late husband's aftershave started all thisA man who wore a fougère knew what he was about, my dad would of liked him. Is patchouli a wood or a leaf?Hides left somewhere damp got a whiff of that too, I would have never called it mint. Grasse began with gloves, Northampton with bootsNo offence taken. A good hide has its own perfume, ask any clicker. Should of brought one in to show you. Saffron buns, and missing Lucia in BerlinSaffron sits with the leathers on here, and hay and a new hide is about right. I should have tried a bun years ago. Polishing boots in the back porch on a SundayRight then. The club's leather note says a leather scent is an accord, built from smoky birch tar and a few other things, not taken from the hide itself. Would… Told off at choir for rubbing my wristsYou'd never rub a fresh finish into a good hide either, you let it set on its own. My late wife would of sided with your soprano. What was on your nan's dressing table?Right then. Grandad's bench: neatsfoot oil, a good hide and pipe smoke. I would have been six or so. Cheers, Ambrose Where citrus sits: French families versus the wheelAt the factory we graded hides into bins and every foreman would of drawn the lines a bit different. Same game.