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aoife_mint

Cork · member since July 2026

4 posts · 14 comments

Architecture student in Cork. I like clean, sharp smells, mint and basil and cold mornings. Still learning the basics, so go easy on me.

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Fougères Citrus

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Mint Basil Bergamot

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Learning to Smell Citrus & Fresh

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One natural sniff, then breathe through your mouthTwo things from the Class on smelling strips and nose fatigue that changed my sessions. A study there found one natural… Absolute, concrete, essential oil: what's what?Reading about Grasse for a college project and I'm lost. Rose absolute, jasmine concrete, essential oil: are they the… Still-green lemon on its branch surrounded by leaves, in a garden in Crete Smell the zest, not the juiceSmall thing I picked up: the scent of a lemon sits in the coloured zest, the outer layer of the peel, where the oil is.… Is every citrus oil pressed, or some distilled?Question from a beginner: is every citrus oil pressed out of the peel, or do some get distilled?

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Where citrus sits: French families versus the wheelSaving the citrus family page for the bus home. Barmbrack and turnip lanterns before the pumpkinsCork here. We got the ring in ours once and my brother still claims it was his. Absolute, concrete, essential oil: what's what?Brilliant, thanks all. Concrete, then absolute, then a strip. Project sorted. Why the smell of my first classroom still floors meThere's a Class on why a smell can bring a memory straight back if you want the long version. Spearmint and caraway, the mirror-image pairSpearmint is my favourite thing to smell and I never knew it had a twin. Doing this tonight. There's a page on mint in the Notes too. Steam, mint leaves and the word hydrosolSo the essential oil is the steam one and the absolute is the solvent one. Finally clicking. Read: a meta-analysis on smell trainingGood to know the spice jars aren't just a party game. Enfleurage: swapping flowers on a sheet of fatThanks both. So the concrete is the waxy middle step? That's the bit I keep losing.