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ash.and.ember

Calgary · member since June 2026

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Electrician and volunteer firefighter in Calgary. I know smoke better than flowers, so I'm starting from the woods and working my way out.

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Birch tar Cedarwood Black pepper

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Mauve pompom flowers of water mint rising above its toothed green leaves Spearmint and caraway, the mirror-image pairTried the spearmint and caraway pair from the club's Class on training your nose . Same atoms, mirror images, and one… Candles, incense and diffusers: what I took from the ClassRead the Class on what candles, incense and diffusers do to indoor air on my break. Two things I'm keeping: none of… Pink rockrose flower with purple blotches at the base of its petals, surrounded by buds Labdanum, sticky like a glove by the stoveSmelled labdanum for the first time at a friend's place. Thick, dark, sweet, a bit like a leather glove left too close… I know smoke, how do I start on flowers?Woods and smoke are going fine since I joined. Flowers still all smell like 'flower' to me. Where do I start? Path crossing a heath of ferns and slender birches in Bela Krajina, Slovenia Volunteer firefighter in Calgary, starting from smokeElectrician in Calgary, and I go out on calls with the volunteer fire crew. Smoke I can tell apart: spruce smoke, grass…

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Thread of the week: five spice jars, lids offBlack pepper I got straight away. Everything else smelled like 'brown'. First turf fire of the autumn in the front roomClose cousins to my nose, but not the same. The club's note on birch tar says it's made by heating birch bark without air, so it comes out tarry and leathery.… Pencil, pine cone, peppercorn: a drawer testAll three have a resin side for me. The Class on training your nose has more cupboard tests like this if anyone wants another round. Spearmint and caraway, the mirror-image pairBasically the easiest pair in the set. Easy for you. I called the caraway cumin twice. Absolute, concrete, essential oil: what's what?Could you put a drop of the absolute on your wrist to smell it properly? Birch tar and the hides at the factoryBirch bark goes up fast in a campfire and smells nothing like that. The same page says the tar comes from heating the bark without air, which must be the… Cassia and Ceylon cinnamon don't smell the sameIs that the same coumarin people talk about with tonka? Labdanum, sticky like a glove by the stovecombed it out of goats' beards That explains the sweaty side.