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big_dan_vetiver

Leeds · member since December 2025

2 posts · 12 comments

Warehouse supervisor in Leeds. Got into fragrance during a long, grey winter. Vetiver, cedar and a bit of lavender keep me going.

Favourite families

Woody Fougères

Signature notes

Vetiver Cedarwood Lavender

Circles

Woods, Mosses & Roots Wearing Fragrance

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Scent after a sweaty shift: shower first?Long shift moving pallets, and the warehouse heating's on full now it's turned cold. By the end I'm sweaty and my… Iso E Super on a strip, and I smell nothingGot a smelling strip of Iso E Super from a mate who collects raw materials. Everyone says it's woody and velvety. I…

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Iso E Super on a strip, and I smell nothinga bass note you feel more than hear That's exactly it. Went back to the strip this morning and caught it for a second, like warm wood shavings, then gone again. Layering something lighter over birch tarSandalwood under vetiver works for me, so I'd guess under birch too. The smoke stays, it just gets rounder edges. Is patchouli a wood or a leaf?And the Class on the seven fragrance families says patchouli moves from the chypres to the woods, so the lists aren't wrong either. Scent after a sweaty shift: shower first?Tried it: quick wash, clean T-shirt from the locker, one spray on the shirt. Drove home smelling of vetiver instead of pallets. Sorted. No open-jar symbol on my perfume box?There's a zest exercise in the Class on storing fragrance and spotting a turned bottle that shows what light and air do. Worth an afternoon. Air the decorations box before it comes indoorsDoing this. Ours smelled of mouse last year and so did the tree, for a day. Scent after a sweaty shift: shower first?The work shower is grim but I'll give it a go. A vetiver strip pinned by the wheelThe vetiver page says the oil is distilled from the roots of a grass from India, so the dirt's in the name, more or less. Haitian is meant to read more floral…