dex_in_brooklyn
New York · member since January 2026
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Line cook in Brooklyn. Black pepper, toasted cumin, burnt sugar, that's my workday. Got curious about how fragrance uses the same stuff. Total beginner, loud opinions.
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My girlfriend says she hates perfume, now whatok so my girlfriend says she hates perfume, but she'll stand over my station sniffing the toasted cumin like it's a…
Cocoa nibs on the flat-top smell like toastok so pastry left a tray of cocoa nibs by the flat-top tonight. Raw they smell sour, almost like red wine, then a…
Cassia or real cinnamon, does a nose care?ok so the cinnamon on the line is cassia, the thick bark, and pastry swears by the thin curly Ceylon stuff. you're…
Cassia and Ceylon cinnamon don't smell the sameok so we got ceylon cinnamon in at work next to the usual cassia. side by side at my station the cassia is sweeter…
Why do the nasty smells stick in my head?ok so i can't remember half the specials from last month but i remember every bad fish delivery since i started. you're…
Splitting my first real vanilla podok so first week on the line the pastry cook made me split a real vanilla pod and smell it next to a bottle of…
Bakery exhaust fan at five in the morningok so the bakery under my building turns its exhaust fan on at five and the whole block smells of crust and scorched…
Line cook in Brooklyn, here for the pepperok so I work the line at a place in Brooklyn, black pepper and toasted cumin all shift long. turns out perfume uses…
Cocoa nibs on the flat-top smell like toastok so pastry left a tray of cocoa nibs by the flat-top tonight. Raw they smell sour, almost like red wine, then a…
Cassia or real cinnamon, does a nose care?ok so the cinnamon on the line is cassia, the thick bark, and pastry swears by the thin curly Ceylon stuff. you're…
Cassia and Ceylon cinnamon don't smell the sameok so we got ceylon cinnamon in at work next to the usual cassia. side by side at my station the cassia is sweeter…
Why do the nasty smells stick in my head?ok so i can't remember half the specials from last month but i remember every bad fish delivery since i started. you're…
Splitting my first real vanilla podok so first week on the line the pastry cook made me split a real vanilla pod and smell it next to a bottle of…
Bakery exhaust fan at five in the morningok so the bakery under my building turns its exhaust fan on at five and the whole block smells of crust and scorched…
Line cook in Brooklyn, here for the pepperok so I work the line at a place in Brooklyn, black pepper and toasted cumin all shift long. turns out perfume uses…