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hana.neroli

Vancouver · member since November 2025

5 posts · 14 comments

Translator in Vancouver, half Japanese. Neroli, hinoki, green tea. I like scents that feel like a clean room with the window open.

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Citrus Woody

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Neroli Tea Cedarwood

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Small white osmanthus flowers clustered where dark green leaves meet the stem Osmanthus outside a Vancouver tea shop smells of apricotOn my walk there's an osmanthus shrub flowering beside a little tea shop, tiny pale orange flowers you'd never notice… Sandalwood twig with pointed leaves bearing a small red fruit My grandmother's sandalwood box smells of warm milkMy grandmother kept her incense in a small sandalwood box. I opened it this weekend for the first time in years and it… Plate of mandarins still bearing their leaves, set on a wooden table A single yuzu from the Japanese groceryFound a single yuzu at the Japanese grocery on my way home and carried it like an egg. The peel smells like grapefruit… Striped white cup of milky tea, a lump of brown sugar sending up splashes against black No scent at my aunt's tea gatheringsMy aunt hosts small tea gatherings every autumn and asks guests to come unscented, so the roasted tea and the wet… Dirt path between rows of tea bushes in the Cameron Highlands, Malaysia Sencha steam and Vancouver rainRain since breakfast. Window open a crack, a pot of sencha on the desk, the steam smelling of cut grass and a little…

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The wearing Class: which habit did you drop?Keeping a scented strip in my bag. It's the only honest witness I have after an hour. Osmanthus outside a Vancouver tea shop smells of apricotThe leather surprised me. It's there under the fruit, like the inside of an old tea chest. Told off at choir for rubbing my wristsThe club's Class has a section on exactly this, with where to spray and why rubbing spoils the opening . Short read, worth it. Decanting fragrance for a flight: what worksI fly to Osaka most years. Atomizer in the toiletries bag, and the full bottle stays home where it's dark and cool. One bitter orange tree, three materialsNeroli is my favourite of the three. The same still gives orange flower water: Wikipedia's page on steam distillation calls that watery part a hydrosol. My grandmother's sandalwood box smells of warm milkstill smell when you open the lid Hers does, faintly. I put it back with the lid on. Boat shed cedar: the same tree as perfume?Hinoki is the wood I grew up with, from my mother's bath. To me it sits right next to cedar. Why lemon is gone from my strip by lunchNot by buying stronger, sadly. The club's Class on fragrance concentrations says a scent built mostly on citrus is likely to stay brief even as an extrait.