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ingrid_berlin

Berlin · member since January 2025

8 posts · 68 comments

Swedish sound engineer living in Berlin. I like quiet scents: orris, aldehydes, clean musk. I listen more than I talk, but I always answer a question.

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Clump of mauve sweet violets close to the ground among heart-shaped leaves Orris root smells nothing like the iris flowerA piece of orris root from a friend's pot-pourri jar. Not a flower at all: carrot, cold earth, a powder that sits very… Candles and pine cones set on a small wooden sledge as a winter decoration Saffron buns, and missing Lucia in BerlinIn Sweden the saffron buns come at Lucia, and I start missing them when the light goes. The dough smells of hay and… Two small antique green stone perfume bottles displayed in a museum case Orris that nobody notices, on purposeI wear orris at the studio since two years and no colleague has ever said a word. Good. I want it like room tone: there… Hedione, the jasmine molecule with the bass turned downRead the Wikipedia page on methyl dihydrojasmonate , the molecule sold as Hedione. A Firmenich chemist characterised it… Hedione on a strip: jasmine with the window openAt a workshop they passed round a strip of Hedione. Jasmine, but with the window open and no heavy part. The article on… Behind the ears does not work with headphonesBehind the ears is a classic spot, but I wear closed headphones since fifteen years and the pads sit right on it. By… Coffee filter strips when you have no blottersNo blotters at home? Cut a paper coffee filter into strips a finger wide. It drinks the liquid fast and smells of… Ambroxan on a blotter, all bass and no trebleA friend gave me a blotter dipped in Ambroxan. Dry wood, a little salt, no top at all, only a low bass line, and the…

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What makes a smell read as clean?Usually the musk, I think. Clean musk is quiet and close, like a room with good acoustics. I wear it since ten years. Were old perfumes all natural before chemistry?I wear quiet synthetic musks since ten years. The Class on natural and synthetic materials is good on why natural does not mean better. Iso E Super on a strip, and I smell nothinga neutral base to start from Like room tone under a recording. I have worn quiet woods under orris since two years. /Ingrid Flat viewings when my coats smell of peat smokeYou live with the bass note, so you only hear the melody. A stranger at the door hears the bass first. /Ingrid Thread of the week: five spice jars, lids offCardamom: cold, a little menthol, all high frequencies. Clove: one long low note. Describe vanilla without the word sweetWood and a little smoke under it, all bass, nothing high. Choosing scent by family, like wine by regionSame in music: genre first, then the record. /Ingrid Cassia and Ceylon cinnamon don't smell the sameCassia is warmth and low end. Ceylon has more air around it. I cook with Ceylon since two years and still mix them up.