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juniper_jules

Portland · member since August 2025

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I make pots in Portland and the studio smells of wet clay and cedar shavings. I'm drawn to dry woods and anything green. Here to find words for what I already notice.

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Woody Chypres

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Cedarwood Galbanum Vetiver

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Woods, Mosses & Roots Learning to Smell Everyday Smells

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Step outside to smell the potted jasmine againStudio notes: I brought the potted jasmine in from the porch for winter and it fills the whole studio, but after an… My glaze notebook is turning into a smell notebookStudio notes: I've kept a glaze book for years, every test tile with its recipe and how it came out of the kiln. Since… Large clump of vetiver with fine upright leaves in a garden on Maui A vetiver strip pinned by the wheelStudio notes: I pinned a vetiver strip to the shelf by the wheel and smelled it every morning before opening the clay.… Where oakmoss sits: two family maps comparedStudio notes: I read the club Class on the seven fragrance families and then the Wikipedia page on the fragrance wheel… Rain-slicked cobblestones reflecting the orange lights of a street in winter Pumpkin guts smell more like cucumber than pieStudio notes: the farm stand down the road has its pumpkins out, so I carved a test one on the wedging table. The… One cologne, two bottles: windowsill versus drawerStudio notes: at the end of summer I split my everyday citrus cologne into two little bottles. One went on the… A ten-minute smell walk around the blockStudio notes: after a firing I walk round the block with no phone and just smell. Try it: ten minutes, same route out…

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Three words, one flower: guess itStudio notes: lily of the valley, or the built version anyway, since the lily of the valley page says the real flower gives too little to extract. Anyone else? Describe vanilla without the word sweetLeather and dried fruit, and a bit like bisque fresh out of the kiln, that warm dust. Thread of the week: five spice jars, lids offSmoked paprika smelled more like the kiln after a firing than any spice, pure campfire. Frankincense tears smell different before you light themCold resin against warmed resin is greenware against fired glaze, same stuff, different animal. Cellar door words that work on a smelling stripI'd love a list of wine words that cross over. Layering something lighter over birch tarIt's like glazing, a thin coat over a dark clay body changes it more then a thick one hides it. I'd try cedar under the birch. Barmbrack and turnip lanterns before the pumpkinsHot turnip and wax sounds more like a raku firing gone wrong then a lantern. Pencil, pine cone, peppercorn: a drawer testStudio notes: peppercorn first ruins everything after it. Did it backwards and the pencil came through way better then before. Anyone else?